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To think soup and bread is an adequate dinner?

205 replies

FlapsTie · 08/11/2016 18:17

Our shopping turned up late and I'd lost all will to cook. The kids wanted soup (tinned!) and bread. So I've done soup for all. They've had chicken, we've had oxtail. One tin each.

I've also heated up four loaves of frozen bread, the Demi baguette ones.

DH says this isn't a proper dinner and he'll have something else after. I'm stuffed. It's a fuck ton of bread and butter and a whole tin of soup ffs.

Who is BU? Me and the kids, or DH?

OP posts:
MackerelOfFact · 09/11/2016 07:55

Are you all still alive this morning, OP?

SarfEast1cated · 09/11/2016 08:10

marriane GrinOccasionally they go wild and will roast a chicken wing. To be divided between 4 making nutritious stock out of bones!

ZoeTurtle · 09/11/2016 08:15

God I love MN food threads. All the competitive "I can't eat more than two spoonfuls as I have such a delicate feminine appetite" posts, plus the sniffy "It would be okay if it was homemade" posts.

God I love it.

Huldra · 09/11/2016 09:47

There are so many variables to answer a general question about soup and bread. Such as; the soup in question, how much else had been eaten that day, timings of food.

In this situation yanbu to provide soup and bread.
He would not be unreasonable to get himself something else later.

If he caused a fuss he would have been unreasonable about that. Get yourself something else later and shut up.
If you caused a fuss about him wanting something else then you would have been unreasonable about that. He is an adult and can control his food intake.

You may both not be unreasonable.
Both unreasonable.
You may be unreasonable.
He may be unreasonable.

BabyGanoush · 09/11/2016 10:03

Zoeturtle, well, I could never eat 2 whole spoonfuls of soup, I am usually stuffed after one spoon.

No wonder everybody is obese these days Hmm

ZoeTurtle · 09/11/2016 10:50

BabyGanoush You still have to eat? (Tinkly laugh) I'm a breatharian, dontcha know.

Meluzyna · 09/11/2016 11:04

“There were 150 of us sharing a small tin of soup in the middle of the road … when he came home, Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt.”

And now for something completely different Wink

Yes, LouisvilleLlama, in France the "lunch hour" is actually closer to an hour and a half or two hours.
It's in the language: English expression "lunch hour"
French expression "entre midi et deux" (between twelve and two).
Shops and banks shut at noon and reopen at 2 or 2.30..... but then they're open until 7 p.m. It's a completely different rhythmn to the day: business hours and secondary schools start at 8 a.m., although shops don't usually open until 9 - apart from bakeries which aften open at 6 or 7 a.m.

MarianneSolong · 09/11/2016 11:07

The point about soup is that it's homoeopathic. You take a quarter-teaspoon of soup then dilute it till no actual soup remains..

It's extraordinarily beneficial.

But when you eat actual spoonfuls of (ugh) soup that's like poison.

Mind you, I eat pretty clean....

SaucyJack · 09/11/2016 11:10

"The point about soup is that it's homoeopathic. You take a quarter-teaspoon of soup then dilute it till no actual soup remains.."

Is that recipe off the back of the Campbell's Condensed soup tin?

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 09/11/2016 12:53

Home made soup is 'clean' isn't it?

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 09/11/2016 12:57

It depends on your appetite. You can't really compare a fully grown man's appetite to that of a child.
Yes it is ample for a child, but perhaps not a man doing 12 hour shifts per day for example

Taylia · 09/11/2016 13:08

*God I love MN food threads. All the competitive "I can't eat more than two spoonfuls as I have such a delicate feminine appetite" posts, plus the sniffy "It would be okay if it was homemade" posts.

God I love it.*

As they post one handed while the other grips their family bag of crisps or extra large bar of dairy milk.

"I am healthy I really am. I had a thimble of soup for dinner."

Taylia · 09/11/2016 13:10

Reminds of the episode of Ben and holly where nanny plum serves steam for dinner to try and be trendy.

TheOnlyColditz · 09/11/2016 13:14

Depends on your appetite. My kids would cry if I served soup and bread as an evening meal. It's water with bits in.

Shona52 · 09/11/2016 17:36

Neither but soup 🍜 is fine for the odd dinner tinned might not be filling enough for dh but would be fine for the dc

Trying321 · 09/11/2016 17:45

It would be fine for me but my DH wouldn't consider it a meal at all! Then again he wouldn't consider a jacket potato with toppings enough for dinner so he really is a special case here! He would only consider pasta with meat/ meat veg and potatoes or some kind of variant on that theme an acceptable dinner. Grin

mellowfartfulness · 09/11/2016 18:08

Gosh, I'm a proper fat person and DH has hollow legs, and we have soup and bread for dinner quite often. I've always thought of it as a normal dinner. Mind you, DH eats masses of bread and peanut butter as soon as he gets in from work and we eat dinner later on.

LadyEastEnd · 09/11/2016 18:12

My MIL gave us tinned soup and bread for dinner once because we had gone out to eat for lunch earlier. I was starving, and DH was times two! It was fine for both ILs, who eat like sparrows. I actually find it depressing eating tinned soup, but I have served 'fresh' soup and homemade soup with cheesy bread for dinner.

2Bottledup · 09/11/2016 18:15

Generally 1/2 tin is 1 serving (according to the side of the tin), so 1 tin each with bread and butter counts as a dinner in my book.

limitedperiodonly · 09/11/2016 18:18

He's eaten a tin of oxtail soup and bread. That would satisfy most people, but if he's still hungry, that's fair enough. Let him scavenge something else. He will not starve OP.

Sparlklesilverglitter · 09/11/2016 18:29

Neither of you are unreasonable

DH isn't unreasonable to still be hungry and need something else later
Your not unreasonable to be full up

Sometimes we have soup and bread for tea if DH is home late. Sometimes it feels me up it depends if I'm having a hungry day

HmmmmBop · 09/11/2016 18:31

Lol, I was going to say that I would give soup as a main course if I knew that it had protein and a good few portions of veg in (i.e. I'd made it). But that makes me sound like a knob!

I wouldn't count a tin of oxtail as a main meal, it's not very balanced - but then again I'd eat it as a meal for me (well, if I ate meat I would), I just wouldn't give it to the kids.

ReginaPhalange87 · 09/11/2016 18:32

We have huge appetites in my house and regularly have soup (although homemade) and sandwiches or crusty bread for dinner. We all love it. Definitely a substantial meal IMO.

clarehhh · 09/11/2016 18:36

Not adequate for children, too low calorie almost no veg.During my degree we had a Nutrition lecturer who was very anti soup for children fills tummies without enough calories or nutrients.

LouisvilleLlama · 09/11/2016 18:36

Generally 1/2 tin is 1 serving (according to the side of the tin), so 1 tin each with bread and butter counts as a dinner in my book.

Except servings are often manipulated so the per serving labels look better some drinks are like 4 servings for a 500ml bottle