To think soup and bread is an adequate dinner?

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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?

soup + bread PLUS CHEESE is acceptable

Shuffling off topic a bit here. But I do love soup (loop de loop as it's known in the Mantra household) and really fancied a grilled cheese panini to go with it. On went the iron, out came the tinfoil. Voila! Ironed melty cheese sarnie.

Since bought a panini/toasty maker, but hardly ever use the bugger. Should've stuck to tin foil and the iron...

Of course it is an acceptable dinner, you can order it as a meal out at restaurants. That said it won't fill everyone up and some people may need a desert or something after.

I don't think ybu but my Dh dosnt think he had had a meal unless there are spuds and meat on the plate so I know where your coming from. My Dd and I would be full but Dh ? No way. (And I'd end up making him something else later caus I wouldn't want the mess he would leave in the kitchen)

I have soup and a sandwich for tea quite a lot if I'm too busy to spend a while cooking/prepping food. It's an adequate meal if it fills you up. But your DH said he wasn't full so he would make an additional snack - I don't see what's unreasonable about that? You want him to stay hungry? He can't help it that he's still hungry, any more than you can help it that you're now full. So no, neither of you are being unreasonable. Just let him make his snack and forget about it.

On my way home from a long day at work. Always a bowl of soup and bread waiting for me on Wednesdays. Can't wait!

Scrambled egg on toast is my go to lazy meal but for some reason soup and a roll wouldn't really whet my dinner taste buds. Neither of you are being unreasonable though.

I enjoy soup for lunch, but I'm another that wouldn't find that sufficiently filling for an evening meal.

My kids had tinned tomato soup and brown bread with butter. It was an easy thing to serve, and they loved it.

As a one off then yes soup and bread ok. But not every day

And if dh wanted proper food he should have gone to shops and brought and cooked it once reliesing online was late

That would be a snack for
Me. Not a dinner. And I'm not overweight. It's definetly not a dinner. I would only consider it a lunch if the soul was accompanied by a sandwich not just plain bread.

Soup and bread would be ok as my 'second'meal of the day but I would expect to eat a 'proper'balanced meal for the other.
But no one will die poor nutrition if they occasionally get this for dinner if you dont have the time/energy yo cook
(She says as one who ate cheese and biscuits and chocolate cake washed down with wine for 'dinner'on a recent holiday We had had a big lunch though )

People of different ages, sizes, metabolisms have different needs. Feeding the same portions to adults and kids is likely to end in either waste or hunger.

I'm pretty certain the reason a portion is 1/2 a tin so that the nutritional information doesn't look too horrifying (ie how much of your daily amounts of salt etc are in it) half a tin clearly isn't an actual portion as it wouldn't come near filling a soup bowl

Just remembered when OH broke his jaw he had soup for every single meal because he couldn't eat anything else, he did end up losing a bit of weight.

Yes, we have it for dinner once a week, with one bread roll. I do have to have 'Big Soup' though for it to really feel like dinner and not lunch. DH is a PE teacher and is active and on his feet all day, he also walks to work and back (30mins journey) and he finds it a good dinner, even just tomato soup (he converted me to thinking it could be dinner, previously I was ). I do find I'm not hungry later on, unlike the nights when we've had pasta. And we've both only had sandwiches and fruit for lunch! Each to their own, I suppose

It is ok for me, but not anybody else in my family. And, I always wake up during the night and pig out when I just eat soup for dinner.

it would be fine for me now..but not for my hh unless it was chicken noodle soup, or a thick lentil soup...bordering on casserole. .memories... mum would make onion and potato soup and bread and butter for us as a warming hello when we walked home from school in the cold/snow... we'd talk about it on the way home..hoping mum had made another batch..but we'd had a school dinner...and pud.. which were amazing then..

When I was married my dh would eat dinner then up at the chip shop hungry. I'd be fine but he'd probably want more. If your dh is saying he'll make extra then sounds fine to me.

That's like a joke! Really? Tinned soup for dinner? Sounds like something from the Royle family (dairylee on toast)

Half a tin of soup is one portion? And half a baguette is a ton of bread? Wtf. 😂😂😂

That's like a joke! Really? Tinned soup for dinner? Sounds like something from the Royle family (dairylee on toast)

Nothing wrong with a good tinned soup when you need to organise a lazy dinner in a short time and don't want a take-away. Says someone who loves cooking from scratch.

The soup would have to be a stew type soup, thick, rich, with potatoes, meat, or whatever, vegetetables, with a couple of slices of bread, for it to be a decent meal.

I love a nice Baxter's soup and a crusty half baguette. I prefer the chunky ones and eat a whole tin.

Just so you know, we've had homemade bacon (that cheap cooking bacon from Asda at 59p a pack), carrot/other veg and lentil soup for tea/dinner/supper/sups etc. We also had a whole french loaf (almost) with butter (thick). It was bleeding lovely.
Three of us (2 adults and 12 yr old DD). We're stuffed.
But I know if I served it once a week for dinner I'd get the 😐 face (we have Maltesers for later).