To think this is a good enough dinner..

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Okay, so dinner for the family was (6 year old and toddler);

• unlimited homemade lentil soup
• unlimited warm crusty bread and butter
• unlimited cooked ham

So the 6 year old had 2 big bowls, lots of shredded ham added and few bits of bread and butter

I think that's a perfectly good dinner for a school night (especially given I work)

MIL thinks it's not enough at all....AIBU?

Sounds great to me!

Catchit it's easy - river cottage kids book. They don't do it in slow cooker, but I tried and it's genuinely as good as stove top. I'll find it later and post it up

Actually, last night we had home made soup, crusty bread and butter and a lovely pudding of strawberries, cream and stones. Yum. All my boys, OH and DFath loved it. Your MIL is mental.

Perfectly fine. I assume they've had other stuff, you fruit/veggies throughout the day so why would it be a problem?

Out of interest what would your MIL classify as a proper dinner??

I'd like the recipe too! My kids love soup, I need some ideas for when they start school next week.

Stones. Ha! Scones obvs.

Sounds delicious and I would be thrilled if my four year old ate lentil soup!

Honestly the 6 year old is v fussy but loves this soup for some reason. This and tomato soup are the only soups she will touch

Yum!

I may be slightly biased though... OH said yesterday that I 'added lentils to things that wouldn't normally have them'. He was trying to gently criticise my cooking - I ignored him and pretended it was a complement.

I think that sounds lovely and fine. My DM (70) is firmly of the opinion that soup cannot be a proper meal though and that it is only acceptable as a lunch / supper if you've had a "proper" lunch.

I don't think soup is a meal and I don't like lentils. Not too keen on ham either ......

Why on earth is your MIL - or anyone for that matter - commenting on what you serve for dinner?

I've made that soup, OP. Bloody delicious, and very filling. Sadly my toddler managed about a teaspoon before refusing the rest.

Have you got any left? Drool....

Sounds delicious. Tell your MIL to mind her own fucking business.

YANBU.

I've just dug out my RC cookbook and shall be trting it out on my fussy 6 year old next week.

Did you swear the veg down before putting it into the slow cooker or did you bung it all in together?

What's it got to do with your MIL ?
Jesus I fed my children on pot noodles and turkey twizzlers sometimes

Sounds great to me. As long as they could have as much as they wanted it should fill them up.

@toastie I sweated the onion and garlic before slow cooker. Sliced up the carrots in the food processor. Blended it (in the slow cooker) when I got in and added bit more stock!

I think it sounds lovely, I'd have that for dinner even without the cooked ham.

Can me and DD come over please? Sounds lush!

Sounds like a lovely lunch.
Wouldn't cut it for dinner for my lot though.

Sounds fine to me.
I wouldn't eat it! But it's certainly a substantial enough meal.

Exactly the kind of meal I would do. Perfectly fine.

I'd be freezing left overs too! What's not a meal about it?

Sounds perfect to me! We quite often have soup and bread as a meal.