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?

Yum! We quite often have sweet potato soup and cheese scones but yours sounds lovely
Like the ham with it too will do that next week

I think I would offer some kind of dessert with that..? But the meal sounds lovely and I have boys!

Sounds lovely and has reminded me we haven't had homemade soup for ages.

Cranks cookbook has a lovely tomato and lentil soup which we often have with bread and cheese. Preferably grated mature cheddar melted on top of the soup and scooped up with the bread.

To all those saying 'what vegetables does it have' lentils are a vegetable.

It sounds fab.

They are a legume, not technically a vegetable. Still kudos to the OP, my 6 yr old would be on the phone to childline if I gave her lentil soup.

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Total genius - I love "bits of soup"
Mine are keen on lentil soup, the older one so much so that he has learnt how to make it (he's 8).

According to both the USFD and the NHS they count towards your 5 a day though.

Could you use that recipe in a soup maker?

We have homemade minestrone sometimes with fancy bread it's lovely
Has pasta in so it's filling
Sounds a lovely dinner op
Take no notice of silly mil

This is a lovely dinner and I would like some now please.

I often fed my children on lots of soup and crusty bread. Sometimes I did just one bowl of soup followed by jacket potatoes with cheese if it was a cold winter's evening. My ds1 called it 'poor people's dinner' but I don't know why. Everyone seemed to eat all of this with no arguments, for some reason, and no one was hungry after. Other dinners, lots of discussion.

Sounds lovely

It's fine

I had this from my aunt. DD had school dinners, so really couldn't face much when she came in. Apparently a bowl of soup, some bread and some kind of cake for pudding wasn't enough.

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It's a nice lunch , but it's not dinner.

Or high tea .

If it's eaten at dinnertime it is dinner

OP I was like that about soup, but instead of lentil it was oxtail.

Giles then no it's not a good enough dinner. But still sounds delicious.

What's not good enough about it though?

A thick filling soup As much as they want, meat and bread.

I fail to see how it's not substantial

If you throw the ham in it, and maybe didn't totally blend the carrots it's pretty much a stew

There is not enough "chew" for dinner. It would be filling, but psychologically disappointing.

Unless you had porridge for breakfast and a shake for lunch there's plenty of "chew time" the other two meal times. Teas don't have to be heavy all the time

Lentil soup wouldn't be to my personal taste but other soups would and I have been known to serve home made soup for dinner. Hell on a really rough day I have been known to serve Heinz tinned tomato soup for dinner.

For anyone who says that that's not dinner, that is a personal opinion only.

Bread is 'chewy'. If you'd had Shepherd's Pie, that is not very 'chewy' but definitely considered a substantial dinner.

YABU. It should've been crispy bacon to sprinkle on the soup.

Seriously that sounds like a cracking tea.