To serve DC soup for tea?

[montepulcianos]

Planning to make a nice vegetable soup for DC to have for tea, with bread/toast. They will have fruit and maybe yogurt for afters. Would you say this is filling enough or should I add something else? One has packed lunch and the other two have school/nursery cooked lunch if that makes a difference.

Depends on their appetite. We often have soup and crusty bread for tea. The kids often have seconds and eat fruit after if they’re still hungry.

What about adding some lentils?

Sounds lovely though. I want soup now

It's fine.

We often have soup for dinner. Sometime with bread, other times with sandwiches or toasties

Sounds fine to me, we regularly have soup and nice bread for tea

Curried lentil, ham and veg soup for tea here.

Never any complaints.

We have soup a lot because it’s so quick and DD1 gets a hot meal at school. We have it with naice bread or cheese on toast, or of particularly hungry we have ham and cheese, salad/olives with it.

We have soup for tea all the time here. I make sure it has lots of lentils or other pulses whizzed up to have a good protein content. Soup, toast, cheese, done

We (2 adults/2 teens) regularly have homemade soup with bread or cheese on toast, and boiled eggs/soldiers on nights where we need a quick tea. Healthy, nutritious, cheap, quick...nothing wrong with all of that!

We sometimes have home made veg or lentil soup with warm rolls and cheese on the table. Why not?

Ds is obsessed with soup and would have it every night if he could. With some nice bread it definitely makes a meal

We have soup for dinner often.

The reason I like doing it for dinner is then I don't feel guilty having bread and butter with it!! (For lunch my daughter and husband have bread with theirs, but I'm a carb monster so try and limit bread at breakfast and lunch)

We're having homemade leek and potato soup with crusty bread tonight. Will probably do some cheese with it. Fruit and yogurt will be given if anyone is still hungry.

It's fine as a one off would want a bit more protein ideally - maybe have it with cheesy bread or add lentils like PP said. YABU though because you've made me hungry!

My lot used to love soup for tea....crusty bread or scones. Maybe dumplings ?

I almost did pea and ham soup the other day , but now ds2 is a grown up and dh had been out at work all day it didn't seem like a decent enough meal. I am going to make it in the week and freeze it for lunches.

Regular (at least once a week) dinner in this house.

I do often add some protein to bulk it up - either sliced chicken and cheese (often leftovers from a roast a day or two earlier) with the bread. (We also usually have wheaten bread (Irish bread) which is heavier and much more filling than white bread/crusty bread), or sausages. Hotdogs and soup (and by hotdogs I mean a proper sausage in a roll - not a “hotdog” type sausage) is a great quick, filling dinner

YANBU. Soup is a lovely dinner, especially in autumn. Presumably if they're all ravenous afterwards you'll give them more food, so just see how it goes :)

It’s fine. Mine often have soup and crusty bread in the evening.

I'm making corvette, rocket and lemon soup for my lot tonight. Yum!

*courgette

This was a perfectly normal dinner for me as a child. I wouldn't think twice about giving it to mine. Obviously if it is broth rather than soup they may need something extra or you could add some barley or lentils to thicken it out.

Now I really want barley and lentil soup.

Soup can be very filling indeed, I've often made a veg or a chicken and veg soup and after eating it, we've not really wanted anything else for quite a while so I would say it is fine to have at tea time. A little unusual but so what?

Presumably you'll have dinner in the evening when you all sit down together and chew over the happenings of the day.

We often have it for tea. If it's veg soup we may have cheese toasties to dunk rather than just bread. Or I sometimes have my guilty pleasure of a pepperami alongside. I'd probably have a more substantial pud than fruit though.

My kids always have a meat or chicken dish for lunch on a Monday so I usually make soup for dinner. Tonight it's roasted carrot and honey soup with homemade garlic bread (same dough as I use for pizzas but small slithers of garlic instead of toppings). It is filling and they love it.

I grew up having soup for lunch or as a light meal. It doesn't seem as popular anymore.