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.

...do you even love your children OP?

poor mites.
How awful for them...

...giving them a filling, nutirous meal for dinner...

Just read page one - I stand corrected. Looks like it is still popular. Long live soup.

Tomato, chorizo and lentil soup with a dollop of yoghurt and bread is my 6 year old son's favourite dinner. He can be quite fussy, but he loves that! I give it to him regularly so if you're neglectful OP, so am I!

YABU to MAKE soup, when you can get it (ready-made) in a tin.

Nothing wrong with that at all, the other night we had chicken broth, cheese scones then Apple crumble, all homemade, it was delicious

My kids have soup reguarly for dinner - one of my kids would live on soup if you let her - we also have boiled eggs/scrambled eggs, beans in a bap on a regular enough basis. Sometime our soup comes out of a tin or if I'm feeling flash a carton . It's just dinner- kids like it, I'm happy enough with it, no-one is starving afterwards- job done.

No point in over filling people up at tea time, there won't be room for meal later.

I’m making veg and barley soup for dinner today.

If it will fill them it's fine. If you're worried it won't maybe do cheese on toast to go with it.

'Rebecca36

No point in over filling people up at tea time, there won't be room for meal later'

Do people really have a big bowl of soup with chicken and veg and bread or garlic bread and then a meal later too?

Depends on how chunky / thick the soup is but I often have soup / stew for dinner.

Rebecca36 I’m sure you are aware that in some parts of the country the main evening meal is commonly called ‘tea’.

@Rebecca36

No point in over filling people up at tea time, there won't be room for meal later.

That makes no sense.

I took it to mean that 'tea' was the main evening meal.

Sounds fine to me but if you want to bulk it up a bit then maybe some cheese or beans on the toast?

My DS has vegetable soup for his tea 2-3 times a week.

My gran made soup you could stand the spoon in. In a pot that you could bath a baby in. Consume was a foreign concept. In my head soup is always a valid meal.
I assume you’ve made an enormous batch so they can have seconds.

Soup and a sandwich is fine, with maybe fruit or yoghourt

I think my two would get hungry later with a vegetable soup for tea. Well, dd certainly would because she wouldn't eat it unless it was tinned tomato (fussy). Ds would eat it but would need to have cheese on toast or something more than just bread on its own alongside it.

I think my kids would be hungry after soup and bread, they'd have to have a chicken drumstick or two to go with it.... and would probably sniff about for more food later. Dp would probably weep as he has a active job and a small lunch. I'd be fine.

@KC225

Of COURSE the OP means the evening meal, @Rebecca36 is just being pedantic and snarky.

She will probably say (soon) that in her 'middle-class social-circle' TEA is a mid afternoon event, and people calling their evening meal 'tea,' must be a 'class' thing. 🙄

our soup comes out of a tin or, if I'm feeling flash, a carton
Really made me laugh. Thanks!

I make loads of soups, love using up my leftover veg, so soup, any sort, + bread/pitta etc. sometimes just hits the spot.

When i was au pairing in Italy, my family used to make great minestrone, all shops selling their own mix.

BUT -top tip, my family used to save the rind of parmesan and throw that into the pot.

Bloody beaut it was

Now I've had a look in my fridge. Potatoes and onions in there. So, potato soup on the menu tonight before shopping tomozz? PERFICK!

thanks for starting the thread OP.

What in the world could possibly be wrong with homemade vegetable soup with bread?? Why would it be any less filling than the equivalent amount of vegetables not presented as soup?

Children aged 4 to 8 only need about 20g of protein a day. They don't need every meal to be loaded with it. Lots of vegetables have protein in, so does bread, and butter.

A serving of broccoli has 2 or 3g of protein in, peas 5 or 6...

We don’t do soup for dinner but only really because I have soup for lunch at work every day. I usually have it with oatcakes then fruit to follow. For some reason making it spicy seems to make it feel more filling as well.

It was very common in our house as kids to have soup and pudding for Monday dinner with the soup being made with left over chicken from Sunday roast

Soup & cheese scones, dinner of the Gods. Cheese on toast is acceptable too but less good for dunking. And I often keep part bakes baguettes in the cupboard for quick easy soup dunking. As for the soup, homemade is obviously lovely but nobody in my house would turn their nose up at tinned tomato. Love autumn/winter soup season. Of course it’s an acceptable meal for kids!