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.

My DS has soup at least twice a week with some bread on the side (more often in the colder months). It's quick and easy and he usually isn't very hungry at tea time if he's been to nursery that day so soup is just the right amount with maybe a yogurt for afters. I love soup and do find it actually very filling even without bread (I'm not massive on bread so rarely eat it unless it's a sandwich) however a bowl of soup would not even touch the sides with my DP, he'd have to make something else afterwards.

Tinned tomato soup takes me right back to childhood and Christmas Day Tinned tomato soup, followed by roast chicken and my mum's overcooked sprouts (don't think al dente was invented back then), christmas pudding and bird's custard. A bottle of Liebfraumilch for the grownups and a sip for me. The Queens Speech, then dad zzzing while mum washed up and was tasked to "keep the kiddies quiet Rene, and wake me up with an apple"

Strange the memories sparked by the sight of a tin of Heinz tomato soup

Lovely with either a sandwich, crusty bread or even crumpets!

I love soup but can never make a vegetable one. Can you share your recipe please?

And yes I think it’s fine although I would bulk out with chicken or lentils or something.

Aviator what brilliant memories!!

Well my courgette soup went down a storm and we all have very full bellies

Diana it was a variation on this one from the bbc food page:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/8029/versatile-veg-soup

I didn't have celery but used up some leftover baby gem lettuce instead (random!) and also substituted sweet potato for the normal potato. I had planned to add lentils or similar to bulk it up but it seemed plenty hearty enough due to the sweet potato.

The DC scoffed it with sourdough bread, DS1 had seconds and declared it the best soup ever! It seemed to fill them up, they all had fruit after and one had yogurt too.

Just in case anyone finds me awfully common for calling the evening meal "tea" (it really is where I'm from!) , you'll also be pleased to hear I served up some leftover homemade smoked mackerel pate I had made for my lunch. DS2 particularly loved it!

There was also enough leftover to freeze for another meal and I am now inspired to experiment with different recipes and ideas each week, using up any veg I have knocking around and adding different bits and pieces to keep the variety.

I just love all the responses to this thread that end with "... and if they're hungry after they're offered fruit or a yoghurt..."

Aye right - nobody ever admits that their kids will be stuffing their faces after dinner with chocolate biscuits, ice cream or puddings. Just fruit or yoghurt

We had sausage and mushroom soup today. Much yumminess, with or without crusty bread and butter.

Yes- mine love soup with crusty bread for dinner. Usually have a plate of chopped veges and one likes grated cheese sprinkled over her soup. We only have it when my husband isn’t in for dinner though or he makes himself something - he doesn’t see soup as a main meal!

We have soup most Mondays as its easy to fit in to a busy club night. And its out of a carton or a tin with big slices of tiger bread.

Followed by a chocolate mousse!!

My dd loves soup and bread for dinner and it fills her up.

Sometimes it is from a tin other times I use my soup maker

We'd need a bit more. We have homemade soup and bread every week, but I follow it up with pudding and custard. If you're committing to all that veg chopping, it's not too much faff to sling a crumble together too. Good weather for custard!

Trust me I love a tin of soup as much as the next MNetter and often serve it. Thought it would be nice to try more homemade ones though as like a PP Monday is a busy club night but I have time during the day to prepare something that can easily and quickly be heated through. As a SAHM I am lucky to have the time to do that!

It is honestly just fruit and yogurt for afters during the week here! Always been fruit but they used to have any pudding after that, choc mousse, custard etc and I decided to change policy a little while ago for during the week to keep it healthier. They get plenty of sweet stuff, maybe a choc brioche for after school snack that type of thing.

DH and I eat later during the week (DC still quite young and DH works long hours) so this meal was just for them. DH would definitely need more than soup and bread for tea! I'd probably be fine with it most days but I do bloody love soup!

do people have 2 meals after lunch?

what's with this tea THEN dinner.

call it tea or dinner, I don't care... but surely there's only meal after lunch.

or have I been doing adulting wrong all these years

Only one meal after lunch here and it's tea! (Unless you count the fact that DH and I have our tea separate from the DCs, so two sittings during the week here!)

Only in mumsnetland is soup and bread, sandwich or toast not a 'proper' dinner.

We often have dying veg soup for tea/dinner. To me the only difference between a soup and a stew is how much liquid it has.

We have soup fairly regularly. Chicken & veg or tomato & bean or occasionally lentil & bacon.

Op, we also say 'tea' and 'afters'. I salute you!

All this soup talk is making me hungry!

We're having ds's favourite, leek and potato, with cheese toasties for dinner tomorrow. Dd's favourite is ham and vegetable. All cheap and filling.

@cmlover

It depends! On Sundays we have Breakfast, Lunch, Tea (crumpets and cake usually), then Supper (often macaroni cheese).

Saturdays usually Brunch, Dinner, Supper if still hungry.

Mon-Fri though definitely only time for Breakfast, Lunch (at work and often skipped) and Dinner.

I know Tea is more commonly the same as Dinner. But Sunday tea in our house is definitely something different! We don’t have Tea then Dinner though for some reason

OP I’d happily have a good filling Soup and some sort of bread/cheese for dinner if I’d not had it for lunch (it is my go-to for work lunch though unless hot weather).

I think YABU. I like soup but it's not enough for dinner, unless you're not really hungry. It's a starter or a light lunch not a main meal.
Not that my kids will eat soup anyway All food must be solid and identifiable.