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.

Make her. Scones to go with it and eat warm with butter 😊 it's the best.

Herb* scones, doh!

We have chicken, veg and noodle soup most Thursdays for dinner, with Lidl or Morrison's tiger rolls. I cook boneless chicken thighs in with the veg and stock mix, then remove and chop them up, before blending the soup, adding noodles and the chick back in. Very filling and delicious for 3 adults.

My point is, like PPs have said, add some protein to the soup, or cheese etc with the bread to make your tea more filling.

Thanks Tot!

Some great ideas here, will def try a leek and potato and a pea and ham. Also going to try making my own scones.

Last night was a success so will definitely incorporate soup as our Monday night quick tea. With whatever bits and bobs I have or homemade scones if they are a success!

My conclusion is that if there are a range of meals throughout the week (fish, meat, chicken, vegetarian with various carbs/sides each day) and they have a balanced diet generally during the day, a hearty soup with bread is a nice weeknight tea and a great way to get different veg into them that they may not eat if served separately. Win win!

Drigon that sounds delicious!!

Absolutely fine.

Last week, I was with a friend and saying how much I adore Autumn, etc. Mentioned we were having soup for tea. Shes normally ace but appeared shocked and said "but that won't fill my DP's name after a day in work". My DP works in an office, not out labouring all day in all weathers im the one with the more 'physical' job. Oh, and for context, it was Butternut Squash and Apple soup (Hairy bikers), with cheese toasties followed fruit salad (plums, apples pears) and yoghurt. All unlimited and help yourself to more if still hungry. FWIW, it was lovely and we were all stuffed afterwards.

I loooove soup and have so many different ones I want to try in the next few months.

Thanks for the recipe!

You should all try avgolemono - Greek chicken and rice soup. It is delicious. Definitely have some lemon on hand (bottled is fine I rarely remember to buy fresh). Just be careful adding the egg!

My granny uses pudding rice but any is fine tbh. I just looked up the BBC recipe and Rick Stein made his by putting poached eggs in chicken broth - do not do this!!

Try this recipe:

allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/9503/authentic-avgolemono-soup.aspx

Oh, and forgot to add, it’s a good one to make because it’s very filling with the rice and chicken.

I have the Covent Garden soup recipe book which has a soup recipe for every day of the year. There are quite a few interesting ones. It's often going cheap in WHSmith at service stations!

Genuinely confused about people thinking it’s unusual to give soup for dinner... what? It’s soup FGS, of course it’s fine to give someone soup for their dinner.

Ok audacious, keep calm! I was only wondering if others thought it was sufficient, not whether it was ok to give it!

Sounds lovely

Thanks for the reminder WhatWouldLeslieKnopeDo I also have that book!

We are vegan but often have soup. Lentil with dumplings and homemade bread. Homemade cream of tomato with vegan cheese toasties, leek and potato with herb muffins, homemade cream of mushroom with garlic bread.

Nice ideas on this thread. Soup is lovely but I sometimes find it a bit of a faff. Will try some new recipes.

I’m perfectly calm, just a bit nonplussed that someone needs to ask about soup as if it’s somehow an unconventional thing to eat for dinner.

My DH is fine with soup for tea. You just need sufficient wedges of crusty bread!

Homemade soup can be very nutritious and filling. Not so tins or packets

My husband has made a spicy butternut squash and chickpea stew for supper - a bit more liquid and a partial zapping with a stick blender and it would make a good soup. We’re having guests for a casual lunch on Saturday andI will be making a corn chowder - that really is filling, with or without bread.

I loved tinned tomato as a child but hate it now - tinned oxtail, however, is a real winter warmer

It was the "FGS" that betrayed your lack of calm, audacious! You seem to have missed the point (again) that it is not whether it is acceptable to serve soup for dinner, but whether you would consider it sufficiently filling for your DC as a meal in itself (especially if the DC had had a packed lunch). I can't work out why this has bothered you so much. To be fair, I did expect more posts like yours when I asked the question (I know what AIBU can be like...), and was pleasantly surprised by the reality!

I agree platypus, I think a homemade soup feels more filling and nutritious, it's nice to know exactly what's gone into it too, kind of thing. But I do always have a couple of tins of soup in the cupboard as they are so handy to grab for a warming lunch (I also find Heinz tomato one of the best hangover soups!) I also hate food waste so am always after ways to use up random leftover veg!

Sorry I meant confused not platypus!

Both the butternut and the corn chowder sound amazing platypus. Do you mind sharing the recipes please? I especially love a chowder. I also like to make a Chinese style chicken and sweet corn, really quite simply but so delicious with prawn crackers to dip in!

As long as it's thick soup and not broth I think it's plenty. Some lentils or something in for protein. Dumplings if you want to make it more filling. Love soup!

Soup is a staple dinner in my house 😳
Lentil, chicken&rice, leek&potato, red pepper, squash...served with crusty bread and perhaps cheese. Everyone is happy and full.

One of my favourite recipe books of a WI Soup one 😅