To think that Soup is a meal?

[StrawberryTraveller]

As in a decent, homemade Minestone soup we are planning to eat tonight

I was merrily chopping ingredients for dinner tonight, when my mother facetime called us.

Mother: oh sorry, didn't mean to disturb you
Me: thats fine, im only chopping ingredients for dinner tonight
Mother: ooh what are you having?
Me: Minestone soup
Mother: what? soup? for dinner?
Me: erm yep, why not? we like Minestone soup
Mother: (still gobsmacked) what, all of you?

And so on and so on for about 5 minutes. Its a Jamie Oliver recipe, with lots of vegetables in, bacon, harricot beans, and pasta. Hearty, and filling after a day of diy and walking.

If I had called it Minestrone casserole, containing the same ingredients, im sure she would have declared in a marvellous idea. Its just because it contained the word 'soup'

So, is 'soup' dinner for you also?

Not all soups are created equal but I Would agree that minestrone is fine for dinner

There's nothing like good home made soup. I haven't made it for a long time but it was beautiful when I did.

YANBU.

Soup is definitely fine for dinner. We had homemade cream of tomato & basil soup with homemade fresh crusty bread, for dinner, 2 weeks ago. It was tasty and filling.

We also regularly have Nudelsuppe mit Klößchen for dinner, which the dc love. It's basically a pasta soup with vegetables and mini meatballs.

BTW, your recipe sounds yummy, I might give it a try this week coming.

Soup with crusty bread used to be a meal for us, but since the dc reached teenhood I have to make something else alongside it, such as chicken drumsticks or chicken breasts.

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I think it’s ok as a lunch with bread but not as a main meal of the day.

Sounds delicious though

But lunch could equally be the main meal of the day. I find eating little all day in anticipation of a big dinner quite an odd thing to do.

Of course soup can be a meal, depending on the amount and consistency of it. Plus accompaniments like bread etc.

Do people who think it isn't enough for an everyday meal serve 3-course dinners every day?

We often have this as our main meal: www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/middle-eastern-spiced-spinach-and-lentil-soup-with-garlic-yogurt/
It's gorgeous and very filling. DP even is full after this and he has hollow legs :D

My soup is definitely a meal. It is generally "so thick ye could stand the spoon in it" and everyone in the house stirs it for luck (my Nanny always did this and her soup was always amazing and she gave me her recipe so I've continued the tradition.)

I wouldn't be impressed with a bowl of minestrone for a main meal whether you called it a soup or a casserole.

I like to chew my dinner. If I can't chew it, it just feels like less of a meal to me. Yes, I do realise that it has nothing to do with the nutrition so it's bonkers but that's how it feels to me.

Love home made soup, can't stand soup from a can. I would eat this but would probably need a dessert and starter

DameDoom take no notice of the cruel dismissal by dontalltalkatonce of your Danish blue and sprouts-based soup.

That sounds utterly disgusting, sorry. was a very rude thing to say and I don't believe she meant the 'sorry' part of it.

Your soup sounds very tasty to me because I enjoy bitter flavours. It's also very economical, as you point out.

I love a winter salad with chicory, Roquefort and fried walnuts. Add some chopped slivers of prune and dress with walnut oil.

I’d love that Danish Blue soup as well.

Also the salad mentioned

I like to chew my dinner. If I can't chew it, it just feels like less of a meal to me. Yes, I do realise that it has nothing to do with the nutrition so it's bonkers but that's how it feels to me same with me.

I think its fine, we eat similar for tea all the time (and not always with bread either). I do remember having this exact same conversation with my 'D'GF as a child though; I remember him being horrified that DM fed us soup as a meal but I think he was envisaging thin soup as opposed to the bean filled soups my DM made. Anyway neither me nor DSis were starving so I guess it didn't do us any harm.

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You could give my dh a piece of cold salmon with leaves and a potato salad and he’d think he was starving. Hot salmon hot potatoes and spinach and he’d feel fed! It is a psychological thing for sure.

PollyFlinderz there isn't much of a recipe to my winter salad. It's torn leaves of chicory or radicchio with crumbled blue cheese like Roquefort or gorgonzola, walnuts and with a sweet oil like walnut or extra virgin olive oil.

You can also make a warm salad by cutting the salad vegetables in halves and briefly frying them in a tbsp hot olive oil until they are a little bit coloured and then taking them off the heat and combining the other stuff possibly with a bit of balsamic vinegar.

Crunchy little bacon bits are good too. Gem lettuce is also good fried or braised.

One of my favourite meals growing up was 'soup and pudding'. Consisted of a lovely bowl of homemade soup and nice bread, followed by my favourite pudding. I still do it for my own kids now. Nothing wrong with it.

”I like to chew my dinner. If I can't chew it, it just feels like less of a meal to me. Yes, I do realise that it has nothing to do with the nutrition so it's bonkers but that's how it feels to me.“

What about a soup that has lots of big chunks of meat and veg in it, @explodingkitten - like a casserole but with more gravy?

I'm having soup for dinner today!...

A lovely chicken soup with big pieces of veg - sweet potato, chow chow, carrots, courgettes, leeks and mini dumplings lots of chewing and lovely soup maybe some bread.. Yum