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?

It’s a meal, but a light one.

Excellent. Seems my mother is the more unreasonable one.

We have a homemade wholegrain loaf anyone can have as much as they like with it (homemade and gifted from neighbour, not my effort) , oh and just checking the recipe again, it requires parmesan cheese ontop which should be extra tasty

I was getting bored of repeating certain meals, so have been trying to try a few new recipes here and there.

But I do also make things like sausage and lentil casserole which my mother has eaten several times in the past, which im guessing if I called it Lentil and sausage soup would be awful to eat

I often have soup as a meal, either lunch or dinner. With bread.

Sausage soup sounds dreadful!

yanbu
soup makes a great meal

I think soup with bread is a meal but MIL says its a starter but she's French and they don't eat bread with soup, just with everything else.

I often do soup with a cheese toastie for tea - that seems to go down well and even fills up 6ft 2 13 stone 21 year old DS with no complaints.

Yanbu

We have soup as a regular meal. Usually tomato and lentil. That with home made bread is massively filling!!!!

Not for me, I'd say fine for dinner but not tea. That said, I can't bare soup with lumps in!

That sounds delicious and yes it's a meal with lovely crusty bread

I was told on here once that tomato soup with a cheese toastie isn't a suitable meal for a teen boy. My teen boy disagrees.

Also on MN people think if a perfectly nutritious meal is cold it can't be a dinner.

People are weird, with odd hangups.

Sausage soup sounds dreadful!

Not as dreadful as it looks - especially if they are floaters...

We have soup for dinner at least once a week. And not even a ‘hearty’ one, nor with bread.

This week we had broccoli and stilton.

Mmmm, soup as a meal. Yum. Especially in Autumn and Winter. A good 'heavy' soup with bread and butter, and a nice green salad is one of my fav meals in cool/cold weather.

As long as it’s a really good hearty one we class it as a meal in this house lol

I made one during the week with onions, carrots, leeks, celery, garlic, red lentils, yellow split peas and a 1kg of gammon. Along with crusty bread. It was very filling.

Some hangry people around!

A good hearty soup is a meal in itself. I love soup but it has to be thick and filling, (spuds mandatory!) and no matter what it is, parmesan or grated cheese on top and bread and real butter to accompany it.

Perfect meal for those who don't have conniptions if there is not a plate of meat and three veg there.

We eat far too much most of the time anyway. Ooops.

More likely lunch but why not, dinner is whatever you damn well please! I've eaten a bowl of cornflakes many a time (especially if I have eaten out at lunch or cooked a roast!)

It’s a good end of week dinner- you can use up the leftover veg in the fridge.

I often have soup for my dinner. I don't eat meat, so there's no bacon in it either, just lots of veg and potatoes. Must remember to put beans or chick peas in next time.

I love chicken noodle soup. Basically a ramen type thing I found online. Its super filling as has chicken and noodles obviously, plus a soft boiled egg ontop, along with everything else.

I am having soup tonight.
for a main meal I was serving to others I would have a pudding and cheese and crackers or garlic bread etc or a salad with it though.

hmmm chicken noodle soup (from the polish section) with a cracked egg stirred in.

Soup as the Maine meal of the day is fine if it’s a substantial soup. I wouldn’t consider a consommé a full main meal.
I do mushroom and barley broth, curried carrot soup with rice in it or a sweet corn chowder.

I have made this Ramen chicken noodle soup before. Its lush

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/722637/japanese-ramen-noodle-soup

Soup is not a main meal. Your mother is right. Even though you think it would be EXCELLENT if she was wrong!

And you don't have to be a greedy fucker to think a bowl of soup and crusty cob is a poor excuse for a main meal. Most people would only have it for a 'main meal' if they were on a strict diet.

And why waste time 'chopping and prepping' when you can buy perfectly decent, good quality soup, ready-made in a can?

Some people just like to make extra work for themselves, ad then complain they're overworked!