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?

What time are you serving it? Can I come round please?

It’s lunch. I wouldn’t consider it dinner. I realise that’s irrational

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I'll commonly have soup for my dinner (which, where I live is the midday meal), but somehow it doesn't seem right for tea (which is my evening meal).
That said, what you describe could be described as a stew so, I'll let you off

It’s ok for lunch (with lots of bread), but not dinner, unless it’s followed by a main course. Especially at the weekend, sorry.

We often just have soup for a meal - as you rightly say you could have called it a vegetable casserole and all would have been well!

Maybe make some sandwiches to go with it?

Pasta, beans and veg, you've just got more liquid in it, just cos it's not a slab of meat...

Would have soup for lunch , just with some bread and call it a meal, yes.

A favourite here is just a mish mash of every bit of veg in the fridge and spuds of course, add chickpeas too. Blend and serve. Full is not the word. And no processing involved either. For those who care about such things.

We do soups a lot in the winter. Usually have it with homemade bread or garlic bread. I do a lot of root veg soups, pea and ham, lentil etc. If it’s tomato, I like to serve it with cheese toasties. Although, when we do soup, it’s usually on pudding day. So I’ll normally make a crumble, or sticky toffee pudding or homemade cake or something to have for afters. We only do pudding once during the week and on sundays

My ds25 is out for the day tomorrow, which means Minestrone soup for Sunday lunch lots of parmasan and homemade garlic bread.

I made proper ‘Jewish penicillin’ chicken soup from scratch for the first time recently for a friend who wasn’t well. With matzo dumplings, which I haven’t ever had before. It took ages and involved an entire chicken, a basketful of veg and 4 eggs in the dumplings. It was definitely a meal in itself. But a bowl of consume wouldn’t be. So I guess it depends on the soup.

It’s lunch , or a starter. I would be so disappointed if someone said they had made me dinner and plonked a bowl of soup in front of me.

Soup is a proper dinner in our house.

It's not a main meal, even with bread, but it is a meal.

For me it is more of a lunch time thing.

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Sorry can't stand most soup, though I have it as a light lunch sometimes because it is ' good for me' . My mother spent my childhood making a delicious minestrone soup with homemade stock and veg and pasta and beans etc, regularly that my dad loved. I still never wanted it though would eat it with poor grace.

Soup is just not a proper meal to me. Then again a really good hearty salad with lots of veg and seeds etc and some bread I am happy with as a meal and lots of people aren't I know. We all have our foibles I supposed

I love soup but have to have it with bread and prefer it for lunch

Wearywithteens, I completely agree, not popular on MN though. Most people seem to love soup on here.

I think it can be a main meal if it is a good, hearty soup.

If your meal contains suitable portions of carbohydrate, protein and vegetables, why does it stop being a main meal because you add lots of liquid?

I sometimes make Nigel Slater’s chorizo and bean soup for our main meal - it is hearty and filling, and doesn’t even need bread to make it a filling meal.

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

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!

Who hurt you?

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.

Of course it's okay @StrawberryTraveller and you know that. Any reason why you felt the need to virtue signal?

Home made soup is nothing like canned soups. Canned soups are a genre of their own, especially tomato, which is quite unlike any homemade tomato soup would be, but has a weirdly comforting and familiar chemical presence, a bit like angel delight pudding.

Hmmm, I'd have to have a lot of bread and butter plus a hearty pudding. Otherwise, meh I'd feel cheated and starved.

I do an awesome parsnip and bacon soup. Sweat onion, add streaky bacon, loads of parsnips, some carrots a tattie. Knorr chicken stock cubes eh voila. Has to be Knorr.