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?

I love how cross home made soup and its language is making some people! Who thought soup could be so annoying.

I consider soup to be a dinner if it's left whole, has protein such as lentils or beans in it and served with potatoes and a bit of granary bread. I call that a vegetable stew and have it quite often for dinner.
Soup is more liquidy and whizzed up. If I had something like a cheese toastie with it then that would be dinner if I had it in the evening.

Anyone who slates soups, especially of a hearty nature, has never had bariatric surgery. The thick soup stage is the most enjoyable stage of recovery. At the time it feels like the only thing you will ever need again.

I thought broth was hearty!

Soup. I love soup. Can smell and taste my Nana's soup if I close my eyes tight. Dm's can be hit or miss but I will always sup up every bite. I don't get to eat it as much as I'd like because so many in restaurants have chicken stock.

DH does not believe soup is a meal. He makes fabulous soup, then also serves another completely unrelated meal with it. It makes me want to spit (but not precious soup) because I am a greedy bastard and now will have to try hard to eat all of it. I then struggle to manage two bowls of soup, which is the mandatory dinner portion, imo 😝

Enjoy your soup dinner!

I think it’s mad that some people treat soup as a non meal. I just don’t understand it. It’s like people who ‘snack’ on sandwiches.

The clear, less robust soup is consommé.

People seem to use the term broth for what we called stock.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius I concede your point. It's the rest of the OP that I object to. It's naive, boastful and needlessly dismissive of an older woman.

I am a keen cook.

When I was an enthusiastic young bride with a lot of time on my hands I made my own soups from scratch.They were okay but incredibly time-consuming.

These days I buy tinned or fresh soups and add my own things to them like 'hearty' beans or potatoes and crusty bread that I don't bake myself because I don't have the time or the expertise.

Be lucky to have soup after Brexit unless you have prepped for Armageddon. LOL

Be thankful for grub. Look at those poor kids in Yemen. OMG.

I have vegetable beef stew in my crock pot for tonight’s dinner and a pan of cornbread so yes your soup sounds like a great meal!

I just feel depressed now. I hate soup, especially home made (apart from my own which I can trust). My whole family are obsessed with soup, especially tattie soup and scotch broth, boak. My entire childhood was dominated by the stench of soup and chicken cadavers being boiled for stock.

Be lucky to have soup after Brexit unless you have prepped for Armageddon. LOL

This made me choke on my.....well, soup

mmmmm cullen skink mmmmmmm

Boullibaise is amazing too but I have spelt it incorrectly I’m sure. It takes hours to make from scratch though.

Apple crumble and custard is a meal soup is for people with no teeth.

Hehe thigh

mmmmm cullen skink mmmmmmm

mmmmm indeed

My husband has the weird British ‘soup cannot be a main meal’ block evident in some posters.

You could take a meal he would happily accept as a hearty main, put it in some broth and he’d be moaning that it wasn’t a meal and he was going to be starving again in an hour.

Mr Stroni 😋😋

I’d more likely have minestrone for dinner than for lunch....soup with little pasta bits is a pretty standard Italian midweek dinner. Heavier things are usually for lunch.

DH and I bicker a bit because he’d prefer a ‘proper dinner’ and I don’t want anything heavy before bed. We’ve compromised on proper dinners but early.

@JassyRadlett

Tell him the broth is gravy.

I love soup, and have it often for dinner. We have it with loads of bread and butter or sandwiches/toasties. Usually have something such as cheese and crackers, fruit, yoghurt or crumble to round off the meal.

I I’ve friwnds who look at me when I say We are having soup for dinner. My soup contains a butternut squash, bag of carrots, a bag of sweet potatoes, leeks and bacon. We also have cheese on toast with it. Apparently it’s not enough.

I frequently - around 3 times a week - have soup for dinner. M&S Green Vegetable soup is a favourite as are the Glorious brand. I don’t eat bread so no bread with it.

Fills me up (I often add a big handful of fresh spinach).