Aibu to think that soup is a meal?

[AlrightThereSkippy]

Light-hearted disagreement between DH and me!

He says soup is not a meal; it's a starter. I think it can be either and definitely a meal when you include a sandwich.

If you include a sandwhich than soup becomes a starter

Yes it made me feel so low as a teenager ha ha I remember it well
I have clear chicken soup with chicken and noodles and veg or onion soup with gruyere now but that would be it

Or ramen or Pho

Stick with it for lunch 🤣 I can relate to him

I'm having soup for tea

@ittakes2

If you include a sandwhich than soup becomes a starter

You go too far madam! This is the most outrageous thing I've seen on Mumsnet, bar none!

If you have a sandwich it almost become a side dish ?

It's a light lunch or a snacky tea if I'm not really hungry. But in no way isit a full meal on its own.

This was a big debate in the 90s.

Depends on the soup... a tin of Heinz tomato soup, definitely not.

But a chunky homemade soup definitely is! I've got some lovely soup recipes that we have for dinner including:

Spanish bean soup with chorizo
Mercimek corbasi - a DELICIOUS Turkish soup with bulgar wheat, lemon and mint
Moroccan chick pea soup, with spinach and lots of spices
Fresh minestrone
Chucky daal served with chapatis
French lentil soup with bacon

You just need to rethink your soups

Loads of chunky bread, yes. Then pudding - has no one mentioned pudding yet?

We have a minestrone type soup with garlic bread as a meal sometimes. DH is always disappointed

We make soups for dinner quite often, especially in winter.

I had my sister and nephew here to visit and I made a roasted butternut squash and cauliflower soup with lentils in it. Served with fresh bread and a salad. It was delicious and filling. Great option for my vegetarian nephew. It was actually vegan.

Depends on the soup, but for variety I also serve a small portion + something else be it leftovers or maybe some gyoza if veg miso soup.

A thick creamy soup with crusty bread is a meal of its own imo

Maybe not a meal for growing, active DC (although depends on the type of soup!) but fine as a lunch or quick snack for them if they are having another main meal during the day. A thick lentil and bacon soup would definitely be filling enough for DC I think with a bit of bread and cheese.

But generally, soup is fine for adults as an evening meal. Especially older adults. When I worked n France, most of my colleagues ate their main meal at lunch time and had soup for dinner. Very healthy and slimming!

Homemade minestrone is the food of the Gods!
Substitute the broken up spaghetti usually added in the last ten minutes for some good quality shop bought tortellini- it's devine at any time of the day!
Don't even need bread with it, and I'm another greedy bastard!

We regularly have soup as a main meal for dinner, especially in winter. Thick home-made soup is definitely filling, served with home-made bread. We would have it at least once a week.

It’s a lunch, but not dinner. With dinner, it’s a starter.

He’s right about the jacket potatoes too.

Snack

soup is a meal, as long as it isn't cuppa soup or some watery bollocks like that

mind, when i'm having soup as a meal i have the whole can -- the half can recommended serving size i assume is for if it's served as an accompanyment to something more substantial, if somebody served me half a tin of soup as a meal i'd be

Oh, how many years since I had Tinned soup with lashings of bread and butter dipped in?! 😋
One of my favourite childhood meals. A few ham or cheese and onion sandwiches alongsidewould fill me nicely as an evening meal still 😊

A sandwich as well means the soup isn't the meal.
When I make soup it sticks your ribs together and I would have at least two bowls. But not a sandwich as well, and only for lunch.
Soup as a starter would fill me up too much to enjoy main course.

@EmmalinaC

Depends on the soup... a tin of Heinz tomato soup, definitely not.

But a chunky homemade soup definitely is! I've got some lovely soup recipes that we have for dinner including:

Spanish bean soup with chorizo
Mercimek corbasi - a DELICIOUS Turkish soup with bulgar wheat, lemon and mint
Moroccan chick pea soup, with spinach and lots of spices
Fresh minestrone
Chucky daal served with chapatis
French lentil soup with bacon

You just need to rethink your soups

Exactly this. Some of those those sound delicious.

But surprised that so many people say soup is OK for lunch but not dinner. What is the reasoning here?

Most of my lunches are leftover dinner, so the type (and amount) of food is pretty much the same. I see no difference between what I would have for lunch or dinner, so can't think of anything that is lunch food but not dinner food.

It's a drink

The 'soup and a sandwich' people want to try Baxter's (not Heinz) tomato soup with cheese on toast to take it to the next level.

I’ve just had a bowl of homemade french onion soup for dinner. Two slices of buttered seeded bread and I’m stuffed.

My kids would be mortally offended by soup though.

My dh also used to sneer at soups or recoil in horror, until I started making my style rather than the thick blended ones.
Pimped up chicken noodle soup, asian style one with noodles, meat, veg, ginger and soy etc.,
The options are limitless! Garlic one with cheese and croutons, the broth mix lentils etc are lovely. Poached egg on top.

If people find soups boring, they are just doing them wrong😁