to think that 1/2 tin of soup is a portion?

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as in 200g of soup

with bread and butter etc.

that's a normal size, right?

Friend heats a tin each for her family

Half a tin each and some bread if toddler Dtwins were having it for lunch.

DS14 or any adult, whole tin.

Only time it would be a smaller portion is if I were serving homemade soup as a starter, where a big batch would have been cooked, and a smallish portion ladelled into each bowl, maybe with a v.small roll on the side.

My small 11 yr old eats a whole tin plus bread and butter. Half a tin for an adult is ridiculously small.

I guffawed when I read that.

I don't think soup is the problem. Driving everywhere and eating too much chocolate (to name but two factors) probably has a bit more to do with that.

Tinned soup probably has too much salt (and sugar) but that's a different health issue.

For anyone wanting an easy and cheap home-made soup, chop and fry an onion and some garlic, add a chopped potato and sweet potato, add stock cube of choice, cook for 30 minutes and blend. Eat. I also add some herbs and dried chili but it's not essential.

My bmi is 19. I had a tin of oxtail soup with some spinach and green beans added in for lunch today. About 200 calories including the veg.

You're either not very well informed or you're taking the piss. I suspect the latter.

My bmi is 19

Mine's 23 and I eat soup for lunch all the time, homemade or shop bought.

It has been half a tin per person for at least 60 years that I know of, especially for lunch, with a roll or bread and butter.

As my late DM used to say: "Enough is as good as a feast".

Half a tin each? That’s ridiculous. We split a tin between four of us plus the dog and have plenty of leftovers for the rest of the week.

I read their comment as sarcasm. Nobody is that ridiculous, are they?

@margegunderson's shock - 'A WHOLE tin?' reminded me of this

londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/blog/2017/march/ladies-halves-by-elizabeth-david

I dunk crisps and cheese chunks in soup, yes.

I was once given a unusually useful gift- a small narrow tray which combined a bowl and a plate designed for soup plus cheese sandwich on the side.

I have a soup maker and it comes out brilliantly.

I put in a load of sweet potatoes, a veggie stock cube and water and it came out amazingly

I often have soup for dinner as it is quick and I don’t have to monitor the machine as it keeps it hot till I need it.

It makes about 5 soup bowls of soup and I have been known to eat the lot as it turns out really thick.
I don’t have bread with it often. Throw back to my childhood where everything was about filling up on huge slices of bread and slices of butter as our house was too cold for the butter to spread and I hated butter

I would eat a whole can of soup with a slice of plain bread and be full
I think soup cans have definitely gone down in size. I always remember them being a lot chunkier.

I was all ready to say that half a tin fills a whole bowl, how the hell are you going to serve a whole tin... and then I realised you're talking about tiny TINS not the plastic tubs! I have 300g soup most lunchtimes - enough to fill a cereal bowl. Which is enough for lunch, provided I have some bread, and maybe yogurt and some fruit.

200g is probably not even a mug's worth! Fine for kids... not great for grown ups.

The serves 2 is probably meant because soup is traditionally a starter so if you were having 2 other courses it would be plenty. A lot of people have it for lunch with bread on its own so half a tin would not be enough for a meal

The recommended serving size on packaging is sometimes reduced to “improve” the compulsory grading on the front. This often is made to be unrealistically small, particularly on sweet items.

It obviously doesn’t factor in the rest of what you are eating that day!

Are you the “friend”, OP? And it’s one tin each here too, although the kids don’t eat soup.

I'm surprised anyone here is admitting they use tins, and don't make it all fresh from scratch...

I can easily eat 2 tins, but without bread.

Half a tin is a starter, not a main.

A full tin of Heinz tomato soup and a fuck ton of white bread and butter is about right

Wahey, it's the Great Biannual Look How Little Soup I Eat Thread.

Definitely one tin per person here.

Dh will add literally half a loaf of sliced bread on the side…. 🙄🙄🙄😳😳😳😳🙈

A tin of Heinz tomato, sprinkle of grated cheese and a wrap to dip in it... somewhere between 400-450 calories - hardly gluttony.

If I gave my kids half a tin they'd want a bowl of cereal afterwards (or second breakfast as it's known here.) I'd want a Mars Bar 😆

The average ready meal is 400 to 500g as a portion for one person. Half a can is not enough unless you're a small eater or substitute with snacking often.

I have half a tin or tub, couple of ryvita, small lump of cheese and some berries with fat free yogurt for lunch. And I’m still overweight.

It's half a tin/tub each here and plenty of bread for everyone in the family (two boys 11 and 13 are full after that). I do usually add extra to the soup though like spinach or chopped chicken or whatever, but not always!
Surprised to see we're in the minority, but honestly we don't have eating disorders, that genuinely does it for us if we've already had a cooked meal in the day! 😆

400g too much, 200g not enough. But I don't like soup on its own, as far as I'm concerned the bread is the meal!
Heinz do (or used to do?) 300g tins which are ideal. I think they even marketed them as "soup for one".