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

A tin each. We share the plastic tubs of fresh soup which are bigger.

Half a tin each, and half a tub if using the fresh soup. We’d generally have bread/crackers, maybe some ham & cheese, with it. I find that enough. Then again, we never have soup as our ‘main’ meal so wouldn’t occur to us to have a tin each. Halves are fine for lunch/light tea.

I have half a tin of soup.
When it’s gone I have the other half.

I’ve never had less than a full tin (and even that is a pretty light lunch).

If you asked my teenager 1 tin is quite obviously 1/2 a portion.

YABVVU

Are we talking lunch or dinner and starter or main? I would have half a tin with bread for lunch or as a starter at dinner.
If it was my main course for dinner, I'd probably have a full time (or at least 3/4 of it anyway)

Full disclosure: we don't have eat 3 course meals on the regular (unless you count garlic bread on the sofa while we wait for a lasagna to cook 😅)

Full TIN not time 🤦‍♀️

Inappropriate to ask about anorexia.

It's clearly not intended as a main hearty meal but a light snack or lunch, with some sort of bread, just fine.

for child/adult?
for lunch?
or for dinner?
as a starter/main??

We do half a tin each of canned soup for lunch but I would make my own soup for dinner and serve a much bigger portion. The canned soup is often very high in sugar and salt so more of an occasional treat or when you've been ill comfort food in this house.

A full tin each, anything else is an absolutely ridiculously tiny portion.

Surely you can’t be serious, who on earth is having 1/2 a tin each?

I always have a full tin, usually tomato, with a cheese sandwich to dip in it. Kids will usually share a tin and have bread to dip. DH has a full tin, a sandwich and crisps.

That's a teeny tiny snack.

Quite a few people on this thread actually. Though it's a light snack or lunch with bread, and not a filling meal.

This thread has reminded me that my mum always used to rinse out the Heinz tomato soup can with milk, to make it stretch further. I thought I'd been poisoned when I left home and had a can all to myself because I didn't know about the milk then.

We have half a tin for a light lunch. But it is not enough if you are really hungry/

I believe that elves have half a tin of soup as a mid-morning snack.

Just thought 1/2 a tin was the serving size.

But who decides what a serving size is?
The serving size printed on the packaging is totally meaningless - they will know full well that most people would eat a whole tin, they just want the amount of fat, calories and especially salt to look small.

I don't understand homemade soup. Who looks into a bag of shopping and thinks 'What this needs is diluting and boiling until it's a watery mush.

Nobody. I don't randomly soupify a bag of shopping. I made delicious, not remotely watery soup out of ingredients I have bought specifically to make a delicious soup. If it weren't delicious I wouldn't bother making it! Maybe you've only had really shit homemade soup. I've started bringing homemade soup to work for lunch, and it's one of the highlights of my day!

Going against the grain here but yes, for lunch that’s fine. Surely the same as having a sandwich?

maybe with dinner you’d want more, or a dessert, I don’t know. But yes, in fact I think 1/2 a tin is listed as a portion on the can?

Didn't heinz use to make 300g tins for one person? That would be perfect for me. 400g is a bit much but 200g not enough.

We regularly split a 400g tin of Heinz tomato soup and a supermarket stone baked pizza between two of us for dinner. Ideally the Lidl / Aldi one with spicy pepperoni or nduja. Pizza dipped in tomato soup is delicious.

Half a tin for a starter of full tin for a main

I think that’s how half a tin of soup is best viewed - as a dip.

Also, I wouldn't eat more than a half tin of tomato soup. NOT because I am a delicate waif and couldn't manage it, but because the taste gets really samey.

If soup is the main component, with bread/toast and butter, then I'd want a full tin.

If the soup is a side thing to a substantial sandwich, then half a tin would do.