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

Yes. The tins are quite boring to manage a whole tin. Homemade, something like a cauliflower masala based soup, I can eat a large bowlful. Heinz tin of tomato soup, no, not even with lovely large portion of sour dough bread.

I’m not British and know there’s a big culture over there of tinned food, but I’m amazed that so many of you eat tinned soup.

Anyway, when I have soup I have a giant bowlful. Probably 500ml+, and often top it up for a second portion. Lots of fresh veg and herbs, so very satisfying and healthy. Usually have homemade focaccia with it.

Def a whole tin. Half a tin is not a meal

Focaccia with soup sounds a lovely idea.

Depends what meal this is for, is it lunch or dinner?
If I’m having soup for lunch then I use half a tin, if I’m having soup for dinner then I use a full tin.

I prefer fresh soup - half a covent garden soup carton,
Just checked , they're 560 grams

I'm sure they used to be 600😮

DD and me like different kinds of soup, so half a tin each wouldn't work for us, even if we wanted to!

So a tin each, two/three slices of bread (no butter) and that's us.

An Aberdeen Rowie is the best thing to dunk in your soup though

We're actually having soup tonight, but homemade vegetable, so a large bowl each.

Half a tin is fine, served with a slice of cheese on toast cut in triangles -the soup is more of a dip for the bread. We serve it in ramekins. Plenty of cheese, red onion and tomato on the toast though. Yum.

My son would eat half a tin with one piece of buttered bread aged 4. He is now 5 and would eat a full tin, still probably with only one slice of bread but then have some fruit. His 6 year old sister would eat the same but munch a load of veg sticks instead of the fruit. Is it enough for a teen or adult, no.

Hqalf a tin of heinz tomato is about 103 calories!! Other lerss sweet soups would be even less i imagine!

Probably going against the trend here but half a tin is perfect for me (DP would moan about it though!)

BUT I’m a small person… not even 5ft so some older kids are taller than me! So maybe it’s proportionate!

I do think companies put unrealistic serving sizes sometimes to make the calorie count more appealing …. But souped is normally quite low calorie.

Why dont they ever sell half tins then like they do with beans, sweetcorn or spaghetti?

either your having very big bowls of particulally lumpy thick soup or something hearty with it or your appitite is no where near as 'greedy' as you sugest.

Would you be full and unable to eat else after a pint of coke? thats litrally far more liquid than a starter bowl of soup.

It's not 1965 and preceded by a full cooked breakfast, then accompanied by a main course and dessert (for men) and the remaining third watered down with milk and a handful of amphetamines (for women, to 'help you have more energy with the children and get your pre baby figure back as a bit of a bonus') anymore, either.

Garlic cheese on toast (and a sprinkle of chilli flakes) is the way to go for a decent tomato soup meal.

I’d give half a tin to DS, but I would certainly have a full tin myself. I’ve not seen any friends or family (adults) only eat half a tin 🤷‍♀️

If for lunch, I’d have bread and butter with it .. if for tea, I’d have a toasted cheese sandwich to dip into the soup 😋 yum!

errr.... big leap there...

... What an odd question.

Why would someone having half a tin of soup with bread and butter and what not be near anorexia?

I would eat a full tin on my own with a slice of bread, but if I was cooking for say 4 people then I'd use 3 tins.

The first (and last) time I saw a Dietician, she quite seriously informed me that nobody should ever eat Marmite because there's loads of salt in 100g. When you eat less than 8g on two pieces of toast.

Mind you, she was also unaware of the recommendation for people diagnosed with POTS to have a higher salt intake. Or what POTS is in the first place.

Tinned soup with bread would be a very light lunch, snack or supper, even if I had a full tin. Half a tin? Not worth getting my spoon wet for. And I'm not a big eater.

Yes I can see they sell them in some stores, but they aren't listed in mine and as the next nearest store is 40 miles away its probably a bit far to travel on the off chance that they might have some different sized soup!

If it fits in one of my bowls, that's what I have, plus 2 slices of bread. If it's a cuppa soup, it goes in a cup, with a couple of slices of bread. On a side note, I have discovered that cuppa soups taste less salty than they did when I was younger, I'm assuming this is because people have discovered that too much salt is bad.

Half a tin of Heinz soup is often under 150 calories. Unless you're having something more substantial with it, like a sandwich or toastie, it seems like too little.

no market for it I guess. Clearly the majority of people have a whole 400g tin...

I put my unused half tine in the fridge for another day, it keeps a few days perfectly well!

But saying that, maybe I'll go mad and have the whole tin next time :D

what, something like...bread and butter??