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

Depend what I’m having it with. I like my soup with my a cheese and ham toastie so half a tin. I usually buy fresh soup though in tubs so maybe a quarter of one of those with a toastie. I’d probably attempt the whole tub if I was having it on its own!

I don't really care what the recommended portion size is...one tin of soup fills a bowl.

If I'm having soup, I'll have a full bowl thank you, not half a bowl. Can't believe there are so many who half half tbh.

When I was younger it would have been half a tin each. Nowadays everyone eats a whole tin. Representative of how portion sizes have grown. It's why my Mum was slim all her life and I'm not!

Can't people who want a whole tin have it, and people who only want half a tin save the other half fir tomorrow in a little tupperware bowl in the fridge?

We used to have tomato soup with carrots and potatoes in, served with buttered bread as a child, was probably half a tin at the most.

Carrots and potatoes added to bulk out the soup I mean

You are correct that half a tin is a portion. However, I'd rather have a whole tin with one slice of bread than half a tin with two slices. Depends on the soup but generally a similar number of calories doing this....

I don't eat tinned soup, but looking at the size of a tin I cannot see how half a tin would feed anyone adequately. I make my soup and like a decent sized bowlful. I am pretty sure I would want a whole tin. I do eat half a tin of beans, but soup feels v different.

Even better, rinse the tin with a slug of dry sherry, really improves tomato soup!

As a meal, absolutely not. No where
near enough calories either

Tin of Baxters lentil soup here with 5 rice cakes!!

Yabu for having tinned soup for lunch when you can have avocado and feta on sourdough!

A tin of soup costs pence....

Whole tin here tho don’t do bread and butter usually

where dh will always do whole tin and 2/3 slices kr thick bread and butter

I love this one

True but my lunch only costs about £1.

Loads of other cheap options with more protein - sardines on toast, cheese sandwich, boiled eggs.

I used to like tinned soup tbf.

Anyone else get adverts for soup now ? 🤣

Yes this. Especially annoying as there are 4 of us.

Why is that especially annoying? 3 tins divided by 4 is 3/4 each

Yeah and you just shove it all in one pan to heat it anyway

In fairness it might have been the cook rather than MM 😁

Three quarters is ideal

Half a tin is enough for me but I always have either tomato soup or curried parsnip soup with a cheese toastie on the side for dunking.

It's fine for me because I don't eat a lot so I usually do me half a tin but hubby prefers a full tin and so does my 9 year old DS