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

I have a whole tin but I don't have bread with it

People eat different amounts, have different metabolisms, do different amounts of exercise and have different appetites.

Also some families may have a big lunch and a little a lighter dinner and visa versa.

So...so what if they have more than you?

We use two tins between three of us (1 adult and 2 teens).

My kids (6 and 10) are happy to share a tin but I can’t imagine that would be enough for an adult. For a light lunch/ afternoon snack it would be ok but definitely not a meal.

It’s honestly amazing, really good for a cheap filling meal too (we get the 32p garlic baguettes, so half one of those and a tin of soup is good for even a dinner)

I think the idea of half a tin is imaging it as a starter. As a starter, it would be plenty. As a meal, a whole tin.

DH and I have just finished lunch, 1 tin of Heinz tomato soup shared and 1 slice each of cheese on toast. Fine as a lunch time snack but we don’t have big appetites I could totally see people eating any of the other combinations mentioned depending on age/sex/appetite as normal

I'm back from the kitchen, and sightly shocked to say, you're right. Except for the Campbell's condensed, which are much less (but would definitely be half a tin per person when uncondensed).

What wizardry is this?

We have half a tin each with a couple of dinner rolls and butter for a light lunch, probably with some fruit and crisps on the side. I'm not sure I could eat a whole tin - not because it would fill me up, but because I'd get bored and find it to be too much of one thing iyswim. So half a tin with other bits works best for us.

If it's a meal, rather than a starter, definitely a whole tin and I'm someone who's often shocked at how big other people's portions are!

Physics, innit.

Half a tin with two slices of bread would be a lunch or a starter but not dinner, unless you'd been out for Sunday lunch.

Half would be a starter (a small one) or a child’s portion.

YABVU
Half a tin for kiddies maybe but as a meal then a full tin each. With fresh white bread and tonnes of butter please

Ohhh I want soup for lunch now

I would be happy with this.

This is Mumsnet, so half the posts on this thread will predict that everyone else will claim "a thimbleful is enough for me for a month", chortle chortle.

Even though almost no-one is actually a competitive under-eater.

We'd have a full tin

I might split a tin for the kids

Why do you care what your friend does?

Does it matter? Everyone decides for themselves surely?

Half a tin isn’t enough for an adult. My 8yo eats almost a full tin with a couple of slices of bread and he is thin.

Even as I child I had a whole tin with 4 slices of bread and butter!

Half a tin would achieve nothing here.

Annoyingly I think 3/4 a tin is the right portion size for my Heinz tomato soup loving kid. Half is definitely too little for a main meal.

Fresh soup often comes in 600g containers and that is two portions for me, so two thirds of a can would be about right.

A full tin! Even for my kids.

Are you a borrower op?

Half a can for me here - ample with bread and butter.