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

Is it as a meal or a starter?

I definitely have always had half a tin as 1 portion, the whole thing is WAY too much.

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As a small meal. Lunch for example. Whichever isn't your main meal of the day.

We have a roll, cut in half with butter on, and half a tin of soup
It's always been fine. Around. 400.cals. (100/soup, 160-190/roll, 100/butter)

We wouldn't have soup as a main meal really. Closest thing we'd have is some sort of casserole, but that would be with dumplings, extra veggies etc.

Ugh, by cut in half, i still mean we have a whole roll, we just cut it and butter each half.

I'm more amazed at comments that say full tin as a meal. And not just a light lunch with a roll etc. do people honestly eat tins of soup as their main meal or give this to a child ? ( and not just because they are flat broke that day or something) .

If I served that up , unless someone was unwell and asked for it- they would be waiting for 'the main bit'

Best post on the thread!

Whole tin here.

We'll share two tins of tomato soup between three of us. Veggie soup is a tin each. But cream of chicken/ mushroom is usually half a tin each. Depends on the consistency of the soup and how rich it is.

In the 70s/80s Mum used a family size tin (800g) of Heinz Cream of Tomato to feed 7 of us (2 adults, 5 kids) for lunch.

She used to dilute it with milk/water to make it go further. We would have it with what we called "birdies" - a slice of white bread, usually Scottish plain loaf, ripped up and dropped in the soup.

It wasn't until my siblings left home that we had the option of undiluted soup, still prefer it today with milk in it!

We have half a tin each. So for a family of 4 I do 2 tins. May give kids slightly less and adults slightly more though.
a tin each would cost a small fortune. If you need that much soup you’d make it from raw ingredients I’d think.

The kids when they were in single digits might have had half a tin each, with 2-3 slices of bread. Now they're teens, they could easily get through 4 tins and a loaf between them. Husband and I usually have a tin each plus 3-4 slices of bread.

FWIW all of us are at the low end of the 'normal' weight range so I don't think we have abnormal appetites.

4 tins is about a litre and a half so not a huge volume really.

when my kids were younger probably 3 tins between 4 of us would do.

A 400g tin is one portion, even though it says it serves 2. Half a tin would serve a 3 year old.

Depends if it's lunch or dinner, for lunch it is enough for me but not for my OH.
My mum used to add the little pasta stars to bulk them out.

I was about to say exactly that?
1 tin is classed as 2 servings? Small or not, the info given on the tin for sugar and salt is 2 servings.
I would love to chug down a whole tin but it’s expensive and not good for you! Tinned soup is junk food really.

Possibly for a child but I'd be starving after 200g of soup. Bloody hell.

.... But it's not just 200g of soup is it...?

Most people will have it with bread, crackers, sandwiches etc

I’m still stuffed from the half a tin of soup I had on Thursday 🐷

a whole tin fits in a mug- it’s a mug of soup, doesn’t sound excessive does it.

if it’s about cost, make your own soup

Noooo, a standard mug is around 250-330ml. Maybe 350 at a push.

It can't hold a 400g tin of soup

I’d much rather have more soup and not try to compensate with two slices of bread and butter. If you’re basically having to add a very disappointing sandwich to make it enough, it means half a tin of soup is not enough food for an adult.

My toddler would eat half a tin of soup.

But most people WILL add bread and butter or a sandwich or sausage rolls etc

I eat about four fifths of a can, as that's how much it takes to fill my mugs, then I get left with an annoying wasteful bit at the bottom of the can. Heinz used to do a slightly smaller can which was perfect.
Half a standard can wouldn't be enough, unless it was maybe with cheese on toast as mentioned by a pp...Now I'm really craving tomato soup and cheese on toast for breakfast 🤣

This is a very good point. The ‘serving size’ is not about what will make a
good meal. It’s about how they can label things based on salt, fat and sugar levels.

In which case, the half tin serving is not indicative of what a meal is. It’s like banging on about serving size of steamed carrots and ignoring the rest of the roast dinner.

If the expectation is of adding a sandwich or sausage roll to make it an actual meal, then the ‘serving size’ is stupid as a concept.