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

....no. 🙄

Just that I always think that you had half a tin of soup at a time

@Kteeb1 "that's how mumsnet works. People ask questions and then other people comment on them."

So why ask me why I posted?

1/2 can of the soup I have in the cupboard is 94 calories. Even with a slice of toast that's not enough for my lunch.
I always have a full can plus bread, or make my own and have a massive bowl.
I am not fat.

You seem to be deliberately provocative on this subject, trying to froth people up 🙄

A thick, chunky soup might be considered more of a portion than a thinner soup as it fills you up more. Your comparison is weak as tomato soup is a whopping 8 calories more per tin. Whoop de do.

The thicker, more substantial soup will be more satisfying than a thin soup despite the calories, for most people I know anyway.

Why would a tin of soup that has chunky veg in it with fewer calories be considered portion, but a pureed soup with more not..?

If you can't see why that might be, I can't help you.

Frothing people up by daring to imply the lumps of mushy veg in one time of soup is as much of a portion as the pureed veg in the second tin.

FROOOOOOOOOOTTHHHYYYYY

Who knew soup could be so controversial?

Yup, goady as heck.

Looks like OP enjoys winding people up

Well, indeed.

If you were my friend posting questions like this about me, I'd send you half a tin of soup as a farewell 😙

Uh huh. Mmhmm. Of course you would....

Having watched this thread since it's inception, I succumbed and had soup for tea.
It was a whole tin of chicken soup with 2 bread rolls on the side.
I shared some with my cat, who is currently dunking her paw in trying to get the last bits of chicken.
Therefore my contribution is thus :- more than half, but less than a whole tin plus 2 rolls or slices of bread.

Yeah, on most tins of 400g soup it says "2 portions". Also, on a packet of 2 vegeburgers it says "2 portions". I don't think that half a tin of soup or one vegeburger would be enough to eat though. I suppose it's meant to be a portion with other stuff for a meal, but who knows what to have with it? It would be good if they put more meal suggestions on the packet.

I am quite a greedy fucker, but would only ever eat half a tin (or naice plastic carton) of shop-bought soup. With lots of bread.

I generally don't like bread with my soup.
If I want soup, I want soup.
Not a huge portion of bread & 4 tastes of soup.
I hate how in a restaurant if you order soup you get a big chunk of tastless bread & a tiny bit of too salty soup that would fit in a small mug.
I am into making my own soup nowadays, I've got a litre jug full downstairs of soup that is pumpkin+onion+random sauces + butter mix, which will probably be lunch tomorrow. Maybe that means 1000 ml is a single person soup portion to me. it's 2 large bowl fulls.

And sod the 200 kcal is a whole meal idea. Feck that off to feckity feck.

When I am on a diet I eat half a tin and 2 slices of bread no butter

People have lost sight of what healthy portions of food are, plus people live more sedentary lives now. Half a tin plus bread or toast is more than enough unless you work a physical job or walk a long way to work.

Dinner plates are too large too, the plates of 40 years ago were much smaller, not as small as modern side plates but closer to that size than some of the giant dinner plates I see around.

Normally I’m not a massive eater but canned soup doesn’t really fill me. I eat a whole tin and have about 6 slices of bread before I get fed up of getting up to butter more. Usually ends with an early dinner or snacks if I’m honest.

That’ll be because a full tin is c. 200 calories. That’s not a big meal for anyone.

deciding to consume 200 calories of soup rather than 100 doesn’t make anyone a glutton.

Even if they have bread with it.

It isn't supposed to be a big meal. It's a light lunch. It wouldn't be the main meal of the day. If you hadn't eaten breakfast it wouldn't be enough.

For a small child it's probably fine.

Waiting for someone to say 'I agree OP, thats PLENTY'

100 calories is not a ‘light lunch’. It’s a small snack.

Who's having 100 calorie lunches?

Not me.

Well it's not like it's difficult to think about what to have with a veggie burger, really, is it?

You have 1 party, in a bun, with cheese/onions/salads/sauces etc as you wish, serve it with anything else you wants , salad, coleslaw, potato salad, corn on the vin, on its own....

Why should they need to have meal suggestions???