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

Full tin, plus one slice of ubuttered whole meal smooshed into it

1/2 tin for me. I do have a couple of pitta slices with it though. No way I could manage a whole tin

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I always feel threads like this are started for people to brag about how little they eat to feel full and anyone who dares eat more are disgusting and greedy.

One tin for an adult and half a tin for a child. Less if it's concentrated and your adding milk of water to it to thin it out. (I'm a big girl though so this may not suit everyone).

@Daisy62

Are IKEA bowls special?

I'm a two thirds person! A whole tin is too much, but half is no way near enough!

Too late!

Run! Save yourselves

My regular lunch, (not the main meal of the day), is a tin of soup and two small bread rolls. Just about right portion wise.

I eat about 500 ml of soup in one go as that's what my bowl holds.
If it's thin soup I'll have bread as well.
Anyone having half a tin is just having it as a starter surely?

My gran used to serve half a ton per person but it always came with butties on the side, not just soup for lunch.

and my post is a problem to you why?

😂😂😂at my typo.

half a TIN, not half a ton

Ah! but what size cereal bowl???

Also good with garlic naan

I don't agree that MN is full of competitive undereaters and when I ask for examples I never get any.
However, I am one of those people who believe portions these days are too big, but I still eat a whole can of soup in one go :)

Most of the soups we have are veg-packed and so I tend to have about a can and the kids tend to have 2/3 of a can. We have it with bread/toast too. Plenty of veg and some good starchy carbs make a great lunch.

🤣 I did this once when talking about food guidelines in pregnancy and said I know I can have four tons of tuna per week 🤣

When I was a kid we would have two tins between 5 of us, watered down to make it go further. I remember my portions barley covering the bottom of the bowl. we were very under fed as children.

Half a tin isn’t enough for most people.

I can eat half of a tin and I have a condition that stops me eating (I 'eat' baby sized portions and weigh 40kg.) Unless it's a light snack no it's not a portion.

My partner and I regularly share a tin of soup for lunch at a weekend. He has quite a lot of bread with it; I have cheese, pickled onion and some crisps. Never occurred to me to eat the whole tin at once, but I prefer small portions.

I grow veg and make a lot of my own soup, but still love classic Heinz vegetable.

Half a standard tin ought to be plenty, if you're having bread etc., and maybe some cheese as well if it's a meal rather than a snack. It wouldn't occur to me to serve more, though if I had guests I might do enough for 'seconds' in case anyone wanted more. Doesn't the tin say how many servings it expects a tin to be?
Reading this thread, I do wonder if maybe larger plates in general are part of the problem of larger portions of things across the board, and as a consequence, some people putting on too much weight.

No, but my IKEA ones are slightly bigger than my other bowls - my other bowls don’t quite fit the full tin!

I could easily manage a whole tin. it's not exactly a MASSIVE portion, is it?

Just though 1/2 a tin was the serving size <shrug>

YABU it's a liquid.

I'd say a tin each unless they're small children.

We used to get pies from a local bakery and have tomato soup over one.😋😋😋 It's weird I can't eat a bowl full of it on its own but love it over a pie.