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 think you're making soup wrong :)

Half a tin and a couple of cheese & crackers for me - calorie counting so don't have much for lunch!

I have just warmed up a veg tin of soup with buttered bread for my dinner! Full tin!

I used to do half but then that last half would always be forgotten about and then end up in the bin. Tbh I only ever have tinned soup when I have a giant cheese toastie to go with it.

I think you're making soup wrong :)

I think you're right. Most soups I've made have been delicious, barring the one I made from Michael Mosley's celery, broccoli and Stilton, which was disgusting sludge.

No one is unreasonable for buying tinned soup ffs.

I rarely eat tinned soup, partly because the portion size isn't quite right for me. A whole tin is a bit much for lunch (I am sedentary office worker) but half a tin isn't quite enough.

Fresh soup tends to be better for me as the packs are generally 600g, so half a pack is the right size.

Then buy the 300g ones?

I have the whole tin and normally bung in some veg as well, but I don't eat bread and butter with it.

I’m enjoying a 400g tin of Lentil Soup, accompanied by 3 sesame crispbreads. No way would half a tin fill me up.

Nobody unless they are making crap soup. Roast pepper and tomato, leek and potato, minestrone are all lovely hearty soups and easy to make.

Totally. My kids' favourite thing for me to make is 'shouty soup' (so called because I once had a massive screaming row with a family member on the phone while making it). It's less of a favourite for me because it is time-consuming, but it tastes amazing when I have the time and can be arsed to do it.

So I always get the fresh ones in the plastic tubs which are 600g and I would always split over two meals so 300g each meal. If it's one of the chunky ones with a bit more substance, i.e. Moroccan chicken which also has chickpeas in, I'd probably just have that or with a bread roll. I find chunky soup really filling so struggling to finish it and definitely wouldn't be able to have the whole pot.

As a starter, yes. Or for a not very hungry child.

Just depends on the soup. Lentil and veg yeah sure. Heinz tomato is just sugary brine so half a tin would result in an angry mid-afternoon.

We have 3 tins between 3 adults and a child, plus a cheese toastie or a couple of slices of bread and butter. Half a tin wouldn't be enough for me without a lot of bread or something else to fill me up, but I am an unashamed fatty.

Full tin for me. Unless I'm sharing with 3yr old. Then he'll have 1/3 and I'll have 2/3. Plenty of bread each too.

As a kid we had half a tin each with bread and I remember not feeling ful.

It depends how sedentary you are.

That is the stated portion size on the tin, and I think it's enough for a lunch with a slice of bread or 2 (or a toastie), and it is enough for me at any time, but for a dinner I'd generally serve adults/teens a tin each alongside bread/rolls.

I had a tin of heinz veg yesterday for dinner with 4 slices of bread

@mam0918 never understood soup as a starter let alone a light one 😂 couldn’t eat anything else after a bowl of soup. And I have a greedy healthy appetite at the best of times!

Half a tin is sad. Just had a whole tin of Sainsbury’s spiced lentil and tomato soup with 2 thick slices of granary bread with vitalite.
Having some blueberries now.

Probably no one. But lots of people look into the fridge on a Saturday morning and rescue a few carrots, a leek or two , the odd tomato, a slightly soft pepper, then find a couple of onions and potatoes in the cupboard and turn them into soup rather than letting them rot in the compost heap, or worse just binning them.

Crikey no. It's a whole tin each, plus hot buttered toast in my home.

We serve 200g of any soup, albeit canned or homemade, per person with a crusty baguette and butter. It's enough for a lunch!