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

A whole tin? I wonder why the UK is one of the most overweight nations in the world.

Half a can of Heinz minestrone soup is 62 calories. Chicken noodle is 64 calories. That is in no way a lunch - and if you're having 3 or 4 slices of buttered bread then you're not really having soup for lunch, you're having bread with a couple of mouthfuls of soup along with it!

I wonder what the highest density calorie soup is? From a tin, not homemade butter and cream soup or whatever. Baxters Luxury Lobster Bisque Soup is 276 calories per can.

I would like to add that my dad makes the most amazing pea and ham soup known to man, in which case, forget the bowl just give me the pan and a spoon 😋

A tin of tomato soup is about 200 cals definitely nobody getting overweight from that

urgh. Borderline anorexia, restrictive eating disorders , such an epidemic. WTAF. Would you have 200ml of tea, 200ml of coffee? Let’s binge on half a rich tea biscuit and a small cup of camomile.

That's good. I get a bit bored by the end of a 400g tin.

That said, after my c section the hospital dinner was the saddest fucking puddle of tepid tomato soup you've ever seen. Wasn't enough of it to bore a sparrow.

I've never noticed a 300g tin of soup in the shops to be honest. Otherwise I might have.

... just eat it with the other 3/4.
May as well, just deduct a bit of cheese or whatever if you're worried about the extra 50 calories.

Is that for her tea do you think (your friend) as opposed to a light lunch? Think you’d need more than 1/2 can if it was your main meal and you’d only had a small light lunch.

Half a tin is enough for me, for lunch or supper with a cheese scone and salted butter (recent convert to the cheese scones thanks to a thread here).

No one. As you well know. 🙄

Home made soup is tasty and easy to make with fresh vegetables etc. The fact that you choose not to is up to you.

They have them in limited flavours, chicken, tomato I think

Half a tin is their recommended serving size.
I reckon it's so they can say 'only X amount of calories per serving '

Bollocks to that though, One tin plus two bits of bread is a lunch.

Yes but that was what people used to eat for lunch until I dunno, 20 years ago. Now a whole tin is normalised. And average weight has risen along with portion size. But if you want to snipe about my analysis, that's fine.

A whole tin? I wonder why the UK is one of the most overweight nations in the world

As someone said upthread, it's soup, not lard.

@ghostyslovesheets Melted lard!!! Made me chuckle. 😄

I hate the MN competitive under eating.

If I gave my kids (who are slim short arses) half a ton of soup they’d be asking where the rest of their dinners was 🤣

I'm not a small eater but I do think half a ton of anything is excessive. How strong is your table?!

Soup is generally low calorie. One 400g tin of heinz minestrone is only 124 calories. A slice of bread eg warburtons is around 100 calories. So I'd say one tin & 2 slices of bread is still a rather low calorie lunch. Half a tin with one slice of bread I'd consider a sign that someone was on quite a serious calorie restriction diet

The UK isn't even in the top 30 of most obese countries in the world.

Around 425 calories for a while tin of soup plus two slices of bread with butter.
That's not obscene surely?

Technically yes, half a tin is a portion but tbh I usually eat a whole tin and certainly DH would.

If it's French Onion Soup I have two tins.

I don't eat bread though.

A whole tin? I wonder why the UK is one of the most overweight nations in the world

We are overweight due to excess sugar, not people who eat a whole tin of veg soup at a sitting

Half a tin max here, with some toast. Have been known to share a can between our family of 4...(2 kids under 10)