To think soup isn’t a real meal?

[FunLimeOrca]

It’s just flavoured water. If you need bread to make it filling, then it wasn’t a meal to begin with.

Do you mean bread?

YABU

We like soup and bread here. Have it very often.

YABU. It's a nutritionally sound meal. Maybe a little low on protein, but it's fine.

I often have soup for lunch. 🤷‍♂️

Depends on what you put in there - you can make it as hearty or not as you wish.

I like really thick, lumpy soup. Almost like stew. If it's very blended and watery it is more like a drink than food. I wouldn't ever order it as a starter either. But home made chicken and veg with big chunks of potato and carrots etc is pretty nice.

It depends. Some soups are very chunky and full of veg and protein. I make a chicken and veg soup that is definitely a full meal (although I am greedy so enjoy it with bread).

But some soups like tomato do actually need something else in my opinion, like nice bread or a toastie.

I make soup all the time, definitely a real meal and not just flavoured water.

That's like saying a stew is flavoured water with bits in and I'm sure people eat bread or potatoes with that ? I wouldn't eat soup for an evening meal but for lunch it's definitely a meal even if you have bread with it.

You've obviously never had lentil soup in Scotland!

@FunLimeOrca , I think your problem may be that you don't know how to make a hearty soup.

If you think soup is flavoured water, you're eating the wrong soup.

I've just had a bowl of soup I made yesterday from chicken thighs and stock, butter beans, a bit of orzo, grated carrot and courgette, spring onions and dill. It was very filling so didn't require any bread. The same food without the stock would be considered a meal so I don't see how the addition of a thin sauce changes this.

Depends what you put in it obviously.

My go to is: chicken, onion, brocolli, cabbage, carrots, leak and maybe some pulses. So it's a full on nutritious meal.

Tomato soup and a cheese toastie. Food of the Gods.

So what is it then?

Try pea and ham, or leek and potato, or broccoli and stilton. Or a chunky chicken and veg soup.

My favourite is Cajun Bean Soup, which has celery, onion, green pepper, cannellini beans, tomatoes and bacon. With a little Tabasco sauce.

Filling, hydrating, packed with vitamins, delicious, great for using up veggies on a weekend. 😊 And the most effective thing I've found for seeing off a cold.

You need better soup recipes OP.
A good soup involves a bit of chewing.

Soup is of course a meal - a light vegetable soup for lunch or something heartier with lentils or meat for something more substantial

Have a second bowlful if one isn't enough

Exactly - my gran made soup you could dance on! It was lovely.

I made leek and potato soup yesterday, thick enough for the wooden spoon to stand up in the pan 😀 Just had a bowl for lunch and will keep me full till dinner later.

Don't eat it then.

Our lunch today is red lentil soup with flatbreads. I have added rice and bulgher wheat to the soup and some feta. It's not watery at all. (edited typo)

My mum used to make a soup with potatoes, carrots and swede with split peas and barley and she called it a 'knife and fork soup'.

You are eating the wrong soup.

My homemade soups are delicious and nutritionally excellent.

Packet, dehydrated chicken noodle, not so much. If other people enjoy them though, non of my business.

I would consider it a small meal/lunch if I was having a 'proper meal' later in the,day but not as the main meal of the day unless it contained lots of noodles/pasta/potatoes.