To think soup isn’t a real meal?

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

Can't beat it yummy.

OP make your own, much nicer.

You are being very unreasonable, nothing nicer than a bowl of soup. In fact I came across my favourite soup from a Mumsnet post about soup wasn't a meal for dinner.

https://skinnyspatula.com/salmon-soup-lohikeitto/

I make a spicy bean soup with most of those ingredients but I also use a can or two of spicy mixed beans from Lidl/Aldi for more bulk and it's lovely.

I've just had a brimming bowl of homemade minestrone soup and it was definitely a meal.

I think you’re confusing soup with broth.

Your logic doesn’t make any sense.

Would you say a chicken breast isn’t a meal becuase you have a to add a side of potatos and veg?

Would you say a bolognaise isn’t a meal because you have to add pasta?

So why say a soup isn’t a meal because you most likely have it with bread.

YABU

But… cup a soups… they’re a snack imo.

As a starter it's the worst of both worlds, not enjoyable to eat but so filling you don't want anything else afterwards.

Soup can be many things. Don't knock it til you have had a proper hearty one.

Peeps on MN get het up over the strangest things.

I agree, I don’t really enjoy a lot of soups and they don’t feel like I’ve eaten. Never known anyone else think that though
occasionally I’ll fancy a really nice soup from a place we go but generally I don’t have soup

I cannot stand soup…and I’m really not a fussy eater. I’ll eat anything, even soup if someone else makes it.

But it’s a pain to eat, I’d rather have something I can eat with a knife and fork (or my hands!). All that hot liquid makes me feel overly full and too warm. I’d never make, or order, soup.

The only bit I really enjoy is the bread part.

Some splendid soup recipes on that skinnyspatular.com website. @Carvello Nothing watery at all.

You know you're meant add other ingredients to the stock, right?

Well you can make soup by over blending broth

I make thick chunky soups that are like stews so they’re definitely a meal. We put carbs with other meals though without saying they’re not a meal, so not sure why it matters if a soup does need bread to be a meal. Weird post.

It's lunch and comes with bread. I do occasionally do a stove top chunky soup that's a main meal stew/soup and doesn't come with bread or on the side veggies, but I consider most soups to be lunch

I think a good chicken and veg or minestrone with nice bread is definitely a meal. Some soups are just snacks/starters.

I bloody love soup. Food of the Gods!

YABU

I don’t have soup as my main evening meal but I would have it for lunch

you're making the wrong types of soups! Pumpkin soup (we do a one with Thai-style flavouring) and lentil soups can be incredibly filling.

Bizarre post.
Kinda depends what you put in it op!

Flavoured water? What kind of soup are you eating?
I make two soups regularly and both are filling - though they are always nicer with bread (what meal isn't) they are also filling in themselves. One is a thick butternut squash soup and the other is cabbage soup. Full of flavour and keeps me satisfied until dinner.
It sure is gave it for dinner though - I want something more robust in the evening.

Indeed. Having some for lunch in work as we speak and I could stand my spoon up in it! Lentils, bacon, lots of chunky veg, definitely a meal.

I probably put as much water in soup as I do in a bread dough 😂
Ours are mainly veg.

Do you mean cup-a-soup?

Homemade soup is usually packed full of veggies and fresh ingredients. How is it any different than having stew and bread?

Soups full of things like lentils etc are plenty filling and nutritious!