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.

You're obviously a shite cook OP 😂

I love soup 🤷🏼‍♀️ none that I make would be described as watery.

Lentil soup, minestrone and chicken and rice are my most often made and they defo aren't flavoured water. They are all nutritionally balanced. You must be crap at soup if you just make flavoured water, that's just stock 😂

You need to open your mind and embrace the soup
Soup can be full of protein and veg and bread is just lke any other carb accompaniment.

what do you mean 'flavoured' water?

do you just dip the veg/meat in and then take it back out before serving or something?

a carrot is a carrot, tomato is a tomato, potato potato, and chicken chicken, whether it is in liquid form or solid. Something that you would consider food if uncooked/roasted/fried on your plate doesn't magically disappear into the ether and no longer 'count' just because it's been boiled and served in a bowl instead.

I love homemade soup, and often have it as a tasty and filling meal (without bread).

Obviously a cup of tinned cream of tomato at half a tin per serving isn't going to fill you up, but a lovely Mexican chilli beef and bean soup would, or a Thai chicken noodle soup, or a minestrone full of chunky veg and pasta etc.

You're clearly doing soup wrong!

Your soup sounds shit.

I was coming on to say this too. Clearly not Scottish 😂

We eat a main meal in the evening so soup for lunch is plenty. I love soup in cold weather. In the summer we eat salads.

Are you sure you are just drinking an Oxo cube? 🤣

Depends on the soup. Thick bean or lentil is, so is goulash. Miso soup, no.

YABU. Tinned soup maybe, but proper homemade soup is lush.

Just flavoured water???🤔🤔What a weird post. Soup can be anything you want it to be.

I love Cullen Skink ( A Scottish Dish) - smoked haddock in a thick soup with potatoes and leeks and cream. Very filling.

Sounds like you made shit soup tbh! Soup can be as filling as you make it.

And sandwiches are also a meal. Pretty rubbish without bread though.......

Soup can be a meal or just a snack, depends on what's in it and what you have with it.

It's a "meal" in the same sense that a sandwich and a grab bag of Hula Hoops counts as "lunch" sometimes. On their own they are just snacks.

You don't know how to make soup!

All of my soups are full meals in themselves. You have to eat them, with a spoon you can wedge upright in the bowl. Then again, I'm a Scot, we know how to make real soups here :)

None of that nasty thin dishwater some people in England call soup. I have heard they even drink it, imagine that =:o

It’s confusing the way ‘broth’ is now used to mean stock. Scotch broth is definitely a meal.

But you can say that about any meal.

'Bolognaise sauce isn't a meal. If you need pasta to make it filling then it wasn't a meal to start with.'

'Spicy chickpeas isn't a meal. If you need rice to make it filling then it wasn't a meal to begin with.'

etc

Just made a pot.

A sandwich isn't a meal. If you have to add bread to make it filling then it wasn't a meal to begin with....

(just finishing off my lovely soup and bread for my lunch)

There's no rule about what you can and can't eat for meals. Therefore YABU. If you have food, it's a meal. Soup and bread is a meal. Done.

I would have it for one meal a day but it’s too little for 2 meals a day imo.

its not exactly a nutrient powerhouse- even the stuff you’re adding you’re eating in really small quantities in the context of a bowl of soup.

I also think lots of people aren’t full up by a bowl or ie lentil soup or goulash on its own and it’s fairly standard to add a slice of bread or 2.

Show us your soup OP.

So many daft threads of late. 🙄

Consommé, yes - flavoured water.

A plate of Cullen skink on the other hand could keep me going all date.

So technically it is a meal. But emotionally, psychologically? No, it's a travesty to have soup and a bit of bread and say you've eaten a full meal. Soup is the worst unless it's a starter or accompaniment.