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.

Make this and tell me that soup isn't a meal. s

Maybe a Good morning Britain or morning live poll 😂

I need something with soup - does not fill me up for lunch - I always have a sandwich with it

Soup is a warm smoothie OP.

I fail to see how it can be water when it has loads of vegetables, meat, pulses etc in it? Are you thinking of broth?

Tbf this one at least uncovered that many people don't realise how many types of soups are there so maybe it's not that useless thread😂

Thin soup = starter
Big bowl of hearty soup with lentils or potatoes and meat or other protein = whole meal
I find soup in restaurants faffy, too slurpy. prefer to chow down at home and drink thin soups from a mug.

The French put grated cheese in the bowl before soup. I think. Am I imagining it? Makes it melt and it's amazing. Tell me it wasn't a dream....

Heavily dependent on chunk/thickness factor.

Soups I regard as proper meals:

• Any form of noodle soup inc laksa and chicken noodle
• Leak and potato
• Anything including cheese. Especially broccoli n stilton
• Ham and peas
• Any form of eggdrop soup, including avgolemono

Soups I regard as light meals:

• Wanton or miso
• Tomato
• Oxtail

Requisite presence of bread on the side

• All of them

You obviously haven't had my soup! You are welcome to come over

It can be. I made a batch of carrot soup at the weekend and have it with cottage cheese mixed in for extra protein 😋

Of course soup can be a hearty meal, it depends what you put in it!!!

Nope. I make excellent hearty soup (thoigh I blend it. Can’t stand lumpy soup). However I’ve stopped doing it because I’m just as hungry again 20 mins later, no matter how much bread I have with it. Soup makes me hungry, not full.

Are you using a cup a soup? 🤣

This. It's not 'flavoured water' (unless you're talking about cup a soup). A homemade soup is blended vegetables/meat etc and is generally very nutritious.

100% soup is not a meal. If I haven't chewed, it's not a meal.

If it tastes like flavoured water you're making it wrong.

I've just had a bowl of carrot soup with a cheese scone. One bowl had 3 large carrots in it, onion and stock - hardly flavoured water...

I agree. I love soup but it’s a starter or I have it with a protein-based salad for lunch. Soup by itself isn’t enough for my lunch unless I have lots of bread which I try to avoid (not for any particular reason - just because I see it as a “filler” rather than offering any nutritional benefits).

Im tall with a good metabolism though. My elderly mother would be perfectly happy with a bowl of soup for lunch. Wouldn’t be enough for my children though.

You are making it wrong - we have soup most weekends on Saturday - I use up stuff from the fridge so tonnes of veg, pasta, add some bacon or if there is any leftover bits of meat these come out the freezer. I make croutons out of the ends of bread (in the air fryer) It's actually the one meal everyone in the family eats with no complaint, when the kids were little they preferred it pureed. We also love noodle soup, again plenty of green veg noodles and some protein , plenty of spice.

I put a lot of protein in my soups - they are more like a stew, as I’m gluten free and on a FODMAP diet would not have bread anyway
That said it would be a hearty lunch rather than an evening meal

If it's got veggies and a sauce of protein (meat or pulses spring to mind), then I consider it to be a meal. I'm more likely to have it at lunchtime, but if was planning on it being my main meal of the day, it'd be packed with chunky veg and pulses. I'd have a slice of bread on the side as I'd enjoy it, not because I need it.

Depends what soup you gave in my opinion. I've just had Baxter's tomato and green lentil soup as a light lunch and it's great. Full of beans lentils and potato so no need for bread and 10g of protein.

You can add what you like to it. It's fine. Good meal.

It's considered a meal in France, so that's good enough for me, the French know about their food.

On another thread not that long ago, someone was saying that pizza is a not a proper meal either, they needed a jacket potato to go with. People are weird.