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.

That's like saying steak isn't a real meal because you have chips and salad with it, most meals have more than one item or contain rice, potatoes or pasta. And should have at least a couple of veg on the side or in them

And it depends what's in the soup I do minestrone sometimes, which has so much stuff in it (including bacon, beans, pasta, tomatoes, onions, garlic, herbs etc) that it barely moves around, with homemade bread of course. If you wanted a main course after that you have hollow legs.

Depends on the soup, surely. If it's a Bachelor's Cup-a-Soup or a crappy tin of unspecified vegetable soup then yeah, flavoured water

But something like a chowder or a really hearty oxtail soup with chunks of meat and potato in it is pretty filling.

I very rarely have the smooth, blended types of soup because (even if they're very tasty) I just find them incredibly dull and joyless to eat. Every mouthful identical and no texture. SO BORING.

i cant eat soup with lumps in, has to be blended within an inch of its life! and with about 5 bread rolls 😂

Oh goulash... Mmm

My mum met my Hungarian stepdad in 1980 when I was 4, so grew up with the family coming over and lots of Hungarian cooking...

Onions, paprika, potatoes, beef, peas, plenty of black pepper - indeed it was a meal on its own, always seconds.
I get annoyed with snobby chefs making goulash to go on top of rice? What?!

I love kidney bean soup too, boil a bacon and use the water from that to make the basis if the soup.

Porkolt with potatoes...

At home now, I'll use the bacon water and slow cook with lentils and bits if bacon. No bread needed it's a thick one!

• Wanton or miso

I love the idea of "wanton soup". A shameless, brazen hussy of a soup, seducing all sentient creatures in its path. So much more evocative than wonton soup.

(Sorry, couldn't resist! 😉)

Gulash isn't soup. 😱 That's like saying Scouse is soup😁
Unless you make gulash soup. Which is delicious

My goodness, you've not really had many different types of soup, have you, OP?

My favourite and most filling meal is home-made minestrone. Fantabulous!

Lentil and potato soup (homemade) is very filling. Chicken pasta soup is also very filling especially if you add potatoes and/or cannellini beans)

If your soup is like water you are doing it wrong. Add stuff to it.

I’m half Scottish (though English bred) so maybe it’s my innate Scottishness that makes my lentil soup so good and hearty😁

@FunLimeOrca I conclude... you only eat spam.

Mmm, so thick you could stand your spoon in it!

I find Bol soups really filling!

YABU

Soup is the most comforting meal with endless possibilities.

Actually, in Hungary goulash is soup and not always on the part of the menu for main courses. However, it is a chunky stew like soup that is deffo a main course over here

How the hell are you making soup if you think it's just 'flavoured water'??

Orange squash is 'flavoured water'...a homemade soup is so much more!

It's definitely a meal in my house...with or without bread!

Aha! I always thought that's gulashsleves (wrong spelling sorry) and that's gulash soup while gulash is thick main. Didn't realise it's the same.

Now I want my gulash😂 damn it

HAHAHAHAHAHA I've been working hard and I'm tired OK

Your post made me lol. Wanton soup is something Nigella would make as a starter to her 'slut spaghetti' (puttanesca)

A bowl of ramen or pho with noodles, veg and protein (chicken, prawns, pork, vegetarian alternative) is a meal. Same with thick hm soup with added pulses. Both of these fill me up nicely

A tin of soup - no, as its too thin and not filling.

Love making hm soup. A great way of using veg on the turn. Yellowing broccoli, bendy carrots, wrinkly peppers.

I love soup and eat it for meals quite a bit. I'm making a cheese and broccoli soup tonight.

I can recall people praising soup they’d had that wax so thick they could have danced on it.

I still prefer thick soup to this day.

I went to Prague about 17 years ago. One chain of restaurants (saw about 5 others when there) you had goulash served in a bread bowl. It came in a bread like a cottage loaf with the top as a lid, so got bread to eat to start with.

Soup can be an excellent meal you're just making it wrong

Now I want some white bean tortilla soup. Very hearty.

Surely whether it's low on protein depends what type of soup it is. A decent chicken soup with chunks of chicken, cream cheese and pesto is high protein. Tomato isn't.