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.

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I love flavoured water with bread!

I'm not a great soup cook but I do love a well made one (in some restaurants, or made by friends). I wouldn't call it flavoured water.

When I am at home I tend to stick to the tinned variety and I do like to have nice, crusty bread with it. I'm fussy about the flavours I will have - Heinz cream of tomato, Baxter's French onion and some broccoli and stilton are my preferences. Call me sacrilegious if you want to. 🤣

This thread made me crave some French onion soup with some freshly baked crusty sourdough bread from our fantastic local bakery. So I went out and got some. 😃😃 Very nice it was too. 🤠

Depends on the soup.

If you make something like lentil soup, minestrone, a chunky veg soup or chicken noodle, then it's far more filling than 'flavoured water'.

If you use actual broth or stock and not a packet of msg, salt, and 'natural flavour' it isn't just flavored water.

Of course it's not just flavoured water. It contains a lot of vegetables and can also contain meat, fish or pulses (whatever you decide to put in it). I make a vegetable and lentil soup that's very filling and nutritious. I don't have or need bread with it.

I lived in Bratislava for a while. One of my favourite restaurants had cream of garlic soup served in a round loaf of bread. It was amazing!

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Love the ethical post of starting a thread that makes no sense and running off to never be seen again 😂

Excellent medicine if you have a cold. Especially if you add parsnips.

I love a chunky, thick roast vegetable soup with lentils, beans and sometimes chicken. It's definitely a meal.

My lunch. The soup is made from bone broth, chicken, swede, carrots, leeks, celery, peas, and puy lentils.

I didn’t need bread and I’m not hungry 3 hours later.

(I took the photo to show DH what his lunch was 😁).

You wouldn’t anything like the quantity of a chicken dinner- chicken breast multiple potatoes full portion of veg- in a soup. You’d be doing some to be ingesting a quarter of a breast in a portion of soup.

unless you’re liquidising a full on meal into a bucket, in which case apologies and maybe don’t be so gross 😂

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Wish there is a Thai takeaway which delivers here. As Thai Tom Yum soups (plus their curries) blow colds away.

You eating the wrong soup ...the right soup is very filling, very tasty and a great meal..with the right bread ...

I think soup is fantastic. Where I live every child up to the age of 11 HAS to eat their soup before main course at lunch. It's cheap and nutritious. No obese kids here. If they are they are mid to late teens. Not one fat child at my daughter's school, and the poverty levels here are real.

Soup is a great meal.

but if someone is a lardypants, well it aint gonna fill them💁🏽‍♀️

Soups are great food in poor areas tbh. Made from scraps, basic nutrion covered, cheap filler with cheap ingredients. Plus they are easy on stomach so easy to eat after fasting (voluntary or involuntary). Or great starter if more courses.

Porridge can also be great cheap meL. There is savoury porridge in few countries - harees. I absolutely love GCC version I had. Very little expensive ingredients, very, very filling.

There is a pub/restaurant in Leigh-on-Sea that does a great seafood chowder in a bread bowl. Two different sizes too, starter and main. Not cheap, but seafood soup never is (I'm always amazed at what bouillabaisse costs).

There was an interesting experiment a few years ago - might have been on a Michael Mosley programme. They went to an army camp and fed one group of soldiers a roast chicken meal with a glass of water. They then took exactly the same food and water and served it up to a second group of soldiers as a chicken and veg soup Three hours later they compared how full the soldiers were by imaging their stomachs. The first group were less full than the second. So soup keeps you fuller for longer than the equivalent amount of food and water.

Yes. There was also a Seinfeld Episode about a 'big salad'. Methinks he (or Elaine) may have had a time machine and have travelled into the future to steal ideas from Mumsnet.

Soup is a very serious business in Scotland... What makes soup, soup?

I went to Prague about 20 years ago & went into the first restaurant I saw that looked nice. I ordered garlic soup. It was swimming with little garlic slices & it was fantastic!

I really like soup as my teeth are rubbish, but I end up eating whole pot of soup all by myself because one plate/cup isn't making me full enough. When I was a kid I only ate soup before meat and potatoes and it was usually classic Italian stock with little noodles (basically just stock with few other bites) or sometimes other types of soup. But soup was only served as first course of the meal, never by itself. I can't be full on soup, thou. I make very similar soup every other day and I can't help myself but eat the whole medium/medium-large pot of soup.

Minestrone in Italy is fantastic. The stuff sold in British supermarkets are horrid - the base is watery, it should be thick.