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.

I have soup for lunch all the time - hearty soup - without bread.

It doesn’t matter that OP has ran off. This thread has legs of it’s own without them. I love home made soups.

My foster son's fiancee is staying with us right now and made us traditional Lunar New Year soup this week. Believe me, it's a meal.

@Sheknowsaboutme lardypants? Are you 12? What a shame, on such a lovely thread.

Northern Irish vegetable soup. 😋 very very filling loaded with pulses and veg

I agree 💯 , so much so that I have considered making a thread about this myself. I will die on this hill.

Isn't that like saying 'if it needed potatoes / rice / noodles then it wasn't a meal in the first place.

It's like saying Bolognese isn't a meal as it needs pasta

When I read American novels they have soup with some kind of cheese thing. Sorry forgot name of it. Do they dunk it like a biscuit?

A grilled cheese sandwich?

Yes, it is dunked (in tomato soup), and delicious.

Are you German @FunLimeOrca ? German soup is endlessly awful.

Ah I've never had a grilled cheese sandwich. Will have to Google how to make.

I make an Italian wedding soup which has little chicken meatballs in it, plus a Thai red curry soup with either chicken or prawns and noodles. Both are definitely a full meal. A can of Heinz tomato, meanwhile, is a light meal/lunch and even with a toasted cheese sandwich with it, wouldn't feel satisfying for dinner.

Omg yes. It’s a lumpy drink at best. The only saving grace is to have big hunks of buttery bread with it but soup on its own? Just no.

Completely agree OP, though apparently we're in the minority. Soup tastes nice, it works to whet the appetite but if all I ate for lunch was soup I'd have a hunger headache by the time I went back to work. I don't understand how someone can have just soup and call it a meal.

A soup that is more of a stew, with pulses, noodles etc. is pushing the limits of a true soup imo, but in those cases could be considered a meal.

true soup 😂

Isn't a grilled cheese sandwich just a cheese toastie?

Or a bowl of scotch broth with extra broth mix,mmmm 😋

my soup is full of vegetables, and the one i made this week has cannelloni beans in it, so there is your protein!
very healthy

You can have it as thick or thin as you want. Beans, potatoes, rice ,pasta will all bulk it up.

do you have a recipe or do you eyeball it? This sounds incredible 😃

I make a veggie soup, it’s so filling no bread requires!

If you make pumpkin soup, try adding some peanut butter to it. Game changer.