Butternut squash soup for dinner

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AIBU or is butternut squash soup on its own not enough for dinner?

Depends on how hungry you are.

But I'm just here for the weirdly illogical eating rules such as how it's a suitable meal for one time of day and not another plus all the people bound to a 'main meal of the day', as if what else they eat doesn't count as food.

Depends what you've eaten in a day . We've gone to a cafe at lunchtime had a toastie and shared some chips so just soup later is enough .
If you've not had much during the day then soup isn't great for your main meal .

Soup with bread, cheese, salad and a pudding, then yes. Soup on its own, definitely not.

On its own, not enough. Accompany it with some Welsh rarebit on toast and you've got yourself a full dinner.

I’d be fine with soup for dinner - I’m on MJ and a small dinner is what I’d have ideally every night. Although I find soup boring and only really have it for lunch on the odd occasion dd has made some for us.
No one else in my family would be satisfied on a bowl of soup for dinner - it’s not an evening meal for us ever.

Depends on what you had for lunch, whether there’s bread with it and how hungry you are 🤷‍♀️. I wouldn’t serve that to family or guests on its own for dinner but I’d have it myself if I fancied something but wasn’t all that hungry, and it would think it wasn’t anyone else’s business.

I can just imagine dh’s face if after a 15-hour day I presented him with a bowl of soup.

Actually I’m having one of those Cofent Garden butternut squash soups for lunch. But with bread and butter!

Assuming it's the main meal of the day, as a bare minimum I'd want some protein as well.

Yes, with bread.

I love homemade soup for dinner. Maybe cheese and crackers with it or bread. But also totally fine on its own.

This ^
We have soup for tea once a week or so. Always with a toastie/buttie/bread and butter/croutons etc
I usually make a massive pan so multiple bowls are consumed by hungry teens.
If its only a bowl/portion each (usually taken from the freezer) we tend to have a pudding that night too.
Soup on its own would'nt fill my lot up!

Just soup I'd be starving not enough.

salad and soup is madness... you can't mix temperatures like that!

As my main meal? Insufficient.

Having already had a main meal that day, absolutely no problem.

I love butternut soup for dinner. Total comfort food. I do make it quite a thick texture though so its extra filling. Must have bread with it for dunking.

I make my own, and it’s very filling - for lunch. It doesn’t have enough protein though and I’d say even a generous portion is about 400-450 calories. That’s not enough unless you have a main meal at lunch time.

I'm making carrot and lentil soup to eat about 5, with some olive bread. I had breakfast at 10 and wont eat in-between.

Why does bread have to be crusty?

I often have soup, toast and fruit for dinner - not soup on its own usually.

These replies! And we wonder why half the country is overweight

If it'd homemade and not too liquid.

Add toasted seeds.

And if you're hungry a few hours later just eat again.

I would want some green vegetables in any dinner (salad would count) and some first class protein. So if the soup came with a bacon sandwich and a salad, I would be thrilled.

no

I love soup for dinner but it had to have bread along with it and I prefer it to have some kind of protein in it.
it’s my favourite can’t be bothered cooking dinner and always have done in the freezer

Obviously it depends how hungry you are and/or how much you ate for lunch. Sometimes soup is a perfectly decent dinner and sometimes it is not.

Sorry what? A bowl of soup and some bread is hardly over eating.