Butternut squash soup for dinner

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

Would be a dinner in this household (assuming it's a reasonable portion) and we're particularly greedy I would say. Although, we're an active household (min 15/16K steps a day, DDs both do high-intensity sports and a reasonable level etc).

We follow the Covent Garden recipe for Butternut Squash soup and make our own at home and one batch makes up about three portions. No bread required (or needed).

No but this thread has inspired me to open a tin of tomato soup 🍲 just waiting for the cheese on toast to melt while the soup warms 🤤

It depends on the soup and how much bread you eat with it. A soup, in some cases, is basically a stew and a perfectly acceptable dinner, depending on what else you have eaten that day.

I just had tomato soup with avocado on toast on the side 👌

This is a joke post. "Active" household, butternut squash soup for dinner, no bread, no mention of earlier large meals. No chance.

Same

It's really not.

Today, for example, I've had a cookie for breakfast, smoked salmon sandwich for lunch and for dinner will have salmon fishcake, aubergine and bok choy.

It's not just about what you're eating but also the the size of the portions, as I said in my PP. If it's a decent portion of soup there's no reason why it cannot be a full meal without needing bread.

These threads always bring out the competitive under-eaters. Oh no a morsel of bread with soup for dinner, I couldn’t possibly manage it! Ok then 😂

Completely aside

try a teaspoon of curry powder in your butternut squash soup: gorgeous

It also shows that most people are eating far too much.

At a push, a chunky one with lots of pulses and other veggies would pass as dinner.

But on Mumsnet, a thimble of soup is a recovery meal after an ultra marathon.

I often have soup for dinner, but it will be a more substantial one: chicken and vegetable for instance, plus some nice bread and butter.

I make a really tasty curried butternut squash soup, and that one is a lighter one that I'd have for lunch.

Yes but I’d serve it topped with roasted pepper strips and fresh basil with homemade focaccia bread of course. Not just soup

We have veggie soup for dinner quite often in the winter, it's a foody soup and would contain onion, carrots, potatoes, lentils, tomatoes and if we have it at home, butternut squash and or sweet potato. Eaten with nice bread and cheese. I am a big eater and it definitely is filling enough as it has chunky veg and lentils

I make it filled with cannellini beans and orzo, topped with bacon or scallops. So yes, it’s plenty for dinner.

The evening meal referred to as 'soupy' in our house is basically a stove top casserole/chunky soup. Usually chicken, potato, root veg (2-3 types) and something green (beans, courgette). Can be vegetarian and might have some butternut squash in but it's a substantial soupy stew

Agree. My toddler loves soup so I make it regularly but always bulk it out with lentils/beans and pasta to give it added carbs and protein to fill him up.

Same here @Sweetleftfood @Denim4ever , for us it will have potato, sweet potato, carrot and swede as well as squash (or beetroot) and be nicely chunky. It's the perfect dinner.

In that context I don't think it's enough. When I exercised 5 days a week I needed much more food than that.

If you don't eat enough your work outs will be weak and nothingy, no point doing it.

Love a home made soup but does need something else for a main meal.
Lentils or a tin of butter beans/ cannelini beans, with a side of toasted cheese crumpets or bread and cheese with fruit or yogurt with granola would be fine but BNS soup on its own has no carbs or protein.

Absolutely not enough. Fine for a light lunch. Ok with a thick chunk of crusty buttered bread for a light supper if you’ve had a big main meal at lunchtime. Otherwise no.

With bread, absolutely.

I love soup for dinner, but I'd probably have it with some toast and a bit of cheddar on the side.

well, yes, break off little bits of buttered bread (must be kerrygold) and dip into the soup... are you perchance american (as is my DP) with a revulsion to, for example, buttered sandwiches?

I'm British (Lancastrian) and most of my family prefer dry bread or dry toast with soup, not buttered.