Do people REALLY only eat half a carton of fresh soup?

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I’m struggling to get my head around this! I’ve seen on MN several times lately that people eat half of a carton for a meal, and I know the calories are given that way on the packaging, so officially it’s a serving…but I’ve never met anyone in real life who doesn’t eat the whole carton! I’ve lost 4.5 stone this year and I eat soup most evenings for dinner. I don’t overeat generally. My soups are mostly homemade, but I do use fresh supermarket ones sometimes, and half a carton really would be a miserable little puddle in the bottom of the bowl! Is it really, honestly normal? And…why?

YABU: half a carton is ample. You’ve lost sight of what a normal bowl of soup looks like
YANBU: nobody actually does that. It’s soup, not golden syrup with extra chunks of pork fat.

This is one of my all time favourites

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Half for me, but I’d have it with bread, butter and cheese on the side.

Cully & Sully soups are nice @soupyspoon , I often buy them. I like their thai chicken soup. I haven't tried the smoked fish one you mentioned, I'll have to keep an eye out for that one.

I have a soup maker and usually make my own but theres nothing wrong with the fresh soups, theres nothing in them I wouldnt put in my own soup

Half.

Soup of the kind described is lunch, so definitely half.

DH and I share a carton between us but with some chunky bread & butter. Without that it wouldn’t be enough.

Im definitely going to try that one, there is a Baxters Cullen Skink which I love but its tinned and expensive, this is a fresh one by the looks of it for the same price

Its not worth trying to make a smoked fish soup for one person, too much faffing with the fish.

My 4 year old son eats a whole tin of soup to himself with bread, I think he’d be offended if I only offered him half 😂

I would definitely eat a whole one and regularly did at work when I was losing weight - it definitely worked as it takes a long time to eat and so you feel full.

I didn’t eat bread with it though but I could and would have if I wasn’t on a diet.

I’m not on a diet anymore so I might buy a tin of Heinz tomatoe soup and have 2 slices of bread and butter with it 😋

The size of most of the fresh soup pots in the supermarket is a pet hate of mine, half a portion is way too little for me but a full one is often a bit too much.

I do but would have bread with it.

Half, they can be super high in salt. So half with a small piece of bread and an apple probably.

Half with a toasty or sandwich or crusty roll. Whole if its with nothing else.

Portion sizes on packets are nothing to do with how much you should actually need/eat and everything to do with labelling laws and sales. Do not base what you eat on them!

I have half a carton of Covent Garden for lunch. It wouldn’t be enough for dinner, but I wouldn’t have soup for dinner. I didn’t think a full carton would fit in a bowl.

I have a full one (600ml or whatever that is) for dinner. However that’s the only thing I have, no bread, crackers etc.

Always half a carton for me, with two slices of toast.

I usually have about 2/3 which is then awkward as I never know what to do with the other third

Yes

I have half a carton, one carton lasts me to work lunches… BUT I have a cheese sandwich with it to dip in, so I guess that doesn’t really count!

I think what this thread has demonstrated is that the pot sizes are all wrong, completely wrong

Half is def not enough - unless you throw in a lot of bread. But a whole one is just a bit too much. Annoying.

Whole thing plus seeds sprinkles, and bread!

Half for me.

I find soup quite filling, and I nearly always have something on the side.

Husband and I shared a tub today with crusty bread and butter. I've never considered eating a whole one and I don't think he will would either. That said, I normally give us a larger portion when it's homemade soup.