Soup as a main meal?
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So I get home from work last night ravenous as usual, the wife has been making soup and has a loaf of bread baking in the bread machine. Not unusual in itself, just thought she'd made it for lunch this week or something. Bit later on having put the kids to bed I come down and enquire as to what's for dinner? She looks at me in a strange manner and says what do you think were having? "Just soup?" I say and then start to protest that soup isn't really a main meal, maybe a starter, she seems put out by this so now I have to start backtracking saying that I'm sure it'll be okay and that soup will be nice enough for dinner 
So that was my dinner last night, a bowl of soup and a couple of slices of bread. It was nice enough but I was left wishing we'd had something more substantial. Is this acceptable as a main meal or should I start the divorce proceedings?
I had to stop for a cooked breakfast on the way into work just to make up for it
So that was my dinner last night, a bowl of soup and a couple of slices of bread. It was nice enough but I was left wishing we'd had something more substantial. Is this acceptable as a main meal or should I start the divorce proceedings?
I had to stop for a cooked breakfast on the way into work just to make up for it
My misssus does the exact same.
We tend to split dinners during the week, so I'll cook a couple of nights and hers the others.
I'll do a nice meal with meat and stuff in, so it adds up a bit, then she'll go and do leak and potato soup and bread. What's that £1 max?
And then there's the hunger I feel later too!
I'm with you with it not being a proper meal, as a starter or maybe, just maybe as a lunch on a cold winters day.
We tend to split dinners during the week, so I'll cook a couple of nights and hers the others.
I'll do a nice meal with meat and stuff in, so it adds up a bit, then she'll go and do leak and potato soup and bread. What's that £1 max?
And then there's the hunger I feel later too!
I'm with you with it not being a proper meal, as a starter or maybe, just maybe as a lunch on a cold winters day.
Soup certainly can be a meal.
You'd be happy with a stew or curry as a main meal, wouldn't you? Bit more liquid in, maybe whoozh it to smooth the lumpy bits out - it's soup... Put some thin or small pasta in with it, plenty of chunky croutons, or a thick doorstep on the side - you've got carbs, too.
You'd be happy with a stew or curry as a main meal, wouldn't you? Bit more liquid in, maybe whoozh it to smooth the lumpy bits out - it's soup... Put some thin or small pasta in with it, plenty of chunky croutons, or a thick doorstep on the side - you've got carbs, too.
My OH makes a lovely lentil,ham,carrot,leek,potato,etc soup(well,*I* do most of the work, she gives her orders 
) Very substantial with thick crusty bread, and a couple of bowls fills you up
So it certainly can be a meal, but can also be barely enough for a starter,just depends on whats in it
) Very substantial with thick crusty bread, and a couple of bowls fills you upSo it certainly can be a meal, but can also be barely enough for a starter,just depends on whats in it
Did it have lots in it ie was it a stew? Or was it more like a starter?
Women do go through soup phases when they worry about their weight and just eat "healthy soup" forcing it onto others but stacking the calories up in "healthy bread" and a ton of butter so end up eating just as many calories but feel good about themselves while leaving the rest of their family starving and wondering about sneaking out to a McDonalds.
Women do go through soup phases when they worry about their weight and just eat "healthy soup" forcing it onto others but stacking the calories up in "healthy bread" and a ton of butter so end up eating just as many calories but feel good about themselves while leaving the rest of their family starving and wondering about sneaking out to a McDonalds.
TooMany2cvs said:
HTP99 said:
I don't like soup particularly, ok I'll eat it if presented to me but when it comes to soup, it's all a bit meh for me.
That sounds like you've only ever tried meh soup.You like curry and stew, I presume?
KrazyIvan said:
And in no f
king world is a proper stew and in way shape or form "a bit like soup" 
<shrug> Your loss, not understanding basic cookery.king world is a proper stew and in way shape or form "a bit like soup" We often turn the leftovers from a stew or curry into a really thick, filling and tasty soup - simply add a bit of stock, heat, whoozh.
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