Can soup be a meal by itself?
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Anonymous
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DH is not at all a soup person or so he proclaims. I’d love to start doing soups family style for dinner.
Is soup a standalone meal? Does soup need salad or other food to balance it out as a meal? |
Anonymous
| We usually add bread, a nice loaf warmed in the oven. |
Anonymous
| We make a lot of soups in the winter. Usually just do bread on the side. |
Anonymous
| Bread! |
Anonymous
| Like Elaine Benes said, if it's consomme, no. If it's a heartier soup, yes. |
Anonymous
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more soup
(seriously is 2010 his most recent attempt at developing a personality when everything needed something more? bacon? a poached egg?) Set aside some meat and three lentils and put it on the side for him as deconstructed soup. He sounds like a PITA. |
Anonymous
| Yes! |
Anonymous
| Heck yes! Ramen, anyone? |
Anonymous
| OP, since your DH is not someone who prefers soup, is your zeal to now make it a lot for the family a sign of a non-food issue? Hostility? Resentment? Etc.? |
Anonymous
| We have a lot of soup dinners with nothing else. Examples include tortilla soup, minestrone, chicken noodle, italian chicken, Italian sausage/lasagna soup, black bean, white bean chili. |
Anonymous
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It depends whom you are feeding and how hearty the soup is. I think for a soup to me a meal, it needs to have meat in it or if vegetarian, beans/lentils need to be a prominent ingredient.
If feeding teens, young adults, or most men, then add bread, salad, and a dessert too. |
Anonymous
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Rice
And to your question, yes |
Anonymous
| For me it is. For DH and DS there needs to also be bread/butter and salad. And they'll probably still be making themselves a grilled cheese or PBJ later. |
Anonymous
Did you crumble any crackers into it? |
Anonymous
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We are a soup family during the winter. At least 2-3 times per week. Sometimes I’ll offer a green salad on the side. Occasionally depending on the soup will have bread, or for chili will have crackers or tortilla chips.
Our standard soup rotation are all pretty filling, though. |