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.

Anonymous wrote:Like Elaine Benes said, if it's consomme, no. If it's a heartier soup, yes.

Did you crumble any crackers into it?

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.

Rice

And to your question, yes

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.

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.

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.?

Heck yes! Ramen, anyone?

Yes!

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.

Like Elaine Benes said, if it's consomme, no. If it's a heartier soup, yes.

Bread!

We make a lot of soups in the winter. Usually just do bread on the side.

We usually add bread, a nice loaf warmed in the oven.

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?