Anonymous wrote:Depends: Were you given an Armani suit?

Beat me to it PP. Was the soup consommé? Also a key question.

It’s not a meal unless the person isn’t very hungry. How often do you see soup as a regular entree in a restaurant? I think you can do it if you include the bread + lunch meat/cheese. That way those with heartier appetites can make themselves a sandwich but it’s no more work for you.

It’s definitely a meal. But it’s not something people serve to guests at a dinner party.

Anonymous wrote:I think it is, when served with bread and salad or some appetizer. But I was told it wasn’t by a member of my book club when I served it at a meeting. I was so embarrassed ans felt awful.

The rude book club member should have kept that to herself. It’s one meal!

Thanks for the replies, everyone. The guests are my sister, her husband, and their 8 year old who will be staying for 4 nights. Everyone is a healthy weight (since someone asked). My thought was the soup could be made ahead, with leftovers available for lunches (lunch isn’t a formal sit-down meal in our house, it’s fixing a sandwich or warming up leftovers on your own). Enough people here are saying no, so I’ll probably skip it, but I still think it’s a meal and will continue serving it to my immediate family, and DH can continue making himself scrambled eggs or a grilled cheese later in the evening if he so desires. Thanks again!

- OP

No, I don’t think so.

If you’re trying to figure out an easy/quick meal, I would say make the soup ahead, and plan for a salad and put out sandwich fixings as well.

Yes

I think it is, when served with bread and salad or some appetizer. But I was told it wasn’t by a member of my book club when I served it at a meeting. I was so embarrassed ans felt awful.

My 80 year old parents think soup is a meal. My daughter and I do not.

Yes it’s a meal.

Yes

I am shocked that anyone is saying soup with a crusty bread and salad isn’t a meal. My parents hosted a LOT and for long periods during the holidays all growing up and still do, a meal like this is always on the menu at some point because you can make the soup beforehand. It’s probably usually served for lunch but could be dinner

Yes make some white rice and serve it on top. We ate chicken soup 3 days this week. Made a big pot. Make some noodles and serve the soup with noodles on the next day. (I don’t put grains in my soups)

Depends on whether your guests are big eaters. Older people often don’t eat as much. A soup and salad would be more than enough for my in laws. Teenagers , athletic adults or breakfast/lunch skippers no.

Now if they are obese then they are used to eating much more and soup/salad even after a big breakfast and lunch won’t fly.