Chinese beef noodle soup is very hearty.

Anonymous wrote:My kid made cheddar broccoli soup with 2 packets of cheddar broccoli, a whole family sized bag of broccoli, onions, celery, carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, leeks, cauliflower, spinach, better than boullion, brewers yeast, milk, cheddar cheese, ground up hemp seed. It was fabulous. 8 huge cups of stew/soup. Just amazing. I was full.

That sounds amazing! Can you post the recipe?

For DH it was a pasta fagioli loaded with pasta and beans. Served with bread (bread is also apparently needed to complete other various bean based meals).

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Anonymous wrote:Chicken and dumplings

That sounds delicious. I would probably want a vegetable on the side.

That raises an interesting point. Why does the soup have to be the whole meal to count. Hardly anyone eats just a steak with no side vegetable or potato, but no one would say steak isn't a meal.

Of course steak isn’t a meal. It’s a component of a meal. Most of the time soup is too. I serve soup with something on the side all the time. I love soup! But it’s almost always a component of a meal.

Beef stew.

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Anonymous wrote:Chicken and dumplings

That sounds delicious. I would probably want a vegetable on the side.

That raises an interesting point. Why does the soup have to be the whole meal to count. Hardly anyone eats just a steak with no side vegetable or potato, but no one would say steak isn't a meal.

Because many soups have vegetables, protein and carbs all in one. It's a complete meal (not chicken and dumplings).

I don’t enjoy cooking. Annie’s brand has a lentil soup tbat I drain slightly and eat over rice. It’s one of DDs favorite dinners.

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Anonymous wrote:Chicken and dumplings

That sounds delicious. I would probably want a vegetable on the side.

That raises an interesting point. Why does the soup have to be the whole meal to count. Hardly anyone eats just a steak with no side vegetable or potato, but no one would say steak isn't a meal.

Chili
I make a chicken chorizo stew, but otherwise, no.

Anonymous wrote:Chicken and dumplings

That sounds delicious. I would probably want a vegetable on the side.

Chicken and dumplings

Anonymous wrote:Does it need to be just soup or can it be accompanied by a simple salad or grill cheese?

Who are these people you are cooking for? Teens, friends, boomers, obese people with huge appetites? Soup is really filling for thin people but maybe not for fat people.

Thin people can have huge appetites.

Your college students will not make soups at college. Good soups often require several ingredients, lots of chopping, and time (especially making your own stock). My college freshman daughter loves soup, so much so that she wrote her college essay about different types of soup. But even she hasn’t had any soup other than the stuff from the can or dining hall. She was so excited to come home at thanksgiving and make avgolemono and turkey noodle soups while she was home.

Avgolemono soup might be a good one to bring people into the soup loving family.

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Anonymous wrote:No. Though there is one that is close. Beans with smoked pork ribs. I like that one a lot, but I really dislike soups. Soup is a starter.

And this is why America is fighting an obesity epidemic ...

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(size 4 woman, before you retort with the childish, predictable “you sound fat.”

Anonymous wrote:Lentil and Italian Sausage.

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