soup night

Welsh_Totster

I've convinced my husband that soup is actually a)rather tasty and b)can be filling by making chicken soup. (it has taken years though!)

Whenever we have had roast chicken I always strip the carcass of the odd bits of meat and make stock with the bones. Once the stock is done I drain it and add back in the shredded chicken a can of value sweetcorn and some chopped up spaghetti to thicken it. I leave it simmer for about 20 mins then blitz it in the food processor. It comes out rather thick and lovely. Mr Welsh cant wait for a bowlful with a chunk of crusty bread and he always comments how warming and filling it is, and it costs almost nothing to make.

Minestrone is another good one as you can make it as chunky as you like with pasta and kidney beans its filling and very tasty.and you also get your 5 a day there too as theres so much veg in it and some nice smoked bacon / lardons too

wyrdsister

I can only get away with serving soup as a main meal if I provide some bread along with it for my OH. I also try to make it more like a stew type thing, blending some and adding it back into the chunky stuff. I manage to get away with serving a fairly plain omelette again with bread, my OH really likes his meat but I've convinced him to have frugal meals every so often. When he lived on his own he lived on cheese sandwiches so I just need to remind him of this when he starts moaning about having "frugal food again"

wigglebeena

Put dumplings in and call it stew? Couldn't be much cheaper - flour, fat, salt and any herbs in your store cupboard. Fills 'em up and adds pennies to the cost.

Trinny

Hello there

Soup night is Tuesday night in our house. OH works late and gets in at around 9pm. His favourite soups are:

HM Leek and potato - with nice crusty bread
HM French Onion soup with cheesy toast in the bottom of the bowl
HM Curried parsnip soup - mary berry recipe
HM Roast red pepper and tomato soup - with cheese on toast
HM Carrot and coriander soup with a ham sarnie
HM Stew - beef with pots, carrotts onion (think irish stew)
HM chicken and sweetcorn soup - with bowl of ramen noodles to follow - think HM chinese.

OH is a "growing lad" and would scoff at just soup - so making man sized sarnies or cheese on toast with whoops bread makes a massive difference. He fills up on bread if the soup isnt filling enough.

Works for me

Trin

canidothis

diluvsdiscounts wrote: »

My hubby enjoys his meat too
It doesn't phase me though we eat very well and all fresh food for what I consider quite reasonable you just need to disguise the fact that there isn't much meat in OH isn't hard to fool but DD now she is a different matter![/QUOTEI

Gosh I wish I was that cool......

Butterfly_Brain

My husband is a carnivore too but he sometimes gets home late from work and all he feels like is some soup - his fave is parsnip and apple, closely followed by lentil and bacon.
I don't like a lot of meat so I use very little in a meal and stretch it out with lots of veg eg strip the meat off a couple of pork chops and make them into a stew or use a couple of chicken breasts and slice them thinly, same goes for sausages

nickyhutch

If we have soup for tea, it's usually with a buttie, and that's usually toasted. Yum.

BitterAndTwisted

If OH is a died-in-the-wool carnivore who doesn't think soup is a suitable main-course for a proper man serve the soup as a first-course then you should be able to get away with much smaller amounts of meat in the main-course. The pudding-on-the-table is a fiendishly clever idea. Top marks!

jexygirl

I agree with thickening and calling it a stew, adding dumplings, crusty bread and really like the meatball suggestion like the dutch. I always strip our chicken carcass, use the stock and make cockeral (shortened see edit!) a leekie soup. Adding potato definitely makes it mroe filling and thicker.
You could also make your soup - thicken it up with flour or cornflour and then add pasta so it becomes a pasta sauce - alternatively add a couple of sliced sausages to the beans on toast or the pasta!
I'd definitely go with adding lentils too, they thicken it up and add consistency and help you feel full. I often make a good thick stick to the ribs broth out of veg peelings and lentils and everyone loves it!
Jex

canidothis

You have all given me a loads of fab ideas: meatballs in the soup, thickening up with pasta, adding spuds, serving with cheese on toast, following with a pud the list goes on and it just goes to show that Im not on my own with an OH that can turn his nose up - but you lot have come up with some great inventions to trick your man into thinking he is being fed like a king....we really are rather sneaky arent we? lol