What to have with soup?

With the potato leek soup, instead of just bread, bake cheesy garlic bread, there is a little more to it and so may satisfy. Then a nice fruit cup for dessert, plenty of food, very yummy, nutritious and should make everybody happy!

sorry, but I have to be brief as I am leaving to go home. My sister makes a wonderful potato Leek soup. It was pureed and thick and very filling. She just served it as a meal with garlic bread but with your children you may want to think about serving it with a grilled sandwich. so good. Let us know how it turned out. I just love soups of all kinds. rocket is making me a chicken soup and sending it to me and I have asked her to put in some dumplings!

We generally do soup, salad and bread of some sort. Veggies are already in the soup. So I don't do those. Potatoes are good if you don't already have them in the soup. If there is no protein in the soup, you could use the soup as a side for your main meat (roast, chops, chicken etc.)

hello katsmeow yes i would consider having soup as the main item for dinner is plenty, served with like you said a grilled cheese sandwich, or any kind of bread, and/or also a fresh tossed salad is good with soup. i make vegetable beef soup lots and i like to serve it up with some cheesy bread and a tossed salad. and shredded cheese is delicious on top of the bowl of soup and also on top of the tossed salad. take care and have a beautiful evening.

with soup, i usually like to have a garden salad or antipasto and a hearty bread.if you have a bread maker, it might be fun to try new recipes that might compliment the soup you're making (potato leek soup and potato bread? or tomato soup and a cheddar or basil bread, etc) also, making mini sandwiches out of the breads could be a good addition. similar to the grilled cheese you mention, you could do a caprese sandwich with mozzarella and a tomato slice, or grill some zucchini and peppers in dressing on a mini ciabatta roll. Have you tried making bruschetta? That might be a fun addition to a brothy italian-type soup! Good luck!

i will have some corn flakes with peper spilled on it it tastes great i love mushroom soup and tomato soup

My favorite soup that my husband has made is a loaded baked potato soup. You can get those breads that are round. Cut the inside out so it's hollow, pour the soup inside the bread bowl and just the gutted bread as a dipper. As a side dish to most soups, you can use steamed veggies, or a type of pasta, if the soup doesn't already contain it. You can also add a salad with the soup and bread.

I normally do salad and bread with a soup to make it into a meal. Sandwiches could work with the potato leek soup though. Ham sandwiches or turkey club sandwiches would work fine I think.

You're right, soups are very filling so it can be considered a meal already. Most of the time we don't serve anything with the soup. We tend to put a lot of stuff inside the soup. But if you want a side dish, salad or bread should be a great accompaniment don't you think? I would love to have cold macaroni and chicken salad with your potato leek soup. Or some kind of bread with cheese.

We have soup as a meal sometimes and we always did grilled cheeses as well. But we got burned out too. I'd say try having breadsticks or biscotti's. Maybe a small salad with the fixins. Or try simple and do oven rolls or toast. Good luck with it. I was just trying to think of things to dip in the soup.

I love potato leek soup and usually I put some crutons in it, I buy ready made crutons which makes it really tasty and good. Well for me it is just enough for a meal and after I will sure eat some fruit as a dessert...yummy

bread and water.The classics never fail!!! OH! and fries...WHAT!!???yes when i was a kid i did that, and it tasted great, so go ahead and try it. tip:for kids who don't like soup, just make them take the soup with a straw, it's more fun for them that way...at least worked for me and my cousins.

Definitely serve the soup as the main course of the dinner. My all-time favorite to have with soup in cornbread! Especially my mother's homemade cornbread! Put a little butter and a little honey on top and eat while warm, or you can crumble the cornbread into the soup for some added substance!

If the bread sticks didn't work, you could also get one of those long breads...can't think of the name right now, sorry. Slice them not so thin but more on medium to thick. Make sure you mince finely some garlic. Mix garlic and butter and just pop these in a toaster oven or a conventional oven at 350F about 10-15mins. I think that should fill you up. I know if you go with the whole wheat loafs would also be very filling as well as extremely healthy and filled with fiber. If that doesn't work, you could always start off with a simple salad, then the soup.

Depending on what kind of soup you're making you could maybe serve it over rice to make it more filling, but that probably wouldn't be so great with potato leek soup. Maybe you could serve it over egg noodles, but that's a whole lot of starch! I have recently started baking my own bread and I like home made bread with home made soup. Or you could do soup and sandwiches? Another thought for making it more filling might be to have a salad or some fresh fruit with it? Good luck to you. I enjoy making soup myself and now I"m thinking that with this cold weather (in the 20's in Alabama!), I might have to get my slow cooker going with some soup too!

I make soup as an economical meal, too. I have 3 crockpots (LOL!) and I always pull out the largest size when it's going to be a soup day. I rarely use a recipe. This is the day that I use up vegetables from the crisper drawer, bits of leftover meat or seafood that aren't enough for another full meal but I have no intention of throwing away, etc. Every soup has a "base" of the aromatic veggies (onions, carrots, celery) and garlic. I always keep cans of diced and crushed tomatoes, beans (the five (or more!) bean mixes are great for a soup because you get a variety of textures and flavors), sometimes potatoes, mushrooms, even baby corn when it's on sale - these are pretty cheap ingredients to have on hand. Every veggie that can tolerate slow cooking gets chopped up and tossed in. Along with the juice from the tomatoes, I add several cups of stock (chicken, beef or veggie, depending on whether or not there is meat in the soup) and a good amount of barley. I find that barley makes all the difference in a soup because it thickens it so much and makes it a borderline stew. Very substantial and definitely a meal. Then I pop in whatever herbs/seasonings I have (basil, oregano, parsley, seasoning salt, lots of black pepper, etc). Most of our local grocery stores sell baguettes for 99 cents so I often have a couple of those with soup. Otherwise, I try to remember to pick up cans of crescent rolls or biscuits when they're on sale. Another trick to do cheaply is to get generic hamburger buns and use them to make individual garlic breads. I can often get a dozen buns for less than a dollar so it's affordable. Last thing... when I'm short on leftover meat or seafood and I'm just making a vegetable soup, I fully puree it. I have one of those handheld mixers (or "whizzers") and I puree the soup right in the pot. You get all the flavors of the veggies plus the texture of a thick cream soup - without a drop of cream (saves on the cost AND the extra fat). Thick soup just seems more like a meal than a broth soup which, to me, feels like a starter. This also allows you to use cheaper veggies like zucchini that don't hold their body very well in a broth soup (I hate mushy... blah) but really add to a puree.

well we usually have grilled cheese sandwiches too with our soup something nice as well are biscuits, and you can make them yourself it's quite easy and fast and when they are almost done grated some cheese on top of it and put back in the oven a minute or two you can also try potato patties if there is not already potatoes in your soup, grate some potatoes and fry in a pan it will be quite filling (I grate the potatoes add an egg, cheese and some bread crums if you have, then form into patties ...inexpensive and yummy ;-)

I make and serve soup regularly, at least three or four times a week. In fact, I have a mixed veg soup bubbling away as I type. However, I normally serve it at lunchtime as my family don't view it as a 'proper' meal in it's own right and prefer something on a plate for their dinner! When I serve soup I normally have a big bag of fresh rolls or a home made loaf on the table as well, together with some cheese or perhaps pate. Potato and leek soup would be nice with cheesy croutons, and it's an excellent wy of using up bread which is not as fresh as you'd like.

You could go Olive Garden style with soup, salad and bread sticks. If you have lots of veggies in your soup then it doesn't have to be a high tech salad, just iceberg and whatever veggies you have around. Although a lot of people don't like it you would have whole grain bread sticks/garlic bread with margarine instead of butter and that would help fill you up and be low cal/fat. Or just have more of a stew style soup with lots of potatoes, veggies and lean meat and that would constitute a meal in itself. Mmm, I want soup now!

I can have lunch/dinner with just rice and noodle soup. I am not familiar with almost all the soup you have mentioned. Maybe you can share to me your recipes. I would be happy to prepare it for my future husband. He loves soup, too. But he cant eat without rice. Its common here now not for every meal there is a soup. If you will buy outside they do give free plain soup.