To do beans on toast once a week?

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Try pitta pizzas too. If you use a wholemeal pitta and spread with tomato purée and add grated cheese and any toppings they like it’s so tasty, speedy( 10 mins in oven or 5/6 in air fryer) and healthy.

Beans or spaghetti hoops or beans and sausage, scrambled egg or tinned tomatoes or shakshuka on;-
Toast, crumpet, baked potatoes, bagels, pitta <<messy but possible, foccacia, wraps<<better with scrambled egg, Hawaiian rolls, just pick something random from shop.
Cheese on any of the above, cheese and beans on any of the above.
All fine meals.
Or in this heat, just a sandwich.
Food is food, quick food is also food.

As always on mumsnet, people go the extremes and get a bit ridiculous.

It can be a snack or it can be a meal. It r depends how big it is and how big the person eating it is. Sometimes I have peanut butter on toast as a snack. Sometimes it’s a full meal. Let’s not worry about it. I think op knows her child and we’ve decided that it’s a perfectly fine dinner for a small child who also gets a hot meal at nursery. If he/she is still hungry, maybe they can have seconds?

Potato waffles in the toaster are great. Yes, you just bung them in straight from the freezer and toast till nice and hot and a touch brown. I usually put them through twice to achieve optimum crispness. I suspect if you did it often it might be an issue for the toaster but potato waffles are an occasional treat for me these days, so I have no qualms.

You laugh - but my dd did once ask for beans on toast with eggs, cheese, and - wait for it - broccoli for lunch. Luckily I had some frozen in the freezer, but what kid asks for broccoli as a side to toast 😅

Anyway, yanbu OP. I'm baffled by potato waffles in the toaster though, do PP's just bung them in frozen? How long do they take?

I have 3 sons. When they were young dh and I both worked full-time. Thursday nights were a nightmare. Cubs, Beavers, football etc. Beans and cheese on toast was our Thursday tea for years. My youngest is now 30 and he still loves beans and cheese on toast. It will do them no harm and will save your sanity

Baked beans are awesome. I'm not keen on them on toast, due to the soggification. But I adore them on a jacket potato, next to or semi covering chips, potato waffles, any potato basically!
I also just discovered tinned bean salad, it's great if you drain it and add a bit of oil and lemon.
Beans are fantastic!
I used to love the ones with mini sausages when I was a kid 🤤

If you use good bread and add cheese, apparently BoT is one of the most nutritionally balanced meals you can have! Carbs, protein, fats, beans are 1 of your 5 a day.....

Winner!

Yes! Crispy with salt and drowned in olive oil 🤤🤤

Jacket potatoes aren't a quick meal in our house though as I really dislike ones that have been anywhere near a microwave, whether for the full amount or just part of it. Changes the whole texture of the potato!

Fully oven baked, skin crispy with salt, is the only way I will have them - which means a lengthy time in a low ish oven, so no quick fix tea here,

You can’t possibly call it a snack if it hasn’t got grated cheese on top 🤪

I know. I'm saying none of it matters. If someone wants to have 6 slices of toast and 3 tins of beans and call it a snack, then it's a snack. 🤣

It was relevant because someone said I had toast with peanut butter which is the same as beans on toast.

Get a grip!

Yeah god forbid someone might think you had 2 slices as a snack!

@StrangerOnThePlane i was replying to someone who had quoted me as having 2 slices and in this conversation and context the number was relevant.

Blimey. I’m not sure which direction this thread has zoomed off to.

Can we agree beans on toast are yummy please?

And how about a 6’ 2” teenage boy in the rugby team who walks to school, 2 miles each way, versus a 5’ 1” teenage girl who loves science and lives two houses away from the school. They both have very very different needs.

And (just to stir things up a bit because why not) why do we have to focus on how many calories they need? Assuming their diet is mostly healthy ish, can they not just have breakfast, lunch and dinner and snacks if they want and adjust the amount accordingly?

One of my kids is very tall, the other is average height, I’ve no idea how many calories they ate growing up. They just ate enough to fuel their bodies and the activities they wanted to do.

A normally active 16 year old boy requires between 2500 and 2800 calories a day. It's really not a huge stretch that a plate of beans and toast totalling 600 calories would be used as a snack and still eat 3 meals a day plus a couple of smaller snacks.

Agree — a reasonably active teenage boy (not even massive amounts of sports, maybe half an hour of activity a day) can need up to 3000kcal a day, depending on the individual. Maybe even more during a particularly fast growth spell, or if they start training a lot.

If they have a 500kcal breakfast, a 750kcal school dinner (which is the first figure I found when I searched for average secondary school dinner kcal, though I know many don't have a standard school dinner at secondary), and a solid 1000kcal at teatime, that still leaves 750kcal or so to find from snacks and drinks throughout the day. Makes more sense to have a snack that's on the heftier side if you're going to be taking the time to prepare something, rather than spending your time making lots of smaller snacks, or going for multiple easy prepared snacks which will likely be more expensive and less healthy.

To you. Do you not understand that other people will eat different foods in different amounts to you? And even if it's more than you would eat, it can still be a snack!

Oh and peanut butter on toast means one slice to me as an after school snack.

@OnAndOnAndonAgain I’m not! My DC are in their 20s and eat well thanks!

Same. I had beans on toast along with the family after a day on the coast and I didn't want to cook anything. Was too tired. DH broke the mould and had a tin of Heinz Cream of Chicken soup instead.

Although @greengreyblue you really shouldnt be obsessing like this about how many calories your teens are having as a snack when it's beans and bread we are talking about .