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To do beans on toast once a week?

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MollyAndMuck · 12/07/2024 22:39

Doing a different work pattern soon and two nights a week will be a lot of pressure to pick up DCs (infant age) from after school, feed them and not end up putting to bed too late.

I can't cook from scratch these nights and realistically don't think I'll be organised enough to batch cook for both nights.

AIBU to give my kids beans on toast every week for one evening meal? I know it's UPF but at least it's some kind of veg and very quick. They'll be having a hot lunch at school and are pretty good at eating it.

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soupfiend · 12/07/2024 23:14

I cant wait for this obsession with UPFs to be over.

SkeletonBatsflyatnight · 12/07/2024 23:14

Mine usually have it on a tuesday night in term time because of extra curriculars. Like a previous poster, I use wholewheat bread and add extra cheese, bowl of cherry tomatoes and cucumber and some sort of fruit on the side.

Sometimes they have dippy eggs or scrambled eggs and toast or tomato soup with cheese and marmite pinwheels.

Comedycook · 12/07/2024 23:14

If in doubt, cut up some cucumber and stick on the side of the plate... positively virtuous

LuckySantangelo35 · 12/07/2024 23:11

HcbSS · 12/07/2024 22:42

The slow cooker is your friend OP. Whack it on before work - dinner done when home.
Alternatively, DH and I had stir fry tonight. I timed it - 9 minutes from starting to on plates. There is loads you can do that’s quick without resorting to UPF.

@HcbSS

it don’t do them any harm to “resort” to “upf”s like beans on toast onec a week. What the issue?

AlanBrendaCelia · 12/07/2024 23:10

YABU as baked beans are the most disgusting thing known to man.

Comedycook · 12/07/2024 23:10

It's absolutely fine.

Everyone fed = winning

Other quick meals

Ready made pizza chucked in oven with bagged salad

Egg on toast

Fish finger sandwich

Buy some ready cooked chicken drumsticks and a sachet of microwave rice

These are all very quick and perfectly fine. No one hands out medals to parents who cook elaborate meals from scratch, so don't stress!

RabbitsRock · 12/07/2024 23:09

I think DH could live on beans on toast if he needed to. And vegan DB’s fav meal is jacket potato with beans & cheese. I love beans on toast. Have it for breakfast, lunch or tea.

BeckyWithTheGoodHair010101 · 12/07/2024 23:09

Oh piss off you self righteous twats with your UPF! It's beans on toast for gods sake. "Resorting to UPF" Biscuit
Yes OP, definitely feed them beans on toast. Mine had omelette and beans tonight!

UtterlyOtterly · 12/07/2024 23:08

My DC would have considered it neglect to only have beans on toast once a week at that age. They would have happily eaten it most nights.

Also "jar pasta" aka pasta with sauce from a jar, which they preferred to my lovingly homemade sauces.

Both children have survived and grown into healthy adults.

OnAndOnAndonAgain · 12/07/2024 23:06

It's fine, so are hoops on toast or scrambled egg etc etc

I can't decide if I want beans on toast now or a fish finger sandwhich

ApplesOrangesBananas · 12/07/2024 23:06

I wouldn’t say baked beans is vege… but my DC is similar age and when he has a hot lunch at nursery he never ever wants to eat a big meal again at home. So even though I’ve cooked it he usually ends up just having some toast and fruit. I wouldn’t worry!

Devilsmommy · 12/07/2024 23:05

olympicsrock · 12/07/2024 22:41

of course. Completely normal. My older kids have beans and scrambled eggs on toast once a week. They also have pizza, chicken nuggets / fish fingers , sausage sandwiches, pasta pesto for tea once a week.
They have a cooked school meal. Simple and quick.

I think this is the first time I've seen a list of dinners on here that match up to mine😂 thought I'd been doing something awful 🤣

JC03745 · 12/07/2024 23:04

@LuckySantangelo35 why? Why can’t they just have beans on toast?
I never said she couldn't have beans on toast every week! I was giving another option!

MavisPennies · 12/07/2024 23:04

Beans on toast is a completely fine meal once a week. Also you're training them to like a cheap easy nutritious meal for when they are students so win win.

Icantremembermyusername · 12/07/2024 23:04

This is the type of meal planning thread I approve of!

I've bent myself in crazy ways making ridiculous meals when actually, beans on toast is fab!
I batch cook when I can. I cook fancy meals at weekends but if I’m having a tough week, it’s shop bought quiche and beans, scrambled egg and cheese on toast, tuna pasta with fridge gravel.
Next week -
Monday- batch cooked bolognese out of freezer and pasta
Tuesday - Sharwood chicken tikka masala with dried out (not a culinary term, it’s just a bit dry) pitta and basmati rice
Wednesday - quiche and beans
Thursday - burgers, fries and frozen corn on the cob.
school finishes next Friday so tea will be whatever they want from just eat and lashings of gin for me!

LuckySantangelo35 · 12/07/2024 23:00

JC03745 · 12/07/2024 22:52

Could you batch cook pasta sauces like Bolognese into freezer bags/containers? Remove from the freezer in the morning and leave in the fridge, then just cook the pasta and re-heat the sauce when you get in?

@JC03745

why? Why can’t they just have beans on toast?

Purplebunnie · 12/07/2024 23:00

I don't have a slow cooker but believe you can cook jacket potatoes in them. Would this help in variation

I love toast so I would be in heaven, tuna melt is a firm favourite

mollyfolk · 12/07/2024 22:56

We always do a beans on baked potatoe night . Or tuna. Or sometimes I pull something out of the freezer, I just try and use better chips or veggie nuggets so it’s not utter crap.

WineIsMyCarb · 12/07/2024 22:54

Beans on toast
Beans on bagel
Scrambled egg on toast with a side of beans
Beans on potato waffle (cooked in toaster - yes!)
Toast with lots of butter, then an extra piece with lemon curd on for 'pudding'

All different meals in this house!

RantyMcRanterton · 12/07/2024 22:54

MrsBobtonTrent · 12/07/2024 22:50

All for a toast dinner here. Beans or hoops or pilchards in tom sauce or scrambled egg. Maybe even toast soldiers and a dippy egg (or two). Banana for pudding. Everyone fed, no one dead.

We used to say that, too, when we were at the coal face of young, young children. Everybody fed, nobody dead.

OP beans on toast is perfectly acceptable as a tea.

JC03745 · 12/07/2024 22:52

Could you batch cook pasta sauces like Bolognese into freezer bags/containers? Remove from the freezer in the morning and leave in the fridge, then just cook the pasta and re-heat the sauce when you get in?

Shybutrude · 12/07/2024 22:50

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MrsBobtonTrent · 12/07/2024 22:50

All for a toast dinner here. Beans or hoops or pilchards in tom sauce or scrambled egg. Maybe even toast soldiers and a dippy egg (or two). Banana for pudding. Everyone fed, no one dead.

Shybutrude · 12/07/2024 22:49

@MollyAndMuck Waitrose Essentials beans are lovely 4 tins for £2

GrumpyPanda · 12/07/2024 22:48

It's not considered UPF if you use organic baked beans - or even use different tinned beans. I tend to mix it up with minced onion and whatever veg I've got around, then add the beans, which only adds about 5 min.

https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/is-all-ultra-processed-food-bad-for-you-aoDPf6H6PnrL

Is all ultra-processed food bad for you? - Which? News

Ultra-processed foods have been linked with negative health outcomes but some can have a place in a healthy diet

https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/is-all-ultra-processed-food-bad-for-you-aoDPf6H6PnrL

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