To do beans on toast once a week?

We used to have a jacket potato night. Can't remember why. But you can add salad on the side and then do different toppings. Also pasta with tomato sauce or grated cheese, with salad was also popular.

I think there's a huge difference between UPF beans on a square of white Chorleywood and some decent baked beans on a slice of sourdough or multigrain with maybe a dry-fried egg... 😋

My kids love beans on toast with a fried egg. We like the Crosse & Blackwell low-salt/low-sugar ones more than Heinz. We are very strongly against UPF but not to a crazy degree.

Well I remember our home ec teacher saying that beans on toast is a nutritious meal.

I’ve only heard that phrase used when it’s breast versus formula, because that is, for some people, a contentious issue.

But we are not talking about something as fundamental as first milk here, it’s beans on toast! Which is a perfectly healthy filling normal week night meal, and healthier than a lot of starchy carby meaty meals others are suggesting are ‘proper’ meals, like saisage and mash or bolognaise. I’d wager that beans on toast is healthier than either of those two meals.

Fed is best regardless of food/formula!

Everyone has different circumstances, not just work related, timings etc. Fed is best if you’re able to put something, anything on the table. There’s literally no shame and long as they go to bed with a full tummy so I’m not sure what you’re getting at!

No issue at all!

I do "something on toast" at least once a week for my family! Whether that's beans, spaghetti hoops, cheese or eggs (whatever I've got in really!)

It's also a good way to keep costs down a little bit.

None of our meals take more than half an hour to prepare usually on weekdays.

Yes of course. We have a jacket potato plus stuff evening once a week and the favourite is beans and cheese.

40 minutes if it's bung it in the oven and forget about it for 40 minutes....traybakes and the like.

40 minutes stirring a risotto is what I do when I want a bit of me time in the kitchen not a quick meal.

prawn curry in 30 minutes including chopping..

Stirfry in 15 including chopping.

Amen to all of that! They may be like TV cooks who just reach for a bowl of vegetables which have already been washed, topped, tailed, peeled and chopped. Everything already measured out. No wonder they can knock a dish up in a couple of minutes! They put something in the oven and pull out an identical dish that's already finished cooking. Not quite normal home conditions where you get a carrot out and find it's gone a bit bendy with age so takes a while to peel, the ancient pepper you wanted to use up has a bad bit that needs cutting out, the sundried tomato paste you were sure you had turns out to be sundried tomato pesto, you can't remember where the new packet of rice ended up in the cupboard, etc etc. (These are my home conditions, anyway.)

I think we might live quite different lives if 40 mins is a super quick meal for you! Simple, maybe, quick, no.

I completely agree OP. Reading comments like how a risotto that takes 40 minutes to make is a quick dinner is crazy to me. I wonder what these people make when they’re not doing a quick dinner!

It really does show the variation that exists, and I bet a lot of people just assume their way is the norm . Like I assumed using a bottle of pasta sauce and combining it with pasta and some vegetables was cooking a meal using ingredients, until I stumbled on a mumsnet thread where everyone was adamant that unless you’d made your own pasta sauce (and pasta preferably) you were basically serving a ready meal.

That's totally normal OP. Suggestion; sprinkle cheese into the beans if you are heating up on the hob.

Beans on toast is fine!! Loving “Everybody fed, nobody dead”

These people that 'throw stuff together in minutes' clearly never have my problems of peeling a reluctant onion and garlic, taking ages because the skin is getting under my fingernail and sticking to my fingers, then the chopping

It isnt seconds, it takes quite a while to chop up veg, particularly carrot and celery, plus if you're going to cook something like a ragu/risotto whereby anything that needs the onions cooking down, I cook the onions down for around 40 mins before adding anything else in, Im certainly not seeing that as quick cooking, thats for a whole day batch cooking

A word of warning for anyone considering making pizza in the air fryer. If you use grated cheese or lighter toppings like sliced mushrooms, they get blown everywhere, or they do in ours at least. Crumble is also problematic.

But ours us quite a basic one and I haven't actually studied any of the settings to see if the fan speed is lower on any of them.

Back in the 1980s Findus sold 'french bread pizza'. If you have an air fryer you can use any bread / crumpet / pita bread and even pastry with pizza toppings.

I have even done it with a piece of fish but in the oven because it was before I got an air fryer.

A quick way to cook eggs is in the microwave. Oil or spray oil ramekins, depending on the size of ramekin put one or two eggs in.

BREAK THE YOLK, this is important as there is more fat in the yolk so it can cook quicker than the white and explode. Just piece with a knife or cocktail stick so the yolk can expand.

Put on half power for 2 mins, then check, they may need longer - serve on toast.

I think this should go in classics, not because it is funny but I think everyone needs to know a few quick meals.

Mackerel on toast, peanut butter on toast, eggs on toast, cheese on toast... toasties! Love a toastie. All good and acceptable for tea

Also, any tomato sauce, passata, paste, whatever you have in! Sorry first time using reply and keep sending before finishing.

Have also seen them with a curry sauce and then chicken and cheese. We prefer them as if they’re pizzas!

Yes! Tomato sauce and whatever toppings you wish. They are delish 😋

Yes, but OP has minutes to throw a meal together and get it eaten before it's time for bath and bed. Risotto is great for a day when there's more time.

I had half a tin of beans with cheese for my tea Thursday night - I was shattered and CBA making anything - it was lovely

DD3 is currently obsessed with what we used to call 'chucky eggs with soldiers' - she's having two every night - with white toast and salted butter - just delicious

I agree the UPF panic needs to shhhhhh a little!