To do beans on toast once a week?

Yeah me to 🙄

Beans on toast is a healthy, filling, quick tea. What's not to like 🤷‍♀️ do you grate a bit of cheese on top, my dd loves it with cheese!

Scrambled eggs or eggs and soldiers are another quick tea.

Is this a serious question?! Oh the UPF, the poor darlings…you’re hardly feeding them arsenic.

Brilliant

I'm very grateful for this thread. My DH loved his beans on toast tonight (with added hot sauce) and melted cheese on top while my DS enjoyed his non-hot sauce beans and grated cheese, unmelted.

I had soup from a tin with hot buttered toast.

Food fit for kings

Totally normal. Or soup out of a tin, or something made on the weekend and frozen. Or over pizza and chips.

Some times we have cold bits and bobs, cold meat, sandwiches, crisps, salad, hummus etc.

Couldn’t agree more. A ‘posh’ stick-up-your-arse cafe near us used to serve sandwiches with salad and bloody strawberries on the side. WHY? So affected. Who the HELL wants strawberries with a ham and mustard sandwich??

Not at all. We have beans on toast night when DS1 has footy training each week and the kids love it. Only if they can have grated cheese on top obvs.

All sound good to me.

Absolutely fine as part of an overall varied diet - you could alternate beans with other simple things like egg. An other option is a slow cooker or making double portions another night for the busy night.

For both time and budget reasons we have one of these for 3/4 dinners a week:

beans or cheesy scrambled egg on toast
jacket potato meal (with tuna or beans/cheese- salad etc)
pesto pasta (with broccoli boiled with the pasta)
sausage or bacon sandwiches
soup with a sandwich/toastie

I do get what people mean about the slow cooker food. I do use ours alot, but for things like batch cooking soup for the freezer, cooking a ham for slicing (so much cheaper than buying sliced ham), making cordial/lemon curd/chutney, cooking meat sometimes for a roast if we're out all Sunday morning. Also handy for cooking jacket potatoes. Not a fan of the sloppy-style slow cooker meals. And I'm not a fan of the smell of dinner for hours beforehand - bored of it by mealtime. The newer slow cookers have more power than the old sort, so many recipes want to you cook the food for far too long, which adds to the slop.

Cheese on top - microwave it for a minute - extra protein AND calcium!

Definitely not just you 😊. Also I found it slightly insulting because I felt (even if it wasn’t intended) that it was only us so bung a few bits and pieces in the slow cooker.
I used to think why doesn’t he ever think of grilling some salmon fillets or roasting a small chicken?
In fact,I used to make a point of making something freshly cooked when he came to,us.

The poster who said a stirfry was an easy quick option you can turn to so as not to 'resort' to UPFs is clearly untroubled by the idea of buying ready washed (including chlorine washed) and chopped vegetables, many flown thousands of miles across the world, generating large amounts of non-biodegradable plastic waste. I'd be interested to know about the environmental credentials of the protein element, pre-cooked noodles or rice, and sauce too.

None of these choices are easy once you start thinking about them. We're all doing the best we can and beans on toast is a perfectly good quick meal for a family as often as you all fancy it.

Totally fine OP. Mine love instant noodles so we sometimes do that once a week. Or Pita bread with fillings of whatever we want. Hummus, ham, cucumber, feta cheese, whatever.
or frozen pizza with carrots/cucumber/hummus.

It is fine OP. You are doing great

Baked potatoes if not smushed open stay piping a while so I think it’s a good option (could cook, whack tea towel over whilst beans cooking if worried)

Pitta, hummus, cucumber, tomato and bought falafels is popular in our house for a quick meal. Olives and pickles if feeling fancy.

Tortellini is a good shout, or pasta, could stir in tinned salmon, cream cheese, some frozen peas and cherry toms and drizzle with garlic or herb oil.

I do beans or tofu on toast once a week here. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Speaking of pasta, I make normal dried pasta with sauce (I used tinned toms, herbs etc) and you can freeze that. I would assume that a jar of sauce mixed with pasta would freeze really well too. Or just the pasta with oil or butter.

Ha! Lol, yes I do that with my son, a couple of sticks of cue or carrots with chopped cherry toms - makes any meal healthy 🤣

Good idea re jackets!

Don’t buy frozen jackets.
i sling a few in the oven when im doing something else and just keep them in the fridge and blast them in the microwave or air fryer
sometimes I do extra and turn them into loaded wedges with cheese and bacon

Not all processed foods are bad. Things like beans, wholemeal bread, whole grain breakfast cereals are actually beneficial.

We often have beans on toast for breakfast or lunch, occasionally dinner if we're in a rush. It's a good source of protein, iron and lots more.

I don't understand why you need to get mumsnetters approval on what you feed your children OP. 🤨