To do beans on toast once a week?

Somethingontoast is a regular here. Knocked up by the kids when we all have to be in separate places. Beans, or eggs both with cheese and a bit of fruit works for us.

Beans are one of your 5 a day and a protein and a carb . No need for cucumber unless you really like it.

The idea of having cucumber or salad alongside beans on toast is really weird. Not new, though. Back in the early 90s I was given an NHS booklet about feeding my baby once she went onto solids which recommended serving beans on toast with peas. We didn't.

Yep, it is definitely a mumsnet thing to gloat about. The things is though half the people banging on about it on here actually don't truly understand the difference between UPF and just processed. There was a thread a while back saying that we shouldn't used mince of any type cos according to them it was UPF and we shouldnt drink fruit juice or eat tinned tomatoes. What most of them don't get is that the odd meal of pizza, nuggets or whatever is fine as part of a good varied diet.

OP has been very specific it's only one day a week.

It's fine to consider nutrition over a week, rather than requiring each discrete meal to be nutritionally perfect.

@Shityshitybangbang yes!! Dominos is a very sexy food.
I’ve got my husband saying it now, if he’s out and he’s eating something nice he’ll send me a photo and say “look how sexy this is” 😂😂

Can't beat it. Back in the 1970s when my Mum was working full-time as a primary school teacher, on the odd halcyon day our evening meal was steak pie from the butcher, chips* and beans or spaghetti hoops, followed by bread and butter and various cakes. All washed down with tea. Scottish high tea. My Mum is now 91, btw, and my Dad lived to 89. The high teas stopped at some point and she and Dad moved over to having a normal cooked meal in the evening, but always with a pudding course. She still always has cakes and biscuits in. And yet we survived!

(We did have vegetables and salad on other days. Fruit was expensive so handed out more sparingly. My brother and I often had to share an apple or an orange. I used to spend my pocket money on fruit because I was given sweets routinely so fruit was the treat for me. Unwitting reverse psychology!)

*home-made, but god knows what sort of fat they were deep fried in - it certainly wasn't mono- or polyunsaturated oil - probably lard or hydrogenated vegetable fat

Beans on Toast with maybe some grated cheese or scrambled egg is a great quick meal so no problem with that. I do however have an issue with parents who think that because their children have a hot lunch at school, all their nutritional needs are taken care of. The children in our school rarely eat all the cooked meal and the amount of food thrown away daily is considerable. No one has time to police what your child is actually eating from the meal provided.

Noshowlomo · Today 12:45
Haha ** pretty much any lovely food I describe as sexy. I don’t actually think it’s sexual, but it is sexy! 😂😂

In that case I’ll have a sexy dominos lol 😂

Ha ha I agree. But you just know it will be replaced by some new buzzword or phrase. Otherwise how will superior people let the rest of us plebs know how awful and neglectful we are?

Judges
M and S beans are much the same price, I usually put a few drops of Tabasco in to sharpen them up.

Branston beans are £1.50 for 4 big tins in home bargains. Best beans ever, don’t need to add anything at all.

Buy a toastie maker…cheese toastie and beans to ring the changes.

WarsofWimbledon · Yesterday 23:40

Ikr? I quite often just have a bagel. Perhaps I’ll die at 50”

lovely. Put some salmon or tuna in it and enjoy with a glass of milk and you’ll celebrate your 100th!

Carbs on carbs 😋

@MasterBeth

its not a snack, a snack is a bag or crisps or an apple- not a full on meal!!

I hope people on here thinking beans on toast is the worst thing ever and who seem obsessed with never letting a drop of upf pass their lips aren't passing their ed onto their children. Balance is key.

Nothing wrong

You cannot beat beans on toast. We have toastie nights too. Ham, cheese, beans, it all goes in. I love those nights. That breville toastie maker was money well spent. I cook eggs in it too 👍triangle shaped eggs.

M and S beans are much the same price, I usually put a few drops of Tabasco in to sharpen them up.

No, no, no.

You don't cook* a snack.

It's a light meal.

(*Making toast and heating beans and whatever adjustments you make is cooking, before anyone starts.)

But all meals are going to require a degree of washing up, whether it's a bowl and fork to whisk eggs or a bowl or pan to heat beans.

It's quite strange to single out an omelette as not fast based on the washing up, especially as the pan itself doesn't need washing.

Haha @Shityshitybangbang pretty much any lovely food I describe as sexy. I don’t actually think it’s sexual, but it is sexy! 😂😂

omlette is only a fast meal if you discount washing up the utensils...