To do beans on toast once a week?

Really surprised to find people saying this, thought it was just me. I've given up on mine, no matter what recipe or how much seasoning, there's always a slow cooker taste and texture especially to veg. Also I always had to put it in the garage as I hated the way it made the house smell of food.

Beans on toast especially wholemeal bread is quite a well balanced meal, with plenty of protein and fibre.
Stopping getting in a twist about it,it's fine to serve a quick dinner.

We frequently have beans on toast. My teens bloody love it! Stick some red onion it, some grated cheese on top, and you have yourself a top quality meal 👌

They are fortified. There's about a third of your daily allowance (as a pre menopausal woman) in half a big can.

My Iceland delivery is running late so I can't have my planned Hoops on Toast for lunch 😭

So you've got a aDH like mine! That and salad on other days and he'd be happy

A slice in each hand yes?

My teenagers have this once a week. Dc2 has it with cheese as well. Dc3 likes it with scrambled eggs.

with grated cheese on top it's a perfectly well-balanced meal.

I’m not the poster you’re asking, but in my case it’s cheating - buy bags of ready chopped veg or even bags of frozen veg, chopped or otherwise. Bung in frying pan.

Presumably they were concerned the local parental neurosis quotient might dip below national averages 🙄

Fucking sausages.

Henderson's here - it's not the dine thing to own Worcestershire sauce in Sheffield 😂 😉

Or you can just have beans in toast every so often and it really isn't a big deal!

You'd think no one ever managed to grow up in one piece in the past, way before UPF was 'a thing' 🙄

I do enjoy beams in toast and don't really have it enough now I think about it. We introduced DD's a,American friends to it earlier this year when they came to visit. They were sceptical until they'd finished their first mouthful!

Pesto pasta was a big favourite too in our house. Fresh pasta -simply as it cooks so quickly and a jar of pesto.

Thursday night was always bean night at our house when the kids were at home. I got paid on a Friday so by Thursday I was skint
My OH would have bean night every night if I let him but he farts enough already

Doh! You beat me to it!

Ahh what an opportunity you have set up here, thank you!

@soupfiend

eh??

@Comedycook

as if cucumber goes with beans on toast! Just leave it out, it won’t do them any harm.

@HcbSS - sorry to derail, can you please tell me the recipe for your quick stir fry?
I always find prepping/chopping the veg takes ages..!
Thank you!!

Noshowlomo · Today 10:22
Beans on toast is sexy AF. My husband was obsessed with it as a kid and he loves it now and he’s a marathon runner, and climbs mountains regularly so it hasn’t done him any harm !

As far as I like them, I wouldn’t go as far as calling them sexy? lol

I’d happy do this for my DD. Baked beans are one of your five an day.

I’d top with a poached egg to make it more filling.

Then I’d do natural yogurt & fruit for pudding!

To alleviate guilt you could also serve beside a picky plate of carrot, cucumber, tomato etc that you quickly chop while everything is boiling.

Cheesy beanos are delicious. Iv been having them a lot lately.

@GiveMeMySoddingCokeZero
i agree entirely. Kebabs can just be grilled meat and salad, what is wrong with that?

I remember a survey by our health authority via the school asking how often your children eat sausages. Not all sausages are equal and what kind of a judgemental question is that? I may have written a bit of an essay at that question.

We have this sort of meal once a week as its cost effective and works with clubs etc. Beans on toast, cheese toasties, tinned tomato on toast, bacon pitta, sausage in a baguette. Quick easy can be customised for everyone’s tastes and cooked to order without much trouble.
and little mess so cleaning is easy.

I'm glad you took it how I meant it

I'm pro-balance. It's all tasty, filling food with a variety of nutrients. No single meal is going to be nutritional perfection on a plate, but a pesto pasta or even chips and ketchup tea fits fine once or twice a week IMO, let alone something like baked beans on toast, which has lots of things going for it nutritionally.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I find some of the categorisations people make really odd e.g. how certain (often more traditional) dishes will be criticised for being pure stodge, while others with just as much refined carby heft (often from food cultures we consider more sophisticated) sail through without comment.

Or things like, earlier on someone said something like "it's hardly a kebab and a full-sugar Coke" — okay, tooth-etchingly acidic, sugar-crammed, caffeinated fizzy drinks are probably not the ideal thing to feed an 8 year old at 6.30pm. But whenever I've seen someone get a kebab, it's generally been some sliced or grilled meat and salad drizzled with sauce, in a flatbread. I'm sure you probably can get ones with stacks of fatty meat and gallons of creamy sauce and barely a lettuce leaf in sight, but that's not what I've seen. You can choose what kind of kebab you get. (And I'm sure that eating the kind I've described is fine once in a while.)

Burgers often demonised too, when they're just a sandwich and it's generally up to you what goes in— usually meat (or substitute) and bread, then fried onions or maybe salad, pickles, a little sauce, maybe some cheese… you could just put beef and cheese and bacon and no plant material of any kind in your bun, but so what? Doesn't make burgers intrinsically unhealthy. (And again, a bacon cheeseburger is probably okay once in a while.)

Pizza the same. Components not significantly different to a cheese sandwich or a quesadilla. Someone can choose to have an inch of dough topped with an inch of cheesoid substance topped with a layer of sweaty pepperoni, but that doesn't make all pizzas somehow bad. (However, it is never, ever fine to eat pepperoni pizza. That stuff is utterly rank, and no, you can't just pick it off, the odour and tang permeates the whole damn fabric of the pizza. And any pizza cooked or transported alongside it, or eaten in the same room. That evil orange oil can travel through solid cardboard and the air itself, I swear.)

And chips. Proper fried chips. It depends on how the frying has been done, but deep-fried chips can be as low as 5% fat. Different places use different oils, some with better lipid profiles than others. They've got fibre, potassium, B vitamins and vitamin C, as well as having a lower glycaemic index than baked/boiled/mashed potatoes. (And I dunno about anyone else, but I tend to add butter to most of those, which puts the frying oil into perspective, at least.)

It's easy to end up digging into rabbit holes on comparative health benefits of this vs that, but people driving themselves insane trying to serve up perfectly nutritionally balanced delicious unprocessed meals that meet the approval of some of the obsessives on MN 21 times a week is pointless.