Is beans on toast,

[SlimPig]

a snack or a meal?

A light meal, lunch usually for me. However whack a couple of fried eggs on top and cheese and it’s a good evening meal.

A meal. Toast on its own is a snack.

I would class it as a meal… a snack here is fruit, cheese on crackers or a couple of biscuits etc

It depends how much of it you eat, IMO. A single piece of toast with a spoonful of beans is a snack. Two toasted doorsteps with a whole can of beans is a meal. Beans on toast could be the main meal of the day, depending on what else is going on that day.

I'm not one of these that subscribes to any rule about having to have a light meal (usually cold) and a main meal (usually hot) each day. As long as I've eaten about the right amount of food for my needs, and covered main food groups across the day, that'll do.

To me a snack is small, such as a packet of crisps or an apple. Beans on toast is more substantial so would be a lunch or a desperation dinner.

Death. Very allergic to tomato!

Wow - I see I'm in the minority in having it as a satisfying main meal when I'm feeling lazy 😄

Yep can definitely pass as tea if you add some eggs! Poached, fried and scrambled all acceptable.

Meal!

TAAT.

Who cares?

If a ‘meal’ it’s ok to eat more than 3 a day.

If a ‘snack’ it’s ok to eat protein plus grains (BoT on wholemeal provides the fu range of amino acids needed for protein intake) instead of a donut and milkshake.

If it’s two big slices of toast, while Tin of beans and grated cheese on top most people would say ‘light meal’ or ‘meal’. But someone with high calorie use might say ‘snack’. If one slice of toast and a third of a can of beans, why can’t it be a snack?

Both. It's a snack if it'll be a few hours til my main meal, it's my main meal if I stick an egg on it for tea 🤷🏻‍♀️

It's a meal, for any time of day, breakfast, lunch or dinner. Whenever it seems appropriate, depending on what you have in and would like to eat.

But I don't have any weirdness about types or amount of food served at lunch vs dinner or designating any particular meals as the 'main meal'. It's all pretty much the same, in fact it often is the same, because most of the time, my lunch is leftover dinner.

A meal for us.

Definitely a meal. I have it as my main meal of the day quite often if I can’t be bothered to cook.

A meal for sure.

We had beans on toast every Thursday for tea (main meal of the day) when I was a kid. Three slices of toast and a massive portion of beans by the time I was a teenager. When I was in my teens mum, at my request, used to branch out and get me tinned spaghetti or ravioli instead some weeks! It’s fine as a full main meal but nowadays I tend to have it for lunch or for dinner if I’ve had a large lunch, so as a lighter meal. But then I’m better off than my parents were and mum’s housekeeping money was running low by Thursday.

Often have it as my main meal when can't be bothered to cook.

I’d have it as a meal. Two slices thick toast. Half a tin of beans and cheese. It’s possibly the cheese that makes it feel more of a meal.

Lunch is a main meal?

A light meal. Way too much to be a 'snack' unless you've been doing serious physical activity (or are a growing teenager I suppose).

I love beans on toast. Chop onions, garlic, add cashew nuts, chilli. Mmmm.

Depends on serving and stuff:

• 1 piece of thin, basic sliced bread with 1/3 reg tin of beans... a snack to tide you over until dinner
• 2 slices of decent bread, generously covered in beans and maybe grated cheese, resembling what you'd expect in a cafe... light meal

I read that thread yesterday. I definitely say it's a meal.

No, no, no, beans must never tough egg under any circumstances.

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