How often are you having this sort of thing for your evening meal?

[Bemyclementine]

Scrambled eggs/beans on toast
Baked potato
Soup and roll.

I'm trying hard to cut my shopping costs but neither me or the DC like the cheaper options if some things. I'd eat them, but they won't abd then it's waste. (Such as sausages, or breaded chicken) They dont like pasta bake from a jar.

I just feel like something on toast/potato/soup aren't really options. Or are more like lunch options again, happy to eat them myself but want the dc to have proper food abd a good variety. I think I'm probably making life hard for myself

I'm just about to have a baked potato with cheese and salad for my evening meal, and I had a thick (homemade not by me) soup for lunch. I think it depends what you're having for lunch. Would they eat more vegetarian main meal type options if they won't eat cheap meat?

Hearty soups (usually made with leftovers) -once or twice a week

Jacket potato on its own -rarely because my daughter has that for school lunch several times a week

Eggs/beans on toast - occasionally but I often have them for lunch

If I've had a hot lunch I will sometimes just have cheese and crackers or some toast in the evening.

I have that sort of thing for lunch.

What is it about them that you don't think is suitable for tea?

Never, they are lunches. Or breakfast in the case of scrambled eggs.

Baked potato once a week. Occasionally soup if I'm home to make it, I don't find a tin enough for an evening meal.
Something on toast not a dinner here, but was a regular when I was a child.

I love when it’s just me eating and can have those things as I don’t have to fuck about with a proper meal I don’t even want. I love on toast days they are a treat for me.

Once or twice a week I will have soup or something on toast.

Not very often now but when I was a child my parents were strapped for cash for a long while and (I'm only now seeing the connection) we ate like this several times a week. There would also be protein/vegetables though. So jacket potato + cheese/tuna/beans and maybe salad. Eggs and beans on toast. Soup with bread but also grated cheese. Fruit afterwards.

TBH I'm still very happy with soup or jacket potato for dinner. Beans on toast for dinner I probably wouldn't.

If you're interested we also had things like: toad in the hole (don't need many sausages for that), packet mix vegetable burgers - both with potatoes and carrots or what have you. And lots of mince/veggie mince things like shepherds pie, chilli.

At least 3 times a week. Scrambled/boiled eggs and toast is one of our favourite meals.

My kids have a bacon butty for supper once a week when we have extra curricular activities but they have had a full cooked meal for lunch at school. Baked tatty is a great supper though, we have that every other week or so

They're breakfast and lunch meals for me.
I sometimes have baked potato for evening meal, but only with steak and salad.

Jacket potatoes we probably have once every couple of weeks. Something on toast or soup usually once a week. Teenagers might have it a bit more often if they don't fancy whatever I'm thinking of cooking. They also probably have pasta with pesto and cheese once a week as well.

Not if you’re broke they’re not. We have them quite often, but try to do something more for kids.

Those are things I have for lunch.

Basic suppers - I have cheese & tomato omelette with french beans, or mushroom risotto with parmesan, tomato & bacon sauce over wholemeal pasta, stuffed peppers. Breaded haddock with oven chips and frozen peas,

Sometimes thick chunky soups with left over chicken and lentils.

Easy stuff but with more veg.

If I lived alone this would be all I’d ever eat for tea! We have homemade soup every now and then and DD loves beans on toast as a quick dinner before a club or something.

Jackets once or twice a week.

I've just made a chicken and vegetable soup, thickened wit a tin of chick peas and the juice. Broccoli, celery, a red and a yellow pepper and some tomatoes.

I think it was about a fiver.

Yes once or twice a week will have egg on toast, jackets with beans or omelette.

We also make soup for one evening meal and have left overs for work lunches.

3 adults here and we've just had baked potato with tuna and sweetcorn. It was lovely.

As a child, I often got fed cornflakes for tea and I'm still alive. Not saying do that, just saying don't worry so much.

Omelette, pasta, veg and rice dishes etc with a little protein are all good. Serve with a glass of milk or slice of cheese and you're covering what they need.

God I love a baked potato. It is my default meal if everyone else is out and I have nobody else to cook for.

We’ve just had jacket potatoes for the second day in a row, at my DD’s request. We had them with tuna salad and steamed broccoli, so nutritionally perfectly ok.

Often. I don’t see the need for elaborate meals every day.

We have jacket potatoes once a week, with a mix tuna, cheese, beans etc

Jacket potato is fine for tea. You don't really need a jar of sauce to make a pasta bake. Do you make things like chilli with rice or chips, curry with rice, pasta with various sauces, stew and dumplings, liver with bacon & onions, corned beef hash, fish fingers with mash and peas or sweetcorn. I also make a rice dish with mixed veg and a Mattesons smoked pork sausage cut up in it with some spices. It's surprisingly nice.