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

We regularly have baked potatoes or omelette. Veg stir fry with noodles is a good cheap option too.

Me too tbh! If I was on my own I think n I’d look like a boiled egg after not very long 🤣

Surely it doesn't matter how often other people eat these things if your kids won't eat them?

Our go to cheap meal is tiny pasta shells with either cheese or tomato sauce.

My DD loves baked potato with sausages and gravy. I like mine with chilli and cheese. Both meals you can easily add veg/salad.
As PP, scrambled eggs is a quick and easy meal if they have been out at activities. We're having it tonight.
Homemade soup is very easy to make (and freeze in advance). I make it with whatever veg is "yellow label" in the supermarket. Serve with a cheeseboard for the protein element.

I didn't say they wouldn't eat them, they won't eat some of if the cheaper options like cheap sausages. They've just had scrambled eggs on toast. They're not too keen on soup, they would think a baked potato was missing the "main" part of the meal 😆 I've tried VERY hard to get them used to a wide variety- they love all the usual stuff like bolognese, curries, chicken pasta in various forms, roasts. All homemade though,

I'd live on baked potatos and mushroom stir fry if I lived alone. I just feel like it's not enough for the DC.

We have that sort of think for tea about twice a week - soups are generally home made though - I tend to make a big batch and re heat for a quick dinner. Jacket potato is often with leftover chilli or bolognese but sometimes just with cheese or beans. Omelette or beans on toast for days when the cupboards are bare!

A lot. 5 out of 7 days, this week.
Tonight is parsnip soup and bread, yesterday was egg curry and baked potato, tomorrow soup again.

I’m happy with that type of meal every day but dc are fussy and prefer something more substantial. I make homemade soup and toast and enjoy it although I find it doesn’t particularly fill me up.

Eat whatever you like. It's fine as long as its healthy.

Me and my son sometimes have chicken noodles for breakfast.

I have jacket potatoes every few weeks, I've recently got back into them after going off them for a few years. Beans on toast - not that often, but every now and again, maybe if it's just me. Chicken soup - every few weeks, sometimes with dumplings too.
If you are worried about it not being enough, could you have a steamed pudding and custard, or roly poly pudding that day, so you are all filled up.

If they are having a decent hot meal at school at lunchtime especially, these sound like fine dinner options. My DCs love homemade soup and crusty bread.

My stomach regards it all as food, whatever the time of day.

Baked potatoes with beans, tuna mayo and cheese is pretty healthy, cheap and filling. Omlette with veg in same. Would have one or other of these once a week. Frozen battered fish and chips and frozen peas/ sweetcorn pretty cheap and relatively healthy.

Evening meal to me is cooked , and 500 to 800 calories typically needed

Beans on toast - add a few mushrooms and an egg

Soup - homemade thick.

Baked potatoes- rare unless oven is already on - but with a cheese or tuna savoury topping ( say grated cabbage and carrot and onion - all cheap veg

Are they boys and someone has told them that a meal without meat isn’t a proper meal?

If they don’t like pasta bake from a jar make it from scratch, it will also be cheaper

Beans or eggs on toast are a weekend brunch in our family. We have one or other most Sundays.

We have soup once a week most weeks. Always homemade, may or may not be served with bread depending on the soup.

Jacket potatoes feature once a fortnight as toppings can be a headache. DH isn't keen on beans, tuna is pricey and no matter how much we all like it it would get boring pretty quickly if we had it too often, chilli is only an easy option if we had some left over from a previous meal (rare), we all feel 'meh' about coleslaw once warmed by the jacket, and prawns are even pricier than tuna. We always also have cheese with the other topping, but cheese alone doesn't feel like enough.
Sometimes I do a variation of a JP by scooping out the potato once cooked and mixing it with other ingredients, then popping it back into the skin and grilling. This tends to be done with spinach & blue cheese, or leeks & smoked mackerel.

I would think of them as lunches rather than dinner type meals. The closest we might come to soup would be a stew or casserole as an evening meal.

In this house they are all lunches.

I'm old and live on my own. I do cook from scratch but if I can't be bothered I will sometimes have a large bowl of porridge with lots of fresh fruit mixed in. Delicious and minimal washing up.

Cook a chunky soup and call it stew. Job done.
we often had jacket with cheese/ham/beans and veg as a kid. Not so much now as DD a often has that for lunch but I love a good baked potato.

We eat these meals regularly! Also omelettes. I usually serve with veg like mushrooms, beans, broccoli, tomatoes, salad, raw carrots and / or fruit afterwards. That obv puts the cost up though. The kids have hot meals at school, I am quite happy for them to eat this for tea sometimes.

We have soup at least once a week, and the children often cook jacket potatoes when it's their to make dinner.

We have that type of thing for tea fairly often. Dinner is usually a sandwich. Had beans on toast on Sunday and having jacket tatas tomorrow!

Jacket potatoes once a week - that's because we have 3 kids activities so quite late when we get in and both parents are in at different times with different kids. Everyone can just get one out of the oven when they can.

Something on toast - once a week if kids go to grandparents (so me and DH only) as we hate cooking so choose not to. Scrambled eggs, beans and toast is one of my favourite meals.

Soup and a roll of- might have for lunch if WFH but wouldn't have for tea as at not filling enough so I'd be snacking later.

But don't know what, who bloody cares what everyone else does. If your kids are happy, loved and fed it doesn't matter! Every one of us is doing our very best we can with the time, resources and money we have available!