to give kids beans on toast as a 'cooked meal'?

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Trivial question but Im running late!
Kids have sandwiches etc for their tea at nusery, so I give them a good cooked dinner before they go.
Does beans on toast with side of broccoli, followed by fruit,jelly and natural yougurt count?
I dont have time to cook anything else but feel gulity!

I often have Baked beans on toast as my main meal, it's yummy and comforting and warm and...

'Beans on toast was pretty much the first solid food my DCs ate as babies...and they have loved it ever since. It's a great meal...it's not as if you're stuffing them full of lard and sugar...'

....sadly you are on the sugar. My dh is a type II diabetic, and I thought I was good giving him beans on marmite toast for breakfast (low fat, fibre etc), until I looked at the sugar level in the baked beans. Sadly, being abroad, I can't always get low sugar versions, and stocked up on the fridge packs when back in UK.

It's a fine meal. Is your DD old enough for cranberry juice? It really does help when it comes to recurrent UTIs.

LNP, yes, she is 4 and loves cranberry juice. Weve got tests soon to find out if she has kidney reflux, so if thats the case, not much we can do.

Ok, ok, I get the message. No broccoli (though they both love it), so beans on toast it is.

And Im having a batchelors cheese and broccoli pasta sachet thingy, yummy!

I think beans on toast is fine. If you make your own baked beans you can do it without any sugar :) But for children, as long as they aren't having loads of sugar elsewhere in their day, I don't think it's doing much harm. Sugar isn't pure evil (for non-diabetics).

Sound yum but I too would drop the broccoli. It's just wring with beans on toast!

Sorry op. X posted! Well done for dropping the broccoli!

Om nom nom.... Cheesy beans.

Edamame beans are just soya beans, but so much more fun (and expensive!) in a pod.

Birds Eye did bags of frozen soya beans for a while, not sure if they still do, but I bought up all the ones here. I too love sitting in front of the tv with a handful of those for a snack.

YANBU but not the broccoli, no way does that go!! If you give them orange juice or an orange as part of the meal, it'll help them absorb the iron in the beans better, too. :)

That sounds terrible-I´d never do it as a main meal

Wouldn´t bother with the broccoli, but would melt&grate some cheese on.

That should be melt/grate

Good call on the broccoli

Yum, I think I might have to have this for my lunch now.

Chinese supermarkets have them???

Beans on toast, with chopped up hotdogs and grated cheese!

OP... you could add the broccoli to your meal, those sachets taste even better with added stuff.

Legally, to comply with The Mother's Inspection Board Regulations, the Beans need to be low-salt, low-sugar and the broccoli organic. Non-seasonal fruit is permitted in February BUT NO OTHER TIMES OF YEAR.

I hope the toasted bread is home-made too as The Mother's Inspection Board will give you credits for that and reduce your guilt allowance. If not too bad. They might sentence you to a 24 hour TV and internet blackout and a three hour examination on the complete works of Annabel Karmel.

HTH

I think I'm the only one who has 'virgin' beans on toast?

We're having Polish potato and sausage soup tonight!

If you do want a quick meal involving broccoli, then pasta and pesto with broccoli is a big favourite in this house.

Monkeyface - is your dd on antibiotics for the UTIs? If they are quereying reflux, she might well be.

If so - DONT give her cranberry!! (I have a kidney problem that causes recurent infections and this is straight from my urologist). Cranberry prevents infection by coating the urinary tract with something or other I forget the name of, which stops the bugs sticking and multiplying therefore stopping the infection. But it also stops antibiotics reaching the membranes in the urinary tract and so they don't work. SO if you are letting her drink cranberry jiuce the antibiotics are pointless! Its not a well known thing but since I stopped drinking cranberry (and I get it recommended by someone at least once a week!) I have had practically no infections at all!!!

aitch - yes I watched the 'diet' food programme, it's all pretty revolting isn't it. I was very interested to find out diet coke is actually making me hungrier.

i think it was getorf who gave up a diet coke habit and promptly lost half a stone in a fortnight on here.

agree habs, that is a firm favourite here, sometimes with cream cheese (if i have any that i feel has been sitting open in the fridge for a dubiously long time.)

soy beans heaps cheaper in chinese supermarkets, lion, cheaper thna birds eye iirc.

mmm yes to broccoli pasta pesto with cream cheese - I use some of the starchy pasta water in with the cream cheese and pesto so you get a nice sauce. mmmm

lol, 'loosen your philly with pasta water', i think the chefs would say. the loosen always makes me blerk, but i do it nevertheless.

Mmmm, that beans on toast with cheese was lovely - thank you OP!

Oh, God, yes, i saw that BBC3 programme. Bloody nasty stuff, but I felt utterly vindicated. It's such a con.