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AIBU?

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To treat spaghetti hoops like baked beans?

71 replies

KenLeeeeeee · 24/01/2013 17:52

Please help resolve an ongoing row between me and "D" thinks he knows better than me H.

Tonight is a very lazy throw-things-in-the-oven dinner for the kids on account of both me and the husband feeling rough as a badger's bum. I suggested chips, chicken dippers and tinned spaghetti hoops. Husband looked at me incredulously and asked WHY I would give them chips and spaghetti hoops. I asked what he proposed instead - he said he would have given them carrots because spaghetti is a pasta product, therefore not an alternative to vegetables in the way that baked beans would be. I said he's clearly being yampy and that tinned spaghetti IS a perfectly acceptable vegetable replacement in a naff meal, just as you might use baked beans, hence the items sitting together in the supermarket aisles.

Who is BU?

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StickEmWithThePointyEnd · 24/01/2013 17:53

YANBU tinned spaghetti is the equivalent to a tin of beans. Has always been that way as I don't like beans.

It's got tomatoes in it so it counts. Grin

EMS23 · 24/01/2013 17:54

He is BU!!
Hoops are definitely in the bean family of tinned foods.
I wouldn't have pasta on toast but is have hoops on toast.

GlitterySkulls · 24/01/2013 17:54

you're right, he's wrong Smile

EMS23 · 24/01/2013 17:55

I'd have not is have

OwlLady · 24/01/2013 17:55

neither of you really

but he is right that chips and spaghetti together are two carbs and tinned spaghetti isn't a perfectly acceptable vegetable.

But I enjoy nothing better than spaghetti hoops on toast

PomBearWithAnOFRS · 24/01/2013 17:55

Tinned spaghetti is vile and noxious and foul Grin but it is also, if you are a household where people actually like them, they are perfectly acceptable as an alternative to beans. Whoever heard of chicken dippers, carrots and chips? Confused

MissyMooandherBeaverofSteel · 24/01/2013 17:55

LTB Wink

He is being utterly unreasonable.

SPsFanjoIsAsComfyAsAOnesie · 24/01/2013 17:56

He is BU

You are both BU for even eating them Grin

GettingObsessive · 24/01/2013 17:56

But beans are protein and hoops are carbohydrate. Technical neither of them replace vegetables, but hoops are the replacement for the chips.

I would have thought this was obvious, tbh Confused

C0smos · 24/01/2013 17:56

I love spaghetti hoops and treat them as I would baked beans (which I hate) so on toast, with a cooked breakfast etc.
To me though they are a carb not a veg replacement so I wouldn't have them with chips as that would be double starch and really lardy.
Oddly it is fine to have them with a spud though so I've totally contradicted mysel sorry!!

SpicyPear · 24/01/2013 17:57

YABU

Hoops are carbs. Beans are veg. Chips and hoops is double carbs.

KenLeeeeeee · 24/01/2013 17:57

Good to know, thanks all! I will show him the thread and put my smug hat on. Grin

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piratecat · 24/01/2013 17:57

hmm.

I have given dd spag hoops in place of beans with chips and fishfingers. Two lots of carbs yes, but beans have carbs too

I have drawn the line at her request for a side of hoops, when she has had pasta tho!!
yanbu

JollyRedGiant · 24/01/2013 17:58

DH does this. He enjoys pizza with tinned spaghetti. I think he is a weirdo.

DS has not yet discovered the delights of tinned pasta, but will likely love it as much as he loves beans. Considering DS enjoyed dipping his apple and raisins in his lentil soup today I'm sure he'd eat tinned pasta with anything.

StuntGirl · 24/01/2013 17:59

Clearly he is wrong. Spaghetti hoops are equal to beans in the food hierarchy and can be substituted as such. Fact.

StinkyWicket · 24/01/2013 18:00

I bloody love spoops.

YANBU.

Iteotwawki · 24/01/2013 18:00

Your husband is right. Tinned spaghetti is a carbohydrate as are the chips. If you want a vegetable type portion what about carrot sticks / cucumber sticks? Or zap a mug of frozen mixed veg in the microwave?

mummybare · 24/01/2013 18:04

YABU.

Beans can count as one of your five-a-day and contain protein. Spaghetti hoops have next to no nutritional value. But taste nice and as long as you have enough veg over a week it's fine to eat yummy stuff that's not very good for you once in a while.

LaVitaBellissima · 24/01/2013 18:05

YABU and spaghetti hoops are vile

SpicyPear · 24/01/2013 18:06

JollyRedGiant DH does that too. With pizza. I've told him he's a vile beast b.ut he loves it. Maybe they are brothers separated at birth?

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poshme · 24/01/2013 18:11

I know they're not the same, but I treat them the same.
Our local farm park offers macaroni cheese for kids- it comes with either salad, baked beans or chips. I always do a double take but they seem to think that macaroni cheese & chips is perfectly normal!

Emilythornesbff · 24/01/2013 18:11

Oddly enough, hoops DO count. One of your "5 a day". It says so on the tin.
But YAbu to suggest that hoops and b.beans are equal because hoops are yummy and beans are yucky.

PatriciaHolm · 24/01/2013 18:12

He's right. They are not remotely substitutable!

TheGashlycrumbTinies · 24/01/2013 18:14

YABU spaghetti hoops are vile, and do not count as one of your 5 a day.

Baked beans provide protein and fibre and a far superior to tinned spaghetti.

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