To treat spaghetti hoops like baked beans?

[KenLeeeeeee]

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?

YABU and your DH is right - baked beans are haricot beans in a sauce, they are one of your five a day and do count as a vegetable, they aren't the best of all veggie options, but they are a perfectly reasonable choice, whereas spoops are just pasta.

TiggyD bahahahaha YES! I love your post

YANBU - I have been known to serve this. Though I would probably only do spaghetti hoops if I didn't have any sweetcorn (or possibly peas, maybe). Definitely not beans with chicken dippers, bleurgh! With a breakfast, yes, not with chicken and chips.

I'm a child of the seventies so I see the need for something with sauce in that sort of meal and would probably choose beans rather than double-carb, but aren't beans a protein?

I'm told that beans on toast is a fairly balanced meal so they must be. Would beans mean double-protein?

Beans count as your one of a day as they are pulses, all pulses do. Beans are also protein so much more nutritionally sound than spaghetti hoops.

Don't forget carrot cake counts to one of your five a day.

Does ketchup count if you eat enough? I hope so its DS's only vegetable.

Roaring with laughter at TiggyD's post. Possibly one of the most sensible thing's I've ever read on MN.

Probably your DH is right OP but bb are yucky and spaghetti hoops taste lovely so in case YANBU. lowers gavel

Beans and hoops are similar and can be substituted where some orange goo is required, but beans score higher on the "nearly like food" ranking.

I'm with you. When cooking a throwing-things-in-the-oven tea, hoops and beans are interchangeable.

They both fit in the 'something on toast' category and that's why they are friends in the supermarket.

I love sketti hoops - although need to add salt to mine these days (not the kids') as the manufacturers have removed too much of it in a misguided attempt to make them healthier.

Your husband is right!

You can tell him I said so too.

God, does everything have to be healthy?

beans, hoops, dora explorers, they are all the same surely (although not spaghetti, it DOES taste different). if you are the kind of person who sneers at their nutritional values then you probably have never experimented therefore don't have a valid opinion. I on the other hand am highly experienced in such matters. at this actual moment I have just put extra soy sauce in my chow mein pot noodle because there wasn't enough in the sachet!

YABU, hoops are not a vegetable, beans are.

Nothing wrong with a bit of rubbish every now and again though.

I think I'm a bit in love with Tiggy [bgrin]

Of course they're interchangeable, they both come in cans, both come with orange tomato-esque sauce, and they're right next to each other in the shop.

And what's wrong with having two types of carbs anyway? Does no one dip garlic bread in their pasta sauce anymore?

I haven't had spaghetti hoops for years. Must try them again! But I agree with you about them being like baked beans. Even though I suppose your DH is technically correct I suppose.

Technically he is right but tell him if he can do a better job to sort the tea out himself

YANBU he is weird how is it not the same My lot are not keen on them but beans in sauce hoops in sauce with chips and whatever is just the same,

I've just had hoops and toast for lunch! Yummy!

Hoops are wheat based stuff - so like eating bread or pasta. Beans are bean based

wheat is just rubbish

'It's not the beans that make you fart, it's the juice.'

Those were the words of wisdom a friend of mine's father passed on to him when he left for Uni.

It's worth bearing in mind.