you can't possibly call a meal junk food if it had all of your 5 a day!

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So a few weeks ago we had a play date that went well. Friend just what's capped me asking for advice for a meal tonight. I said recently that this went down well and is super healthy:

Baked beans, one of your 5 a day
Fish fingers, good source of ohmega and protein
Frozen sweet corn and peas, frozen has more nutrients.

Pudding frozen bananas whipped up into ice cream with a little chcoclate sauce and chopped dates.

Said friend called meal a bit to junky. I thought it was really healthy...

Smoking and drinking threads are just as funny.

The tone of the op makes me think she's probably having a laugh

Can someone please point me to a study where it says fresh veg (not homegrown, I'm talking about shop bought) is healthier than frozen veg? Everything I have found says frozen veg is healthier as nutrient loss stops at the point if freezing.

Totally fine for a meal. My Autistic dd7 is extremely picky with food, and I would love it if she ate that.

Wtf is industrial food

Sounds like a pretty healthy, well-balanced meal to me. Good quality fish fingers are not junk food.

There seems to be blurring between homemade, fresh, from scratch and healthy. Fresh veg isn't more healthy than frozen. Homemade baked beans are lush when you add chorizo to them because you've just loaded them with salt, animal fat and nitrates... They are certainly not healthier than a shop bought can of low salt low sugar ones. Homemade fish fingers are not necessarily any healthier than decent shop bought ones with simple ingredients lists. The main source of carbs there is the veg. Why would the OP replace the main carb source with a low-carb alternative? It would make the meal less balanced. I'd say whilst it's likely that the meal was a bit high in sugar it's pretty well balance and healthy overall.

Where's the beige I don't see it.

Even I won't eat broccoli. Or sweet potatoes.

Love baked beans! On toast. With a splash of Worcesteshire sauce and tons of grated cheddar melted under the grill.

The fish fingers and baked beans are processed, so I wouldn't call them at all healthy. Baked beans have a lot of sugar in them, so they are particularly unhealthy, now we are all aware of the amount of damage sugar does.

Not judging the OP, by the way (my DD has always preferred crap to fresh food, and it's been an uphill struggle to get her to eat proper meals) but I think it's stretching it a bit to call it a healthy meal.

The only thing the OP did wrong was use the expression "Super healthy" ...

I would classify that meal junk.

But hey, we do eat junk food now and then, nothing wrong with it as an occasional treat!

It is not super healthy just because it has some of the "5 a day".

Put it this way, Strawberry dipped in chocolate has a healthy component. Banana covered in batter and deep fried in fat, has a healthy component.
They also have additional stuff that isnt as healthy.

A mcd burger has some meat in it, maybe also a healthy lettuce leaf and a pickled cucumber, but lots of additional shite, that out-weights any good the food may contain.

Baked beans, fair enough, high iron content but also high in sugar.
Fishfingers, processsed fish mash and additional gunk, in an oily batter.
frozen corn and peas - fair enough, but not something my kids would have as a veg option other than no and then.

Thanks for the inspiration OP, I am going to have a go at that banana ice cream tonight. Better use for my over ripe bananas than a cake!

Thanks. Now I have a craving for home made sweet potato wedges, with panfried chicken in lemon and honey.

Totally fine for a meal at our house. My dc are still picky about vegetables but they'd eat that. I think that it's much more important to have three proper meals and no snacks than worry about wheatgrasss and quinona with stuffed radishes.

The food police are out in force today. I don't know how I managed to raise healthy kids.

It's an absolutely fine meal.

Personally I'd want some potato with my fish fingers, and I wouldn't want both beans and peas/sweetcorn because I don't think they "go" nicely together.

Love it when grown women compare the nutritional value of (imo) a perfectly staple kids meal! (But not the beans, but I'm phobic of those).

Please don't say you make your kids 'low carb?'

Must have missed the memo stating peas and sweetcorn are now considered not particularly healthy. Still digesting the fruit is evil one.

Hahahahahaha peas and sweet corn are not healthy!

Oh gosh mumsnet at its best! Please don't tell me there are kids who without medical necessity are following diets that classify these as unhealthy.