beans mash and sausages is a healthy meal

[madhurjazz]

Mother in law thinks its junk food. But the beans contain 1 of your 5 a day, mashed potatoes are just veg and a good source of carbs and the sausages are full of essential protein.

We often have ketchup, this has been shown to reduce many cancers like prostate, and a glass of juice.

Seems healthy to me and not junky.

I have a hankering for heinz beans sausages on toast i wonder if it tastes the same as I remember

Yes there are ego. But are they rich people's fats (the good ones) and poor people's fats (the bad ones???)

If saturated fats fur up your arteries they are going to do whatever the source. Be that organic double cream or a pizza.

that there is my point. You can't just look at one food. And fats aren't the only thing you need to take care of. you can can't compare a plate of chips to a pasta with veggies in a rich oil sauce, even if they have the same amount of calories. You have to look at the rest of the meal, and more importantly the rest of the diet.

I don't know why calling particular foods junk is misleading, but particular foods are probably not that important. we all will eat a crisp here and there, and they are definitely junk. but it's the entire diet that's important.

Rich people eat avocados and walnuts and poor people eat Frey bentos pies and mr Kipling?

Whoever eats it, avocados and walnuts are better for you than packaged pies.

My god, it's a miracle I made it past my 17th birthday if meals like sausage, mash and beans are vilified.

Tinned pies, tinned burgers (Goblin hamburgers in onion gravy), crispy pancakes, cheap-ass burgers filled with plastic cheese, deep-fried chips, deep-fried EVERYTHING.

All things in moderation. Cept wine. All the wine, all the time

Tinned burgers in onion gravy are amazing. Droooolll...I bought some when I was pregnant with DS2 and they were just as I remembered them.

We've just had sausage, beans and chips. Delicious!

That's my comfort food meal... Definitely not healthy! As I add cheese to the potato and beans, but if you alternative the ingredients e.g. Have a vegetable mash like carrot and swede or sweet potato, have good quality sausages from the butchers and have reduced salt and sugar baked beans!

That's the thing, isn't it NotAMummy - you can make meals on a sliding scale of glisteningly healthy riiiiiiiiiiight down to dirty as hell.

Well the pork and apple sausages where lovely. The chicken sausages were fucking gopping thus adding insult to the injury of the cost.

I put proper butter, lots of it, into the mash and because I was out of oxo cubes, I made instant onion gravy.

Fuck you.

:o

What upsets me most about this thread is the much maligned potato mash.

Mash potato is fine and a lot better for you than pasta - particularly if you mash with the skin on. Lots of vitamins. The only reason that it isn't one of your 5 a day is the government doesn't want people to exist off chips and think it is healthy. FWIW a carrot has a lot more sugar in it and isn't necessarily more healthy - so no idea why people think its a good health choice to mash these in with the potato. The beans might have a bit too much sugar, but do at least have fibre - so not all bad. Sausages are also fine in moderation

People in the UK ate a mostly spud based diet until the 70's and they weren't fat. It is processed carbs and snacks that cause obesity problems.

Not spuds, sausages and beans.

navy but they taste so good! (and they're probably full of shit you're never meant to eat but meh)

Lold @ fucking gopping sorry they were rank thoughBogey

Well, off the back of this thread, I gave DD sausage and mash for tea.

We're veggie so she had Tesco fake Lincolnshires. She didn't want beans - she wanted peas and carrots. And we didn't have any normal potatoes so it was sweet potato mash. There might have been some steamed kale on her plate too.

Buggered that up, didn't I? I must have turned into a proper mumsnetter FFS . She had a caramel freddo for pudding if that makes it any better ...

Well I've been out and bought 3 packs of sausages tonight off the back of this thread (Heck ones on offer in Asda if you must know).

I'm going to make breakfast sausage wraps (wrap, omelette, sausage, brown sauce) and the well classy biscuits and gravy, which I am under know illusion about being healthy, being stuffed with fat and carbs.

I might even make sausage and mash with the other pack, but 2 packs will go in the freezer for now, we're not eating sausages all week.

I have a soft spot for those burgers in gravy do they still sell them in Farm Foods

Diabetics are generally advised to avoid mashed and baked potato because they're high GI and their carbs are quickly turned into sugar, elevating blood glucose.

They're reckoned to be equivalent to refined carbs in terms of the speed at which the sugar hits.

The unfortunate thing baout the peas and sweetcorn joke is the fact that a particular well known poster who now tries to fly under the radar used to have the feeding of peas and sweetcorn to children as one of the bees in her particularly expensive bonnet.

How about a deluxe bacon triple cheese burger, large fries, onion rings served with an entire jar of mayo, followed by treacle tart and cream

Yes, please, but can I have a doggy bag for the treacle tart because that really doesn't agree with me :D

all my friends seem to be doong Hemsley and Hemsley and banning things like bread and potatoes

Had never heard of these until today, baby. Seems they're sneered at on the trainwreck that is the mfp forums, too!