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.

Is anyone else having sausage, mash and beans for dinner tonight, or is it just me?

I bought some in Waitrose, today :o

OP no fair I'm bloody starving and I want sausages mash and beans and can't move for a sleeping baby who has been clingy and grumpy all day!!

I'm actually laughing at people posting about salmon.

To echo an earlier poster - unless it's wild line caught salmon it will be farmed shite ... HTH.

I eat salmon - but only if it's wild.

I know who to buy salmon from and it ain't a supermarket.

Where I live in be we have a salmon river, anglers and we all know where to get salmon.

I suspect a lot of MNers being sniffy on this here thread are city types buying crap supermarket salmon that is pumped full of shite.

what is wrong with you all that you think the only thing wrong with is this meal is the "too little this, that the other" when in reality it is the fact that its been served with baked beans rather than sausage, mash and GRAVY

Ego; so glad I finally saw someone else with some sense

Guess what we'll be having for tea tomorrow now...!

Add cheese on top and you've got a winner!all good for one meal, but not every night! Xx

The nasty Frey Bentos pie was shown to be a healthy option than a Waitrose chilled one having less fat, salt and sugar ( and it's got yummy flatly pastry) . They haven 'the changed it much from it inception apparently.
To my tastes it 'so too many carbs. I love beans and sausage or sausage and mash but not all three. But who really cares. If you eat it whilst doing 5:2 ,everyone thinks well done.

This whole thread is a bloody first world problem. While I'm not a friend of cliches, the good old "there are millions of people all over the world who'd consider a meal like that a luxury" somehow popped into my mind. Reading those threads isn't so bad though, it reminds me of how good we have it.

Could I just draw everyone's attention to 'Inside the Factory' on BBC2 tonight which is all about how they make ...baked beans! Unfortunately, it's presented by Gregg Wallace but it's quite a laugh seeing him wearing a hairnet despite not having any hair.
Salmo What is a 'city type'? So 'supermarket' salmon is shite? That reminds me of a similar thread where the only fish the OP considered acceptable was freshly caught from the local harbour. If you put said fish in the freezer, it somehow became 'toxic'.

I think that snacking and over eating main courses has a lot to answer for for obesity.

But health is not just obesity - it's also the nutrients. I wouldn't just want a diet full of nutrient rich super foods though. Basics like bangers and mash are great as long as the rest of the diet is varied and not excessive.

Do you think if we keep banging on about this and the health benefits of moving more the idea will catch on?

Maybe we need to publish a book full of dietry wankery to sell the idea. Perhaps this is where the NHS is going wrong.

There could be a series of books, but I think they have all been done.

1. Eat less and move more

1. Eat Food, Not too much, mostly plants (Michael Pollan)

1. Eat what you want to eat, not what you think you should eat. Eat slowly, taste and enjoy your food. When full, stop eating. (Paul McKenna). Basically mindful eating.

I'd guesstimate this meal has about 600 cal for an adult portion. It might have less depending on how much fat is in the mash and type of sausage used. Possibly more if it's 50/50 potato/butter and huge deep fried sausages. Children need calories and not all of them can eat huge portions of low calorie food. Replacing baked beans with kale, sausages with plain, grilled chicken breast and potato mash with sweet potato mash would reduce the calorie count considerably - 350/400 cals ime. It's what an adult woman on a diet might eat.

The vast majority of the human race for the vast majority of human history has had no choice in what it could eat and yet, here we are. I'd wager food related health problems are getting people these days because childhood disease, work, pollution, fags and booze are killing less of us. If we all eat mung beans and quinoa and locally sourced line caught salmon it'll only be something else to angst about.

MrsDeVere Do you remember the 'intermission' when someone would come out selling ice creams? People managed to make it half way through the film without munching on popcorn or a 2lb bag of Pick and Mix.

I was thinking about this thread and sausages/class/acceptability last night and i was thinking, would the people who object to a child eating sausage and beans also object to a child eating a chorizo and bean stew? I doubt the chorizo is low in salt and it certainly is processed. So if not what's the difference? Same as salami etc.

Also as a slight derailment, the 'ethics' of meat in this context also puzzles me. I know loads of people who will only eat ethically sourced local organic meat from the butcher, but who also love all their continental meats and food from abroad. They don't seem to apply the same ethics/criteria to European/foreign produce. Having travelled in Europe I am always shocked (as a soft Brit) about their attitudes to animal welfare, and the people i have spoken to laugh at our sympathies for an animal we are going to eat (trying to get free range eggs in supermarkets has been impossible ime). However it appears that because it is continental it is automatically superior to our food. Are their farming and processing practices that much better than ours?

Right the snacking is my thing i get riled about little children cant seem to go 5 minutes without a snack i see little tupperware boxes of snacks everywhere why all the snacking?

The preachiness some people have on here about food is amazing. It's only bloody dinner!

This. I love sausages and mash.

MrsJayy mine snack because if they get hungry they're proper demons. Sometimes they don't need it. At a time of growth spurts I need to keep them fed and food available. I'd rather deal with judginess about snacking than the upset of a hungry child with no food to eat. Some days/weeks my toddler can eat three full meals a similar size portion to mine and still eat in between constantly. I usually find he's grown another inch or so a week or so later.

Fair enough im honestly not judging but i cant remember my dds needing to snack so much.i work with young kids and it seems they placate them with food not 1 or 2 but most of the parents stop a whinge with a snack. I appreciate toddlers get peckish and i never limited food to breakfast lunch and tea but constant eating is not needed imo