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.

Again soz to above poster I'm very into food but I agree with most of your post.

I dont think notbeing into food is weird at all im sure you eat what you like actually i think i agree with you we eat what we like have our dinner and move on, i do think people obsess about food . Tonight dd made macaroni cheese for us she made a tomato sauce for herself and it was lovely and probably not considered healthy

I don't know that it's always food issues, Ego. Certainly I can see in my own family where these sorts of things are a manifestation of other MH issues or EDs.

But I can see how people can be taken in by the messages being sent out by the diet industry at the moment. I think it's reasonable for people to expect to believe people with medical degrees who are quoting scientific studies.

I agree with the truck driver article above. I am not a truck driver but I travel around for work. It is really quite hard to find quick food that's healthy especially if you want it hot and served fast.

Pubs and cafes can be OK, but they can take a long time to produce the food and usually I simply don't have the time to wait 20 minutes for food.

I don't really like cold food, especially fridge cold, so M&S salads are OK, but rarely satisfying - the article mentions falafels - I would love to find a fast food place selling falafels/salad/pittas fresh for lunch - you do get these in cities, but rarely out on the open road - it's all McDonalds and Greggs with it's greasy carb fest. I'm no food snob and will enjoy these things every once in a while, but not every time and I wouldn't pick either if the falafel cart was there at the same place.

My favourite place out on the road is Toby Carvery - can be fast if not busy and if you don't go mad on the roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings and stuffing, probably one of the healthiest options out there, being mianly meat, vegetables and a bit of gravy.

Obsession with a totally healthy diet is a known eating disorder - orthorexia I think it's called.

peanut M&Ms being superior to mash is one of those things I can see coming up on a thread in future.

A bit like the Weetabix 'shit in a box' or the nanny who gave M&S tortellini rather than hand making it.

If the potatoes are freshly boiled with a small amount of milk and good butter in, if the sausages are good butchers ones, with a high pure meat percentage and the beans and ketchup are low in sugar and salt...hell yes it's a good meal! Maybe not more than once a week, and perhaps try to add some broccoli with it though!

Some people aren't into food. (Shrugs) it's normal! One of my friends isn't a food lover. She's completely healthy. I wish I wasn't into food.

I would not feed that as a meal to my kids. Sausages and mash yes but beans and ketchup absolutely no way. I'd make a salad or cook some vegetables with it.

Baked beans are loaded with sugar. I consider them junk and wouldn't eat them or give them to a child.

High quality sausages are fine but don't kid yourself that cheap ones are anything but crap. Just mechanically-recovered meat paste, nitrites (carcinogenic), various other synthetic additives, salt and flavourings.

Squirting ketchup all over it is adding more sugar so in no way is that not junk food.

Lentils from a tin are OK if you have no time to cook them. A sausage and lentil casserole is totally delicious so you could make a similar meal without all the sugar.

Anything on here about food seems to attract posts about how terrible various everyday foods are and how only a very specific, expensive and exclusive diet is acceptably healthy.

I wonder if the proposed eating disorder, orthorexia, is both accurate and fairly widespread.

Thing So you would never give your DCs baked beans? Not even once a year? Seriously, there is no food on earth that is so bad that it should never be eaten under any circumstances. I seriously give up.

Good God did someone just suggest washing the fucking baked beans before eating them? Seriously?

DO NOT FUCK WITH HEINZ.

The tomato* sauce they are in is the best bit.

Plus, I eat baked beans most days because they take 10 seconds to cook and cost about 50p. Why would I want to complicate that?

I think I also read somewhere upthread their being moderately obese takes three years off life expectancy. That's a fair deal. I'd rather have 70 years of eating processed cheese, chocolate eclairs and eggy bread than have 73 years of eating brown rice and steamed aubergine.

*not sure how many actual tomatoes there are in them. I suspect sugar is the main ingredient.

And lol at sausage and lentil casserole being 'delicious'. I'm not sure my poor, baked bean filled kids would agree with you.

I think sausage and lentil casserole is delicious. It's not in any way an equivalent meal to sausage, mash and beans. There's absolutely a place for both in a healthy diet.

Haven't RTFT but you can't assess a meal like this in isolation. Obviously not the most nutritional meal around, but as a treat/one-off supper/part of a good diet - absolutely fine.

MrsDV i would say i am 'into' food and i think about it a lot. I have a lot of cookbooks and love cooking. I have loads of gadgets like ice cream machines and pasta makers etc. It's a hobby i enjoy - or used to be before dc. Once we had DS1 and he became very restricted in his diet, i also became quite obsessed with it all, desperately trying to get nutrients in him.

The above posts from Thingamajig make me feel like utter crap as a parent because i can only dream of my child eating baked beans and even then it's considered junk and falling way below what a 'good' parent would give their dc. I just want to nourish him and make him healthy and happy, like all parents.

All these parents objecting to ketchup/beans on 'loaded with sugar grounds'. Do your kids eat any sweets/biscuits/chocolate/cake?

Because if so, surely cutting down sugar from those kinds of foods trumps worrying about tinned beans?

And if not, they're clearly consuming bugger all sugar, so why all the angst?

Again agreeing with Mrs DV

Btw people need to realise plenty of butchers are selling crap meat. Worse than the supermarkets some of them

I think it's very easy to write a post like Thingamajig's if you are lucky enough not to have a child that would rather starve themselves than eat. I suspect if the only thing her child would eat was baked beans or a particular brand of cheap sausages smothered in ketchup then she might think differently and would perhaps be a bit less judgemental.

If you want to make it even healthier, mash some finely grated cheese into the potatoes whilst still hot, to get even more vitamins and extra calcium.

You would never give your children ketchup? A spoon of it for dipping? Not ever?

It's a different world

I've read threads on here in the past where people have been questioning whether they need to serve cake at their child's birthday party as it's so sugary.

Sweet potato has 7g sugar per 100g and potato 3g. So if everyone's desperate to avoid sugar they're backing the wrong tuber (I'm aware sweet pots have other benefits but it's sugar/fat/salt content that has caused utter horror on this thread).