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.

Children need carbs do you never give your step son a potato ever ? The fibre in beans outranks the salt

Tbf mine don't eat potatoes that often either. Or pasta or bread.

There's loads of carbs in others foods also btw

I don't think about the composition of my meals because I eat a varied diet and don't have a medical condition.

It's weird to obsess about carbs and sugar and protein rather than just eating stuff.

limited

We had toad, mash, steamed cabbage with butter, salt and freshly ground pepper, green beans, peas and gravy.

Yum.

I would think it a pretty stodgy meal, that I would never eat - mostly because I hate that sort of thing.

My kids however, would love it.

Now and then is fine.

Dinner time seems like a science project it sounds exhausting

I had a roast chicken breast for tea (with a mountain of roasted new potatoes, mushrooms and carrots) and a little voice in my head said:

"roast chicken breasts are joyless!"

And it was. The roast spuds were epic though.

Tonight DH has sausage and new spuds, carrots and peas and gravy and i ate the leftovers from the kids plates (as i did for lunch) . Too tired to eat properly today and eaten too many figs.

Going shopping tomo morning to Iceland! I'm really quite excited.

I do think of the composition of some meals as if not everyone would just eat meat, apart from DS2 who would just eat biscuits.i'm not denying that when dh works away i eat a packet of hazelenut maryland cookies and 2 cups of tea for my dinner

limited I tend to give DSS pasta with homemade sauce that's got lots of veggies in it and a bit of cheese. When it's meat we do have pots with them but a lot more veg - carrots, cabbage, or ratatouille style stuff. Try to limit sausages/fish fingers/meatballs to once a week unless we've had a very busy day. I wouldn't feed him anything I wouldn't eat.

Now and then is fine.

Mind how you go.

This evening we will be eating duck breasts roasted in 'a rich Cantonese style plum sauce'. It's a demi ready meal, by which I mean it's not really a ready meal because it's raw with a sachet of sauce that you have to pour over part of the way through the cooking time.

It is full of saturated fat and sugar and other things my eyesight is too poor to read off the packet but I could easily read the yellow sticker that said it was reduced from £5 to £2.29 for two.

I will serve it with boiled rice and stir-fried cabbage with ginger, garlic and soy prepared by my own fair hand.

I know a million ways with cabbage.

Actually, I just know four.

I love quartered brussel sprouts stir fried with garlic, ginger and soy too. And broccoli.

I wouldn't feed him anything I wouldn't eat.

That's admirable. I always feel there are far too many parents using their children as guinea pigs.

We had pork chops with mashed potatoes, carrots, broccoli and courgettes. DS only ate the carrots really, picked at the other veg, no mash and one tiny bit of pork. He had blueberries and Greek yoghurt for pudding.

In a situation like that should I have made him something else? I'm a bit torn. He quite happily just picks the bits he wants but obviously having just carrots for dinner is pretty shit. He's nearly 2.

And bacon MrsK? I do like a bit of bacon

That sounds about 4 ways too many for my liking.

My fitness tracker has just dropped the bombshell it would like me to do 8000 more steps today. I think I'll just run up and down the stairs all evening rather than eat.

Roast potatoes sound good for tomorrow though.

I don't have a medical condition that makes me avoid foods that I like or eat foods that I don't.

I don't have an illness that means that I can't put on weight no matter how much I eat, though I have had one that made me put on weight regardless of how 'careful' I was. That was miserable but it didn't kill me.

I don't have an eating disorder that makes me fear food whether I want to eat it or not.

I am not an elite athlete who needs fuel to perform or a supermodel or body builder requiring a regimented diet to look in a particular way.

I can eat anything I want. It's freedom. Most people are like me. So why doesn't everyone else want to do it?

Not with the ginger tho limited surely?

Cabbage has its moments, if you're forrin.

We eat a lot of pasta and a lot of rice. Proper white basmati rice, not brown rice, on account of being forrin. I was a lefty adult st university when I discovered brown rice was a Thing. People on the sub-continent don't eat it on account of the fact it's revolting. Mr Inferior once found some brown rice in the cupboard and threatened to leave me.

I wanted to clear the fridge before shopping tomorrow so we had leeks, garlic, cabbage and bacon fried and mixed with pasta and cheese

Plus beer

It was delicious actually (I was dubious about the cabbage)

Cabbage is good the world over motherinferior but I am so glad a kind of forriner has come out on my side of brown rice. It is revolting. If I was living in a Cambodian Year Zero situation and the only things I had to eat were twigs and grass while hiding my spectacles, I would eat brown rice. But only then.

Potatoes are starch, they are not part of your 5-a-day. Beans are pulses - again a lot of starch. A sausage is processed meat with a lot of fat. Not a vegetable in sight in this meal. Your mother is right - it's junk.

*mother-in-law.

We need to go food shopping (I've meal planned for the first time ever, go me!) so tonight we had to raid the freezer. We had fish fingers, chips and beans. It was fucking amazing.

I am saddened at the thought of some of you never having tried a dumpling. They're amazing. I'll happily add them to soup, stews, curry.