To firmly believe this is a perectly acceptable meal?

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In fact, I know I'm not. I'm just irritated. Today, at around 1pm, we sat down together for a lovely Sunday lunch; beef, mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, three vegetables and gravy. All homemade. The children had raisins afterwards. My mother has "raised an eyebrow", shall we say, about DS's (4&6) having beans on wholemeal toast for dinner. They aren't starving. It's a good meal and they like it. Why must I insist the poor sods eat another huge meal before bed because it's Sunday? AIBU to think she could perhaps bog right off?

She should definitely bog off. None of her business.

Absouletly acceptable food for the day, Your mother is strange!

Here today we had scrambled egg on toast at lunch and dinner will be roast lamb with roast potatoes and veg. We don't need 2 huge meals in a day

I'm planning a really similar meal tonight. We all ate a large lunch, beans, toast and scrambled eggs are my plans.

We had beef at lunchtime. We had cheese toasties for tea. Why would you eat 2 big meals?

YANBU

I love beans on toast (with cheese and brown sauce).

I read somewhere years ago that beans on toast with a glass of milk is nutritionally complete. You could live on it forever and not be lacking in anything. Whether it's true or not I don't know!

Lovely meal OP, any left?

What is wrong with beans on toast?

Her problem. Why do you have to overfeed your DSs?? If they are hungry they would tell you right?

We don't have a proper dinner either, after a roast dinner at lunch time. It would simply be too much. Yabu to have mashed potatoes and roast potatoes at the same time though!

Sounds perfect, me and my lot would love to come and eat at yours.

It depends, are they protein packing for a body building competition?

I am sure that your mother is otherwise lovely, but she is being a bit of a daftie on this occasion

She wouldn't say anything presumably if the kids had beans on toast for lunch but a big 'dinner' in the evening.

They would tell me, yes! And both had semi-skimmed milk with it! I enjoy cooking for my family but I'm not wasting food and time to look like bloody Martha Stewart for nothing. I love beans on toast too! Abd now I want a cheese toastie...

Perfectly normal day of food

Here it's always
Light lunch ( omlette, sandwich, wrap, soup etc ) then a proper meal in the evening ( roast, curry, Spag Bol etc) We don't need two big meals in a day.

Growing up in our house Sunday "tea" (ie Sunday evening meal) was Always something light as we'd partaken of a large cooked meal at lunch... Usually teacakes/muffins/crumpets or similar in the winter or bad weather (left over Barbie food in summer) so beans on toast sounds pretty substantial by comparison! Does she herself have two large cooked meals a day for lunch and dinner?!

No one has a big meal after Sunday lunch do they? A sandwich with leftovers or beans and toast is fine

Morning, hmc, mrsnucky, you've made me chuckle. Thank you. It's dissipated my crossity!

Oh no! That is entirely what I fancy right now and dh is insisting we have a proper meal.

After a large lunch something like beans on toast or scrambled egg is absolutely perfect. I would actually quite like that as my main meal plenty of week nights as frankly I can't be bothered cooking or eating.

As long as there is variety in the rest of the day I cannot see that it is a problem

My DS had vegetable pasta in tomato sauce for lunch and scrambled egg and baked beans for tea. He's also eaten cheerios, a banana, a cupcake and a mini magnum! He's two and that's a lot fir him. YANBU! Can we come for lunch please?

When you were a child, what was your Sunday night supper after she'd cooked a roast dinner?

Who has two big meals in a day?? We had roast chicken for dinner (lunchtime) and leftover chicken sandwiches for tea.

Yes, what did you used to eat on a Sunday? And what would your mum eat now if you weren't there?

It's a perfect meal.

That's completely normal, surely? If we've had a big cooked dinner (roast/pie/whatever) we have 'tea' in the evening. i.e. crumpets/sandwiches/toast or suchlike.

I really can't remember what we ate. She isn't a great cook so I probably blocked it out but I certainly don't remember her obsessively feeding me! Now, she is a salad lover but she eats at regimented times. There's no rhyme or reason to it. It's just peculiar but thank you, I'm laughing now not fuming!

We used to have jammy toast on Sunday nights. No one wants two big dinners in one day, do they?

We always have something light in the evening if wevmy have had our main meal at lunchtime. Monday-Saturday we have our main meal at night and I have a sandwich or soup or beans on toast or something at lunchtime (DH will have sandwiches or soup or something like that at work and DD has her school dinner). On a Sunday we just swap it round-main meal at lunchtime and something like cheese on toast or soup and bread or beans on toast in the evening. Same on Christmas day. Yesterday we went out for lunch with friends and had fish and chips so we had cheese on toast at night. Perfectly normal and acceptable 😁