AIBU - Egg or beans on toast + veg is sometimes okay for dinner

[Eltonjohnssyrup]

I'm having an argument with DH. We are really skint at the moment and a couple of times recently I have given the children (and me) beans & sausages from a tin on toast or scrambled egg on toast with a side of green beans or brocolli. They have fruit and yogurt to follow. This is normally at the end of the week before payday. And the children like it.

He's really against this and says it's not a proper dinner and doesn't like me doing it. He won't eat it himself and always makes himself something different, which is fine as he does a very physical job, but for me and the children I think it's okay occasionally. AIBU?

Beans on toast with grated cheese is proper lush tho. Also good with crispy bacon. And fresh coriander garnish and fresh black pepper.

He won't eat it himself and always makes himself something different

So what does he make instead? Surely its wasting money if you eat different things?

Having seen what teens and students can live on, I wonder why I stressed so much about what my kids ate when they were small.

Cheesy beans on toast with an apple to follow and a doughnut is a favourite here. And eggs on toast is the food of the gods, surely?

Absolutely fine to eat more than once a week.

Yeah of course it's ok.

Ds has school dinners so often doesn’t want another big meal, and his favourite quick tea is scrambled egg on toast which is a perfectly acceptable tea. One of my favourite cheap teas is tomato soup with toast, or cheesy beans on toast. It’s not every meal and it won’t do any harm.

There is no sugar "allowance", there is advice. And are the children eating a tin of beans each? Are they the reduced sugar ones? You don't know.

No, they are not full of sugar. Half a tin has 11% of the daily recommended amount, but its also low in fat, high in protein and fibre, one of your five a day and contain lots of calcium, potassium, magnesium and iron.

It's a perfectly balanced meal.

It’s cheaper to make pasta - get a 500g bag for 50p, use tinned tomatoes, frozen veg, and minced meat for the sauce, and you have a meal for all of you plus leftovers for the same cost as the beans on toast.

There is no way you can make a bolagnaise sauce for less than beans on toast!

2 adults 2 children
3 tins of beans = Tesco beans 25p x 3 = 75p
6 to 10 slices of toast depending how hungry everyone is. Tesco white toasty brad, 55p for the entire loaf. Absolute max 2/3 of the loaf eaten now = 37p
Scrape of butter - max 20p

Entire meal < £1.50

Like to see what mince you are getting for less than 1.50!

@CheeriosEverywhere oh I'm sorry, did you not like the word allowance? How about "WHO recommended daily amount" is that better?

Either way - keep ignoring the advice and enjoy diabetes and obesity #sugarkills

Having seen what teens and students can live on ............. agree with this, when I was at University I shared with a man who had cheap cereal for breakfast, processed cheese sandwich in sliced white bread for lunch and fried eggs on toast for an evening meal every single day - never saw him eat a piece of fruit or vegetable - he declined joining us for 'shared meals' as he didn't like the sort of things the rest of us ate - the usual chilli/spag bol type student meals .

He survived .

A 400g tin of beans in my cupboard has 40g of carbohydrate, of which 7g is sugar. Recommended daily intake of carbs for an adult is 260g

@Icefall - I am telling you that it is possible as I do it. But by all means keep justifying to yourself that it’s not so you can keep eating your beans on toast.

^^ And he didn't eat like that because he was hard up - it was in the days when we all got decent grants and no fees to pay.

Love beans on toast every now and then. It's cheap, easy to make and most people like it.

And be honest OP... you don't really put broccoli with it do you, you just said that so the pearl clutchers didn't have a for for your childrens lack of veg

It's a good meal.

Are they having school dinners? Meat? Beans on toast much better than meat twice in a day.

Icefall, EATING SUGAR DOES NOT CAUSE DIABETES

*A lot of people on here will say it's fine.
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Haha calling us all out on our bean loving ways. What a Wally.

That sounds like a fab dinner!! Quick, easy and yummy!

Either way - keep ignoring the advice and enjoy diabetes and obesity #sugarkills

I have a BMI of 23 and no risk factors for diabetes. Why make it personal and rude just because you were wrong?

Ice fall i think the general idea is that it might cost £4 for a big veggie lentil mince spagbol but there's enough for a couple of causal it works out the same price but more filling and healthy. Same with soups, more upfront but more portions. Also more effort to initially make but easy to reheat the next day.

Yabu to not add cheese to beans on toast! It is not the same without it.

Joking aside it is a perfectly balanced meal. I use the reduced salt and sugar beans (£1 for a pack of 4 from Tesco). Veggie chilli made with chopped frozen onion, tinned tomato, tinned kidney beans, tinned sweet corn (all value) a little tomato purée, cinnamon and chilli in my portion is another super quick cheap meal.

of course yanbu, let him make his own if he doesn't like it and let yourself and the kids enjoy your treat

Last week in the playground a 6 year old came up to us as I was giving my son insulin using his insulin pump. The other child asked "when you were normal, did you eat loads of sugar?". We explained that he is still normal, and that Type 1 diabetes is caused by your immune system making a mistake, not by eating sugar.

But with adults all around making ignorant coments like yours, Icefall, what chance do the children have?

Me and DS had beans on toast for tea last night!!

Also, when DS was anaemic the doctor told us to let him eat as many baked beans as he liked because they're one of the best natural sources of iron.

Not sure I'd put broccoli with it myself but if your kids like it who gives a shit?!

That's absolutely fine, especially if I've managed to encourage he kids to have a hot meal at school/nursery then I use it as an opportunity to deliver cheese and beans on toast for tea. I've also served cereal for tea on the odd occasion. They're not going to bed hungry and they quite enjoy it. Another favourite in the summer is 'picnic tea' which is....ham/cheese sandwiches. This morning when we were late for school breakfast was chocolate chip brioche and an apple. They eat well 80% of the time (honest).

And on the "spag bol is cheaper" front - we do both. That's at least two cheap nutritious meals a week, yay.