How is beans on toast a treat?

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Saw someone on here the other day said they were having beans on toast as a "treat".

Why is this a treat? Is it due to salt and sugar in them ?

This was staple of my student diet, not sure I see it as a treat , more so that times are hard.

Any other treats ?

As I try to eat healthy on the whole Heinz beans on lurpak buttered toast with a sprinkling of malt vinegar is a big treat to me. Made more so as I rarely have it.

Beans are actually really good for you...1 of your 5 a day , full of iron /protein...but they give me trapped wind so I tend to avoid them. Perhaps they have a diet full of fruit & veg so this is like more of a snack dinner.

You’re all complete bastards!
For the last 4 weeks I’ve been having my teeth taken out. I can only dream of delicious toast as my gums are so tender and it’s going to be another 2 weeks before I’m likely to get my falsies.
I’m living on scrambled eggs and mashed potato and I don’t want to face another bowl of soup for the foreseeable future.

How is beans on toast a treat?

Probably by the same measure that a poster last weekend was deemed greedy for having a roast dinner on the same day that she'd had a jacket potato at lunch.

I like baked beans, but not that keen on Heinz. I think Branston the best.

Northerner here, grew up in the poverty struck 70s and 80s with coal fires and miners strikes.... so beans on toast was a staple and also something my sister and I could cook when my mum was out or too knackered to cook... a treat to us was beans and sausages in a tin.... always Heinz though we never went to value as in those days value meant value in terms of taste.... nowadays I prefer Waitrose essential beans at 1.10 for a pack of 4 to Heinz.
I love it when my son wants scrambled egg and beans for tea as it's done in less than 5 mins.

We don’t tend to eat such things as standard anymore though do we.... tbf I last had it over a year ago and because it had been so long it did feel like a treat.... no real cooking to do ... little clean up, but a full belly(and probably wind the next day... but you can’t win them all😂😂)

We like beans on toast, one of our favourite lunches out in our motorhome. Known as gourmet beans........ poach sliced mushrooms, drain, throw in low sugar/Salt baked beans, add some tinned tomatoes, grate in some Parmesan if wanting extra taste, ladle over toast scraped with Marmite! Easy three of your five a day, super full of flavour. Then of course you walk it off!

Beans on toast are a treat insofar as they're quick and tasty and it's a break from cooking something 'proper' for dinner. Also, I love them and any excuse is good. Real comfort food for anyone who's meals growing up consisted of chops or chicken, spuds and one veg - every single day of the week.

They're not a treat in the same way a box of Ferrero Rocher and an Indian takeout is.

For me they are a treat. Not for any ridiculous diet reason, but because dh doesn’t consider it a “dinner”. So it’s something I do when I’m on my own - double win - lovely tasty beans on toast and minimal effort.

Its it just normal food? I can't eat it due to health reasons but my son loves it.

How is having a baked potato not cooking?

You are literally buying a raw potato, cooking it in the oven and then eating it.

Does it not count because it wasn’t cooked in the embers of Mount Doom or something?

It's the carbs, there is a tonne of them in beans and toast and both together is carb overload....I'd prefer a chocolate bar.

I live in the US where a tin costs $3. The past few weeks, I have been trying to make them from scratch . Kids won't eat the ones I make but I will. Still trying to perfect the recipe...guessing that I'm not putting enough sugar in compared to the tins.

Baked beans are revolting. I really can’t think of anything less treat-like.

The trendier term for something like this is “soul food” which might explain it better

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Yes, it’s a treat, because I seldom get the opportunity to eat it! It’s comfort food to me.

Thanks, @ReggieLedoux!

Tinned spaghetti on toast is where its at for me. Pure carb overload and nostalgia I save for when I've been poorly or really need comfort food. I can almost feel the lentil weavers imploding at the thought but it is a rare treat for me.

I love beans on toast with brown sauce. I don't have it often as I'm the only one who likes it so yeah, I suppose it is a bit of a treat. Not exactly Miller & Carter but still nice once in a while.

Not comforting at all and not the point, but green string beans are both bean and vegetable. (Outside is green veg, inside is a bean).

Missed the point.
Sorry. Carry on.

*Tinned spaghetti on toast is where its at for me. Pure carb overload and nostalgia I save for when I've been poorly or really need comfort food. I can almost feel the lentil weavers imploding at the thought grin but it is a rare treat for me.

You didn't specify the pasta, but this is priceless:

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*a jacket potato isn’t cooking.” LOL.

I laugh (inside) at all you “cooking from scratch” fakers. You are not cooking from scratch unless you are using a pan you bashed into shape from molten steel with your own bare hands EVERY time you cook. Like what I do.

doing rescue animals they come first so we often have beans on toast or baked potatoes cheap and cheerful

Yummy; what a great idea for lunch with lashings of butter! It will bring back happy childhood memories. Also, when I was doing human biology I learnt that the combination (beans and wheat) contains all the essential amino acids; so healthy as well as a treat :)