How is beans on toast a treat?

[kit05]

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 ?

[Woolyheads]

I suppose as a student I would have beans OR toast, so both together would have been extravagant, so maybe that?

[Jack80]

This is something I would have for breakfast or quick meal and it's a treat as I wouldn't have it that often

[Fishcakey]

Because it's bloody lovely!

[derxa]

I once read on here that a poster had Weetabix as a treat. Words failed me

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

I'd have Weetabix as a penance!

[PickwickThePlockingDodo]

I once read on here that a poster had Weetabix as a treat. Words failed me

Was that the same thread as a poster that let her child have coco pops once a year at Christmas as a treat?

[theEnglishInPatient]

I once read on here that a poster had Weetabix as a treat.

If it's associated with a very rare evening on their own when they don't have to cook for their entire family, can't you see why it would be a treat?

A bowl of cereal is MY treat in the evening, so what. Anything lazy is a treat.

[CravingCheese]

Milk rice and porridge with butter and a smudge of cinnamon are dishes I eat as a treat. My grandmother used to make them for breakfast...

And pasta with beans.
Other people may find that just as strange, I guess. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[FizzyGreenWater]

God I love weetabix.

[Bluntness100]

I don't really understand the concept as food as a treat to be honest. For me a treat would be something lovely someone else cooked for me. Any normal shit I make myself, I don't perceive as a treat. Doesn't matter if it's a round of toast or a full roast dinner, it's just the food I'm eating, it's not a "treat".

[lilgreen]

What about food you shouldn’t indulge in too often for health reasons but you love it? Surely that’s a treat?

[Ragwort]

Mumsnetters are obsessed with food, describing food as a ‘treat’, ‘lazy’ or a ‘cheat’ meal is ridiculous.... food is food ... why go on about cooking from scratch or ‘proper dinners’ .... or another pet favourite on a Mumsnet ‘you need a hot meal at least once a day’ .

I think a lot of Mumsnetters secretly like to be martyrs and be ‘in control’ of their families’ proper hot, cooked meals (cooked from scratch of course).

[CravingCheese]

Bluntness100

We had rather horrible food at school. It did teach me to eat pretty much anything (=not a picky eater. I honestly struggle to come up with something I wouldn't eat). And it also means that a breakfast shake is perfectly fine (for me).
But taking the time to make a nice milk rice for breakfast? That does feel like a treat yes.

A treat is something you enjoy but wouldn't regularly get (imo). Whether that's due to a diet, time, cost, a lack of opportunity, requiring additional effort (which is ultimately the same as cost, I suppose)...

In your case it's apparenty food that somebody else cooked for you.
so yes, it seems to me as if you do actually understand the concept of food as a treat.

[IamPickleRick]

We are beans on toast for Christmas dinner once as kids. I refuse to eat it now, it tastes like poverty

[dontalltalkatonce]

Mumsnetters are obsessed with food, describing food as a ‘treat’, ‘lazy’ or a ‘cheat’ meal is ridiculous.... food is food ... why go on about cooking from scratch or ‘proper dinners’ .... or another pet favourite on a Mumsnet ‘you need a hot meal at least once a day’ hmm.

And always, always, 'plenty of veg' or 'massive salad'.

[Nettie1964]

Whats wrong with you? Beans on toast fish finger sandwiches. Cheese and onion crisps. Next day chinese or Indian food i could go on. YRDU and a miserable person 😁😁😁😁😁

[theEnglishInPatient]

I think a lot of Mumsnetters secretly like to be martyrs and be ‘in control’ of their families’ proper hot, cooked meals (cooked from scratch of course).

or unlike some people, have a healthy attitude towards food, and feel a bit sorry for those who think that cooking for their family translates as being a "martyr"
Not everybody is obese and living off take-away in this country, believe it or not. Only on MN would people find a cooked from scratch meal laughable...

[CravingCheese]

Beans on toast fish finger sandwiches. Cheese and onion crisps. Next day chinese or Indian food i could go on. YRDU and a miserable person

I don't get it. If you have your treats everyday / often, how are they still treats?

[Ragwort]

My point is that on Mumsnet everyone goes on about 'cooking from scratch' all the time when in RL I never hear the expression, of course I know plenty of people who do cook from scratch, including myself, but there seems an obsessive need to keep pointing it all the time on here, as if to 'prove' your superior parenting ability - hence my 'martyr' comment .

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

IamPickleRick That's sad.

[IamPickleRick]

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g thank you. Yeah it was pretty grim. I can’t get behind these types of meals as treats tbh and I think that anyone who had to eat them because there was nothing else would agree. The majority of people who feel it’s a treat probably had proper dinners the rest of the week and had this for special here and there. Even the smell of the sauce makes me gag. I bought some recently because my eldest wanted to try and I was so happy when he didn’t like them because it meant I didn’t have to smell them. I do eat beans, just not Heinz (as if we had Heinz 😂) or any 9p variety, I make a bean casserole or something - which my mum could have done for almost the same cost as a loaf of bread and tin of beans but just didn’t.

[Bluesheep8]

It's a treat for me. But that's because I have 3 slices of thick toast with plenty of butter, loads of grated mature cheese on the top and a big dollop of mayo on the side. Plenty of Worcester sauce in the beans too. It becomes quite an event. I even have to eat it off a certain plate.

[Bluesheep8]

And I only have it a few times a year, I tend to limit the amount of bread I eat so even the toast is a treat. Very simple food can be a treat if you don't have it often.

[IamPickleRick]

Exactly. Even if you had chateaubriand every night for 15 years you’d grow sick of the sight of it and beans on toast would probably seem the best meal you’d had in ages

[ZaraW]

Who cares if beans on toast isn't a treat for the majority on here it is for the OP. I'm on the Low Fodmap diet for IBS issues, today I had an amazing chocolate cake. After three months of avoiding anything other than 85% dark chocolate it was a massive treat.