Egg and toast for dinner?

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Settle an "argument" please.

Wednesday is roast dinner day at school so I know DC well fed today.

DH and I both had plenty of veg at lunch. (Soup/salad/noodles)

I'm proposing that Wednesday is now beans/egg (both if you want) with toast day for dinner. As ever there's also plenty of fruit and yogurts for dessert if wanted.

Other people do this for an evening meal? Right? Or am I wrong?

Seems fine to me!

Wouldn’t have occurred to me that anyone would think YWBU tbh.

Although my 1 yo can put away an entire boiled egg and slice of toast no problem, so perhaps I’ll have to revise my opinion in future

I do scrambled eggs and beans on toast regularly for mine (3 and 7) and they'll devour it, clean plates, and it's not like it's full of rubbish.

They had fishfingers, sweet potato chips and beans last night and that was demolished.

Felt I better do some homecooked today so tonight is made from scratch lasagne, and I'm preparing for the battle and it to be picked at with disgust!

Now I want beans and egg for dinner, and I had them for breakfast. Of course it's ok.

Depends on the roast.

My DC's old schools idea of a roast was a bit of processed beef, a frozen Yorkie, a few small roast potatoes and a spoon of mixed veg. 🙄

ooh sgetty hoops. I am planning egg on toast followed by cake and custard tonight....

Have you discovered microwave pudding cake? Mix up a 1 egg mix of cake in a large jug microwave for 2 mins in a high W oven. Liturally all ingredients in jug give it a good whisk and microwave. serves 3 or 2 plus 2 usually

I agree having worked in schools for years. A roast dinner might sound great on the school menu, but it is certainly nothing like what you would serve at home. Portion sizes are small and most little children eat very little of their food, either taking too long and chatting and rushing, wasting most of it.

Perfect dinner, we used to have stuff on toast at least one day a week as kids, being 4 of us plus 2 parents we'd have jugs of beans, scrambled egg and tinned tomato in the middle of the table, a production line of toast being toasted, handed out and buttered before adding the topping of choice.

Read a thread a while ago though where loads of people seemed to think stuff on toast as an evening meal was unacceptable and the poor kiddiewinks were probably malnourished or something.

A roast dinner might sound great on the school menu, but it is certainly nothing like what you would serve at home. Portion sizes are small and most little children eat very little of their food, either taking too long and chatting and rushing, wasting most of it.

climsonlake is right.
I was a volunteer at my children's school for years, the school lunches were dreadful.
Great on paper- menus were sent home to parents- healthy eating, lots of veg, vegetarian options.

The reality was quite different. Foods often ran out, portions were meagre, frozen veg, processed meat, dried up offerings, often served lukewarm.
Children often didnt have enough time to eat and not enuogh supervision, so many children didn't eat much at all at lunchtime.

A "roast dinner" could in reality mean 3 or 4 forkfulls of food.

My kids always came home ravenous at 4pm, I would have to give them a large home cooked meal the minute they stepped through the door.

Yeah why not. Some people are really strict with must have a proper meal etc. If you have had a big lunch and not hungry then a sandwich, beans on toast etc will do.

My go to is beans and cheese on toast.

I had a light lunch today, soup and tuna sandwich, and will have two poached eggs on toast for my tea/dinner. I am in the middle of painting the walls,and can't be bothered to stop long enough to do some cooking.

YABU to have a set "Wednesday diner"!

But on days you feel like it, nothing wrong with eggs and toast for once.
I prefer light diner at home, my kids are fine with soup/ quiche and salad/ omelette & ham/ pancakes...Sometimes they are more hungry than others, no big deal.

loads of people seemed to think stuff on toast as an evening meal was unacceptable and the poor kiddiewinks were probably malnourished or something.

Perhaps that stems from a time when bread really was the staple of many children's diets.
And usually processed white bread.
It was cheap and filling, usually served with margarine, and would accompany most meals as a way of bulking out more expensive ingredients.
Bread would often be eaten for breakfast- with marg, on the side with lunch, perhaps soup, again in the evening.
Anytime children were hungry the snack would be bread an marg or bread and jam.

Possibly the idea of bread then forming the basis of an evening meal sounds unappealling.
Times have changed of course, we don't eat as much bread and often when we do it is often wholemeal.

Cook what you want and don't worry about what other people think.

I really don't see why beans on toast is inherently smaller than, say, roast and veg. Yes, it would be if you had one thin slice of white bread with a spoonful of beans, but two thick slices of wholemeal bread and a generous covering of beans is quite substantial.

Conversely, 2-3 thin slices of roast meat with a couple of roasted pieces of potato and some broccoli is a relatively light meal in terms of calories and filling-power.

Sounds like a great meal, could be bulked out with sausages and fried mushrooms or something. If they’re really hungry add another egg and a couple more bits of toast.

Sounds perfectly fine to me.

What’s the argument? Because I can’t imagine having to canvass opinion on this.

Do it and if you’re still hungry have something else.

Working in a school, I would be wary of being in the thinking that ‘because they’ve had a hot lunch they’ll only need a light dinner’. Not saying op is doing this - beans on toast can be a substantial meal if it’s good thick bread, cheese on the beans etc fruit and yoghurt for pudding and so on.
But the school meals I see are tiny, terrible quality, and very very often, over half is scraped directly into the bin.
Obviously this will vary and many people will jump in saying this is absolutely not the case in their school but I’ve worked in many (state) schools and their kitchens are all catered for by the same county companies and in the same way. It’s identical from county to county (disclaimer, only 3 I’ve worked in so I’m not saying this happens everywhere!).
I’m always shocked when people say their schools whip up amazing feasts with fresh bread, salad bars, fruit bars etc. School meals are a fairly fixed cost and schools have to very carefully budget so I can never understand how there’s such a vast discrepancy between what’s served up school to school!

My DD often has poached eggs on toast for dinner, she enjoys it

Tonight was cheese omelette with some veg sticks so not much different

What age are the DC?

Primary school dinners are actually tiny portion wise.
High school mine would still eat like a horse after a full adult size roast at lunch time.

I would happily eat beans on toast for tea. Depends on if it would fill dc or not.

I do it often, though with optional grated cheese on top, and since fruit served alongside rather than after.

I also regularly have mushrooms on toast for myself, cooked in butter with a bit of blue cheese on top if I fancy it, occasionally a poached egg instead. YUM. And pretty healthy, filling etc. I'm a lover of big portions, if in doubt you can just provide 4 bits of toast each and a huge pile of scrambled egg. No need to complicate it

We just had pancakes and beans, most nights dinner is something similar because lunch is the large meal.