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?

What is the obsession with ‘decent’ or ‘proper’ meals? Surely if you are getting the basic nutrients then it doesn’t matter how/what you eat? I think there is far too much pressure on women (& it usually is women) to provide full cooked meals every evening; egg or beans on wholemeal toast followed by a piece of fruit is a perfectly balanced meal.

Mine have lunch at 12 at school so 6 hours later they'd need more than beans on toast. Having said that Wednesday can't be a proper cooked meal due to clubs so we'd have something similar like that or a pasta salad but with lots of substantial snacks such as pitta bread pizza or large wrap/giant pretzel all with a banana when I pick them up and unlimited snacks/fruit and veg on journeys, alone as a meal it would be no where near enough just because they'd had a roast. School dinner portions are tiny.

School dinners are not very substantial.... so that wouldn't be enough for my Ds .. also no veg?
My ds doesn't really eat fruit so we so always have veg...

My dd6 won't touch school roast dinners so she'd eat pretty much nothing (she takes a packed lunch on roast day). Both dc pretty much live on white bread, apart from spag bol and home made soup they don't really eat home cooked food and beans on toast would be about as balanced a meal as it gets! Have to wonder how many parents are serving up food that goes straight in the bin, I just serve stuff they'll eat, they seem to be surviving so far!

We have egg and beans (and sometimes toast) one day every week.

Life should be simple. If he wants something fancy, he can make it himself.

Ragwort completely agree!
And what makes a meal decent?

Spicy kidney in a Mexican sauce in tortilla wraps with grated cheese? Probably deemed decent.

Baked beans on whole meal toast with grated cheese? Indecent.

What on earth is the difference?

LOL kidney BEANS

How could it not be enough? Just have more 😂
You’re not restricted to just one egg and one bit of toast. My 5 year old will have 2 poached eggs and 1 and half bits of toast.

Mine have lunch at 12 at school so 6 hours later they'd need more than beans on toast.

They could have more beans on toast

We tend to do an on-toast tea on roast dinner day too, or soup, or jacket potatoes. If DH wants more he knows where the kitchen is!

Of course it’s a meal.

Let’s say someone has
2x brown Hovis bread = 208 calories (104 per slice)
Butter for toast= 50 calories
2 large fried eggs (non stick pan using no oil) = 184 (92 each, according to my fitness pal)
200g heniz beans= 156
That meal is 598 calories then you have fruit and yoghurt after.

How can that not be a meal? Who eats 598 calories as a mere snack?

Of course if little Johnny was so starving ( mumsnet dc always seem to be starving and eat like adults from 6 months) then well you just give him another egg or more beans, it really isn’t difficult

Why do some of you only class spag Bol etc as a meal? If I have a sandwich, apple and mini flapjack for lunch is that not a meal? Is toast for breakfast not ones breakfast meal?

If I have a big lunch I still want a proper dinner. Sometimes there's 8/9 hours between lunch and dinner.

Having said that, I really love humous, olives and marinated artichokes with some grilled pitta bread. That would do me for dinner.

They could have more beans on toast

Mmmmm huge pile of sugary beans and several pieces of shop bought bread - not boring at all

Mmmmm huge pile of sugary beans and several pieces of shop bought bread - not boring at all

So boring food can't fill you up?

Of course it’s a meal.

Maybe it's perception? I still see it as a snack / kids meal from childhood.

Maybe it's perception?

Absolutely!

The oddest perception for me is the one that food is more filling or nutritious if it is hot when it is put in front of you. I'm quite sure that the temperature of the food is much the same as it hits the stomach, whether it was originally served as a hot or cold.

Are cold chicken, potato salad and some crudites really less filling than roast chicken, roast potatoes and steamed veg?

I don't think gravy is any more filling than mayonnaise. Surely if the quantity is the same they serve exactly the same purpose as a meal?

I think people are losing the ability to listen to their appetites as perceptions of what they shoudl be eating when start taking over.

All we need to do is provide an overall balanced diet with enough food available at each meal for our children to feel satisfied. Whether that food is egg and bread or steak and chips is irrelevant.

This thread is a masterclass in cultural attitudes to food. The majority has nothing to do with nutrition/required intake.