Cheese on toast..again. How often do you have a cba day?

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At the moment I’m a sahm to my toddler. I generally make/cook every meal from scratch, lots and fruit and veg etc. Then maybe simple put stuff in the oven bits like fishfingers or a takeaway at the weekend.
I’ve had 3 days this week of really thinking I can’t be arsed and just having cheese or beans on toast. How often do you feel like this and do most of you cook from scratch or just chuck oven meals in?

Tin of soup is also perfect, healthy and filling.

A lot
I hate cooking, hate it
I will use every shortcut, ready made, to go thing there is, get takeaway without a 2nd thought
Fed and happy, all is good

I’ve always considered beans on toast to be healthy. Sugar is too high in some brands but low sugar/salt sorts that. It’s high in protein, complex carbs and fibre.
To make it more balanced either add eg onion/capers or some kind of vegetable or fruit.
Every now and then it does the trick. Not sure why some are saying this is unhealthy of itself.

I love a toasted fish finger sandwich with mayo and salad .

Christ Almighty. Why do we allow such pressure to be placed on us? Makes me really cross.

Of course it's ok OP.

I cook a lot. I get bored of having to stand there and once again decide what meal we are going to have for the next 3 days: spag Bol, steak pie with steamed veg etc. The monotony is tedious.

Have a cba meal as often as you need!

@squeekums - me too. I buy prepared vegetables, salad in a bag, packet rice, sauces in a jar, box cake mixes - everything to make life easier. They all taste good and everyone is healthy and happy.

I mix it up. Some food is preprepared/packaged, some ive cooked from scratch. If it was just me in the house I would never cook. I don’t care about eating enough.

@SisterAgatha

Not very often but I am a SAHM so I feel bad just having a quick meal.

I don’t think I’ve ever done cheese on toast for my CBA days tbh. Ours are more oven chips and fish fingers, ham egg and oven chips, or pesto pasta and frozen veg. Maybe once a fortnight?

When you’ve got kids who primarily want burger and chips/chicken Kiev/sausages and chips/pizza - it can be bloody annoying to cook something else and get it pushed away.

My home cooked meals that everyone eats and likes are chicken curry and spaghetti bol so they feature every week. They also like chilli and duck pancakes.

Chilli con carne and duck pancakes separately, not combined 😬

Wow some of the replies...you are hardly filling your child with poison. There’s nutrition in beans. Even white toast won’t hurt the child. Cheese on toast is so good. You are allowed a break and cheat meals don’t worry about it. And your updates show you are adding some veg/salad too. My favourite tea my grandma made after school was jam butties. ( she cooked from scratch:everything but jam butties felt like a treat)

Odd meals like that won’t hurt, sounds like your child eats very nutritionally well. Some children eat nothing like that yet are still alive and growing .

Yes in an ideal world no one has quick food, or less nutritious food. But life gets in the way and don’t pressure/guilt yourself for a few beans! You should be proud that at the other meals your child will be given and eat a really good variety of food

My dh picks up dd from nursery at 16:30 armed with a sandwich and takes her to the playground for an hour. So she has the cold equivalent of cheese on toast every night 5 days a week. I cook for when they get home but after her sandwich she mostly just has about two or three spoons of whatever I have cooked.

I myself used to be a cheese on toaster for quick and easy lunches when working from home. But then I started wfh every day due to Covid and i gained weight. I swapped out the cheese and toast for a slimming shake and along with a few other changes have managed to lose over a stone. Cheese is just sooooo tasty. I can't just have one slice. I have to have at least 5!!

[quote Parker231]@squeekums - me too. I buy prepared vegetables, salad in a bag, packet rice, sauces in a jar, box cake mixes - everything to make life easier. They all taste good and everyone is healthy and happy.[/quote]
Love all them, they save so much time, effort and sanity
The best one is fresh roasted whole chook, hot from the shop. If it wasnt for them, we would never have a roast chook lol

My 4 year old and I had tomato soup and toast, then yogurt and a banana. We have that often for dinner. I don't see anything wrong with this at all.

@squeekums - I had a Subway salad for lunch today - brought to me by Deliveroo. I love their sweet onion dressing and much easier them preparing the salad ingredients than me.

[quote Parker231]@squeekums - I had a Subway salad for lunch today - brought to me by Deliveroo. I love their sweet onion dressing and much easier them preparing the salad ingredients than me.[/quote]
We move next year and one thing im so excited about, being in range for menulog, deliveroo, ubereats, i cant wait!
Salad is such a tedious thing to make, not hard but tedious, so much prep and chopping..... ugh