to not see what's wrong with having lettuce with beans on toast

[emkana]

Dd2 was asked to design a healthy meal in school today, so she did baked beans with bread and lettuce. While certainly not the most inspired choice of the century I don't see anything wrong with it, but according to her teacher you just wouln't have lettuce with it? Why ever not?

the lettuce would go all warm and floppy.
apart from that nothing.

warm and wet lettuce ?

Well I certainly wouldn't have them on the same plate.

coz her teacher is an unimaginative idiot. Actually, to be honest I quite fancy it right now. A bit of added texture to the beans.

Carb, protien, veg/pulses and salad. I reckon she got it spot on.

I prefer warm and wet lettuce to cold fridged lettuce in those awful sandwiches that you buy from the supermarket.

My DH learnt long before we got married, that I don't eat fridged lettuce!!

Well, nothing wrong with it in theory, but a bit odd. Lettuce is mostly just water so the menu is still lacking somewhat

Your D should have stated that the lettuce would be served seperately, as a starter, before the beans on toast!

I think it would be possible to keep the beans and the lettuce seperate on the plate no?

And no offence to your DD or anything, but if I had set my pupils that task I would want them to put a leeetle bit more effort and imagination into it than that.

thanks for that overmydeadbody I will pass it on

baked beans are her favourite food and she is only just six, and she was asked to choose an item from all the food groups which she did, so I can't really fault her for that.

DH puts cherry tomatoes on his fish and chips. I'm open to any culinary weirdness after that.

Ah, she's only 6! In that case emkana, I take back what I said! Lay off the faces. Maybe the tacher just has a phobia of lettuce?

let us put it in terms of bruschetta with cannelini and lettuce. could charge £8 for that.

so, not imaginative but i bet it was bloody delicious.

but overmydeadbody I like the

ahhh...

but COLD heinz beans on salad is really really nice.

try it.

but fishie does it have a drizzle of balsamic and olive oil over it? COz I'm not paying £8 unless I have balsamic dressing

I think it would be horrid but I would not expect a 6 yr old to have a detailed knowledge of what makes up a good plate of food so teh teacher should have reisited commenting.

Baked beans - protein , carbohydrate, fibre, and those new things that we all need that comes in tomato sauce
Toast - carbs, fibre(if brown), folic acid,
Butter - fat (omegas?)
Lettuce - lots of fibre, and the green vitamins (and some other chemical that makes you sleep)

Sounds pretty healthy to me.

of course it's healthy. It doesn't go, that's the problem.

Lettuce with hot food is nice! as long as you just put it together as you eat it, not dump the hot food on top of the lettuce - that would be nasty.

So I like the idea of beans on toast and lettuce and it's fairly well balanced - fibre, carbs, protein etc.

I think the teacher shouldn't have commented.

But she wasn't asked for a meal that "goes", she was asked to design a healthy meal. Anyway, it's largely culture and habit that says what foods should go together. My friend in Turkey eats tomatoes for breakfast [yuck]

Yes, choccy, I said the teacher shouildn't have commented.

And I doubt that anyone, no matter what nationality, would say baked beans and lettuce was an acceptable combination.

It depends on the tone of the comment really. I think it's fair enough to say, "ooh, I'd never have thought of that, wouldn't the lettuce go soggy?" kind of comment, but not a dismissive "no-one would eat that".

FWIW, DS eats cucumber with almost every meal, but he does like -everything- it on a separate plate. For a weekend lunch, I'll do beans -on- and toast, with a plate of cucumber, apple slices, cherry tomatoes.