Is beans on toast an ok tea for school age children?

Of course it is!

If it is the main meal of the day, it is fine only once in a blue moon.

Do they have a proper balanced lunch, with veg? Will they have a 'proper' balanced meal with parents later?

I seem to remember we often beans or spaghetti on toast when I was young - back in the 50s. My mum used to cakes - usually Welsh Cakes and we had those too.

Not especially healthy but we used to walk a lot to get to school etc.

Fleurpepper

If it is the main meal of the day, it is fine only once in a blue moon.

Do they have a proper balanced lunch, with veg? Will they have a 'proper' balanced meal with parents later?

They eat fruit too.

My DGC likes salad vegetables eg cucumber, peppers, small tomatoes, celery, chopped up as finger food. Easy and healthy.
Jacket potatoes with cheese and beans are easy too.

Yes, my daughter always ate fruit and veg, from being a baby.

It's not necessary to slave over a stove to make it, thankfully, and I printed above that beans on toast are a healthy meal, mostly.

Just the same as restaurant food, I'd imagine.

I have just this minute cooked scrambled eggs on toast for my grandson.
It went down a treat. He’s always liked them since he was a baby.
He is nine years old.

My girl, aged about two, was flinging herself around, gearing up for a tantrum,insisting she only wanted "dibbits" to eat.

I couldn't work out what she meant, but it turned out to be a poached egg, with bread cut into soldiers, , so you could "dibbit" in the egg.

😁

A dibbit. Love it!

We like dibbits.

One of those words that has stayed.
Dibbit.

Greciangirl

I have just this minute cooked scrambled eggs on toast for my grandson.
It went down a treat. He’s always liked them since he was a baby.
He is nine years old.

I remember making scrambled egg on toast for DGS, then just a baby in his high chair, when his parents had gone to work .
Obviously I didn't realise he wasn't keen because he winged the plate across the room. I let the dog in and he found and ate every scrap. 🐕

Can I politely suggest you check on the school menu for a term and evaluate.
In my experience school lunches are nothing like they used to be when my AC were at school! Proper cooked lunches by a capable kitchen staff.
I’m sorry to say that my DGC do not have the same experience!! So I have always cooked a full meal after school on the days I am called in for the school run. The rubbish the school expects these growing youngsters to eat is appalling bad. We have tried to have the menus upgraded to know avail.
I hope things are better in other parts of the country. So with respect beans on toast etc would be a concern to me. My DGC lost weight during the period of these awful lunches. As soon as various home packed lunches (cold or even hot) the weight went back on.
I am really angry what children are expected to eat in some education authorities.
It is hard work each time but to see satisfied eaters is a joy.

PS
Too many eggs give constipation to some. Children need a varied diet with little protein carbs and fruit and veg every day. Do parents actually cook when they arrive home from work!

I tried making Boston Baked Beans, thinking they would be really good. Apart from the colour they tasted just like Heinz.

Jojo1950

PS
Too many eggs give constipation to some. Children need a varied diet with little protein carbs and fruit and veg every day. Do parents actually cook when they arrive home from work!

Mine did. When we got home from school we had to lay the table and peel potatoes etc. My mum then cooked a meal for the 6 of us. I fell out with my brother because, being the eldest I was doing the organising. One day my younger brother hid outside until my mum came home and found him.

Beans are protein: spaghetti is carbohydrate: toast is carbohydrate.

People of all ages need vitamin C . Bananas on toast or tomatoes on toast or oranges on toast give vitamin C.

A good mixed diet is what we usually recommend.

When one of my granddaughters was little, her favourite meal was peas and egg, scrambled eggs with peas, personally I thought it looked revolting, but there were a lot worse things she could have asked for.

Nobody is suggesting children should eat just beans for every meal, with no option for fruit and veg. 🙄

No, no - go the whole hog: beans ON cheese ON toast!

AshleysGran

No, no - go the whole hog: beans ON cheese ON toast!

With a fried egg on top!

I see no problem with you giving the children beans etc on toast. We survived on jam or golden syrup sandwiches for tea after school. I thought I was really lucky if Mum treated us to paste sandwiches. Perhaps, if the children are old enough, they can even help you make their tea. Nothing wrong with something on toast.

Absolutely, beans are high in protein

It all depends on the beans and the bread.

A proper piece of bakery or homemade wholemeal bread toasted is fine, supermarket sliced white is dreadful, brown marginally better.

Some beans are full of sugar, a low sugar variety is preferable.

Caleo

Beans are protein: spaghetti is carbohydrate: toast is carbohydrate.

People of all ages need vitamin C . Bananas on toast or tomatoes on toast or oranges on toast give vitamin C.

A good mixed diet is what we usually recommend.

I like a nice seeded, toasted bread with a peanut butter & banana slices on top 😋

Unless you have them 7 days a week and this meal is their only meal of the day, there is nothing wrong with beans and/or cheese on toast served up by a cheerful happy Gran.
I wish I could go back 70 years and have something served up by my lovely Gran!