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

If they like beans on toast, and it’s not every day then go for it.

Children can be notoriously picky about what they eat so you’ve already succeeded.
Mind you, at the end of the month I remember beans on toast or scrambled eggs on toast as all Mum could afford but we’re still here.

Beans on toast
Cheese on toast
Eggy bread
Boiled eggs chopped up in a cup with salt and butter and then tipped onto toast.😃

I would also want to know if this is their only "real" meal.
If they have toast for breakfast I would not serve it again to be honest. My husband makes nearly all our bread (and is a spelt/old grains fanatic) so I know it's good bread but I would offer something other than toast if they'd eaten that earlier.

Maybe a sweet potato cooked in the oven (air fryer?) Could replace the toast? Still excellent with beans.

Roasted vegetables are easy too - with (say) orzo stirred in, or a stew of some sort can be reheated in smaller portions for little ones?

I am talking myself out of beans/eggs/avocado on toast is fine.


I do it but also do "real" means for my grandchildren as needed.

I think its up to the mum. She knows what Kandinsky is feeding them. If she feels they need more then she must give them something when they get home. Or sort out with Kandinsky some easily reheated meals. She is their gran not chauffeur, chef and nanny/play organiser. Sounds as though she is on her own which makes it more tiring.

I am not meaning to sound critical, but only you know if its enough. If they eat on getting home then yes.

Yes it sounds like more than 2 GC. It must be tiring. I have no GC but 2+ youngsters till 6.00 pm makes me feel tired just reading it.

oranges on toast That's a new on on me.
I do like a banana sandwich but not on toast.

HelterSkelter1
My Grandma used to give me sugar sandwiches, apparently. It was a treat, I suppose sugar and butter had been rationed during the war. I remember the crunch of the sandwich but can't remember my Grandma at all.

there is nothing wrong with beans and/or cheese on toast served up by a cheerful happy Gran.
I do hope Kandinsky isn't getting so tired that she can't enjoy her DGC.

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!

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 😋

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.

Absolutely, beans are high in protein

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.

AshleysGran

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

With a fried egg on top!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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. 🐕

One of those words that has stayed.
Dibbit.

😁

A dibbit. Love it!

We like dibbits.