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At last.  Back to the basics - the meals that the kids can make for themselves and are perfectly adequate if you're careful a lot of the time. https://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/toastCheck out their toast toppers and what are your favourite go-to things on toast?

Philippa Bond ● 3099d38 Comments

Marmite !Plus poached egg or grilled tomatoes - both work well with Marmite, absolutely yummy, not to mention healthy and inexpensive. Happy days 😀

Loraine Pemberton ● 3099d

Proper Butter - the sort with just one ingredient, or two if you like salt!

Cindy Carloss ● 3099d

CindyProper butter works perfectly with Marmite 😀

Loraine Pemberton ● 3099d

Loraine, I'm with the 'against' for Marmite - Marmalade would be my choice!

Cindy Carloss ● 3099d

Unsalted butter, Marmite, eggs of all sorts, bacon and tomatoes, mashed avocado, sardines, cheese - so many delicious things go with toast - for sweetness - home made marmalade or thick honey.

Jennifer Selig ● 3099d

Toast, thin layer butter, thin layer marmite, thin layer strawberry or raspberry jam. Try it..you might be pleasantly surprised.

Keith Iddon ● 3099d

Cheese on toast with a sprinkle of Worcester sauce.

Georgina Flint ● 3099d

I understand the 'against' Marmite and truth be told I'm a bit OCD about it 😉

Loraine Pemberton ● 3099d

So we had poached eggs on toast this evening!  It's quick food.Sometimes have cheese on toast but prefer it studded with sliced little tomatoes.Mashed sardines in tomato sauce mixed with chopped spring onion and a sprinkling of cheese on top on toast is another staple.  I'm not good at eating sardines but this way I can hide them well enough!My mother liked bacon and marmalade together on toast.Baked beans with a poached egg on top is another store cupboard meal.If we aren't eating a loaf quick enough part of it goes in the freezer because we can toast straight from there.

Philippa Bond ● 3099d

Since I started this post a favourite is a big bag of spinach (you need a big bag to get enough for two) on toast topped with a poached egg and a grating of cheese.

Philippa Bond ● 2363d

If we had some stale (but not gone off) sliced bread left, my mother used to put the slices into the oven to bake them, then allowed them to cool and kept in a tin.. delicious crispbread. Spreading a little butter on the crumbly bits was a real treat.

Delilah Hall ● 2363d

I've done that for breadcrumbs but not tried it as crispbread.  I have dried pitta bread in the oven though.  Sainsbury's used to sell something similar which was really good and less fattening than crisps to eat with dips.There were several versions of cheese on toast on the Kitchen Cabinet today including buttering the underside or putting mayo on the underside.  I didn't know cheese on toast could be so complicated!

Philippa Bond ● 2363d

Cream cheese and strawberry jam.

Sean Wales ● 2362d

What a yummy thread!  Toast fans who crave even more exciting flavour combos might enjoy ‘Posh Toast’, available on Amazon for about a tenner.

Alastair Banton ● 2362d

Smashed avocado, smoked salmon, poached egg.

Colin Jordan ● 2362d

Marmite and sliced cucumber (no butter) - so refreshing and delicious, especially on nutty/seeded brown toast.

Delilah Hall ● 2362d

Oh yes.  ALL OF THOSE .

Beryl Bashford ● 2362d

I hadn't tried smashed avocado in 2018.  I now have - with lime juice and a sprinkling of chilli flakes and a poached egg on top.  I've actually got those ingredients right now... so that looks like supper sorted.There only seem to be large sliced loaves around - so half gets frozen - to toast straight from the freezer or make a frozen sandwich from if not  t o o hungry!

Philippa Bond ● 2362d

When I worked in town, I used to go to a little sandwich bar, run by two Maltese brothers, as it happens.Anyhow, one day I asked one of them what sandwich he'd choose.He took two thick slices of plain white bread and toasted them on one side only. He laid the two slices down on the toasted side, buttering one of them.On the other he put a smear of marmite, then a square of mature cheddar cheese and finally two rashers of lightly grilled bacon, before closing the sandwich over so the cheese half melted within.Oh God, just thinking about it has me drooling like Homer Simpson tackling a pork chop.

Richard Cathcart ● 2362d

Richard  Have you tried that recently?  I ask that because I changed what I eat as a result of being told that I had to reduce salt in my diet.  I love marmite, I love cheese and I rather like bacon - but they are all salty.  When I cook with cheese I don't add salt as I rely on the salt contained in it.  Marmite on toast is a late night snack and  indulgence - although eggs on toast help you sleep better.  We discovered some nitrite free bacon in a recent strange shopping excusion.  I am the person who once bought an M&S primavera pasta sauce as an experiment and then had to add a whole packet of peas to make it palatable! It must have been because I had reduced my salt intake.So since we returned to this thread we've had smashed avocado several times and I've added toasted pine nuts to the recipe.  We've also had those big mushrooms on toast in different ways but - especially good filled with the remainder of some blue cheese, lots of garlic and some crumbled bread (the bit that wouldn't fit in the toaster) on top.

Philippa Bond ● 2351d

As it happens, I've cut down on dairy and red meat, fast food and takeaways in recent years (to keep my cholesterol levels in check), so something like that sarnie is only an occasional treat. But what a treat!

Richard Cathcart ● 2351d

A few days ago, inspired by this thread, I realised that we needed to get a new jar of Marmite delivered.  But Sainsbury’s had run out and so without asking us they made a substitution.  Now you might expect Bovril here, but no.  They dumped a jar of Skippy Crunch Peanut Butter on us.And still on the subject of Sainsbury’s and toast toppings we ordered a jar of Meridian Pecan butter paste.  What we got was nearly a year past its best-by date and all runny and gloopy in texture.  At least they credited us with the cost.

Alastair Banton ● 2351d

Morrison'e version of marmite is just as good imo.I like a slice of wholemeal toast with butter, a decent amount of marmalade and then a sliced banana on top. You can pop it under the grill again if you fancy, but I don't bother with that. Tiny sprinkle of black pepper doesn't go amiss.

Keith Iddon ● 2351d

I discovered a spread called Natex which is a reduced-salt yeast extract.  It takes a while to get used to but we usually end up back on Marmite because it is only available from a health food shop.  I have never tasted Vegemite and wonder if that has less salt than Marmite.As I'm sure you know it is perfectly legal to sell food past its Best Before date but something I'm sure they would choose not to do.  (It is illegal to sell or display food past its Use By date.)

Philippa Bond ● 2350d

Peanut butter and banana on toast is good.  I went to an American school at one time and peanut butter and jelly (jam) or banana seemed to be a regular sandwich in friends' lunchboxes.

Philippa Bond ● 2350d

That’s right Philippa, and I wouldn’t have taken it further but for the fact that the product had clearly deteriorated.  Perhaps air had got in.

Alastair Banton ● 2349d

Never mind "Best Before" or "Sell By", I bought some Ardennes Pate from Waitrose the other day, clearly packaged and labelled as "Coarse".But when I opened it, it is just as clearly the Smooth stuff.Don't really mind, in fact just had some on a slice of sourdough toast and it was perfectly fine.But you wonder how the factory got it wrong.

Richard Cathcart ● 2349d

No Sell By any more here!  I think there must be a lot of little glitches where things aren't running quite the way they should. Maybe they use just-in-time labelling!  Pate in a tin or jar is a good store cupboard item.  It's something French friends have often brought for me.I'm dreaming of smoked mackerel pate on toast.  I've a very simple recipe simplified from a recipe a friend gave me (it had sour cream or something like that in it too).  It needs a pack of smoked mackerel and a 300 ml tub of cottage cheese + lemon and black pepper.  The tub of cottage cheese has been sitting waiting for the last 2 weeks in the fridge, the smoked mackerel has so far eluded Him-Doing-The-Shopping with the list.  Sigh.  You just whizz up the cottage cheese with the mackerel stripped off the skin (the ancient Robotchef can't cope with it) checked in case of any stray bones and add some lemon juice and ground black pepper.  Voila.  With a wafer thin slice of lemon top (I choose unwaxed) on toast it is delicious.  It stiffens up a bit after refrigeration and we usually eat half and scrape the rest out of the bowl into the empty cottage cheese pot and freeze for a later time.  I hate random bits of things hiding in the fridge.

Philippa Bond ● 2347d

So I tried a recipe from the book Alastair mentioned that I'd forgotten about since I had some smoked salmon in the freezer and its a change from scrambled eggs and smoked salmon.You butter the bread on both sides and cook it in the oven inside a muffin tin to make the toast and then add the smoked salmon and bake the egg inside it.  I had to replace the teaspoon of cream with cottage cheese but you would never had noticed.  Interesting but still very salty.I love both halloumi and feta mentioned in a previous post and they have such a brilliantly long fridge life - probably because they are so salty.  :(

Philippa Bond ● 2333d

I've found a low salt Marmite (with a blue top) in the supermarkets!My favourite store-cupboard recipe of butterbean, onion, garlic and tomato stew with thyme and bay leaves is lovely cold on toast or in a sandwich or just wiping out the saucepan!

Philippa Bond ● 1716d

Sean, never had cream cheese and strawberry jam, but I love strong cheddar with strawberry jam.I know not related to cheese and jam, but re earlier posts about marmite, I think a thick spread of it on thin toast with poached egg is superb.

Bob Guyett ● 1716d

Mushrooms on one slice, fried or grilled tomatoes on the other and optional bacon on the side.

stephen gould ● 1716d

French Toast Tatin with apples or pears. Yum. Make the French toast as usual add cinnamon if you like. Caramelise some apples or pears in a pan. Pop caramelised fruits in a small baking tin cover wth the French toasts and Cook in oven 20 mins.

Alina Dansord ● 1716d

PHilippa I tried th veggie Marmite cannot remember the actual name of it but it was not nice.

Janice Evans ● 1716d

Sainsbury's used to sell pitta bread which had been baked until it was dry in the oven.  It was a healthier alternative to crisps and a change from soft pitta bread with dips.  I like the idea of keeping it ready in a tin.I sometimes just put the crusts in the freezer when the bread isn't being eaten fast enough to save for toasting straight from the freezer to go with dips.

Philippa Bond ● 1714d

I think that is what we call eggy bread.  I haven't tried it with with something sweet.I have a favourite of my mother's called la piperade which is a bit like onions, garlic, peppers and tomatoes chopped and softened in oil and then eggs scrambled into it.  Good on or with toast.

Philippa Bond ● 1714d

We're in Food Waste Action Week - and guess what - someone's half-inched my heading:Some more ideas:https://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/toast#healthy-toast-toppers

Philippa Bond ● 1657d

We're in Food Waste Action Week - and guess what - someone's half-inched my heading:Some more ideas:https://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/toast#healthy-toast-toppers

Philippa Bond ● 1657d