How to make beans on toast!

The bed and breakfast we stayed at in Llandudno was very nice and comfortable, but a bit old fashioned when it comes to food. Breakfast options wre very limited. Unlike a lot of more modern establishments that provide a selection of healthy cereals, fruits, yoghurts and so on, this one only offered full English breakfast - with all the fat, butter - and meat, of course, thrown in (I'm a vegetarian). So, I asked for the only thing I thought they could rustle up - beans on toast. You'd have thought beans on toast would be simple, wouldn't you? But they broke just about every rule for preparing this dish and the result was a breakfast that was largely inedible in the form it was presented. First, they used the cheapest, blandest, most wafer-thin, doughy white bread possible. Then they only toasted the bread very, very slightly (you could have charged them under the Trades Descriptions Act for calling it 'toast'!). Then they committed the ultimate sin for beans on toast lovers everywhere - they put the beans on the toast while the toast was still very hot. This had the effect of turning the slightly toasted, cheap white bread into a soggy mush. Exactly the kind of soggy mush that gastric bands do not like...... Oh, and they also used cheap beans. They were OK, but not as rich and tasty as Mr H's.

So, to make the perfect beans on toast for bandits, follow these instructions (or click on the link above for another view on this delicacy):

1. Use a thick slice of wholemeal bread.

2. Toast it so that each side of the bread is properly brown - not burnt, but undeniably toasted!

3. Wait till it cools a litte before pouring on......

4. Heinz beans.

Simple. Packed full of fibre and protein and a great kick start to the day. Ideal if accompanied by a glass of fresh orange juice and a low fat yoghurt!!