As the title suggests, I am
the mother of 6 young children, soon to be 7 hopefully....and I am looking for good recipe/meal ideas that are cheap and easy to make for large family and also nutritious and something that young kids will actually eat without much prompting!
Go and check out the recipes thread - particularly the slow cooker recipe thread. It doesn't matter if you don't have a slow cooker, I don't and I make quite a few of the recipes from there in the normal oven. I will post the link for you.
Cook 1 (or two in your case but 1 makes heaps for $2!) Box of coucous.
Add: any of the following or anything you have on hand in the fridge.
chickpeas (or bits of cooked bbq chicken etc would work)
mushrooms
capsicum
corn
fresh herbs
broccilli
sliced beans
fresh peas
carrot
olives
sundried or fresh tomato
Combine veg with coucous and its done! Add pepper and lemon juice to taste.
Coucous only takes a few minutes to cook and you could also saute the veg first in a little stock and water to make things softer, or fry up some onion and saute the veg till soft and combine with coucous.
To make it more interesting maybe you could name the veg and see how many trees (brocilli) the kids can eat, or cut things like the carrot into shapes. Also you could grate the carrot so they cant tell they are eating it!
Cheap Wholesome Meals for Large families
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