Cheats meals for kids...

[nic]

My DD loves Chicken Crackles too! She also loves anything that is spaghetti with sauce and HEAPS of parmesan grated over the top.

[{sarah}]

Chicken Goujons are a big favourite here, same brand as crackles They are crumbed chicken fingers.

[Mother Goose]

DD loves tuna morney; or tuna, cheese sauce, and frozen veggies with pasta.

[Janie]

Any sort of pasta, DS loves it! It can just be spaghetti with passata and parmesan, or pasta with butter and cheese, whatever. I try to add vegies though I also have individual serves (DS size) of bolognaise sauce in the freezer.

Baked beans with grated cheese and multigrain toast. VERY lazy, I know!

Another fave here is buttered bread cut into little pieces, with a soft boiled egg broken up over the top and sprinkled with a little salt. Yum!

[fionas]

DP is not here for dinner (but DSD, myself and DD are!) for one week out of every two so I try to Imake sure I've done a stew or something that I can just reheat and DP will cook spaghetti sauce or a risotto before he goes to work so that's a few nights sorted and I just need to reheat when I get home from work.

One of my favourite lazy meals is jacket potatoes with pretty much any filling - baked beans + cheese, tuna + sweetcorn etc. etc.

I also try to make chicken stock from every pre-roasted chicken we buy and turn that into a chicken, lentil & sweetcorn soup.

[[M]umma[M]ia]

My sister used to make mini pizza's. get them muffins that u toast and put tomatoe paste (or whateever), ham, she used to sneak in a veg like grated something and cheese and put them in the oven. they take no more than 10 mins to prepare and cook. and really, u can add whatever u like to them.

[mrsmac]

I do that with bread rolls too Holly, if we have had them for lunch or the day before and I have leftovers.
I also make quiche or fritata with any vegies and meat I have around.

[Floweryfields]

What about baked potatoes with leftovers on top - savoury mince with cheese, baked beans and cheese, quick and easy.

I like to do fritters with left over roast meats and frozen vegies tossed into the mix too.

[Patooties]

One of my favourite quickie meals , and one that my girls absolutley love, is Plum Jam Lamb (that's what they have named it anyway.)

It's actually a weight watchers meal:

500g of lamb - (i buy the lamb schnitzel and dice it up fine)
1 tablespoon of Soy Sauce
1 tablespoon of Balsamic Vinegar
1 teaspoon of minced garlic
1/4 cup plum jam

I fry the ingredients, and then take off the heat and stir through the plum jam.
Serve with rice.
yummy

[~clover~]

My DD1 is VERY picky, so its usually very basic stuff.
Home made spagetti
Boiled eggs, boiled potatoes, & cheese sticks. Sometimes they'll have other salad stuff too.
Continental packet pasta's with tinned tuna & vegies mixed through.
Toasted cheese & avocado sandwiches.
Nuggets & chips in the oven.
Hokkien noodle stir fry.

[sneakysparkle]

One of my favourite quickie meals , and one that my girls absolutley love, is Plum Jam Lamb (that's what they have named it anyway.)

It's actually a weight watchers meal:

500g of lamb - (i buy the lamb schnitzel and dice it up fine)
1 tablespoon of Soy Sauce
1 tablespoon of Balsamic Vinegar
1 teaspoon of minced garlic
1/4 cup plum jam

I fry the ingredients, and then take off the heat and stir through the plum jam.
Serve with rice.
yummy

how good does that sound?!

[fionas]

Had another quickie tonight - arancini from the deli. It's basically risotto that's been rolled into a ball, coated in breadcrumbs and shallow fried. I keep meaning to do this with leftover risotto but haven't got around to it yet but the ones from the deli were great. It's a little Italian-run supermarket so they know their onions!

Roast vegetable quiche (shop-bought) with baked beans is another quicky in this house.

[Tobily]

I do quesadillas or tortilla roll ups in the sandwich press - ham, cheese, pineapple and bbq sauce. Easy lunch or dinner and they love it.

DD also really likes any sort of roll up that she can make herself - messy but I know she'll eat it. I just cut everything up and let them go for it.

I also keep homemade pizza dough in the freezer and pull that out if I'm pressed - they'll eat that with nothing but pizza sauce and cheese but I usually go to a bit more effort

Fritters are good - ham, cheese, grated carrot and zucchini.

I also make good ole zucchini slice and freeze it cut into cubes. They love that.

And both of them LOVE pumpkin soup. I freeze that in small portions and give it to them with cheese toast.

Oh and also mini quiches. I just make them with rolled out wholemeal bread cut into squares and pressed into a muffin tin - a bit of cheese in the base to seal it, ham or spinach and some egg/milk mix poured on top. 10 minutes in the oven and done.

[kitten2b]

our favourite here is tomato soup with a rissole noodles added - easy way to get my girls to eat meat