Cheats meals for kids...

[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.

[Willow]

We do a lot of the same things - tuna pasta (on a really lazy night I use the side dish pasta packs and add tuna and frozen vegies - my kids love it!), fritatta/omlette/scrambled eggs/baked beans with multigrain toast, chicken breast nuggets with steamed vegies. I also buy frozen chicken & vegie pies and serve these with steamed vegies and mashed potato.

I used to make a sort of 'cheats risotto' - aborio or jasmine rice cooked in the mircowave with flavoured tuna (usually tomato & onion) and grated cheese stirred through - it's surprisingly good! I actually have it for lunch sometimes. DS loves it but DD won't eat rice anymore

[DoubleK]

gee.. most of these meals are our regular dinners! lol

[Oorki Galoorki]

chicken noodle soup is our biggest cheats meal.
dh usually makes a big pot and then we freeze a heap so i just have to defrost it.