Cheats meals for kids...

[~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.

[rikki]

That plum jam lamb sounds delish! My DD loves anything with rice, so I always freeze ziploc bags of rice in the freezer and just pull out one if I'm having a 'lazy cooking night'! She loves tuna rice (grated cheese, frozen peas and tin of tuna stirred through rice) or chinese rice (leftover chicken, peas, corn, egg and a splash of soy). I also make chilli con carne in the slow cooker, strog, bolognaise etc and keep frozen portions in the freezer. I'll have to try those chicken crackles though, think she'd love them

[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

[Roryrory]

A great one (if you can get your kids onto it early enough, before they get ickky about eating strong-tasting stuff) is sardines. Super easy and full of omega 3 fatty acids (for those days you KNOW they haven't eaten anything decent). Only bummer is they (the children, that is) smell for a while after they eat them LOL!