What are you feeding your kids in this hot weather?

[canadianmum]

I normally do a hot but simple lunch, like pasta or cheese on toast and then a more substantial hot dinner but tonight almost fainted while the fish cakes were in oven.
What are you giving yours (mine don't like sandwiches ) ????

[SherlockLGJ]

Well tonights tea should have been, grilled salmon, green veg, new potatoes.

We settled on grilled salmon, and some brown bread.

If I would struggle to eat it, why should he ??

[Twiglett]

we just went for chinese because I couldn't be bothered cooking so they (5 and 2) shared a chicken in black bean sauce and rice and then had an ice lolly to munch on the walk back £5.30 well spent

[TooTicky]

Fruit salad - delicious, nutritious and not hot!

[FrannyandZooey]

We mostly eat normally

Takes more than a heatwave to quench the prodigious appetites of the Franny household

[Mercy]

Lots of picnic type meals or barbecues atm. Bits of bagel, ham, olives, cucumber, sweetcorn etc. They would happily eat barbecued sauages every day of the week if I let them!

Agree with you re nearly fainting with the oven on!

[poisson]

normal stuff

mpr bbq maybe

[Enid]

same stuff - tonight sausages, potatoes, green beans and peas (all veg from garden [halo emoticon])

ice cream cornets the only concession really

[Pruni]

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[Gobbledigook]

Mostly the same things. A few more 'picnic' teas though - fruit, cheese, ham, crackers or bread, yoghurts.

[canadianmum]

yes, I think 'picnics' will be on offer until the weather cools down.

and lots of ice lollies - for me as well.

must go chill that wine.........

[Iklboo]

Tonight he had beef, mashed potatoes & carrots followed by a yoghurt.

Came home from work earlier though to find next door neighbour giving him an ice pop - he's 8 months old! Sheesh

[Mercy]

Do some of you really not have summer or winter type food?

Was it a Little Britain sketch where the voice-over said "there is a law in Britain which states you must have roast every Sunday"? - or something along those lines!

[canadianmum]

we are having 4 people over for lunch on the weekend and I ask DH what he thinks we should have to eat, he says "a roast or maybe a beef casserole" .

I was thinking cold salmon or a tuna nicoise or something!

[sparklerswollenbruisedandfedup]

I make lots of "finger foods" for dds (7 and 4) when it's hot weather. They tell me they don't want a cooked dinner and I don't argue with them.
Tonight I made them a big sectioned plate of mini fish fingers, slice apple, buttered bread rolls cut up small, a few chips - they polished it off with a big bowl of cold rice pudding. Gone to bed happy.

[canadianmum]

have you bbq people got gas ones? We only have a charcoal one which takes AGES to light and heat up....

[melsy]

oooh yum bbq meat

We are having a lot more salady dinners , cesear salad or steamed veg and grilled fish or with a fruity avocado salsa . Dont tend to eat heavy things like casseroles this time of year (too hot and too pregnant to do it!!), but have been making japanese style one meal soups.

DD nearly 3 seems to prefer things like a plate of ;
sugar snap peas
taramasalata
chopped avocado
pitta bread
cucumber
cheese

and then fruit or frozen smoothies after.

[iota]

BBQ almost every night here - tonight it's cajun pork for the adults

the kids have had chicken strips, shallow fried, with french bread, cucumber, apple and grapes.

[canadianmum]

I must get a gas bbq !

[pipo]

Smirk at canadianmum's DH suggesting a roast in this weather!! Cold salmon sounds lovely.What else is everyone eating (not just the children)-it is too hot to boil an egg in my kitchen!

[canadianmum]

we are having stir fry because the ingredients are about to go off and I can't bear to waste food! Washed down with some very cold glasses of vino

Tomorrow I think it will be a caesar salad, suggested by someone for their kids but sounds lovely for us grownups too!

[Mercy]

Personally I don't find gas barbecues very good, just don't get that barbecued taste. We have 2, a biggish one and this one which we use a lot I can thoroughly recommend it. Maybe we should have a barbecue tips thread - dh thinks he's an expert because he's a Kiwi (yeah right)

[poisson]

ah taste shcmaste
it cooks it fine imo

[sparklerswollenbruisedandfedup]

Just threw a ready made pizza in the oven for me - also been eating grapes and raspberries.