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What's your most shameful crappy meal for the DC?

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user1491572121 · 26/04/2017 10:57

Sometimes I don't want to think about what to make for dinner, I make pasta with nothing but olive oil and a bit of salt on top and then I scatter chorizo on it.

The kids love it and think it's a treat. 'Grin

Today (I'm in Oz and it's night here) I made them that but served them with corn on the cob too as a side vegetable.

What are your crappy, easy go-to meals for kids?

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2014newme · 26/04/2017 10:59

Fish fingers or pizza.

justwait · 26/04/2017 11:01

Curry ready meal

ShuttyTown · 26/04/2017 11:01

Hot dogs and a tin of Heinz spaghetti Shock

choccywoccywoowah · 26/04/2017 11:01

Only on mumsnet would pasta and chorizo be considered a shameful and crappy meal. And with corn on the cob too. OP needs reporting to the nutrition police. Hmm

baconandmushrooms · 26/04/2017 11:02

Baked beans on toast.

LineysRun · 26/04/2017 11:02

Tinned spaghetti on toast. DS(18) still has it occasionally Smile

Tinned tomato soup with bread and butter.

MrsBellefleur · 26/04/2017 11:02

Pasta with butter and grated cheese sometimes with peas in for appearances or chips and chicken nuggets with a side of cucumber to pretend I'm being a good mother.

FaithAgain · 26/04/2017 11:02

Turkey dinosaurs, potato smiles and beans Blush

MrsPussinBoots · 26/04/2017 11:02

Tinned peppa pig pasta with bread (not even toast). She loves it. I hate myself.

ProudBadMum · 26/04/2017 11:03

That's a shameful meal?! The fuck Grin

It's pasta and chorizo

I do love food threads on Mn

HallowedMimic · 26/04/2017 11:03

Pizza (frozen), chicken nuggets, french toast, chips with omelette...

The grown up version is stir fry or curry using sauce from a jar.

HollyJollyDillydolly · 26/04/2017 11:04

Pasta and a jar of pesto.

xStefx · 26/04/2017 11:04

POT NOODLE (hangs my head in shame)

Dixiechickonhols · 26/04/2017 11:06

Heinz tinned spaghetti with sausages

Asda ready made cheese pasta sauce and pasta

Pardonwhatnow · 26/04/2017 11:07

The skaggy end of a loaf, with lard on and sugar sprinkled on top, briefly fried (in olive oil obs, extra virgin)

UntilTheCowsComeHome · 26/04/2017 11:07

My kids regularly eat frozen fish fingers/chicken nuggets and waffles.

DS1 doesn't even eat any veg beyond carrots and hardly ever eats fruit. He's 15, 6 foot and sporty so he seems ok on it.

FeckinCrutches · 26/04/2017 11:09

Tin of beans in a casserole dish, top with mashed potato, an artful squirt of tomato sauce, add cheese, and grill. They love it.

knackeredinyorkshire · 26/04/2017 11:09

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Hotheadwheresthecoldbath · 26/04/2017 11:09

Bought pizza,potato wedges wth mayo.This is our slobbing ,film nights.
I do the pasta pesto but consider it quick rather than crappy but perhaps am fooling myself with the salad on the side.(note to self add pesto to shopping list)

TJDetweiler · 26/04/2017 11:09

xStefx Grin that's my kind of confession. Super noodles. When he was really young I didn't put the sachet in and grated cheese on instead like that even makes it better.

WellTidy · 26/04/2017 11:10

I have no shame about it, but the easiest of easy foods for the DC in our house are:

Baked beans on toast
Tomato soup and toast
Carrot sticks, cheese slices and crackers with tomato sauce mixed with mayonnaise dip
Pasta and pesto with small pieces of bacon thrown in
Chicken nuggets/fish fingers with potato waffles and frozen garden peas
Hot dogs
Burger in a bun

I'm all for easy tea once or twice a week.

SpookyPotato · 26/04/2017 11:10

These are standard meals for my 3 year old HmmGrin

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C0untDucku1a · 26/04/2017 11:10

Mcdonalds. They dont even eat it. Theyll have some fries and a bite of a chicken nugget or fish finger And the drink. They like the idea of going, not the food.

Dont add salt to the pasta maybe? Choritzo is already salty.

Yellowcups · 26/04/2017 11:11

Jesus I think all my meals are go to meals if this post is anything to go by. No fingers or nuggets in this house though

LadyRoseate · 26/04/2017 11:12

Bag of Quavers Blush DD is a terrible fussy eater and sometimes I've resorted to just giving her crisps when we're in a cafe and there's nothing she will eat. At home, I sometimes just gather a selection of nibbles (breadsticks, cheese etc) and give her that because I'm cooking something else for the rest of us and I'm too tired to cook two separate things.

Pardonwhatnow yours sound nice, I want to try it! :)

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