I just made a really quick meal which my children loved! Share your after-work quick tea successes!

[BikeRunSki]

After work quick tea, wolfed down by the DC!

Cooked some pasta
Chopped up a couple of tomatoes and a ball of mozzarella
Fried up a box of lardons
Mixed the pasta, mozzarella, toms and lardons together. Added a few black olives, a couple of abel spoons of philly and a blob of pesto
Stuk it in a dish
Cover in grated cheddar
Grilled it

I thought I'd made enough for DH's tea too, but there's hardly any left. This never happens! They both ate it all up, even DS who "doesn't like tomatoes".

I called it "Pizza Pasta" because its all the stuff you'd usually get on a pizza, but in pasta.

[luckylucky24]

Omelettes made in the toastie machine. They go down a storm! DH makes a cracking poached egg on toast which also goes down well.

[ShowMePotatoSalad]

My DS loves pasta sauce made from onions, garlic, tinned tomatoes, smoked paprika, with pasta shapes and some cheese and parsley on top.

He loves scambled egg on toast soldiers with a bit of cheese and cucumber on the side.

Pesto pasta

Cheese and ham quesadilla with tomatoes on the side

Toast pizza - like cheese on toast but with pizza sauce, then cheese, and toppings like tuna or mushrooms

[IateallthePies654]

Omelettes in a toastie machine?!! What witchcraft is this?

[measles64]

For those of you who have children who hate eggs, I came up with something which decades down my grandson loves.

Whisk up raw eggs, add Paxo sage and onion stuffing leave for five minutes to be absorbed then just cook like an omelette they all love it, we named it omloaf. I have had friends children scoff it when they hate eggs.

[paddypants13]

One pan spicy chicken cous cous from the BBC Good Food website. Delicious and takes hardly any time.

[BastardGoDarkly]

measles I'll be trying that!

[Princecharlesfirstwife]

pretty much exactly the same as yours except replace the pasta with ready rolled puff pastry and bam, you have a puffy pizza pie. Takes seconds to prep and 10 mins in the oven

[measles64]

Oh and another dish we named cowboy beans. Take a tin of baked beans a small frying pan, put oil in, add curry powder stir in and gently fry for a minute then chuck in the baked beans, keep stirring until most of the tomato liquid has gone. It can look a bit mushy but the children love it.

[Acornantics]

Boil rice, and whilst it's cooking, put chopped fresh/frozen veg in a wok, with left over roast chicken or any cooked meat/prawns/salmon, on low heat to gently cook/warm through.
Add cooked rice to the wok and season.
Crack two eggs into the wok and mix well as the eggs cook. Delicious, healthy 'egg fried rice' ready in a few minutes.

[NewPuppyMum]

Great thread

[feetheart]

Cook pasta then stir in cream cheese, a bit of ham and some frozen sweetcorn.
Bake 1 salmon fillet with juice of a lemon and some butter. Cook pasta whilst it is baking - stir salmon with all the lemony juices into pasta and serve with veg.
Both of mine will eat huge bowls of both of these :)

[BikeRunSki]

All sounds good. I'll try the Omloaf for sure, they "say" they "hate" eggs, but will eat egg sanwhiches and French toast.

[measles64]

bastard go darkly you can cook them by tipping in a tablespoon at a time rather like a scotch pancake into the fat so they have individual ones rather than doing it in one lot. Just pile them up on a plate.

[BikeRunSki]

Acornantics DD used to have that for lunch at least twice a week before she started school. DS treats both rice and eggs with a large degree of suspicion.

[Millipedewithherfeetup]

How many eggs measles ? Is it a whole pack if paxo ?

[KindergartenKop]

Boil pasta.
Drain.
Add olive oil.
Serve.

[measles64]

Millipede no one egg per child, then say a dessertspoon of paxo per two eggs. It really thickens up after a few minutes, if it is too thick to gloop off the spoon you can add a spot of milk. Oh and my lot said it had to be Paxo, the generic stuff does not taste the same.

[AdaColeman]

Instead of grilling the dish as a final step, just serve up when the philly/pesto has been warmed through and created a sauce with the pasta pan on a low heat, quicker and no baking dish to wash up.

[Purplebluebird]

Jerk chicken burger!

Bash chicken breast flat-ish with a rolling pin or something
Marinade in a mix of oil, thyme and 1 tsp jerk seasoning per piece of chicken
Leave it for 5 minutes to marinade, before frying it on the pan. Serve with usual burger stuff, a mayo/kethcup mix dressing and some mango! Recipe from bbc somewhere. So easy, and little one loves it!

[NannyR]

Pack of smoked mackerel, warmed up in the microwave, steamed baby potatoes and green beans - takes about ten minutes to get on the table and they love it, they see mackerel as a real treat (strange kids!) it's a portion of oily fish so good for them too.

[imthelastsplash]

Go to quick meal here is pasta with tinned mackerel broken up into it, tin of sweet corn, broccoli and some pesto

Cheats fried rice (it's called mum chuck flung here) fry some pancetta or lardons, add a couple of crushed garlic cloves, microwave a packet of rice (we like mushroom) let it cool and then chuck it in and add a couple of eggs

[IlPorcupinoNilSodomyEst]

Omloaf sounds great! Will be trying that.

[bookworm14]

Bookmarking this thread - thanks all!

[cakesonatrain]

All the Ps
Pasta, pesto, pink fish, peas.
The kids love it!

Our pink fish is a "pan-fried" salmon fillet.
DD (3) was inspired by her love of this dish to order the salmon off the kids menu in a pub recently. She was expecting lovely soft just-cooked fish. She got a dry pink lump. If I can do it properly, why can't they?

[Millipedewithherfeetup]

Thanks measles ! Will be giving that a go !