How can I feed my kids?

I agree, chopped veg and slow cooker.

Do you have a soup maker?
You can make really easy tomato sauce and of course several types of soup.... to make soup more filling add lentils or quinoa. Serve with read sliced bread.

Also why is frozen pizza a treat? Can’t be any unhealthier than say sausages or carton soup which are both on your list

I would get some of those child friendly knives and get your kids practising chopping stuff, grating things and making things like toast and pitta bread pizza.

I’d probably just do ready meals

Or nuggets/fish fingers/waffles/microwaveable veg packets/microwave rice/frozen pizza

Definitely not making casserole from scratch, getting out soup makers and slow cookers etc

Look the batch lady. She freezes stuff flat so it hardly takes up any space.

Pre chopped frozen veg is your friend too.

My son's favourite easy meal is pot pie (steak or chicken) and chips - pop both in the air fryer.

chicken thighs/ strips... bung them together with a tin of chicken/mushroom soup
casserole in oven/slow cooker....with either rice or mash. Put veg ?peas in the carrerole too. One pot, saves on washing up too.Mash can be bought frozen ...or mix up "smash" with water( and a blob of butter for extra creaminess.
Bulk cook and freeze.
Soup?? Got a soup maker?
PS Your kids will survive and maybe enjoy helping you. Most tinned/ frozen food is just as nutricious. Puddings, yoghurt, jelly, ice cream, tinned custard, tinned fruit etc
Good luck, it'll be a breeze!

Can't quite figure out the tone of most of the posts on this thread, but maybe that's just me.

I was thinking with the other hand.

You can buy already chopped onions, mushroom, peppers and bags of casserole mix in the freezer section for an easy casserole and diced chicken. Good luck with your op and frozen pizza is great when you’re recovering don’t be to hard on yourself! X

nothing the matter with ready meals for a couple of weeks to get you through this. Not every meal has to be premium quality.

I recently had emergency surgery on my non dominant hand but not able to use it at all. i prepared meals like you for the freezer including mash luckily due to a different planned op I also had 2 weeks with no oven or hob I found that fajita/ taco filling can be done in there minimal prep required.

How is she going to get them out?!

I also make cottage pies/lasagne/sweet & sour chicken type dishes and decant into those long thin type tin foil dishes to freezer as they fit in my Air fryer draw.

Frozen peas, peppers, broccoli and sweetcorn simple ways to add veg in the microwave

Jacket or baby roasted spuds are much easier than any other carbs

Scrambled egg and toast

Cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, feta and garlic in a tube will be great for roasting with little potatoes

That feta and cherry tomato tiktok pasta would be easy

And if you have space it might be worth getting a small chest freezer (( undercoated fridge size )) ......that way you can prepare dump bags for the slowcooker.
They come up really cheaply on Facebook all the time.

One of my go to meals for a lazy tea is a packet of marinated pork stir fry, packet of stir fry veg, some sauce and 2 packs of microwave brown rice.

Just fry the lot in one pan adding the rice at the end. I sometimes add a couple of eggs if I'm feeling fancy, it's bloody lovely for a no effort tea and no real prep or cleaning up after.

I would try simple things like, bacon and beans, stir fry, baked potatoes, ready made quiche and chips, lentil dahl etc 😋

Can you buy one of those mini chopper things, like a little food processor, for the veg and you should be able to do the rest with your non dominant hand?

You can buy packs of frozen pre chopped onion, carrot and celery mix - add to mince and tinned tomatoes for bolognese to go with jacket spuds or pasta, add beans and spices for chilli to serve with tortillas and grated cheese or frozen potato wedges.

When I broke my arm, getting hot trays or dishes out of the oven was a particular challenge. Before you are incapacitated, I would carefully train your children if reasonably sensible, to use oven mitts and to carefully put things in and out of the oven. Children of this age are carers for disabled parents, so they should generally be able to manage the basics.

I think you'll find it's easier than you are imagining. A few years ago I had to have my right hand screwed back together after a bad fall and it was in a huge foam cast for weeks. DD was 3 years old at the time. It was a bit of a faff getting her dressed and doing more physical jobs but it was doable and quite funny at times, she didn't wear anything with buttons for a few weeks and neither did I.

Food wise, we had lots of stuff that just went on a tray and got bunged in the oven.

• chicken drumsticks with oven chips and microwave veg
• pork chops with microwave rice or baked beans
• sausages and instant mash with microwave veg
• sausage/chicken thigh traybake - sausages, bag of sliced mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, bag of sliced onion, baby new potatoes. All in the tray together and bake till it's the right level of brown and crispy for your tastes.
• ready made lasagna, mac n cheese or pasta bake that comes in the foil container so it doesn't need to be decanted.

Breakfast was warburtons pancakes that just get microwaved for 30 seconds, or cereal, it's a bugger trying to butter toast one handed!

It's a really limited period of time in the grand scheme of things so if they eat loads of microwave meals or take aways then it doesn't matter, you'll get back on track soon enough.

If you have Instagram there's an account that chops/prepares everything needed for a selection of meals places into freezer bags and freezes the whole lot...

Grabs a meal bag out previous evening to defrost and throws the contents into the slow cooker next morning.

Filled pasta, carton of sauce with mini corn on the cobs or fine green beans.

packets of stir fry veg would be helpful.

go to a butchers and ask them to chop the meat for you that you want maybe if can’t buyit in a supermarket how you need it.

hope it goes well.

We have chicken in the airfryer a lot.
Thighs or legs go lovely and crispy or chicken breast fillets- easy enough to chuck in and throw some spice mixes on top.

Also you can use tongs to get stuff out of a pan of water if your worried about draining or a large holey spoon.

Create mini dump bags basically chop everything you would need for a casserole shove it in a portion bag then you can just add to the meat in the slow cooker