What do your kids have for tea/dinner?

[Blondie1993]

My New Years resolution is to try and cook properly on a regular basis! DS stays with his dad three nights a week so I only have to worry about the other 4. Cooking is not my strong point at all. I can cook/plan to learn the following:

• soup (can have this once a week plus some for lunches with bread)
• fish, potatoes and veg once a week
• meatballs and spaghetti in pasta sauce
• mince and potatoes
• roast chicken or ham joint with potatoes and veg
• stew
• pasta bakes

Wondering what everyone else feeds their kids and if they have any suggestions for someone trying to change habits of a lifetime?

I work during the week so preferably quicker meals on weekdays. I am also a complete weirdo when it comes to fruit/veg but if I can pick it out or it’s not too chunky I don’t mind. DS isn’t fussy and will eat/try most things!

We all eat the same. Some things we have often are:

Soup with cheese toasties (made parsnip and carrot today)
Sausage meatballs in tomato sauce with pasta
Chicken teriyaki with rice/noodles
Lentil dahl
Cottage pie
Spag bol
Chilli (either in a bowl with garlic bread or Doritos, made into burritos or with rice)
Wraps with a selection of fillings the dc usually go for humous, cheese, grated carrot and chicken
Ham hock frittata (no potato though so more of an oven baked omelette?!)

All of that is stuff I would make from scratch. We will usually have a pizza or something once a week too.

Why not give each night a theme? Monday is soup, Tuesday is Mexican, Wednesday is Italian, etc.then just look for a recipe to fit that night?

My kids eat what me and DH eat. I cook everything from scratch but also once or twice a week I will make something quick like toast on beans. Cheap, easy and sometimes my ten year old will even make it (with supervision).

Mine will eat things like

Pasta dishes
Risotto
Roast dinners
Curry
Fajitas
Tacos
Enchiladas
Chilli
Soups (if blended)
Homemade pizza
Noodle dishes
Breakfast for dinner
And so on.

We don’t eat slot of meat or dairy so I make them all without.

Lasagne with quorn mince
Jacket potatoes with cheese and beans
Omelettes with various fillings
Curries
Sausages and mash and veg
Toad in the hole

All of these are quick and easy

We regularly eat:

Soup and toasties
Fish pie
Lasagne
Salmon with potatoes and veg
Jacket potatoes
Curry
Chicken fillet burgers
Chilli
Pasta with a homemade sauce

My quick easy meals are:

Freezer tea (usually chicken nuggets, waffles and peas!)
Fajitas
Beans and cheese on toast

My tips would be a slow cooker, and to plan cooking for the week. For example I will slow cook a beef ragu for lasagne one day, fridge it overnight and it takes me 10 minutes the next morning to make a cheese sauce and layer it up ready to put in the oven when I get back from work. Jacket potatoes can be done in the slow cooker ready for when you get home. For fajitas I will marinate the chicken during the day, 10 minutes of chopping when I get home and chuck it in the wok and it’s done.