What are you all making your kids for dinner? Need inspiration for my very picky kids!

[doihaveshingles]

My older kid is going through a very (annoying) picky-eater stage!

Need some inspiration. Sick of making pasta! Also think DC eat it too much of it

What are you all making for dinner?

Especially interested in what the vegetarians among you are making! (Picky eater doesn’t really like meat / fish.)

Thanks for the thread OP! Was just about to post similar myself as we have a new FC who is very picky and as we like food A LOT we are struggling for ideas that mean we can all eat together!
So far my main successes have been Turkey rotolo, homemade build-a-burger, homemade pizza (with lots of veg in the tomato sauce), popcorn chicken (chicken goujons with rice krispies coating) and cheese and spinach pinwheels

Chicken breast chopped into chunks and fried plus a jar of Pataks Korma, plus rice

Mine are having pie chips and carrots with gravy, n I'm having fish fingers and homemade chips.

Beans on toast DS and Dp have this every Monday night. It's always our 'easy tea' night due to work patterns.

I'm 7 months pregnant and don't fancy it, so not sure what I'm having yet. I have salmon and jacket potatoes to be used though so may just throw those on.

Also having this week:
Sausage pasta with tomato and peas
Hidden veggie Mac 'n' cheese with green beans and tomatoes
Chicken hotpot
Chilli and rice
Creamy ham and pea pasta
Turkey and feta burgers
Homemade tomato soup and bread rolls.

Tonight is steak pie, mash, carrots and brocolli
Tuesday chicken pea and pesto pasta
Wednesday quorn and veg korma
Thursday chilli con carne
Friday salmon,savory rice, baby sweetcorns and mange tout ( I slather mine in sweet chilli sauce, the kids have it plain)

My kids don't really like visible veg hence we eat quite a lot of casserole meals with hidden (diced small) veg.

Dinner for vegetarian dgc. Baked potato, sugar free baked beans, a little grated cheese with carrot and broccoli followed by raspberries and greek yoghurt.

Tonight DS has had tuna pasta salad. DP and I are having halloumi and butternut squash pasta.

For the rest of the week we’ve got roast dinner, fajitas, balti (DS won’t eat this so will probably do him some kind of chicken stir fry with rice and a drop of soy sauce), chicken/Quorn fillets with fries and veg.

I’m veggie and DS can be fussy (nothing spicy, no visible onions, prefers raw veg) so I tend to do meals that can be adapted for all of us.

Quick tea tonight of cheese on toast and tomato soup.

Planned for the rest of the week

Roast chicken dinner
Chicken curry made with leftovers
Tuna pasta
Toad in the hole
Pizza
Spag Bol

Leftover vegetable fritters and falafels from yesterday with salad and yoghurt flatbreads

We're having veggie stir fry. Toddler DS is having fish fingers, rice and cucumber

Just did the food shop so planned for this week are

Sausages, cheesy mash and veg
Fish cakes and sweet potato fries
Hasselback potatoes with ham and cheese placed in the 'cuts' then a white sauce over and veg
Marsetti (pasta dish with mince)
Risotto - chicken, leeks, mushrooms, peas
Lentil and chickpea dahl (yoghurt for DCs to cool it down slightly) and naan

Tonight was sausage casserole in the slow cooker with mashed potato

Other nights will be home made pitta pizzas, meatballs and pasta, scrambled eggs on toast, and homemade shepherds pie

Other things that have gone down well with DS5 are turkey bolognese pasta, one pot pasta, mushroom risotto, baked potatoes with various fillings, chicken fajitas, roast dinner, and pulled pork baguettes with coleslaw etc

We had fish pie with fish fingers as back-up for dd2 who I didn't expect to like it (& she didn't).

Dd1 said it was a bit plain though which is unlike her, she likes most things, so probably won't do it again.

Tater ash
Tomorrow will be pizza toast with mushrooms and peppers to make me feel righteous
Wednesday will be baked chicken thighs with veg..... haven't thought past that yet!!

DD had vegetable soup and a ham sandwich. She had a hot lunch at school - pasta and meatballs today.

Also on the menu this week: mushroom omelette with some raw veg on the side; leftover Irish stew; baked sweet potato with beans and cheese; sausages, cheesy macaroni and frozen veg.

Other faves:

Lamb chops, mash and peas
Quasadillas
Any pasta - batch cook the sauces or a pasta bake and freeze in portions
Toasted pita, raw veg and hummus
Breakfast for supper
Fish pie - batch cook and freeze
Mushroom stroganoff
Egg fried rice

6yr old and 18m old here

Their week looks like this

M - Jamie Oliver's spinach and mascarpone creamy tagliatelle with white fish flaked through.
T - spag Bol with salad - toddler with suck the toms/cuc and then spit them out but sometimes he eats them, it's like a lottery
W - breaded chicken, roast potatoes and broccoli/carrots/corn
T - pesto topped chicken breasts sliced with wraps, salad and corn on the cob
F - cod or Salmon fillets and oven chips with salad for big one and beans for little one
S - meal out
S - roast chIcken, pots, parsnips, broccoli, carrots, corn and yorkies (I know I know it's not beef)

Veggie wise favourites here are omelettes or houmous and pitta or cheesy toast with tomato soup or pizza!

random dinner here tonight. Cheesy pasta ( from left overs) oven cooked potatoes (large cubes baked) as ‘chips’ mayonaise for dipping. Cheese for sprinkling. Sliced cucumber and tomatoes on the side. All out on the table and help themselves.

Not terribly healthy but was eaten without complaint including by the 3 year okd recovering from tonsilitus who has lived of nothing but bananas and ice cream all week.

We're having frittata using leftover toppings from yesterday's homemade pizzas.

We’re having minted lamb burgers from t’butcher, sweet potato wedges and coleslaw and corn on the cob.

Lamb Tagine with giant couscous and pitta bread. Ds 8 only really ate the meat and bread.

For me (veggie) mozzarella and pepper moussaka with wild rice. Dd2 (almost veggie) scrambled eggs, cheese and pancake and of course most of mine)
Dd1 and DH gammon chips and peas.

Twistedankle I want yours!

We had gammon pasta and peas

We had chilli and chips tonight
Tomorrow is chicken & leek bake with potatoes