NC I do make my own pastry because if I buy ready rolled it tends to go out of date before I get round to using it because I am good at meal planning lovely wholesome meals, but often think fuck it and we have something less faffy.
I am doing tonight's twatting quiche with ham, cheese and a tomato. I do 6 or 8 eggs to one carton (either 284ml or 300 ml) of single cream. Whisk eggs and cream, add chopped ham, tomato ends chopped up and the cheese with salt and pepper. Pour into either your pastry case or pastry tin, top with a couple of thin slices of tomato, a bit more cheese and bake on about 170/180 for 25-30 minutes depending on your oven.
You can add anything to quiche really as long as it's not too wet. So cheese, ham, mushrooms, the tomato ends, onions etc. I do like a salmon, broccoli and tomato one M and S do but I think I would dry fry the broccoli for a few minutes before to dehydrate it a bit.
It's very calorific with the cream and pastry but I will have some tonight then for lunch for a few days with salad.
I banned dd from parties when she turned 12. Probably have her 16th in a function room or something but that's it really.
My dcs are fussy as well. Dd is veggie, ds refuses most veg. Ds doesn't like anything spicey, dd doesn't like processed foods or ready meals. They both eat cheese and tomato pizza, pasta with tuna mayo for ds and pesto for dd. Dd likes quesadillas with cheese and sweetcorn, both will eat toasties. Both like a sunday dinner. Both like quorn bolognese or lasagne if I make it. Dd likes omellete, guacamole, savoury rice, curry, quorn fillets. Ds likes fishfingers, chicken nuggets etc.
It's a battle to find something they will both eat and dh will eat. I usually end up cooking 3 separate meals. But dd will occasionally cook for them both, she has tonight after yesterdays bollocking 😁.
I think the worst thing for kids teeth is juice or fizzy drinks. I am really lucky because dd only drank dilute and ds only drank water or purple fruit shoots until this Christmas. He now likes apple and orange juice but have told him that's just a breakfast drink so he has one small drink with his cereal. The rest of the time its water unless we are out when he gets a fruitshoot.
How old is she longest? I bought jamie Oliver's ministry of food for dd when she was about 8/9 and let her pick 1 recipe a week to cook for us. It was an absolute pita having her faff around taking 2 hours to cook a meal but it was worth it, as she got a good idea of proper food and what's healthy and what isn't and it made her more adventurous. Maybe try something like that, talking about healthy foods, balance and sugar. Jamie Oliver is a pompous annoying twat but the kids know who he is and that he's all for healthy so they seem to relate to him more than say Gordon Ramsey or Hugh Fearnley whatshisknob. There are loads of simple, easy meals in that book and they are all pretty heathy.