my dd is not a bread lover, and likes to have a little of lots, if that makes sence.
her Lunch box is very similar most days as are most childrens I imagine, I doubt very much anyone notices. so long as they are fed happy and have enough to fill thier littlen tummies and fuel thier brains.
dd has in her lunch box any of the following.
mini bread sticks (asda glutin free) or rice cakes, pitta and/or cheese
grapes, cucimber and tomatoes or a little satsuma or melon
meat. cooked chicken, beef, pork sandwich meat, salami, ham
yoghurt
little box of raisns
ceral bar, harvest or little pack of cow biscuits
crisps, hulahoops, mini cheders.
a little tub filled with humus.
sometimes she will have a wrap filled with meat and cucumber. (nont know if wraps or pitta are glutin free or if you can get free ones.
toasting the bread and allowing it to go cold before buttering may work with a sandwick in her lunch box, that way it will not go soggy
For main meals.
start the chicken you cook off on a very high heat and say 180 then reduce to a lower heat say 150, in my experience chicken can often double cooking time or need to add a good 20 degrees to heat.
pan fying untill browned before going in the oven oftyen helps.
mild chilli/spag boll, just flavour with a little garlic, turmeric and paprika to get that chilli flavour.
mince and pasta with cheese on the top. use carrots or sweet pt to enhance the sauce, cook it down untill the finly diced sweet pot has disintegrated.
lamb or chicken curry, flaovour with fenigreek, lime, garlic, turmeric and creme freche and/or a tin of tomatoes to get that curry flavour with little heat. also works with sweet pot or butternit squash and green beans or prawns prawns and mix spinache in athe end, pinnaple is lovely with chicken or prawn.
my dd hates chips or potatoes so often just has extra veg. she will eat a little mash, but she adores parmasan potatoes. my own creation, dice the potatoes up into cubes an inch or less, par boil untill tender but firm, allow to cool then toss in a fair handfull of parmasan cheese and a smiggen of marmite (optional marmite) and place on a pre heated oiled baking tray, cook at a very high heat 180 to 190 for around 15 mins, shaking half way through.
basic rissoto with a choice of veg
basic paella with a choice of veg.
any meat in the slow cooker with an oxo cube a mix of herbs and a slugg of wine, red for red meat and white for white meats. served with either a large helping of veg and crusty bread or rice, pasta or potatoes.
home made soup of any variety, use a veg or chicken stock as a base and add anything to bulk or thicken from lentills, meat, carrots, potatoes, veg, rice, pasta. experiment!!
sausages and green lentills, very simple and cheep. cook sausages under grill or in pan, cook green lentils from a tin is easier but dries is cheeper, mix in a tin of tomatoes or a dash of wosterchetire sauce, a sprinkle of sugar and some diced carrots, a little water stodgy. serve sausages over the top.
|I wpould recomend looking for a bsic five ingredient cook book and ause this a basis and experiment with what you fancy.