To think that coddle and fresh brown bread is a dinner?

[JinglingRexManningDay]

According to dd who is 14 and therefore knows everything its not. Now she had a bowl and a half before declaring shes full and is pestering for money for chips.

What's coddle?

Its like a stew with sausages and rashers in it.

of course it is.

Sounds fine to me. If she's still hungry could she have toast or cereal? That's what my mum said to me!

Sounds good!

I have pointed out the fruit bowl and the bread bin but according to her she needs chips because she didn't get a proper dinner,just soup

I'm half tempted to just serve her soup tomorrow.

If she gets pocket money/allowance she can use what she has left if she wants to buy food over and above what everyone else is having.

Oh, I miss my mum's coddle. Would love a bowl of it now, and yes, that's definitely a dinner.

Why is a 14 year old eating dinner at half four in the afternoon??

Can I have the recipe

Tell her she can have the money if she washes up

They get out at 3:15 every Friday and we live 10 mins from the school. We have dinner between 4 and half past.

She gets her pocket money on a Wednesday but spent it on a furry jacket with ears on the hood.

It is very early. Won't she have had lunch not long ago? Toddlers here ate lunch at 1.30pm, and will eat around 7.30pm this eve.
If I get in at 2pm I wouldn't eat dinner just as im in...

In regards to qu- sure caserole and bread sounds like food to me.

1lb of sausages
1lb of rashers
2 onions
5 carrots
1 red pepper
1 yellow pepper
Celery
2 packs of tesco stew meal makers
(Tablespoon of curry powder if you like)

Brown the sausages.
Cut and put all veg and meat into a big saucepan,put in stew mix cover and cook on a low heat for 3/4 hours.

Could you bargain with her that if she has fruit and toast now, then she could have some chips later on this evening as an extra? That way she doesn't see them as a replacement for healthy food, but as an occasional treat?

Sounds lush - but Googling it doesn't provide a recipe! What else do you put in?

Which region does coddle come from? Mumsnet is an ongoing education, isn't it.

My MIL makes coddle without browning the sausages. It gives me the boak. I could really go for a Macari about now

She has a packed lunch at 12:30 in school,breakfast before she leaves at 8:20. So I do think its a long gap,especially as she plays sports in the evenings.
She can get whatever she likes in fruit or yoghurts. She would usually have something small around 9:30 like a sandwich or some salad.

Jingling, that sounds proper lush. Definitely making next week.

Since when have peppers featured in coddle?

Oh I don't like unbrowned sausages. They look like zombie willies
Coddle is from Dublin AFAIK.

Leo Burdocks Snakey

They don't traditionally Flogging but my mum always put them in and I follow her recipe.

I just can't imagine eating that sort of food at 4.30pm in the afternoon, maybe that's what she finds odd? Would it be better to have a sandwich after school and then eat later or does that interfere with the sports .

I agree casserole & bread is a good meal, but I couldn't stomach it at 4.30pm .

It has never bothered her before. I'm starting to wonder is there a reason for wanting to go to the chipper

the time is surely irrelevant. esp if they always eat at that time.

the child has eaten a bowl and a half of it already! she doesn't really need chips too