to ask for your ultra quick easy meal ideas that your dc actually enjoy?

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I often find myself sticking a pizza in the oven at weekends then feeling guilty I feed my dc too much c**p. My healthy ish easy meals are omelette with peas and little roast potatoes and pasta with tomato sauce (chopped tomatoes, herbs, garlic, onion) with ham and cheese. I have had a complete mental block of any more ideas. My dc are fairly good eaters but turn their noses up at anything too exotic! Thanks in anticipation.

I buy those breaded chicken breasts that go in the oven. When they're cooked I slice them up and make wraps with them. I use paper plates to cut down the drudgery of washing up after to.

Meatballs are a quick and easy dish to make, gnocchi and tomato sauce. French stick pizzas instead of frozen 99p ones and we like homemade wedges with burgers or whatever.

Sausage pasta! Boiled pasta in tomato sauce (the Loyd Grossman jars are lovely) with chopped up frankfurter sausage in. Mine love it!

Or pesto pasta with bacon and peas.

Don't forget good old jacket potatoes too.

I was going to suggest mico rice too. Then adding peas and sweetcorn, or other veg they like, strips of ommelete
Flavour it to their taste, plain , or a bit of garlic. You can work up to soy sauce, ginger, chilli, different veg.

Do the same with noodles.

I also try and have a couple of sachets of "Look what we found" meatballs in tomato sauce or the chicken curry in the cupboard as my DCs share a sachet and really love them, and I'm happy that they don't seem to add anything I wouldn't be using in my own cooking.
www.lookwhatwefound.co.uk/

Partbaked baguette, you can use the rolls for smaller ones.
Cut in half.
Pizza base. Home made or passata or tomato pesto or whatever
Grated cheese on top.
Any other toppings.
Bake for 10 to 12 mins at temp on the packet.
Serve with carrot sticks, cucumber etc

Nigella's 'ritzy chicken nuggets' (basically small pieces of chicken soaked in buttermilk then coated in crushed-up Ritz and fried).

If they will eat creamy sauces.

Fry chicken pieces.
Add large spoon of garlic an herb philedelphia.
Splash of water.
Handful of frozen peas, sweetcorn.
Let it all cook through, it won't take long.

Serve with rice, or mash, ot baked potato toping.

Love this thread! Ours is scrambled eggs with spinach and muschrooms and lots of cheese.

Salmon fillets, skin-side down in the centre of an ovenproof dish with green beans on one side and halved cherry tomatoes on the other. Bake for 20 minutes at 180ºc.

Veggie sausages with peas, sweet corn and frozen mash

Microwave rice mixed with frozen broad beans and left over roast chicken

Falafel in pittas with grated carrot, hummus, mango chutney

Filled tortellini with peas and prdto

Haggis is also incredibly quick. Peel haggis, cut into big slices and microwave covered. Buy ready made swede mash and microwave that and some peas. Done

Not the healthiest but d's loves it, boil pasta with peas and sweetcorn then add a dollop of cheese spread and stir in, add grated cheese. Quorn chillie and bolognaise are also pretty quick.

The trouble with haggis, surely is that the kids quarrel over who gets the longer leg........

Sausage, mash & peas are a big favourite here - not hugely healthy but good comfort food on a dark Sunday evening!

Salmon fillets (frozen from aldi bout £3.50 you get about 6 portions) come in individual vacuum pack you you microwave 2.5 mins, micro steam veg, and noodles ( only 50p aldi) boil them for 5/10 mins.
chuck it all together on a plate drizzle on sweet chilli sauce/soy whatever they like.
Healthy and super quick - I like to tell myself it's steamed not microwaved!

Frozen puff pastry (ready rolled to be super lazy) grate 1 potato 1 onion and plenty of cheese mix together with splash of Worcestershire sauce or hendersons relish put on the pastry cook for 20 mins ish.
Cheese and bean toasties
Chicken breast in strips and coat in egg then (bought) breadcrumbs put in oven 20 mins ish
My youngest dd loves to have scrambled egg and beans and toast for lunch when the others are at school.
Pasta and a quick sauce made from onion garlic tinned toms & purée.