What's your most shameful crappy meal for the DC?

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Sometimes I don't want to think about what to make for dinner, I make pasta with nothing but olive oil and a bit of salt on top and then I scatter chorizo on it.

The kids love it and think it's a treat. '

Today (I'm in Oz and it's night here) I made them that but served them with corn on the cob too as a side vegetable.

What are your crappy, easy go-to meals for kids?

Xsara I want it now! Sounds lovely with cheese!

KD with ketchup.

Oh I am a big believer in 'carpet picnics'. Ham, bread and butter, veg sticks, cheese and chocolate. In front of Cbeebies usually.

Tedious stealth boast

Tinned spaghetti on toast.
They seem to love it.
That's a bad day for me usually, it literally takes three minutes to make and they eat it all.

*Looking forward to seeing how this is written up in tomorrow's Fail.

Mumsnetters reveal their go-to emergency kid's meals - including POT NOODLES!

^Revealed! How Mumsnetters feed their children in a hurry. Warning - some of their ideas may SHOCK you!"*

They'll wait til Sunday and release a sealed supplement. :o

With recipes.

Has anyone mentioned sausage rolls from Gregg's??

We have a mix and match tea before shopping day ( using whatevers left in the fridge / cupboard ) ham cheese supernoodles crisps spaghetti etc

Boiled potatoes butter baked beans and cheese ontop
Noodles with sausages chopped up
Frozen veg chucked in a pot add chicken stock boil and blend! Verge soup

Are you Gwyneth Paltrow? Anyone who thinks pasta, chorizo and olive oil is a shameful crappy meal must live in a very middle class bubble

Some of the meals on here sound lovely and not at all crappy!

I was thinking along the lines of a McDonald's happy meal or super noodles

My sister once said disparagingly, oh no we never have supernoodles - whilst eating a "Japanese miso ramen soup." (looked like watery supernoodles to me!)

Pizza, take away, fish fingers or chicken goujons with chips and peas.

Pesto pasta or pasta with tuna and mayo is a bit shit, but the kids love it. Also fried rice with tuna and peas which they drown in soy sauce.

My eldest 2 (now 15 and 24) still talk about the time I went away for work for 3 days and they had supernoodles every night for their dinner because DH got them on a deal in Asda. To be fair he did mix the flavours!

Fish fingers and chips (done in the airfryer, at least) and beans. I don't think that's too bad.

Beyond but Supernoodles have additives in the flavour sachets which are pretty bad don't they?

French no I really don't live in a middle class bubble. I do live in Australia though where processed foods are really expensive! Maybe I've lost touch a bit. Local produce is much easier to come by here than in the UK.

Pizza. The cheapest Sainsbury's own, I stopped adding side vegetables to it because DS won't have them anyway. He considers pizza THE biggest treat ever.

Ever since we got the morphy richards soup kettle though, soup is my laziest option ever. Chuck in all the leftover veg, some herbs and spices, 20 minutes, blend, et voila! It's not exactly crappy though, just embarraingly simple and has been an total game changer in terms of how we eat.

morphy richards soup kettle

Ooh, this looks great!

I'm still guffawing at the pp who is ashamed to admit she gives her kids leftover chicken with mash and veg.

I dream of my DS eating such nutritional riches.

Literally everything he eats is on this thread. It's much like my own diet as a kid too. So what, he'll expand his tastes as he gets older.

I'm not going to work myself up into despair or rage over it.

It is. It is one of these gadgets that you either love and will use every day or you consider pointless. I use it all the time. I am fully aware I can make soup in a normal pot and then blend it. The soup kettle makes it so convenient though. In the morning I'll put it on to make my soup for lunch whilst I'm in the shower, then it goes in my thermos cup and it's fab.

Ramen, if the packet kind with the flavour sachet probably have just as much artificial crap in them as supernoodles.

Hotdog sausages cut up into instant noodles are an excellent quick n dirty meal btw.

Love all the random addition of cucumber. I'm sure that no-one outside Mumsnet would serve cucumber with hot dogs or chicken nuggets .

plain pasta baby, with butter - and sliced cucumber on the side

Supernoodles on 15p white bread. With cucumber.

I have been reading along and 100% this is a cultural/nationality thing, OP. My meals are like yours.

When DH cooks, even if he just cooks for the kids and he's making us a separate dinner later*, he'll do them a chop each, mashed potatoes and steamed vegetables and probably a sauce, which I think is overkill but he thinks me (English born) using oven chips as a side along with sausages and salad is lazy. Obviously I think it's overkill, but he didn't have posh or foodie parents, so maybe that's just Australian norms?

*Because ours has lots and lots of chilli in it.