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?

Big at this thread and what some people think is a "crappy" meal.

We take it in turns to choose Friday night meals. Last week it was two large bags of Doritos, two tubes of Pringles (on special offer at Spar), leftover pizza from the previous night's crappy meal and a shed load of chocolate. This might have been my choice of meal, not the kids, because I seem to remember that wine was included as well.

I think people often confuse easy/quick meals with 'crap' meals. They aren't the same. I would cry hot tears of rapturous joy if ds1 would eat most of the things on this thread. As it is the BEST meal he eats is a carpet picnic with wheat bran breadsticks, humous, mini sausages, chopped peeled apple, and bought cheese and ham quiche. That is easy and quick and as nutritious as he gets. When he eats that i am punching the air with smugness that he may have had 2 portions of fruit/veg that day.

He eats sausages with/for virtually every meal. We rotate salmon fishcakes (sainsbo) and nothing else, sausage and chips (no veg), cheese and ham quiche (again sainsbo and no veg), steamed frozen chicken gyoza (waitrose) and sweet soy dip and carpet picnic for dinners every day. Breakfast is sausage. Lunch is chicken sandwich and sausages and crisps and an oat bar. Every day. All of those come under 'quick and easy' but i don't consider any of them crap.

I give my kids stuff they'll eat and never feel shame.

I would if I gave them maccies for days on the trot because of laziness but otherwise I don't.

Oh i forgot - Some nights its just chocolate cookies from Lidl and every Monday its a gregs sausage roll each (ds2 has beans with his so i think that's quite good) that my mum brings over.

Spaghetti with grated cheese on top. They love it.

One of pp mentioned supernoodles on white bread with cucumber. I think I need to try this. I would add salad cream (cucumber IS salad after all!) and it has the potential to be my new food of the gods.

One of my kids favourite cheapo meals is cut up hot dogs with a few strands of spaghetti threaded through. Boiled to fuckery then stirred through with a tin of blended chopped tomatoes a bit of Cajun powder with Doritos on the side. :o

Mac n cheese.

Not gourmet homemade mac n cheese either. Straight out of the Kraft box. Mmmmm.

A really easy macaroni cheese is this:
Boil pasta
Add a carton of double cream and a packet of Parmesan cheese.
Tiny salt / pepper / paprika.
Mix
Add cheddar on top.
Bake
Then serve with cucumber

I was only half taking the piss with my cucumber and supernoodles comment... There's something about little diced up bits of cold stuff mixed with hot sweaty noodles that just works. It's equally as good with diced red onion.

ThymeLord I couldn't agree more!
Onions, peppers, tomatoes and cucumber go with anything. Carbs on carbs and cold chopped up veg-heaven!

Heinz ravioli (so easy but yet so nasty fuck knows what's in it)

Chicken super noodles
Pasta with butter and cheese
Two meals my daughter loves but make me feel the shame

Heinz tomato soup with a cheese & ham toastie.

Beef burger sun (family recipe passed down the generations ) - beefburger, crinkle cut chips placed round the outside like 'rays' in a circle, Heinz spaghetti 'hair', face cut out of cucumber or cherry tomatoes.

On a mad busy swimming night (We don't have time before to make a proper tea as go straight from school - Although technically I suppose I could make a nutritious sandwich to take....-I get my dd a cheese and onion pasty from Pound Bakery!!!!! (I worry I might bump into someoneI know who'll judge me!)

Have you heard of food poverty OP. Millions of kids in UK have no food. The only thing shameful is your attitude

Hot dogs and cheesey pasta always makes me feel poverty-ish when I give it to my kids. Even though this was common food I ate growing up too. (Not in U.K.)

Beans on toast or fish finger butty
Or when I'm being even lazier it's a Domino's pizza, though that's rare as I often can't afford to be that bone idle

Mcdonalds

Love a piece in fish fingers! Or a piece in waffle!

Every time DH was away on business, cheese toastie with beans on top.

Pizza. I hang my head in shame.

summer I have been known to run with the kids from school to Domino's to get there before 4 o'clock for the £4.99 collection special. Once we were to late and had to have frozen pizza from Iceland, sad times.

I love the fact that many supermarkets call chicken nuggets 'gougons' now as though they're somehow healthier, my kids love them with potato waffles and spaghetti hoops.
Also, after school snacks, in reception, I used to arrive with a banana or an apple and water. Now it's often a bag of quavers and a cartoon of juice.

Pasta and pesto! Shameful??
That's a weekly meal in our house, with either bacon, chicken or chorizo thrown in. Or coriander pesto with leftover roast beef thinly sliced. Delicious!