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

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user1491572121 · 26/04/2017 10:57

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. 'Grin

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?

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BeyondThePage · 27/04/2017 18:32

Pizza. I hang my head in shame

Just fancy cheese and tomato on toast. Or a cooked open cheese and tomato sandwich - and because the tomato is cooked it is full of Lycopene which is very good for you indeed.

Add in herbs and vegetables and anchovies and olive oil and you have a nice balanced "Mediterranean" diet.

Don't diss the pizza!!!!!

Mermaidinthesea123 · 27/04/2017 18:34

I always cooked a proper meal for my son, it stopped me from feeling guilty about everything else.

sticklebrix · 27/04/2017 18:41

Pasta with a squirt of ketchup and grated cheese.

sticklebrix · 27/04/2017 18:42

Not ashamed though!

Elendon · 27/04/2017 18:49

Pasta, olive oil and and a scattering of chorizo on top. Said with an India Fisher accent.

Is that better?

TwigTheWonderKid · 27/04/2017 18:53

A tin of Heinz spaghetti bolognaise. Each.

Elendon · 27/04/2017 18:54

Can I just say that fish finger butty is the food of the gods. End. Of.

Mind you a crab open sandwich at the Galway Oyster festival (the Oysters were meh). But that sandwich with a good pint of the black stuff. Dreamy.

LockedOutOfMN · 27/04/2017 18:56

Our kids eat a proper lunch at school so dinner almost every evening is shameful! Boiled eggs or omelette, bowl of soup or lentils or chickpeas (all picked up as takeaway from local bakery / deli). Posh for us is half a tuna steak with some frozen green beans.

Elendon · 27/04/2017 19:03

Can someone please explain what a proper meal is?

PodgeBod · 27/04/2017 19:06

I've seen lots on here that I would class as proper meals. A few are my idea of high-effort.
For me, if it has 3 different components and one of them is a vegetable it is a proper meal. Fish fingers, chips and a roll= junk. Fish fingers, chips and peas= healthy and proper.

GolyHuacamole · 27/04/2017 19:07

I think most things on here are proper meals, if you had them every single day you may start with problems. But the odd time I really don't see a problem.

FWIW my can't be arsed meal is to put the DCs in charge Wink

saltandvinegarcrisps1 · 27/04/2017 19:08

3 packets of crisps Blush

saltandvinegarcrisps1 · 27/04/2017 19:08

3 packets of crisps Blush

saltandvinegarcrisps1 · 27/04/2017 19:10

Its so bad, I said it twice!

ammette · 27/04/2017 19:10

Mine was years ago and is as yet unsurpassed :) Flat sharing in the 80's with a friend, woke up with gin hangovers Sunday. Skint (as per) so it was a Tenko tea, as we christened the desperate cupboard raid. We rustled up dried onions (left by previous owner, methinks!!) tinned meat (might have been Pedigree chum - I was in too much of a state to figure it out,) crowned with some watery instant mash - kinda granules with water and well out of date ...) helped only marginally by a dash of tomato ketchup. It was a challenge, combined with the hangover but it was that or nothing. An hour after digesting this horror, flat mates parents phoned to invite us round for a full blown sunday roast - sadly, overfull by the feast from hell, we d fallen asleep and missed the call - the whole experience has scarred me for life :):) xx

Jakeyboy1 · 27/04/2017 19:13

JAM SANDWICHES!

Elendon · 27/04/2017 19:20

I take your JAM SANDWICHES and raise you

SUGAR SANDWICHES (with butter as well).WHITE BREAD ONLY!

Chamonix1 · 27/04/2017 19:22

Nobody flinched at the caviar on toast ...not one person

Apart from me

NellieFiveBellies · 27/04/2017 19:29

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Chamonix1 · 27/04/2017 19:30

Hmm.
It's mumsnet. So 50/50 imo

Jenniferturkington · 27/04/2017 19:38

Mumsnet bubble at its best on this thread.

Millions of children across the U.K. eat these 'shameful ' meals everyday.

Across the world a very small percentage of children are lucky enough to get such calorific & varied food everyday as these 'shameful' meals.

crazyspaniellady · 27/04/2017 19:40

I had no idea super noodles were bestowed upon us by satan himself! I LOOOOVE 'em!

No DCs here, but I lived exclusively off of tuna, TK & mozzerella toasties when I was 4. The occasional box of Shock CHEESY PASTA! I turned out fine.

BarbaraofSeville · 27/04/2017 19:48

I have a box of Kraft Mac n Cheese dinner in the cupboard that I bought from the pound shop of all places that I plan to eat very soon thanks to this thread, and would have had tonight if I hadn't had the fancy focaccia bread thing and one of the puddings out of the M&S Dine in for a tenner that I bought on the way home from work (DP is away until Sunday so the main thing will still be in the fridge but I don't think the other pudding or the wine stands much chance).

Cuppatea85 · 27/04/2017 19:49

Cheesy pasta made with dairylea triangles for the sauce DD loves it

Talith · 27/04/2017 19:54

Burger king three days in a row?