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?

I microwave a packet of Doritos, topped with grated cheddar. But I do sprinkle with chopped garlic as some sort of nod to their nutritional well being!

My mum once made a big tin of tomato soup watered down go four ways. That was very lazy. Not a money issue.

Surely sugar sandwiches are exclusively for midnight feasts when they can't sleep?

They get a sugar rush and then konk out pretty much straight after - never fails!

Supernoodles!

rice and gravy. sometimes with some grilled chicken

Peanut butter pasta. With frozen peas for the deluxe version.

Nutella on toast
'Butter toast' the name given by my daughter to toast with butter!
TUC crackers with crisps (so much nutritionally valueless beige )
A plate of prawn crackers

I'm not proud of any of these but not ashamed either. Sometimes children eat rubbish and as parents, we let them

Cheesy pasta. DD absolutely loves it though and I will cut up some cucumber to stir through (she draws the line if I add tuna or tomato though).

Plain pasta with garlic bread DD has this regularly

Spaghetti, butter, Maggi and grated cheddar I think it's similar to the marmite pasta

Supernoodles best thing ever for them lazy days DS loves them more than proppa meals, no arguing(bribes) for him to eat his dinner. Winner winner no chicken dinner he says hahahahaha.

Only on mumsnet would pasta and chorizo be considered a shameful and crappy meal. And with corn on the cob too. OP needs reporting to the nutrition police

Beans from the pound shop and cheese on toast.

Chocolate hobnob topped with Philadelphia and a bit of chocolate sauce...it's a cheesecake...I guess...well, it's a quick dessert hehe

This thread is making me hungry for lots of lovely crap food.

Supermarket own tinned spaghetti hoops with those mini sausages, grated cheese on top served on buttered toast. DD loved it when unwell (although once I gave it her and she spewed an hour later, imagine the scene!!!).

Back in the 70's my DM served us tinned meatballs and tinned new potatoes.

'Naughty noodles'

(Those Golden Wonder ones you get in a packet with a little sachet of powdered flavoring whic you sprinkle on top after adding boiling water)

I also LOVE instant noodles, but I do put in sliced mange tout, tenderstem broccoli and swirl a beaten egg through the soup bit. DS will eat it on days he eats nothing else.

For us its pitta bread.. The most versatile food on earth! Spread some tomatoe puree on it, top with grated cheese and you have a pizza in no time , have with humous and some veg sticks, fill with leftover roast dinner or curry or some breaded crap from the freezer! Always a meal in minutes (and you can make it less crap by using wholemeal)

My most shameful dinner was when I made beetroot tulles, parsnip crisps, roasted sea bass as the main event, red wine jus and soda bread served separately with butter from my daddy's farm.

My post is at least as likely as the OP's.

Microwave admirals fish pie! My kids love it ... God knows how much salt is in those things- I choose not to look!

So my cba meals
Eggs bread sprinkled with some thing nice.
My mums mock crab, don't ask about the name, haven't a clue, Greater cheese mixed with chopped tomatoes and onions.
My really cba meal is minestrone soups, I buy the chopped veggies and put then in a pot to boil with a tin of tomatoes and a oxo. If you put it in a big enough pan it lasts a couple of days.

Mine are now late teens and we've always tried to maintain a healthy diet.

But there was a bi-monthly tradition established when they were about 4 & 5. Saturday 'Junk tea' is chicken goujons, croquette potatoes and tinned sweetcorn. The two former items must be purchased in Sainsbury's.

It's not often they ask for it now, but when they do it makes me smile.

Mr brains faggots usually with frozen mash. We love them. Way, way too much.

I can't believe people are acting so (reversed) snobbish about ops post. It's not like chorizo is posh or something...it's like salami!

But seasoned pasta, olive oil and chorizo - or even salami - served with veg - is not a "shameful" meal - and it DOES sound "posh" compared to tinned spaghetti and hot-dogs.