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?

Cereal. That's our real cba meal.

We don't have any bad food but our lazy teas are:

Pesto pasta
Cheese and pesto toasties
Breaded chicken fillets on muffins with cheese and coleslaw
Curry super noodles with hot dogs and cheese
Fish finger butties
Spaghetti hoops and poached eggs on toast
Frozen paella from Lidl (DS's DSM is Spanish so he's not overly keen as he can get the real thing at her house)

All those lazy teas listed there are just normal teas for us

"Cold Things"

All the leftovers from the week, served tapas style, possibly with the edition of cheese, cold meats, hummus, bread and salad if we have any of them in.

Uses stuff up from the fridge and requires zero effort.

Not shameful though, just not much work!

I used to eat salad cream sarnies, thick white bread with a big splodge of salad cream spread over squash bread together and devour

Those small Chicago town pizzas. I feel ashamed when I give it to my 18 month old

When asked what was the best meal his mother cooked my godson, then 7, announced "Beans on Toast"

Again not shameful, but funny!

Star Wars spaghetti from a tin.

I wouldn't call plain pasta a 'normal' meal. All yellow and dry and sad? No sauce, no flavours? It's a step below dry cereal without milk.

Bit confused at the couple of posters who gave their kids "breadsticks and cheese" because they were cooking dinner and didn't want to make two things. Whatever happened to serving the children the same as the adults? I never cook two things either.

Um, yeah, we do frozen pizza sometimes. But the idea of giving my kids Supernoodles or dry bread and butter makes me sad. That's like reading about people who blend up McDonalds to put in babies' bottles. I don't think there's any excuse, really, to declare you're just going to give them "the scrag end of a loaf" and giggle it's "a lazy meal" and "there are no bad foods." And the thought of adults eating a proper cooked meal while the kids nibble breadsticks is pretty depressing too.

For lunch it's definitely Peppa Pig pasta

SabineUndine
yum, that sounds lush!

From a tin, I must add!

niangua YABVVU the end of the loaf is the best bit! Children should be grateful for the sacrifice of it!

I used to love white bread spread with pesto as a kid - especially the end!

dry cereal without milk.
DD2's breakfast of choice.

Nia that's what I think! Plain, sad pasta with salt and olive oil and some chorizo...it's bad! No sauce....but the kids like it.

Cheap asda curry noodles that cost 34p.

And that's it 😂

My four kids are fussy little gits, and while I can parent and tell them what to do etc, sometimes I cannae be arsed with the fight, so the hotdogs are literally chucked into the saucepan and even sometimes have had to throw inside slices of bread instead of rolls! Do I care? lol, they eat plenty most of the time, they have colour in their cheeks, energy to play, they're nice kids with a ready smile, a few nights of crappy dinners isn't going to change that! lol.
My eldest is going off to Uni soon so fishfingers smothered in custard can't have hurt him too much! ;-) Bloomin' Dr Who! lol

We make our own nuggets, well, actually, the kids do as part of their lesson lol. We home ed our lot, and one of the best lessons to do with all of them is cooking...but still entitled to the odd cereal for dinner night! lol

Ashamed to admit if given my 1 year old some of my macaroni cheese ready meal

Grilled cheese sandwich. Once in a blue moon this is dinner and the kids never minded (& remaining kid loves it), but I feel it's copping out somehow.

Nothing wrong with pasta! Some dc only like it plain with a bit of cheese or similar if that's what they like what's the issue

I am ashamed of none of my dc meals and I think unless someone is feeding a child pot noodle everyday they shouldn't be ashamed either. As long as a child's diet is good overall it's fine

My babies are only small but now and then have

Plain pasta with grated cheese, it's how they like it
Pizza
Turkey dinosaurs/fish fingers, chips/wedges and beans
Thomas the tank pasta shapes on toast

Freezer Hodge Podge.

Its all the half bags and boxes of crap that I have bought on CBA days, nuggets, wedges, oven chips, fish fingers, scampi etc plus leftovers such as frozen sausage/cheese onion rolls, samosas etc from Xmas/parties all shoved in the oven and served buffet style on the coffee table. The kids think it is the biggest treat ever and now actually ask for it as their birthday dinners so I have to shop for it!

My crap food is a hot dog sausage sandwich on white bread with loads of ketchup (which I normally hate) and american mustard. Dirty and wrong and the food of the gods!

Pasta, frozen peas, grated cheese and a spoonful of mayo stirred in (it maybe crappy but it would be my choice of 'last meal' or maybe my other crap meal - cheesy mashed potato with peas)

French toast topped with baked beans & cheese, it's DS favourite meal!

packet of microwave rice and a tin of bins, its was dd favourite and now at uni she seems to have it a lot !