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?

Findus frozen pancakes
Tinned pie filling (any kind)
Tinned ravioli
Golden syrup sandwich

Fish fingers or frozen pizza is just a normal meal for us with some vegetables or salad. DH and I are not foodies and neither of us are overweight. I agree with the pp saying that no food is 'bad' or 'good'.

Those nasty tinned hotdogs with microchips!
It's only once in a blue moon and on a Wednesday when we literally have about 5 minutes at hone in between activities to eat AND get changed. We don't have anything like macdonalds within 10 miles so can't even grab them a happy meal!
I normally precook something that can be popped in microwave/slow cooker but occasionally I let them choose something from the garage which is invariably hotdogs or those microwave pizzas!

lettuce steamed rolls stuffed with ricotta and basil.

My DD regularly asks for tinned tombliboos for tea.

[translation: In The Night Garden themed pasta shapes in a neon orange tomato sauce. No actual tombliboos harmed in the making of this.]

Pasta mixed with a tin of soup

Rustlers microwavable cheese burgers or rib in a bun. They are gross but my kids love them.
For myself Tesco tinned cheese ravioli (bloody cheap too at 40p)

Kids favourite "tea" was from when we were stuck on the motorway in the car overnight during the 2007 floods - 2 tubes of Pringles and a pack of chocolate digestive biscuits... washed down with diet coke. They were 5 and 6.

"Do you remember when we had biscuits for tea?"

BeyondthePage I had a friend growing up who said her Dad used to announce "Right kids! Biccie tea tonight!"

Which they'd cheer at. She realises now it was because he was going out to the pub and just leaving them on their own with a load of biscuits! She survived though. Terribly neglectful to leave the kids on their own all night but all she remembers about those nights was the table full of biccies!

Tin spaghetti with garlic bread

Ds loved it and I felt better that it has an Italian twist seemed healthier

Fried egg, beans and potato waffles is a favourite

Tinned baked beans and sausages
Pasta and Sauce sachets

DS loves them

@xStefx

Pot Noodles here too for DD. For breakfast.

Frozen food is another thing mothers use to hit themselves and other mothers over the head with.

All the food listed are in my rotation because my daughters, like I was, are fusspots.

They like things like bread, rice, pasta, fruit and veg but I also feed them, shock/horror, frozen foods!!!

Frozen foods are fine - mine have frozen rice/veg/fish/mince/chicken/quorn/pizza/fruit/curry sauce/ice cream.

Not keen on beige stuff, but that applies to fresh, or even home-made, as well as frozen.

And I was so pleased recently when my three year old started eating fish dippers and chicken dippers! 😂

Chicken nuggets and potato letters/faces/waffles.

DH has managed to make Weetabix for dinner seem like a treat

Hotdogs or pizza

Chicken nuggets and chips.

Although recently I've been looking at my kids plates as I'm about to serve and thinking 'shit there's no vegetables' so chuck on some cucumber and carrots even for things like pasta...

I have always refused to buy into this faux horror when anyone mentions frozen food or something out of a packet. It's just food. People feeling "sad" because some kid is eating super noodles?!

Tinned mackerel and toast for my 3 year old

I wouldn't add salt to any meal for a child.

I, myself, love most of these meals!!

I think frozen pizza is probably the worst thing we cook and serve dd.

She does eat McDonalds / dominos / chinese etc from time to time too, though I am fine with that.

And we have things like frozen chips / hash browns / wedges as part of other meals that are often quick, such as high tea with hash browns (sausage, bacon, eggs, pudding, beans and hash brown) I think this is a fine dinner every once in a while.

Last night we had oven cooked M&S southen fried chicken breasts in Aldi brioche buns with oven sweet potato fries, coleslaw and cucumber on the side. Very quick, a bit processed probably but a fine dinner in my book.

I have never given her frankfurters or pot noodles and she might like both...must try them sometime

Super noodles
Pasta with tinned tomato soup and grated cheese on top
Tinned stewed steak inside shop bought Yorkshire puddings and chips
Tinned ravioli or meatballs on toast
Chips, egg and baked beans

Last night we had oven cooked M&S southen fried chicken breasts in Aldi brioche buns with oven sweet potato fries, coleslaw and cucumber on the side. Very quick, a bit processed probably but a fine dinner in my book

I love how it has to be pointed out that the burger is from M&S and the buns were brioche