AIBU to ask what very quick food your kid loves?

[Fruitbatdancer]

Have just discovered (through him stealing one of mine from take away at weekend) that DS who will try anything once but is fussy loves onion rings, thrown in the fryer 2.5 minutes. Given he doesn’t like potatoes or pasta this is a carb win!
Tell me younother “there’s no time, it’s all gone to shit today, I’m a bad mum just eat something and stop crying” dinners?
Thanks!
Ps promise to be a better mum and provide a nutritionally balanced non fried meal tomorrow!
Pps he had wetabix for dessert.

hotdogs, cut up into little bits (they have to be cut up ) with potato smilies and peas

PB and J sandwiches

Beans on toast :)
Always a winner. Followed by jelly for pud.
Or ham wraps.
Yes awful i know but they have hot lunches at school so i figure this once a week isnt really awful parenting

Poached egg on toast! 2 mins in microwave. Amazing!

Scrambled eggs and toast
Beans and toast
Bagel and cream cheese
Pasta and pesto

Tinned pasta shapes. You know, like Thomas or tellietubby shapes. 30s in the microwave. Add cucumber sticks for a ‘vegetable’.

“What’s for dinner?”
“Stew and dumplings/ spaghetti bolognese/ chicken curry that took me about an hour to prepare/cook.”
“Meh/ bleugh”

“What’s for dinner?”
“Wraps with ham and cheese and cucumber, I threw the wraps in the oven for 5 mins and everything else is on the table, knock yourself out.”
“Yay!”

Frozen mash, beans and cheese. Cheap and dead quick (very useful for the days we have clubs and are back late).

Pasta with butter and cheese. Stir. Serve. 👍🏽

Poached egg on marmite toast
Bagel with honey or cream cheese
Quesadillas (sort of - it's grated cheese inside two tortilla wraps, toasted in dry frying pan)

Microwave rice with tinned tuna
Scrambled egg (microwaved)/tinned tomatoes or mushrooms on toast
Hard boiled egg (tend to keep some in the fridge) with cherry tomatoes, rice cake and cucumber

Probably the quickest thing we make is scrambled egg on toast. The egg is cooked by the time the toast pops up so we can have tea on the table in about 3 minutes flat.
But if we're having "one of those days" and I just want something she'll definitely eat enthusiastically then it's sausages. She would eat sausages with a side of sausages for every damn meal if I let her.

Love these! If only he ate eggs 😭 I do keep meaning to try him with a scotch egg? Maybe that would work!

Frozen peas, still frozen. This is a happy life changer for me.

Scrambled eggs on toast, I put a few cherry tomatoes on the side.
Tinned beans & sausages on toast.
Chunks of cheese & ham with tomatoes and cucumber slices and ‘fingers’ of bread.

Fishfinger sandwiches
Super Noodles
Cheese on toast

Pasta
Grated cheese
Squirt salad cream
Tuna
Sweet corn

My youngest I another absolute pasta refuser, it cuts out my standard pasta pesto go-to which used to be a fail safe for Dc1 and 2. He likes:

Scrambled eggs on toast,
eggy bread or
cheese on toast/ toasted cheese sandwiches

Rather bread heavy!

He'll eat a small jacket potato with butter and baked beans if he's hungry enough.

Porridge and jam...

Sliced apples/ cucumber/ raw carrots on the side, though he has to be instructed to eat any frit or vegetables but apples, which he'd eat by the tree full, and does in fact climb trees to eat

(he wouldn't eat eggs in any form til he was 6, the texture used to make him gag - fried and soft or hard boiled still do, but glad he eats them in two forms for now).

omlette always a winner, scrambled egg, beans, get a flat bread add passata and motzerella grill and it's a pizza

Microwave rice mixed with tuna, sweetcorn and mayo. I love it too.

Supernoodles - can make them healthier by added in some left over chicken or some veg while their cooking. We have ours with a fried egg on top but DD doesn't do eggs

Pasta shapes in sauce - sometimes with cold cocktail sausages thrown in

Pasta with mini meatballs (the Dolmio ones that comes in a packet that you pop in the microwave!)

Micro chips...add anything

Scotch pancakes with Nutella

Ham and Philadelphia cheese pinwheels

I’m a terrible mother

Anything on toast... Beans, cheese, spaghetti, butter.
We have the annabel karmel kids meals in the freezer too. 6mins in the micro & they're done. Good for back up & gets some veggies in.

Fish finger sandwiches he will also eat, though not a whole one...

He can live on fresh air and apples for a whole day if not offered anything he fancies, but he can eat an entire 30cm take away pizza given the opportunity once a month... He's knocked most of the complacent/ smug ideas I had about children and eating when I only had 2 kids on the head!

Pancakes but they're not quick when cooking for 5 people who want at least 3 each...

His range expanded quite a lot between age 5 and 7 though.

Couscous
ham
egg
Sweetcorn
peas
Coleslaw
cheddar
Baked beans
Fish fingers
Toast
Cucumber
Any of the above in any combination depending on what I have in, since he has no concept of which things are supposed to go together.