Absolutely fine! Just because a cooked “fancy” dish has the ingredients mixed together and heated up doesn’t make it more nutritious, in many cases it can mean its LESS Nutritious.
I raised dd alone since she was a toddler and for several years was working full time AND helping care for an elderly relative so was run ragged!
Dd LOVED this sort of “picky” dinner and it even meant she ate some things she wasn’t normally a big fan of! Parenting win right there!
Your meal has protein, healthy carbs, fats, calcium, vits & minerals it’s fantastic!
@nowayorhighway nothing wrong with pizza either, carbs, calcium, plenty vits and minerals if you do decent toppings. I’ve done myself a pizza tonight. It’s just me here now so I don’t get big pizzas I just get a “bargain” individual cheese and tomato one in my Sainsburys shop and I add some sliced veggies and extra cheese.
I struggle with my mh and at one point couldn’t cope with cooking at all. I felt very guilty that dd was living on sandwiches, salads, cold “buffet” food and even at times happy meals and other takeaways.
I bottled my worries up on this for weeks and then dd got a tummy bug (was going around school loads of the kids had it and she was one of the last to catch it) and my guilt overwhelmed me and I poured my heart out to our sw. I was breaking my heart sobbing and she placed a hand on my arm and assured me that I was not doing anything wrong. To further reassure me she asked what dd had for dinner the past week, I went through what she’d had and of course it contained a good mix of carbs, protein, veg and fruit and she actually said something along the lines of “I wish my dc were eating that well they’re right fusspots!” And did a little chuckle and I felt so much better.
I look back on that time with sadness, I really didn’t need to be as worried as I was! Wish I’d known of mn then as I’m sure you lovely lot would have put me straight and maybe even suggested ways I could manage with my limitations at that time, though thinking back she always had a balanced meal and not the same thing 2 nights in a row. Variety is the key.
When I learned more formally about nutrition at school I had a “lightbulb” moment when I realised my mum - who I’m ashamed to now admit I didn’t think put a great deal of thought into our meals (I was SO wrong!) - made sure we ate quite a variety of food, we had fish twice a week (and this would have been before that was a widely advertised recommendation) different veggies every night (albeit inc some very “70’s” staples like cabbage, cauliflower, butter beans etc) and different carbs every night (we did mostly have potatoes like most 70’s/80’s households buy at least twice a week we’d have another carb usually rice or pasta), different sauces and herbs & spices too. I don’t know how she did it as she worked full time, was run ragged after 3 dc and a not especially helpful husband and was dealing with a very tight budget!
Dd is now a 19 year old in rude health mostly (she has a genetic disability which was undx at that time) and a good eater both in terms of amount AND the variety she eats. There’s little she genuinely doesn’t like and it mainly includes less healthy foods anyway (due to her disability she doesn’t get on with high fat especially deep fried foods. So she’s unusual for her peer group as she hates chips - well potatoes generally - deep fried breaded stuff and chocolate) although she has other favourites that aren’t the healthiest so she’s no saint, she’s constantly chewing gum and she loves haribo type sweets, and “little kid” sweets like strawberry laces.