DD 16 home lunches

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What does your 16 teen have for lunch?
Mine likes fresh chicken curry. Her dad is a good cook. Leaves it frozen. But it's a nightmare.

Ideas for easy lunches for fussy teens.

And what do your guys eat?

My DD is 16, she wants something different then she cooks it herself. Being able to cook well is a good life skill, let her get on with it.

Even DS 14 is made to cook tea in our house (only occasionally at the moment, DD doesn't it at lest once a week).

You are planning and preparing lunches for a 16 yr old? That's almost cruel, certainly poor parenting. She needs to be preparing herself to be an independent adult. By her age, I was regularly cooking for my family

We always have boiled eggs and tuna mayo in the fridge for egg/tuna sandwiches or chuck it on a salad.

I do a quick coronation chicken using cooked chicken for speed.

Often buy a cooked ham and that gets slowly sliced into sandwiches or onto omelette.

Left over cold sausages

Left over kebab/rossoles with couscous and tzatziki.

At 16 you cook your own including going to the supermarket!

We eat family lunches at the weekend but during the week people make their own. DD likes pasta salad, chickpea salad, cold chicken with mayo and salad in pitta bread, pasta and pesto, Greek salad. DS makes noodle soups (we usually have chicken stock in the fridge so he just adds the noodles, veg and chopped chicken), baked salmon and avo.

At 16 being able to make a meal is a life skill, even if it's simple.

She's getting actually much better with rudeness. As GCSES loom and toxic friend is less of an influence. Now it feels like just stress snapping.

She's nicer. She's got Gsces so can't push it too much right now.

And want her to be healthy. She is healthy.

She does make her own salads in summer.
Winter is the problem.

My DH will do lots of fresh healthy food that takes prep. Which she won't do. I eat soups or salads. Whatever is in the fridge.

Anyway - I guess I wanted some recipes and ideas really.

I should have just asked in a cooking thread or some thing. Not here.

Cheese toasties in the toastie maker
Frozen vegan rolls in air fryer
Supernoodles
Dry bread (ds cba making a sandwich)

Ds lose track of time if he's off and we're not home with him, so he either doesn't eat or eats his lunch at 2 or 3.