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[popsycal]

I am always trying to think of quick and different things to cook for DS after being at work all day.
Always feel guilty for giving him 'cr*y' food if I am too knackered to cook.
Anyone got any ideas?
PS I have the ANnabel Karmel book and have my own variations on some of the recipes.....
Will post some of my own later - meant to be working at the pc....

My two like basmati rice with tuna fish and any veg that's kicking around (even the frozen steam fresh stuff which even dp can cook); also omelettes of any variation, baked potatoes or a quick soup with lentils and coconut milk.

white fish baked in tin foil with a couple of herbs and a bit of butter. With baked potato and veg that's lying around.

I like to think ahead for these things. When I do cook, I make extra and freeze small portions for dd (she's only little but is starting to eat proper food). Good things to do this with are: spag bol (or any pasta in sauce); meat balls in sauce; vegetable slop (i.e big pan of tinned toms, carrots and other veg, with a little oil and maybe some tuna. freeze in prtions with potato (mashed or boiled); curry.

does that help? freezing thing only works if you have a microwave obviously.

Someone gave me a good tip the other day - roast a chicken and leave it in the fridge. You can pick at it over a few days - today the dds had chicken risotto (onion fried slowly in butter, risotto rice, stock/water then chopped up chicken and peas chucked in - they both (1, 4) love it. Tomorrow they'll get veg and chicken bits. I pick at it when I am at home and hungry at lunchtime.

We had a roast chicken for lunch on Sunday and I just cooked two.

OK, so we might get a bit bored of chicken but its been great and very easy.

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chicken? It's low(ish) in fat, proper non-processed food! Just what growing kids need I think. I'll roast a few at the weekend!

Cheers folks!
DP made some lush concoction for DS yesterday (though he had had a half day off!)
brown some onions and diced chicken as you would if doing stir fry then add mushroom, bits of courgette. At same time, cook butternut squash (dead cheap in tesco at the moment for some reason) then make a squash mash - add a bit of butter and a bit more milk than you would for mashed potato. Mix it with the chicken and onion thing in the other pan.
Then he got that ready rolled puff pastry stuff (also found going cheap in tesco). Put chicken mix in a ramekin (think thats the name of those mini bowl things we got as a wedding present!) and put a puff pastry lid on. In oven for 15 mis ish.
Tasted v nice.
DS had some left over chicken mix with rice for tea to night and have frozen the rest of it.
Tended to freeze loads more stuff wehn DS was little. Don'[t seem to get organised/have enough time at weekends anymore to sort out the food for the next week
PS DH rarely does stuff like this so please don't feel neglected by your DP/DH!!!!!!!!!

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sorry twinkie - i dont understand your last question......

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You don't have to eat a roast chicken immediately! It'll be fine covered up in the fridge for a few days.

One of my favourite quick meals is a bean bake - boil some sweetcorn, drain and add in 1/2 tin of baked beans and 1/2 a tin of other pulses, cook breifly. Chuck in a dish, stick some bread and cheese on the top and put under the grill for a few minutes.

We have this in some form or other most weeks, it's quick, cheap, easy and best of all completely flexible - you can change your pulses, use peas instead of or in addition to the sweetcorn, add onion, herbs etc, and vary the topping - bread, mashed or sliced potato, etc.

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am a lurgi fearer too. 24 hours in the fridge and chicken and stuff is history.
paranoia

Try www.cooks.com - you can type in what you have in the cupboard and they'll suggest recipes. Brilliant site. Amazing.

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Ah, the health police have got to you popsycal and twinkie - just go and spend more in the supermarket instead of saving food!!!

CHicken is the main thing that i get paranoia about. Other stuff (apart from rice) I leave longer in the fridge
hmm. SOund like a cleanliness freak - if you saw the state of my house you would see that cleanliness is not one of my strong points

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Can i assume that you don't buy 'whoopsies' then twinkie
I'm a '1 hour before the supermarket closes to get the out of date bargains' girl myself!

Veggie/cheese fritters are good, eg grated potato and courgette and chopped mushrooms, squeeze all the water out of the courgette and spud and grate in cheese, mix in an egg and fry in cakes, I put all sorts of veggies in mine and dd loves them