If your kids have school dinners, what do you do them for tea ?

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Dd's are starting school dinners tommorow and I need ideas of what to give them for tea.

So far I have thought of stuffed jackets, soup and beans/scambled egg on toast.

Anymore ?

We have always had cooked meal at lunchtime, so it was natural for us to choose school dinners. The boys eat fantastically at breakfast and lunch, but have less appetite at teatime. They are 6 and 8 now and for tea have:
round of sandwiches or bowl of cereal
yoghurt or similar
fruit
and a piece of cake

We mostly have a prper meal in the evening, but sometimes if DH and I want to eat later on our own I do the boys jacket pot, with beans and cheese. As long as it's a fair sized one thats quite filling for them, they are 7yo.

Good, nutritious food doesn't have to be hot, you know. As long as you are getting a balanced meal with carbs, protein, calcium, and plenty of fruit& veg a sandwiches meal can be just as good as a cooked meal.

Yes if they are starving just give them more sandwiches.

However,mine ate their school dinner today,came home after school,ate yoghurt and fruit each and have just ate a roast beef dinner(beef left over from yesturday),followed by apple pie and custard.
So,WHY can you still see their ribs !!!!
Boys....it's like throwing food down a bottomless pit!!!

Not at school yet but DD (almost 4yo) has a cooked meal at lunch time at nursery, plus a snack around 3:15pm. Regardless of this I still give her a full cooked meal at dinner time too, as I am making one for me and DH anyway and we all eat together in the evening.

DS also has two ccoked meals a day.Lunch is usually leftovers or baked pot or similar.He's 3.5 sonot at school and eats all day,still only 25lbs though.

When I had school dinners I used to have soup and a sandwich, usually cheese, for tea.

ds1 has school dinners and he still has a cooked dinner at home too. we still cook a main meal for ourselves and for ds2 so would be unfair for ds1 to sit there with beans on toast while we all had lasgne, stew etc. he always eats it all!

we moved him to school dinners as his packed lunch was always coming home full, he may have had a packet of crisps or the yogurt but that was it, as they do not have controllers for packed lunches, the childreneat in the corridor outside the class room, but for cooked dinners they have controllers who ensure that they eat at least 50% of their food, unless they genuinley don't like it. you can always tell a child who really doesn't like something or the one who just wants to get down form the table and go and play!

DD1 has cooked lunch at school and I always do cooked lunch for DD's 2 & 3.

Tea is whatever they fancy, today DD1 had leaftover chicken casserole from lunch and DD's 2 & 3 had jammy toast.

Most days tea will be boiled egg and soldiers, pizza, fish fingers, gypsy toast sort of things.

if dd1 has school dinner i tend to give her small tea, scrambled egg / beans on toast, or sandwich and salad,

my ds has a normal dinner in the eve as hes getting to that age where hes got his head in the fridge constantly. bangers, mash, beans.midweek roast, spag bol, egg n chips