Easy weekday family dinners for 14 yr old to cook?

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During school holidays, I'd like my dd to cook dinner a couple of nights a week,meals that the family can eat together when dh and me get in from work.
She's done cooking at school but has no real experience. What do other teens cook that are easy and quick , not too many ingredients? (Needs to be straightforward because she'll be texting and FBing with one hand, cooking with the other :))

I'd say pasta bake dishes with garlic bread, or bolognese. Jacket potatoes with filling and salad? Would she stretch to a stir fry? All pretty easy but tasty and healthy enough.

My 13 yo likes doing meals with pasta. Sausage pasta bake, tuna pasta bake and spag Bol are ones he can do successfully. I buy jars of pasta sauce for him, cooking from scratch would be a bridge too far. Or pizza and salad, but he never washes the salad so I discourage that one.

Think I started off at 14 with boil in the bag cod in parsley sauce and smash. Thankfully my cooking has improved since then

stews/casseroles.

toad in the hole

steak/chops with salad and oven wedges

Try buying a copy of olive mag every now and again, loads of easy half hour recipes that try can follow.

I'd go for pasta and rice dishes. Fake paella is good if you put it i the oven it is foolproof. Huevos rancheros can be really tasty with bread and get you child experimenting with different types of salad as a main meal rather than a side order. We do a 'chopped' salad with iceberg, raisins, walnuts, green apple and cheddar cubes (DT1 wont do stinky cheese) with other normal sald items mixed in a bowl. If you use softish tomatoes I find you dont need to dress it and the acid in the toms stops the apple going brown.

Thanks for your replies. It starts tonight with stir fry meat and veg tomorrow, all pre-prepared - what can go wrong ?! Do you think I should make washing up part of the job or is that cruel for a first time?

'It starts tonight with stir fry meat and veg tomorrow' - that didn't make sense, I meant tonight, oops, I'm obviously getting overexcited

Why don't you buy her a cookery book aimed at teenagers to work through? Sam Stern has written a few good ones - aimed at uni students, but my DDs have used them at home.

Also, quiche is easy to make. As are meatballs. I really wouldn't encourage buying ready made stuff if you want to foster an interest in cooking!