Help please!! 2 Fussy eaters and 1 working Mummy!

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Help and advice please! :)
I have a 16 month old and 5 year old, the 16 mo was really good with his food but has now turned fussy and refuses food he used to eat. My 5 year old is extremely fussy and all he ever wants is pasta with cheese and sweetcorn!!
I work 3 days a week and my LO is at the childminders so needs hot food then too, and to help keep organised I like to cook one pot meals or things that are easy to freeze. Lasagne, Shepards Pie, Spag bol that sort of thing (the usuals)
I need some inspiration for some different ideas, especially as they're fussy. Help with this or some new meal ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance :)

Not quite what you're after but have you read My child Won't Eat?

Hi JiltedJohnsJulie, no I haven't, I'll have a look at it online now and maybe download it for the kindle. Thanks very much :)

I like putting food in the freezer too, I take little chicken fillets, coat them in breadcrumbs or ruskolene, cook and freeze. I also cut bacon into little bits,cook and freeze and use it to add to things, fried rice, pasta, also a bought ready made pastry case and add my cooked bacon, any other things really and I have a quick easy quiche. Do any of these things sound like what you might be looking for.

Pizza- make the dough and you can freeze your bases ready to be topped- might help the eldest as she can choose toppings- I do rainbow toppings for mine, grated carrot, sweetcorn, tomato sauce, shredded spinach (never gets chosen) ham, and, once very messily, grated beetroot for purple. They have to choose three toppings at least and can arrange it themselves, always manages to get food in my 5 year old.

Not freezable, but have you tried sweetcorn fritters? Take an ingredient she likes and expand on it, if she'll eat sweetcorn fritters you're a step away from bean burgers, potato cakes and fish cakes.

As for baby- she's probably going through a stage. Dd 2 ate anything before 15 months, now it's hard to get food across her lips. What she likes today she won't tomorrow and I go whole days with her eating just a banana and bread and butter. She won't starve.

Hi Frontdoorstep, the chicken in breadcrumbs to freeze and the quick quiche sound great!!! The quiche would be great for dinner and also lunch boxes :)

Pregnant pause - thank you :) Just your comment about your DD surviving only on bread and butter and bananas for the day has made me feel lots better :)
The sweetcorn fritters sound like a great idea. I'll google a recipe now and give those a go.
Thank you x

wraps b8ig hit here - either as sarnies or as fajhitas.

Home made chicken nuggets and fish fingers - or instand ones with crushed cornflakes stuck on with mayo and cooked (gluten free with rice krispies)

Egg fried rice with scraps is quick.

Oven timer on and jacket potatoes in the oven ready for when yuo get back from work.

Saugage caserole.

Saugage and tomato sauce on pasta.

Mine love a stir fry - veg or meat.

Can you see we tend to go for really quick, not freeze it? That is the alternative route.