Quick, easy & tasty dinner ideas with a very young baby? (Not takeaway!)

[Flingmoo]

We've got fed up with takeaways and pizzas from the shop. DS is 10 weeks old and we don't have a lot of time to spend cooking, but we love to enjoy a nice dinner together!

Need some quick, easy and fairly healthy dinner ideas! Or recommendations of tasty supermarket ready meals - we shop at Ocado/Waitrose, Tesco and Sainsburys.

I'm sure there have been threads on this in the past but I hope you might have some ideas for anyway!

For the first few months i probably lived off tesco pasta bakes.

www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=261894889

At about 3 months I stared using my slow cooker. Chuck things in, wait eight hours, eat.

Stir fry
Fajitas
Quesadillas
Pasta pesto
Slow cooker meals
rottisseried chicken with salad and crusty bread

Chicken tray bake. Bung chicken thighs, chunks of red pepper, halved new potatoes, and some thick slices of chorizo into a roasting tin. Drizzle with olive oil, lemon juice if you have it, salt, pepper and dried oregano. Cook at gas mark 5 or equivalent until all cooked - should take 35-40 minutes. Serve with bag of salad if inclined.

Stir fry (tesco do a pack with ginger/onion/coriander etc all chopped up in addition to veg)
Barbecue (weather dependent though!)
Steak/Jacket potatoes/veg
Salmon and pesto with jacket potatoes+veg

I used to like Sainsburys taste the difference ready meals but haven't had them for a few years.

I like these ideas! Thank you :)

Fry off leaks, mushrooms and pancetta (5 mins) whilst cooking fresh spaghetti or tagliatelle, mix together with creme fresh , season and serve.. Delicious

spaghetti puttenesca is a staple in the house. If you google it there are lots of recipes online but basically:-

boil spaghetti. Fry 2 cloves of garlic in a little oil at 1 or 2 tins of tomatoes (depending on how much sauce you want and how good a quality your tinned tomatoes are) with lots of caper, black olives and a generous pinch of chilli and oregano. Simmer until you drain the pasta. Then 5 (ish) anchovies into the tomatoes sauce and move them around until they have all broken up. Ad drained pasta to sauce serve.

yum yum yum.....

Salmon - place on tin foil, add sweet chilli sauce and wrap in foil in oven for 20 mins. Add veg/ microwave rice

crumbsfood.co.uk/2010/08/something-for-the-weekend-thai-prawn-and-pineapple-curry.html

This also gets eaten a lot in our house!

If you have nigella's kitchen then her recipe for turkey keema is also very quick