Help! Meals w/o fruit or vegetables?

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My best friend adopted her DD a three months ago. Her DD did not have the best start in life and some of this has manifested itself in not eating certain foods. On the advice of professionals, friend has not been pushing her to eat new foods yet (though this will come in time).

Can anyone think of any meal ideas that don't include these foods:

fruit
veg
rice
pasta

ATM, friend feeds her these meals:

plain pizza
shepherd's/ cottage pie (just mash and mince w. hidden blended to oblivion veg)
v. simple sandwiches
baked potato with cheese/ tuna
burger (homemade) and chips
sausage, mash and gravy
roast dinner which is just the potatoes, meat, stuffing and y. puds
toad in the hole
breaded chicken

I know it's asking a lot to think of meals with these restrictions, but even if someone could add one more meal, my friend would feel much better. Friend was too nervous to post in case people said she was judged for 'pandering' to her DD w/o people understanding the situation

Will she eat eggs? If so, how about pancakes/eggy bread/omelette? They don't have to be restricted to breakfast.

Egg and chips?

Fish fingers with mashed potato.

And I really do understand if this suggestions would go down badly - but children very often don't see corn on the cob as a vegetable, because you pick it up and bite it. Also available at KFC so she may be familiar with it.

And maybe baked beans will be familiar, certainly they turn upon children's menus a lot.

How about pasta with sauce. My children love pasta mixed with Philly, I often add ham, chicken or tuna to it. Would she eat a smooth tomato based sauce with pasta? Spaghetti Bolognese without any added veg?

Fish fingers or breaded fish?

Baked beans or spaghetti hoops on toast?

Plain noodles and chicken.

Risotto without any veg.

Sorry, just read op again, no rice or pasta. Ignore me!

Ooh, pancakes are a really good idea. And could be crepe of scotch style so would get her use to diff stuff.

She doesn't eat fried egg, but scrambled, yup. When they start introducing veg, corn on the cob does sound like a good one to try.

She won't eat beans because of the 'skins'.

Will def mention breaded fish. Thinking about it, even fish fillet w/o the skin might be a good one to try.

Going with potato-based things that can (eventually) include other veg, maybe a very smooth potato soup, or potato pancakes? Potato Dauphinoise? Spanish tortilla (without onions for now)?

Potato salad (plain) with cold meats? Scotch eggs? Will she eat things in pastry like sausage rolls? If she will eat some things in pastry, she may eventually try other things (e.g. pasties, quiche, samosas).

Her daughter needs to feel safe and secure about food first, but hopefully as she grows in confidence, her DD might be willing to try, say, shredded veg pancakes (general idea here) once she is OK with potato ones. Good luck with it, your friend sounds like a fab mother handling a difficult situation

Harry Eastwood also has a great recipe book for cakes made out of veg. You'd never know. Red velvet and chocolate heartache. Just a thought.

Try potato wedges with a houmous dip?
If that is accepted, see if sweet potato will be accepted?

Try making savoury pancakes? I make high-protein ones with hidden veg by whizzing up about quarter of a pack of tofu and a couple of tbs cooked sweet corn then add an egg, a slosh of oil and a splash of milk, then beat in enough SR flour to get a gloopy consistency. If the child is a fan of marmite add a squeeze of that too. Fry on both sides on a medium heat. Serve with either grated cheese or more marmite or baked beans.

Pancakes with bacon in the mixture (we have a home made savory jam but I guess cranberry sauce would work if that level of fruit is ok for her.)

Jansson frestelse (normally has onions but it's fine without).

Cous cous or noodles with meat

Fish finger sandwiches - not healthy but lush (may be able to try vegy fingers later).

Fish pie?

Cheese scones and ham/bacon/egg (I sometimes put leek or onion in the dough too, but clearly optional if avoiding veg).
Sausage rolls
Potato cakes
Hamburgers and wedges
Fish cakes

More thoughts:

Ham/gammon, cheese sauce (ie cauliflower cheese without the cauliflower!) and potato wedges?

Potato wedges with bacon and cheese: partially cook in oven about 20 mins, then sprinkle over bacon pieces, cook for another 10 mins, sprinkle over grated cheese, cook 5-10 mins until melted. Serve with mayo to dip them into if she'll eat that.

Showed my friend this thread and she cried at how helpful and understanding people have been. She's a big Jessie

Friend says that now her DD has settled a little that it was time to move on a bit with food. Adding new meals out of stuff that DD will eat makes it so there's no anxiety, but gets her to try new things. She would still really panic at the thought of 'unsafe' foods, but these ideas were exactly the kind of things needed to head slowly in the right direction.

Potato based stuff is such a great idea blue. Her DD seemed indifferent (which is good!) to the foods you mentioned, think because potato and pastry is 'safe'.

Savoury pancakes will be a good way to move onwards, but the 'bits' wouldn't work for now.

Had to google Jansson frestelse, but looks like it would be alright. Wedges don't seem to be problematic either, will be good for them to get away from chips.

Her DD next week will be making pancakes and fish AKA sea monster . She also wants to make your cheese scones and fishcakes Bike. Fingers crossed she'll want to eat some too.

Will she eat mashed potatoes? Could mash butternut squash or sweet potatoes and call it "orange mashed potatoes" or add a little to mashed potatoes at a time.

Get her to help with making pizza, laying all the ingredients out and letting her to choose and top the pizza?

If she eats mince with potatoes (shepherds pie) would she maybe be persuaded with bolognaise sauce with wedges rather than pasta? My son doesn't like lumps of tomato or anything in bolognaise, so I blend all the tomato (and whatever else i can get away with) before adding to the mince. I then grate carrot till it is mush and add that too and no-one notices as it simply melts into the sauce.

What about french toast maybe?