lunch ideas - Please help

[lorraineowen]

Hi, i have decided i need to eat lunch with my 2 year old twins, one is fussy the other a good eater. Today was jacket with tuna/mayo which one loved and the other just would not touch, do you have any ideas for nice healthy lunches we all can enjoy

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meatballs in a pitta

pasta with tomato sauce

cheese on toast

omelette strips

dips with breadsticks

something that works well with my 3 is to give them all a tortilla or 2, then put bowls of filling options on the table- ham, grated cheese, tomato slices, cubed pepper, grated carrot. let them help themselves- all eating together but no problems over what one does or doesnt like. I have found when we have friends with kids over, that if you add olives, salad, mozzarella and onions that ot goes down very well with adults. And is healthy too.

humous pitta and veg to dip
pasta with tomato and veg or tuna and chicken
omlette
quiche
chicken casserole
fish pie with spinach mash
ham and potato salad
chicken and veg rissoto
homemade soup
shepherds pie

With DS I make a lot of pasta dishes - use mayo as a sauce base a lot. I also make him pitta pockets with tuna, chicken, avocado, tomatoe, cheese etc (not all together, I also often do cooked chicken with veg (broccoli) and sweet potato chips. I make my own tomato sauce (mayo, toms and Worcester sauce) which DS loves on all kinds of things. Also fishfingers is a good one. Made DS kedgeree on Sunday and he loved that too.

pesto is a lifesaver, salmon, pesto and pasta is a nice one

creme fraiche is great for sauces too