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Suggestions for meals for a child you don't know

40 replies

DumbledoresGirl · 12/09/2007 18:55

I have a hang up about cooking for other children, but I have bitten the bullet and invited a friend of dd's round for tea on Friday. I am told he is not fussy, but I am still fretting about what to cook.

I know some of you would say "Just cook whatever you would be eating" but that does not satisfy me. Anyway, I go shopping on Fridays so I have no plans for the meal yet.

So what in your opinion is a good choice of meal? The child is 7 btw, if that makes a difference.

OP posts:
MaryAnnSingleton · 12/09/2007 18:56

can you get a clue from the parent ?

AnnabelCaramel · 12/09/2007 18:57

Homemade pizza with different toppings on different sections and a choice of salads - pasta salad, veggie ones etc etc.

skerriesmum · 12/09/2007 18:58

homemade pizza
scrambled egg, sausage and oven chips
pasta
fish fingers, mash and peas

FLIER · 12/09/2007 18:58

Homemade pizza? Get them to help?

notnowbernard · 12/09/2007 18:58

Pasta? I reckon most kids are into spag bol...with garlic bread?

AnnabelCaramel · 12/09/2007 18:58

he he how many crossposts for pizza.... Jelly and icecream too!

MaryAnnSingleton · 12/09/2007 18:59

Last time ds had a friend I just put out nice rolls, cheese, ham, salad bits, some crisps, a dish of olives ( the boy especially likes them and ds had them at his house), fruit, and for pudding there was yogurt or some jelly and a biscuit. They both have school lunches so they'd had a cooked thing earlier.

FLIER · 12/09/2007 19:00

Why don't you ask the parent if there is anything he doesn't like?

NannyL · 12/09/2007 19:07

Spag bol is eaten by pretty much any child IMO!

as for veg i dont know many chidlren who wont eat peas / carrots / sweet corn, and almost all eat green beans and broccolli.

Puddings: yogurt / jelly and ice cream are pretty much universally liked

add a few sauces and spinkles to ice cream and you have childrne in heaven!

MaryAnnSingleton · 12/09/2007 19:08

ds doesn't like spag bol,which is a pain

notnowbernard · 12/09/2007 19:09

Lasagne?

gibberish · 12/09/2007 19:11

Homemade burgers and salad? Or mash? Or beans? All kids love beans don't they... Got a great recipe for burgers with cheese in the middle (we had these tonight...)

gegs73 · 12/09/2007 19:12

I'd give the parents a few options of what you might be cooking and see if there is anything there he hates or is more likely to eat. If this boy turns out to be a fussy so and so like my DS1 he could be a pain!

tassisssss · 12/09/2007 19:13

other than pasta and pizza, I might do sausage, mash and leave a beans/peas choice to the child

littleducks · 12/09/2007 19:15

i was going to say pizza!
or jacket pot, with choice of topping you could ask on way home, cheese aND beans or coleslaw or tuna mayo or chilli if you feel like the hassle

slowreader · 12/09/2007 19:31

My fallback meal is pitta bread stuffed with whatever they will eat. Salad, fried chicken strips, curry, grated cheese. Cucumber and yoghurt for the child who will only eat cucumber and yoghurt. Ice cream with smashed up malteasers.

hecciesmum · 12/09/2007 19:36

omg slowreader...ice cream with smashed up maltesers......I'm going to have to try that myself - never mind the children! yummmy...

I'd second those who have said spag bol and i'd usually do strawberries and ice cream for pud...never met a child who didn't like that...

southeatsastras · 12/09/2007 19:38

new potatoes, salad, pizza slices, chicken legs

Kog · 12/09/2007 19:42

Kids love a bbq? Home-made burgers in proper burger buns with all the jollop - cheese, relish, tomato, caramelised onion, lettuce, yum. Messy as you like!

When my nephs come to tea I've done spag bol with garlic bread or garlic dough balls and salad, or sos and mash with gravy, or moussaka, or lasagne, or shepherds pie (with some peas and beans inside), or...

Oh, and ice cream IN CONES for pud.

Kog · 12/09/2007 19:44

Or baked spuds with a choice of fillings (tuna or beans or cheese or something mincey or beany if you can be bothered.

Or bake a ham and have with baked or new pots and salady picky stuff. The ham's great to finish off in sarnies ovewr the next couple of days.

foxinsocks · 12/09/2007 19:45

sausages
chips
peas
carrots

ice cream and fruit for pud

LizP · 12/09/2007 19:46

Roast chicken, roast potatoes and selection of vegetables. Homemade nuggets and potato wedgies. coca cola ham with mash and peas.

Mine hate anything with tomato - rules out spag bog, beans and even pizza can be a real pain with one of them.

We eat lots of risotto, but most other kids don't really like it.

Lorayn · 12/09/2007 19:51

I posted on another thread bout this earlier! I made homemade pizza for DD's first \playdate' on saturday, thought all kids liked pizza, and then she could help make it, somehow she wouldnt believe me mozarella and tom puree always came on pizzas, anyway we finally got her to make her very plain pizza, whilst my two lumped everything on theirs, after two little slices she said she was full up. I didnt want to make her eat more so let her leave it, ten minutes later she asked for chocolate cake, gave them all a choc mini roll (its choc and a cake!!!its plenty imo, esp for a kid that hasnt eaten dinner!!) and she practically shouted at me sneering at it about how it wasnt 'chocolate cake', I'd like to never invite ehr again, but DD was there again tonight for a returned playdate, whoopsy.

Lorayn · 12/09/2007 19:52

gosh that sounds rather hitlerish 'let her leave it', I didnt mean it quite like that!

FLIER · 12/09/2007 20:15

Lorayn, it didn't sound hitlerish at all