Dinner in the car

[Orangedaisy]

Dd1 has to eat dinner in the car once a week, it’s a 15 minute journey between active sport and another club (both of which she loves) and she needs something pretty substantial to keep her going, when she gets home she has cereal but it’s bedtime so I don’t want her waiting until then for dinner.

Needs to be eaten with fingers, anything with cutlery not going to work as she wouldn’t balance holding a pot and cutlery very well. Ideally I don’t want crumbs all over the car…. It can be made immediately beforehand and eaten within about 15 minutes so no particular storage requirements. So far we’ve done Pizza, quiche, fish finger bap, Spanish omelette and just normal sandwiches. With veg sticks including once sweet potato wedges which she enjoyed warm.

Any other ideas?

Oh and she’s 7, ideally it would be something DD2 can also have for tea at home so more than one portion good.

Burritos, pies/pasties, samosas?

I'm just sort of dazzled you do variety. I'd land up doing the same ham sandwich every time.

A wrap or fajita?
I know you said no cutlery but my DD could manage a pot of pasta pesto or similar with a fork in the car.
Chicken burger - we do them for school lunch boxes so eaten cold but even better warm. Just with friend chicken breast (cut it horizontally so it's not too fat), mayo and avocado (add veg of choice).
I did take Dh a regular burger the other day in a similar situation - just wrapped in foil to keep it warm.

Burgers and samosas a good shout, not thought of the latter. Variety is mainly as we and the other dd tend to eat the same food so we don’t want ham sandwiches every week!

Toasties.

A burrito?

Pasta bake in a lidded soup mug (lid for travel), hold with handle, fork or spoon in other hand?

I would just get a thermos food flask and do various pastas. Anyone else can eat the same at home

I was also going to say toasties. You can be really creative with the fillings, chicken, pesto and mozzarella, cheese and beans, ham, cheese and pineapple (my personal favourite!) Would day warm for a while if you wrap in foil. I’ve actually had success at keeping things warm for a quick journey, using a mini hot water bottle in a small, insulated lunch bag with the foil wrapped sandwich on top.
Falafel in pitas
Warm chicken tikka fillets in pita/wrap with lettuce, cucumber and mango chutney or similar using falafel.
The mini potato waffles would work well with a chicken and veg skewer.

Wide-mouth thermos can hold all sorts of meals, & just a spoon to eat.

My son does this about once a week too and his favourite is pancakes, they stay warm if wrapped and he can a little pot with different toppings as he likes everything seperate. So you can have a pot of sliced banana or mini marshmallows etc.

He also likes pasta, its stays warm and he eats it out of the pot with meatballs that he eats from a folk like a lollipop - it's not messy at all. For veg variety we use baby corn and carrots as finger food, peas too as he eats them
Individually rather than off a spoon which is tricky in a living car! - baby corn stay warm for quite a while.

Sausage sandwich or wrap, quite filling, and those at home can have sausage and mash or pasta with sausage.

Hard boiled eggs or cheese wedges are good for protein which would help fill her up, so perhaps a chunky salad including both mould work, those at home can have the same. Perhaps add a mug of home made soup too.

Bacon and egg pie, like a quiche but with a pastry top and bottom, very easy to eat. Standard beach picnic food when I was a child.
As were scotch eggs, the ultimate snack on the go, they were created for long distance coach travellers.

Slices of pie, tacos, hot dogs (you could keep the sausages warm in a chilly brand pot), arancini, chicken drumsticks to be served with crudite. There's also sausage rolls, crispy chicken wraps, filled jacket potato halves (although you may need napkins for this). My DD doesn't consider anything cold a reasonable supper so we always do a hot meal in a pot which she'll eat with a fork/spoon but if the balancing is a problem then clearly this isn't for you (although would make life a lot easier if you could support her confidence with this?)

not ideal but we sometimes had this and would do hot dog sausages. i heated them and put in flask with boiling water. preprared rolls and made them up after i parked to pick her up from her training class at school to go on to her gym club. Only happened for a few weeks a year whilst doing Urdd training