Quick after school teas

[lancslass17]

Meal ideas for 4 year old for after school ( always hungry when he gets in).
Nothing saucy so slow cookers out.

Bonus if adults can eat too

Mine are so basic you probably already know them but just incase:

Fresh tortellini or pasta with pesto and peas/brocoli, or cream cheese and ham/sweetcorn stirred in etc

Pizza crumpets/English muffin (just put pasata or purée on top with cheese and whatever else you like and bung under grill - I always do carrot sticks and cucumber on the side.

Eggy bread
Cheese quesadillas (can put precooked chicken or any veg in like sweetcorn)
Jacket potato with tuna mayo or beans and cheese etc
Noodles cooked in chicken stock - mix in veg etc like a healthier ramen

Just give a snack like pita, hummus and carrots, a small sandwich and fruit etc then cook later.

Does chilli count as 'saucy'? If he'll eat that I'd have that ready to heat up and cook some rice to have with it.

Potato waffles, which you can cook in the toaster (I put them through twice on highest setting to get a bit of colour on them) + fried eggs/scrambled eggs/omelette and/or beans (or peas, or some salad)

Fish finger sandwiches

As the weather gets warmer, you could put out a mini buffet and everybody picks what they want - mini pork pies or Scotch eggs or sausage rolls or quiche, salad, hummus and other dips, carrot/celery/pepper sticks, bread/pittas, crisps.

I bought a healthy cookery book aimed at kids when DS was little, and asked him to go through and tick what he liked the look of (having explained what was what). I think it worked OK and nothing was particularly difficult- and I found the book again recently and it made me smile! (He's now 22.)

Fish finger tacos realfood.tesco.com/recipes/fish-finger-tacos.html
Sesame chicken noodles www.myfussyeater.com/sesame-honey-chicken-noodles/
Naan pizzas www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/recipes/naan-bread-pizza
Halloumi burgers www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/halloumi-burgers
Chicken fried rice www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chicken-sweetcorn-egg-fried-rice
Tikka paneer skewers www.tamingtwins.com/paneer-tikka-recipe/

here’s what goes down well in our house:

Tuna and sweetcorn mayo jacket potato, fruit.

”roast dinner” - not elaborate. Chicken pieces cooked in oven, mash potato, bit of paxo stuffing and a frozen veg

a defrosted portion of something I’ve batch cooked eg spag Bol or shep pie

Cheese on toast plus a boiled egg and some raw veg

Sausage and mash