If your DCs have school dinners, what do you feed them in the evenings?

[Bramshott]

I am struggling slightly with what to feed DD1 (5) in the evenings. She has school dinners and by all accounts eats well. However, this seemed to have co-incided with a phase of extreme pickyness over food at home!

I don't know what to give her and how much she needs to eat! So if your DCs have school dinners, how much and what do you feed them in the evenings?

DS has school dinners but am never sure how much of them he actually eats. What I give in the evening depends on what was on menu at school that day. If it was something I know he would have eaten then I just give him something like a picnic tea - little sandwich with some chopped cucumber and ham and cheese on a plate with fruit for after. Or "pizza" made with tortillas and I just spread with tom/pizza sauce and grate cheese on top and pop under grill.

If something I know he won't have eaten much of I might do something like spag bol or something.

He is a picky eater though so has a limited repetoire.

my ds (6) just has whatever we have for tea. Usually a home cooked meal of normal portion, spag bol, fish pie, casserole etc. I don't feed him less or anything different as he is always ravenous when he gets home and wolfs down his tea. Am happy he get's two good meals a day.

Both of my DS ( 7 & 5 ) will still have ahot meal in the evening but on the odd occassion , espcailly in the summer , it can be sandwiches .

Perhaps she is tired in the evening hence the pickiness ?

I do the same as lilyloo.

Mine have a large snack after school and then we eat a proper homecooked meal as a family at about 7.30 pm when DH gets home.

Mine have a mix of packed lunch and school dinners and I cook them a proper meal each night. Mine eat loads.........

So she may well need two 'full' meals a day then? DH says "don't stress, just give her toast as she's had a hot meal at school", but last night I gave her a boiled egg and she was picky about it, but then asking what else she could eat 5 mins later.

Yes, maybe the pickyness is tiredness rather than being full up.

I am struggling with what to feed her full stop atm as she has gone off all the things she used to like . She would eat pasta with pesto forever, or sausages and chips. We don't all eat together as DH doesn't get back until late, so I am struggling with cooking one thing for DD2 (11 months and eats anything), another for DD1 (which will most likely not get eaten), and another for us later on (although DH cooks that more often than me).

Toast for tea isn't enough. She proobably had ,unch before twelve and will be hungry again by 4. They only have small tummies.

I have to cook twice to sympathaise.

Jacket potato with endless fillings.
Spag bol
Fish fingers
Fish pie

I often make enough mash for all of us, serve up the kids and put the rest in an oven dish to heat through and crsip up to go with what hubby and I are having later.

Hi,
Mine have school lunch and from what i can make out eat the lot - ours are very good - i think i would eat mos of what is on the menu .
When they get home they have a snack and milk at the kitchen table at about 3.45. Then i cook a hot meal ready at 6 ish and they usually wolf that down too. As pp's it is usually jacket potato, pasta and veg sauce, pasta and pesto salad, sausage and lentils, shephards pie, macaroni cheese, fish fingers, homemade soup, shop bought pizza , and my classic childrens dish - rainbow rice. We never have chips in the hpuse as since starting school they have them once a week for school dinner - which is annoying as i like a chip or two! i do make sweet potato and beetroot chips though which they like.
If i am lazy it is cheese on toast, with fruit and yogurt. They eat chees on toast a lot