Do I win most strange tea given to my children and actually, nutritionally is it that bad? (they have had roast dinner at school)

[ImnotMamaGbutsheLovesMe]

Tea

Corn on the Cob
Prawns
Garlic Bread
Noodles
Bread and Butter
Milk
Water

Pudding

Apple and fig cake
Rice pudding

Guess who still can't get to grips with meal plans?

Lol.

I thought I did well yesterday with pasta with a sort of veg sauce, then toast with one half spread with hummus and one half with choc spread!!

Heavy on the carbs but all food groups covered. That's all I can hope for on a good day.

Why garlic bread and bread and butter and noodles? Bit of a carb overload.

odd but fine!! they are fed thats the main thing!! mine had a sausage roll and buttered pasta the other day for tea!! (it was the last day before pay day though to be fair!!)

odd ball of things but hey ho!

Is this what they had today? Its only just gone 4 o'clock.

I think the oddest thing about it is the time of day, rather than the content, tbh (although I probably wouldn't have bothered with bread and butter as well as the garlic bread and noodles!)

Didn't do the bread and butter as once I had servd up there was enough food already.

Kids just starting tea now and all happy.

And in my defence, they normally eat a lot better! Yesterday was lamb, mushrooms and tomatoes done in the slow cooker with mash and 3 different veg.

don't worry this here is 'ifits' dinners!

I actually feel quite upset that I can't get a handle on this. I can't afford to buy fish and meat for every day of the week, and don't think it is necessary either, but DD won't eat pasta or noodles, and I run out of ideas. I like to think DH earns okay money but with the price of everything going up it is hard to feed 5 of us at the moment.

I do meals like this when DH is not at home, kids love "leftover surprise"[grin

Explain this tea at 4.30 thing though - is that their last meal of the day? Nothing til breakfast?

I do this when i have stuff to use up dp eats it too He calls it the monkeys tea party!

Mine are having falafels. Takeaway falafels I bought at 3am (I bought three more as the one I'd just had was so bloody good, wine was involved)

With a takeaway salad box. Lazy, nah?

I don't understand the problem with them having their tea at 4.30pm. They have tea between 4-5pm depending on what they are having and how long it takes me to make it. Very rarely they have milk/toast before bath time but they don't need anything else. They eat loads for tea.

Not a problem at all just wondered if early eating means they need a late snack or not.

It's not something I've ever done - French DH means we have always eaten (too) late, French-stylee.

Mine are hungry all the time and if they had to wait until Dh was home, well, they just wouldn't!

mine have tea btw 4.30pm - 5pm
never have a problem with being hungry
they go to bed at 7pm so dinner at 6pm would mean a bath on a full stomach

We have 'if its' tea sometimes too.

Kids eat here between 4 and 5 too. Me and DP used to eat with the kids but now I have a baby and 2 three year olds here for tea (I childmind), we wait and eat at 6 in peace.