Half a tub of Philadelphia ...

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... any ideas? I need to cobble together a meal for DS, I also have lots of veg and the usual cupboard staples!
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You can mix it with hot pasta and stir over a low heat for a minute or two for a creamy cheesey sauce?

thanks morningpaper, i was thinking something along those lines, but never tried making that ... cheers for posting

You can bung in some pesto too if he likes it - a creamy cheesey pesto-y sauce yum yum! Cook the veggies and mix in and away you go! Hope he likes it

another vote for the cream cheese pesto dish, DD loves it.
or use it in a pasta bake, add a little bit of milk, tuna, veg etc?

I dissolve it into stock to make a creamy cheesey sauce and then mix in asparagus, chicken and sweetcorn to make a pie filling.

Ditto the pesto sauce. We also bung in mushrooms and grilled bacon or fried pancetta cubes - lovely!

have tried pesto, philadelphia, pasta and various veg and he's spat it back out i'm afraid!

oh dear.
cheese on toast?!

he is a bit weird with his food tbh, am trying to encourage him with different tastes (he is very much a meat and two veg man!).

he's not liked pesto before, but i thought the philadelphia might make the pesto a bit creamier. i only put in a smidgen on pesto.

luckily i also had some leftover cheese sauce and fish thing from yesterday which he's devoured.

i think i was so paranoid about no salt in first year that i've encouraged him to like bland foods!

mind you, he does like curry

i'll try him again with it in a week or so ...

pesto is about the only thing DD WILL eat! although today I was very proud of her, she ate a bit of apple AND a bite of pepper. I don't want to speak to soon but I'm hoping we're turning a corner

aaah, it is lovely when they start to eat different things isn't it?

mind you, i don't think there are 'corners' where toddlers are concerned, just lots of u bends!

oh god yes I am so bored of doing the same stuff over and over, and getting new stuff rejected. I nearly fell off my chair yesterday when she ate 3, yes 3 pancakes! (this is from someone who was off the scale with her weight and ate minuscule portions)

i bet you just wanted to give her a great big kiss, grinning ear to ear!

yes and that's exactly what I did!

LOL. I couldn't believe my ears the other day when I asked ds aged 3 what he wanted for dinner expecting the usual chicken nuggets and chips, and he said vegetables. I literally danced round the kitchen for joy as he proceeded to eat an entire raw carrot.

popeye pasta - with spinach from AK. my ds adores it.

I mix with tinned mackeral to make a pate and put on baked potatoes or give with oatcakes (in an attempt to up their oily fish intake).

as an adult, i don't actually think it works that well in pasta tbh. lovely on an oatcake, though.

oh yes, bananaskin, that's pretty much my mackerel pate recipe. although not tinned (i didn't know you could get tinned) and if you add a squeeze of lemon and some horseradish.... yum.