I need 2 new lunches.......any suggestions?

[Katymac]

I have

Baked potato with cheese & beans
Cowboy casserole
Ham/bacon sandwiches
Pizza toast
Pasta with cheese & tomato salsa
Chicken Nuggets
Fish Fingers, broccoli & cauliflower

the children are 'off' rice atm & I think I need something maybe veg not cheese

Any suggestions

Lentil and veg soup with bread

Cauliflower and broccoli cheese with wholemeal scones (home made)

Spanish omelette with baked beans

or fried eggs on toast with crudites to start

wraps with humous, salad, olives, grated cheese, ham, or anything else they can stuff into the wraps.

What do you serve with the chicken nuggets? Anything else?

Pesto pasta

of course!!!

Thought you were away in sunnier climes?

I'm back (such a shame)

Hmm Chicken nuggets are homemade and have carrot cucumber & tomatoes with them

Hope you had a nice time, was very of your trip. Lurve da Caribbean.

Maybe I should have jerk chicken with rice & peas

But tea those nights are Mince & mash and sausage & mash

More fish improtant

Fish pie and vegtables
fish cakes - especially tinned salmon fish cakes or fresh salomon if you can
Or a fish chowder and bread rolls
Haddock with a cheese and bread crumb topping and mash pots and peas

Yep fish a good option if those nights are meat based, and also if you are having hot dinners how about just sandwiches? wraps?

Ooooh I know, falafel with pita bread and salad, kids love falafel and it's so easy to make if you buy the packet mix.

Ohh Fish cakes & Kedgeree

Sorted

Thanks (hot meals go down better at this time of year)

What do you think Lunch pudding tea ??

Fish Fingers, broccoli & cauliflower Fruit & custard Mince, mash, with carrots & peas
Cowboy casserole Fruit Charlotte Pasta with cheese, ham, broccoli & sweetcorn
Ham/bacon sandwiches Blancmange Fish Pie with leeks, mushrooms & broccoli
Pizza toast Rice pudding & peaches Spaghetti Bolognaise
Kedgeree Chocolate pudding Sausage & mash, peas & onion gravy
Pasta with cheese & tomato salsa Banana & Custard Cold meat, sweet potato chips & beans
Chicken Nuggets Meringue Mess Cheese & potato pie & veg
Fishcakes Apple Sponge Sweet?n?sour chicken & rice
Baked potato with cheese & beans Ice cream, gingernuts & banana Poached Salmon with carrots & green beans

I think that if my children came to you they'd eat a lot better than they do at home!!

would they eat fruit crumble?

most days you do fruit in the pudding except chocolate and blacmange

and crumble is comfort food....

I hate crumble.....which is why I do charlotte

They average 8-10 small portions of different fruit & veg each day - so I thought the chocolate pudding was OK

I'm not to keen on blancmange but I want a mousse but most have raw egg in

Easy Quesadillas-place wrap in frying pan (no fat0 place tom ketchup or real tomatoes,chicken/ham/sausage/whatever plus veg if you fancy,cover in cheese and turn until cooked.Cut inot triangles and serve with cucumber/carrot sticks.

i feel intimidated by that list. amazing. good for you. wow. how old are your dcs? do you and dp eat the same meals ?

I hated chocolate pudding when little - the only thing I wouldn't eat..!

My DD is 12 - the children I mind are about 6m to about 12(ish);we generally have 9 children & 4 adults at lunchtime & 12 children & 2 adults at teatime

DH & I often eat the same (but not on Fridays as I won't cook tea on a Friday)

My choc pudding is a (sort of) steamed sponge pudding usually with custard or ice cream (yum, yum)

It looks good to me, the only suggestion I can make is maybe to switch the sausage & mash, and spaghetti bolognese meals. Pizza toast and spaghetti bolognese are both quite tomato-heavy and if you didn't like tomatoes (cooked or raw) as my DS doesn't, you'd probably not do too well that day.

Nigella Express has an eggless mousse recipe, it's a chocolate mousse though so if you went for that I'd probably just put in a fruit salad + yoghurt for the chocolate pud.

Oh you are right - I will mix it up a bit thanks

Where can I get the mousse recipe? I can replace the choc pudding with it & do an apple pie instead of blancmange

Here is the recipe - it's the same as in the Nigella Express book as far as I can see.

Thanks so much

It looks lovely