If you have young children and all eat together for dinner….

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what do you eat? Thanks (my two are 4 and 6)

@Tinybrother thanks. Yes it’s difficult and also quite new. Sensory profiles change so it could get easier for her or worse.

@sandberry thanks. That sounds similar here (me my eldest is autistic). Except although she’ll eat mash and jackets she won’t even try a new potato or a roast potato. She eats plain pasta and my 4 year old eats pasta and a veg sauce I make plus tuna pasta but 4 year old doesn’t like just plain pasta or other pasta sauces (have recently tried quorn bolognese without success but will keep trying). Your garlic bread is my baguette/bread and butter / Dough balls!

Dough balls also a winner here. I need to add them into the rotation. Mine won’t touch roast potatoes and has recently decided to get funny about new potatoes except with mayo. I’m trying to keep it open. Garlic bread is a recent addition hence the abundance of it. I figure I have about 20 foods to work with and to incorporate sometimes, there is no meal everyone loves even McDonald’s involves plain burger buns and fries with ketchup only, god forbid the bun has ketchup on it though.

When mine were that age we didn’t have a lot of money so it was basic, cheap, family friendly meals:
Breaded fish or chicken, with chips, wedges or mash, and beans or peas.
Tomato based pastas, eg spag bol, or with bacon and mushrooms, or occasionally tuna pasta.
Simple stir fry and rice or noodles (so some kind of protein, veg, a packet sauce).
Chilli with rice or jacket potatoes.
Actually, jacket potatoes with an assortment of fillings!
Stews or casseroles in winter.
Salad based meals in summer (this went down well because it was served family style.. a selection of ham / cheese / boiled eggs, then pots of coleslaw and similar, a bloomer or baguette, salad veg, maybe a homemade baby potato salad, that sort of thing).
Mild curries.

Curry
Chilli
Casserole
Chicken/bacon or sausage risotto
Stir fry
Pad Thai
Salmon and cous cous
Cottage pie
Bolognaise
Sausage gnocchi tray bake
Chicken arrabiata
Beef in black bean
Sweet and sour chicken

Mine are 5 and 7 but they've always eaten what we eat maybe adjusted slightly.
One dc doesn't like sauce so if I'm making spaghetti Bolognaise i'll take some mince out pan before adding the sauce and they'll have dry mince with spaghetti and cheese.
My dc have different preferences in what filling they eat in a pie so I'll always do two types of pie, chicken/ cheese & onion and steak.
One dc won't eat vegetables so I put minimal on their plate so they can try. So far they eat boiled carrots! Progress
Sometimes me & dp will have spicy chicken breast so I make some unseasoned for dc or just put some nuggets on for them.
If I make a soup one dc prefers it smooth rather than chunky so I blend one portion....