quick & easy dinners for toddlers
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Topic: quick & easy dinners for toddlers
Posted By: Mum2ET
Subject: quick & easy dinners for toddlers
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 11:24am
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Does anyone have any quick dinner ideas are for toddlers? scrambed eggs & tomatoes are a big favourite here and often I freeze a portion of our dinner and pull it out when we are in a rush.....but I need some more dinner ideas that I can cook up quickly. TIA ------------- Mum to Ella (5) and Tom (2) |
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 11:31am
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I keep sealord crumbed fish nuggets in the freezer and cook those up with homemade chips or crunchy potatoes (which is just cubed potatoes cooked at 220c for about 20 mins) or you could use oven baked fries from the supermarket. Also Michaela loves soft boiled eggs and soldiers (strips of toast) so they're regularly on the weeknight menu.
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 11:52am
| I make mini quiche looking things. Mix together egg, bit of cheese, grated carrot and peas and put that into mini muffin trays and bake |
Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 12:34pm
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oh, that sounds good. Tom eats with us most nights but is getting fussier at the moment. If it is tomato based (ie spag bol) he's all for it. Anything else seems to be how he feels on the day. |
kebakat wrote:Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 1:22pm
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Macaroni goes down well here. If I'm really pressed for time I use a cheese sauce mix, some frozen chopped spinach, grated carrot and stir it all up with cooked pasta.
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Posted By: katie1
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 1:25pm
| Love the mini quiche idea. |
Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 1:47pm
| Isla loves mashed potato and boccolli mixed with half a small tin of tuna in spring water and some cottage cheese, and I usually tho in some mixed vege or peas that I cook in the microwave- its basically like a quick version of fish pie- takes 15mins! |
Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 1:48pm
| I fresh chopped up cooked sausage, and portions of mince so taht the are ready if we in a hurry- just cook some protaoes/rice or pasta plus frozen vege abd serve! |
Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 3:11pm
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Cottage pie doesn't take too long to do and freezes well. Spencer loves spring rolls as well so I normally have some of those in the freezer as they only take 15 mins to cook.
Nikki Spencer is the same, last night he wouldn't eat his dinner so I nuked a tomato mixed that in with it and down it went. Good job I have some tomato plants coming along nicely  ------------- 
 
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Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 30 October 2008 at 7:47pm
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thanks for the suggestions guys...keep them coming problem is mainly the days that she is in daycare, as she normally starts demanding dinner about 10-15 mins after we have worked through the door.... ------------- Mum to Ella (5) and Tom (2) |