Healthy Eating

tiff

MAth, I have just the thing, no time now but will post later!

mrsmab59

Galtizz wrote:

Always one for a challenge me vinegar cake

:rotfl: challenge accepted Galtizz...I'll let you know how it goes

mrsmab59

MATH wrote:

A CRY FOR HELP

I'm looking for easy to cook, very few ingredients, low preparation, one pot dishes, cheap to make, tasty recipes to make for me and the kidz when we are at our caravan.

This is a pasta meal I cook on the cooker top and serve with garlic bread.

In a large saucepan put pasta shapes, a couple of generous handfuls of frozen peas and sweetcorn, one can of chicken soup, 2 soup cans of cold water. Bring to the boil stirring regularly, then simmer for about 25 minutes until the pasta is cooked. If it looks a little dry during cooking just add more water as necessary.

I vary the soup flavour and frozen veg according to whatever we have in but it always seems to turn out okay

tiff

MATH wrote:

I can't believe the number of people who do not serve puddings. Dinner should be 3 courses or at the very least 2 IMO. It gives your kidz a choice of tastes, textures and food groups that cannot be supplied in one course and encourages them to eat correctly. How will kidz know how to dine correctly if they continually sit down to one course with one knife and one fork only. A couple of playground mothers were gobsmaked the other day when my little girl let it slip that we use linen napkins and serving dishes at every meal. Why is this so odd? they thought it hillarious and yet are constantly complaining about how fussy and faddy their kids are when it comes to food. Mine arn't

I'm afraid we dont use napkins and serving dishes, but we do eat our dinner round the table, AT EVERY MEAL. Some people find that odd too.

Ticklemouse

So do we, tiff AND, with a few exceptions, we all eat our evening meal at the same time. That's becoming as rare as eating at the table, too.

Ticklemouse

Re One pot recipes...

Don't know if you have an oven in the trusty caravan - I'm sure you do, so this is my easy dish, good for cooler day.

Pork chops in base of dish, covered with chopped onions and thinly sliced potatoes, covered with stock/gravy of your choice, bung in oven and cook on medium heat until done - 1 1/2 - 2 hrs, depending on how thin you slice potatoes. If you're in a rush, you can parboil/soften/brown ingredients as you see fit.

Make loads of potatoes and gravy, they go great with a fried egg the next day.

tiff

I noticed during one of these child behaviour programmes that the person that came in to change things around recommended they eat together at the table, its very important she said to "connect". It also limits the mess to the kitchen and not have spilt drinks and dropped food mushed into the carpets!

tiff

I hope I'm not coming across "holier than thou". I dont mean to be, its just that certain things in family life are important to me and eating together is one of them.

tiff

Will start a new thread for this

Anne_Marie_2

We always eat at the breakfast bar (does that count as a table?), just am a lazy old toad, we only eat at the table occassionally. However, everyone coming into the house sits at the breakfast bar, and blethers to me whilst I am cooking, catch up on what's been going on, and they can tidy up the breakfast bar for me, and lay out the cutlery and condiments. We generally always eat together. Sometimes we have serving dishes, sometimes not, depends. Our napkins are usual paper variety or kitchen roll.
Rarely have a pudding these days, we prefer savoury food, but there are biscuits and cheese and fruit, and if anyone wants, ice-cream, which is not the slightest bit healthy being home made and made with double cream!
Agree with Math to a degree, children have to learn to use different cutlery and taste different food and textures, but eating 3 courses way beyond me. My puddings were never anything exciting, apple/rhubarb pie or crumble, fruit salad, yoghourts, cheesecake or icecream and fruit.