Getting through January

jlhmd666

Thanks Emma:)

zippychick

leftover turkey

if you add a small amount of orange lentils for bulk son should never know. If you blitz up the beans and add then he won't see them (and i would bet money he won't taste them!! ) . This thread may be useful to plant the seed of hiding bulkers

FrugalWorker

milliemonster wrote: »

I need to meal plan now, anyone got any ideas for left over turkey which we have lots of in the freezer apart from curry?

Ham and turkey, with some veg (I used leeks, but carrots, peas would work well too), a white sauce (make a roux with butter/flour and whisk in milk) - I added a good spoon of whole grain mustard. I put in to a large dish and topped with mashed potato and in to the oven. I used lots of veg so it was all in one and could serve straight from the oven with no other pots. I grated a little cheese on top, but would have been just as nice without. I could have topped it with pastry, but then someone would have been looking to me for spuds

My SILI makes quesadillas with left over chicken (turkey). I don't see them cutting it as dinner for my OH, but I can see kids falling on them.

Really anything, which has a sauce that your family likes!

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Lasagne perhaps with a medley of veg or mushrooms and cheese sauce

Spendless

JackieO wrote: »

Tortilla wraps are cheap as chips and are a great way to 'bulk' out a snack.
I will spread a wrap on the plate and fill with shredded lettuce diced tomato,cucumber and even some chopped up peppers.grate cheese on top wrap it up and voila you have a filling lunchtime meal or with wedges and evening meal.My DGS love these and they all have hollow legs.


Oldest one Ben who is at Uni likes them so much he will do a couple of rashers of bacon and an egg and cover the wrap with tomato ketchup then lay the cooked bacon and egg on top and wrap the whole thing up .he says its a better way when he is at uni than hoping there is bread left in the communal bread bin at his student house as the other boys often pinch the bread and never replace it.So he keeps a stash of wraps in a store in his room so he can always have something to eat when he gets in from his part time night job that he does at a local night club two nights a week. Often you will find the wraps in the reduced section I buy them and freeze wrapped in clingfilm individually so I can get one out at a time for myself 20 seconds in the microwave and its ready to wrap :):)

My DS likes breakfast wraps. McD's do one https://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/product_nutrition.breakfast.127.breakfast-wrap.html
so he's quite open to a diy version.
The beauty of them is I can create them when I don't really have enough breakfast items to go round, as one sausage/bacon rasher/hash brown will do.

I have a 15yo boy who eats anything and a more fussy 12yo girl.so quite similar to the OP.

Do the kids have school meals? Mine have come home raving about something they eat there (occasionally) and that gives me another meal to replicate at home. If they have packed lunches do you keep any items from home to make items. eg freezing over-ripe bananas for banana bread?