Weekday Dinners
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ust over a month in and if you are anything like most parents, you must be sick to the back teeth of sandwiches. Sandwiches in the morning, sandwiches in the evening, always sandwiches. The worst bit is, they don't even get eaten. The laboured-over lunch comes home in the same container sweating like a teacher at parent’s evening. So, given that they don’t eat whatever you put in their lunch boxes anyway, we thought we’d offer up a few alternatives to the everyday sandwich.
Picnic Lunch This is a firm favourite in our house and it take very little preparation. This lunch is, more or less, exactly the same as the picnic plates given to toddlers at a kid’s birthday party (minus the party rings). You can make this the night before, the morning of, or, you can get the kids to make it themselves (if they are supervised and/or old enough to use a knife). Put in what they like, leave out what they don’t.
INGREDIENTS
●● A quarter of a cucumber roughy chopped in to strips or circles ●● A carrot, chopped in to strips or circles ●● A handful of cherry tomatoes ●● Half a celery stalk cut into chunks or strips ●● A couple of slices of ham / chicken / salami – any meat, or veggie meat, they will eat ●● Cream crackers or alternative – as many as your child likes ●● Slices of cheese – enough for the crackers ●● A handful of grapes – cut in half for young children ●● A banana, an apple or any other fruit ●● Dried fruit, such as mango or apricots or anything else ●● Nuts and whatever they will eat from your cupboard
METHOD
Throw it all in a sealable container. You can include some hummus or other dip if your child likes it, if not, leave it out.
*TOP TIP*
If you’re already chopping veg, why not chop enough so can have some for your lunch / snack as well. It will last for a couple of days in the fridge – eat it yourself, give it to the kids after school or chuck it in their lunch box on another day! 26 |
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Tuna Mayo Lettuce Wraps INGREDIENTS ●● Iceberg lettuce ●● Tinned Tuna ●● Mayonnaise ●● Sweetcorn or cucumber to put in tuna mayo – but only if you like it
METHOD 1 Crack open the tin of tuna, drain it
and mix it up with some mayonnaise. 2 Add tinned sweetcorn or chopped up cucumber depending on yours, or your kids, taste. 3 Take off a leaf of iceberg lettuce. Place the tuna mayo in the middle of the iceberg lettuce and wrap it up. Be sure to include plenty of kitchen roll in their lunch box – this will be messy!
