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Noah goes to nursery on weekdays while I am at college and has lunch and tea there (cooked on the premises). On weekends he usually has the Cow & Gate "Little Steamed Meals" for lunch and tea cos I am hopeless at cooking and I know that he likes them. He's starting at a new nursery 3 days a week after Easter where you have to provide their lunch and tea and I'm having a crisis about what to send him with :dohh: I feel really guilty for not cooking for him and like they will think bad of me if I send him in with jars or w/e. :dohh: I know I really shouldn't care what they think but I do and he can't live off baby food forever.

Just looking for some ideas of lunches and teas to send him with really? They provide snacks. All I've thought of yet is ham/cheese sandwich, some rice cakes and a banana/yoghurt/blueberries but I obviously need to think of more ideas :dohh:

Very stupid thread, feel free to ignore, just stressing about it :haha:
 
Hey. why dont you make some shepards pie and freeze it and send that with some veg/ Honestly i am useless at cooking too... i kept my DD on jars for ages.
Pasta is always good and easy too. Dolmio do a carbonara sauce for like £1.30 just cook some pasta, whack that in with it and some grated cheese. Sorted! DOnt let it stress you out too much... have you heard of Jamies 30 minute meals?
 
Yes I've stumbled across them occasionally on TV, might have to start taking more notice! :lol:
 
Pasta is the easiest. I used to watch step by step youtube vids on cooking!

Start with pasta and basic sauces

Tuna pasta is so easy.

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For the 'lunch' part of food just send a sandwich, piece of fruit, maybe some cheese or crackers or fruit cake pieces. I often send in a fruit pot for pudding. If you put the 'effort' in for lunch then don't worry too much about convienience food for tea- after all you are working full time. If you do get time to make up real food in portions- then brilliant!
 
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I'm a full time student and I often beat myself up about not doing the best for my kids- but most of the time I do ok- if the worst I do is send my kids to nursery with a ready meal once in a while- then shoot me!
 
How about a peanut butter sandwich? Kids love peanut butter, and it has lots of protein.

Add a piece of fruit to his lunch box, and you've got a meal! :flower:
 
I second the make something big and portion it...things like lasanga, pasta bake, paella, fish pie, chicken strips and veg etc etc. anything you eat as a dinne meal - just make a large quantitiy and freeze portion then get one out the frezer in the morning and send it with toddler - it'l defrost by lunch ready to be heated.
 
It's hard doing main meals and sending them in - I wouldn't be very happy about that. That's one of the perks of sending them to nursery!

Here are some of our easy weekend meals:

Fish pie - cut up raw white fish, smoked fish and salmon into cubes, cover with greek yogurt. Top with mashed potato and cook in the oven for 35 mins.
Freeze in portions.

Spag bol - if you don't want to make it from scratch fry mince, cover with tomato pasta sauce and simmer for 20-30 mins. Freeze in portions and make pasta the night before.

Matilda loves Annabel Karmels Popeye Pasta as pasta sauce. Steam a packet of spinach for 5 mins, saute in a frying pan with butter for a couple of minutes, add about 1/3 tub of cream cheese and 50g grated hard cheese and when it all melts blend to a smooth sauce. Freeze and pour over fresh pasta as you need it.

Maybe for puddings make a fruit crumble and again freeze in portions.

Good luck!
 
Thanks everyone :) Yeah Halle it is a bit of a pain, but the nursery is only 10 mins from my house and I love it, its a fantastic nursery so I figured I'd just have to deal with it :haha:
 

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