Run out of things to cook for dinner

[Peasie]

Make-a-Pizza Night

Four pre-made personal size pizza shell
Ready made pizza sauce
Two different kinds of pizza meat topping (sliced pepperoni, eg)
Two different kinds of pizza vegetable toppings (broccoli, sliced tomato, mushroom, pineapple bits, eg)
Two different kinds of grated cheese (mozzarella, cheddar)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Tell family to make their own personal pizza. Only parents control oven. Lay out fixins in bowls. Each person must choose at least one meat and one vegetable. Yes, pineapple is a vegetable here. Put sauce on pizza, then toppings, then cheese.

Put each pizza on cookie sheet. Parent supervise baking.

Children eat their own pizza. Serve with salad.

Ask if they want to do this every week. Or suggest other toppings.

[kia027]

they like tacos or wraps

corn tacos, ground beef, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese and u set

If wraps den u can add rice & beans to it too
buy the ground beef in bulk, cook in bulk freeze and fling out when u cyan bodda cook. Set ingredients out in bowl and have dem mek dem own dinna

[Peasie]

Lasagna (or Basagna! as Peas2 would say) was always a winner in my household. You don't need to cook lasagna noodles even though the box says so. And don't bother buy those "no boil" lasagna.

Here is a recipe I found and modified to what I used to do.

This makes two 13x9x2 pans so you can freeze for the future. They're good for up to 4 months in the freezer.

Classic Lasagna

Ingredients:
1 (48 ounce) container ricotta cheese (about 6 cups)
4 eggs, lightly beaten
3 cups shredded Parmesan cheese, divided into 2 cups and 1 cup
13 cups red sauce (the Peases loved Prego Traditional sauce)
18 lasagna noodles, uncooked
2 pounds lean ground beef, cooked and drained
8 cups shredded mozzarella cheese (about 2 pounds)

Supplies:
Two 13x9x2-inch baking dishes
Plastic wrap
Aluminum foil

Directions:
1. Combine ricotta cheese, eggs, and 2 cups of the Parmesan cheese in a large bowl.
2. Lay baking dishes before you and spread ½ cup of red sauce in the bottom of each.
3. Assemble both lasagnas at once in layers in the following order:

Layer 1

3 uncooked noodles
2 cups red sauce
1 cup cooked ground beef
1½ cups ricotta cheese mixture
1 cup mozzarella

Layer 2

3 uncooked noodles
2 cups red sauce
Remaining ground beef
Remaining ricotta cheese mixture

1 cup mozzarella

Layer 3

3 uncooked noodles
Remaining red sauce
Remaining mozzarella
Remaining Parmesan

4. Wrap each dish entirely in plastic wrap. Top with foil, label, and freeze.

To Serve:

1. Thaw one entrée in the refrigerator or bake it straight from the freezer.
2. Preheat the oven to 375°F.
3. Remove plastic wrap and foil from baking dish and replace foil. Place dish on a rimmed baking sheet and bake for 1 hour if thawed, 1½ hours in frozen. Remove foil and continue baking until lasagna is bubbling and cheese is browned.

Yield: 2 entrees, 12 servings each
Freeze up to: 4 months

adapted from momswhothink web site

[Peasie]

Another thing I would do occasionally was have Upside Down Days. I would tell them the night before so they can expect the change up in routine.

• Breakfast - they could have microwave pizza with milk or juice and fruit.
• Dinner - we would have pancakes or waffles, eggs, bacon, or omelette, toast or bagel, fruit.

By high school they were making their own dinner on some week nights and one night a month one of them would make dinner for the family.

Good luck CB and don't stress dinner.

[CeaBee]

she give me two page of instructions fi mek lasagna then tell me doan stress dinner

[Peasie]

she give me two page of instructions fi mek lasagna then tell me doan stress dinner

what Twiney called you in SB

[Gen]

dem is picky eaters ??

try some a rachel ray 30 min meal dem

is summer suh light things like the

tacos (soft shell or hard shell)
home made pizzas etc,
sloppy joes wid french fries
fish sticks




or choose a country/cuisine every week and do things from that country/cuisine for the week

[CeaBee]

we decided in the shoutbox that is a cook i really want. All of you can chip in to pay him salary.

[Gen]

yes i figured that but mi never want post it here dwl

dats why mi only post kid friendly non cook ideas