Try these delicious and nutritious evening meals your whole family will love!
Homemade Soup
You should chop all the vegetables yourself, but then you could get the kids to stir them in the saucepan and blend them together, as long as you're supervising them carefully!!!
Ingredients:
- 1 big white onion
- 2 carrot sticks
- 2 celery sticks
- 300ml of vegetable or chicken stock
- Vegetables of your choice
1-Chop all of the vegetables. Heat a slosh of olive oil in a big saucepan. Add the vegetables and sweat them for 10mins, stirring regularly, until the carrots are soft.
2- Add the vegetables of your choice such as leeks, tomatoes, more carrots, butternut squash.
3- Add vegetable stock.
4- Bring to the boil. Then reduce and simmer for 20mins.
5- Take pan off the heat and place soup in blender.
6- Serve with bread rolls and cheese or bacon bits.
Sloppy Joes (Recipe from Eat This, Not That!)
Ingredients:
Makes 4 servings
• 1 tsp. olive oil
• 1 lb. lean ground turkey
• 1 medium onion , diced
• 1 carrot , peeled and diced
• 1 medium green bell pepper diced
• 2 cloves garlic , minced
• 1/2 cup ketchup
• 1 Tbsp. chilli powder
• 2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 4 warmed whole wheat hamburger buns
1- Heat a large non-stick skillet over medium heat.
2- Add the olive oil, turkey, onion, carrot, pepper and garlic.
3- Sauté, stirring occasionally, until the turkey is cooked and the onions are translucent, 7 to 10 minutes. 4- Add the ketchup, chilli powder and Worcestershire sauce.
5- Reduce the heat to low and simmer for at least 15 minutes.
6- Serve with the buns.
Pasta Primavera from The Visual Guide: How to Make a Healthy Lunch for Kids
Ingredients:
- 2 cups Pasta, small dried
- 1 tablespoon Extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup Onions, chopped finely
- 2 Cloves garlic, chopped finely
- 14 Cherry tomatoes, diced small
- 1/4 cup Water
- 1/4 cup Frozen peas
- 1/4 cup Frozen corn
- 1 tablespoon Fresh basil, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup Mozzarella cheese, cut into small cubes
- 1 teaspoon Basil, finely chopped
- Salt and pepper to taste
1- Boil dried pasta in water for about 10 minutes. Pasta should remain slightly firm.
2- In a small saucepan, saute olive oil, onions and garlic on medium-low heat for 3 minutes.
3- Add cherry tomatoes, frozen peas, corn and water. Saute 3 minutes or until tender. Mix in cooked, drained pasta. Let cool.
4- Toss in fresh basil, mozzarella, salt and pepper to taste.
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