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↑ dankbar ↓

Today at 3:47 am

Some supermarkets have different chicken/meat on sale each week. Maybe you can add in some more into the menu plan.

Also there are recipes where you can stretch the chicken/meat so you don't need at least 9 chicken legs or 9 chicken cutlets per meal.

If you do chicken & stir fries veggies, and add in spaghetti or rice in pot.

If you do pasta and meat sauce.

If you do sloppy Joe mixed with veggies in a pita

Patties mix the ground meat with some bread or crumbs and eggs and maybe some grated veggies insides so you use less meat.

Schwarma, salad, fries, dips in a pita so you don't need so much of schwarma to fill entire pita only a third of pita is filled with the chicken.

Soups are filling then people don't need so much chicken after that.

Like split pea soup has proteins as well.

Even if they fill up on veg soup not so much chicken needed after that

You can do a filling soup with a bit of chicken or meat inside as meal. Like cream of chicken soup, you can even make it with zucchini, instead if just flour to sneak in the veg.

You can make pasta with spinach or sautéed California veg and add in melted cheese.

Macaroni can be mixed with cottage cheese

You can do lukshen cheese kugel has farmer cheese in it.

Lasagne with veggies and cheese.

Mock liver made with peas and eggs. With bread and fresh veg.

Avocado egg salad with bread and veg

Falafel balls, chumus Israeli salad and pita

Frank n buns, and French fries and corn.

Pack of frank shouldn't be so expensive as pack of chicken

Tuna patties stretches the tuna and makes a warm food.

Cut up a pack of franks, cook and mix with potato hash. Then you need only one pack of frank for your family instead of everyone got like two frank when served with a bun, then you would need more like 3 packs.

You can do sushi rice bowls with veggies with canned salmon instead of cooked salmon. Or even if you do flake cooked salmon you don't need entire slice fish for everyone if you have some fish flaked plus rice, avocado, carrots, cucumbers, crunchy onions, maybe lettuce.

French toast

Last edited by dankbar on Sun, Dec 15 2024, 3:58 am; edited 1 time in total

↑ Bnei Berak 10

Today at 3:53 am

amother OP wrote:

Yes, I have 1-2 kids that don't like anything and 1-2 that tend to command the foods cater to their needs. So no matter what I will almost always have a meal that 1-2 kids don't like. My kids have no problem eating raw fruits and vegetables--we buy more 2-3 times per week.

Kids eating raw fruits and veggies is great!
Would you consider checking if your picky kids have a vitamin or mineral deficiency that causes them to be picky?
It's very common food becomes a battle for control.