My boys like salmon cakes,I make them extra small so they fit in their hands.They like sausages,i usually get turkey sausages so they are  bit healthier,not too healthy but they love french fries(chips)...they love fruit.So I just cut that up and give it to them.And they really like oatmeal cookies,extra oatmeal with currents and made with rice flour not wheat flour.

FromMyGarden wrote:

It's not the school lunches that is so bad - my daughter gets a sandwich, two pieces of fruit and a homemade cake for her morning tea and lunch.  The school is very good and the kids cant go and play until they have finished what is in their lunch boxes.  The problem that I have is dinner time - my daughter eats brocolli so she gets that every night - but she doesnt like any other vege.  (allthough we do but spinich into her mashed potato and say its the brocolli leaves).  Any other ideas for getting a range of vege - or shouldnt I be worrying so much if shes getting the brocolli??

Hi from my garden, does your daughter take home made soup, I find it's a great way to get extra veg in, you can liquidise the end result to disguise whatever other veg you put in. Lasagne or tomato sauce such as you'd use for bolognaise are also good for hiding stuff. If you make your own or even if you don't, add some lightly cooked veg with your jar of sauce, warm it up in a pot and blitz away. I use the stick type blitzer and it's handy to use and to wash up.
One of my lads is not great to eat veg but will eat lots of different fruit so I've given up worrying too much, still sneak stuff in though. You have probably tried some of these but it might help. Good luck. 

Hi, I have 2 kids (13 and 10), almost Indonesian people eat rice everyday and so do we. My son and my daughter love to cook fried rice, sometime they put chicken,eggs and some veggie (carrot or broccoli). Basic ingredient are rice,garlic,butter and soy sauce.. 

When they finish cooking, they gonna serve the fried rice to me and I must act like a guest in their restaurant.. 

Hi,
My son loves my version of flapjacks.  Just take a normal flapjack recipe:

75g of butter or margarine
50 - 75g light brown sugar
1 tablespoon of golden syrup
175g of porridge oats

and substitute about a third of the oats for chopped dried mango, chopped cranberries or any other dried fruit, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, chopped walnuts, chopped brazil nuts, chopped cashew nuts and a dollup of marmalade.

If you spread it quite thinly to cook it then goes lovely and crispy with chewy bits.

Enjoy! Bekx

Hi Jamie!

My older one is 4 years old now and he's been a fan of cooking shows for ever - like mum! He sees you on the telly and shouts "Mum, look! there's Oliver!!!"   He's been cooking with me since he was 1!/2 and he could stand on a stool and wear his own apron and one of his favourite recipes ever is your pancakes 
Now he's back to school he loves spaghetti with spinach cream, boiled fish and egg with carrots and chick peas and chicken pies. He's also nuts about fruit and yogurts, can't get enough of them! And you know what? He absolutely HATES hamburgers and most fast food - homemade pizza being the exception.

Hope your "crusade" to change British children's  food habits is going well.
Sanik