Help me! What are your kids favorite meals?

[Jillibean]

I am so tired of eating chicken nuggets, chicken noodle soup and veg. beef soup,and spaghetti and meatballs, but I hate fixing something different for me only (the Army has DH away for the next 13 months). I know I should just fix something and tell them "you have to eat it", but that just isn't going to happen with me. I was raised like that and let's just say I have gone the opposite direction with my kids in almost every way. Sooo... I need some ideas/recipes that your kids like that the adults in your family like eating too. My girls are ages 4,5 and 9. Please help!!!

[ecj98]

Here are some of my kids' favorite meals. I'd be glad to send you recipes if you'd like.

Quesadillas, corn, Spanish rice
Pecan crusted chicken fingers, oven roasted potatoes
Bacon cheeseburger roll up
Nasi Goreng - Indonesian Fried Rice (basically just chicken and rice with some spices; they both love this)
Homemade baked mac and cheese with chunks of diced ham, broccoli, rolls
Homemade pizza, Caesar salad

[sbp]

My kids favorites include:

homemade mac and cheese
chicken divan (surprisingly enough my kids LOVE broccoli)
tacos - only mine prefer soft taco shells.

"Taco" salad (cooked burger and lettuce, tomato, cheese and diced up pickles, mixed together with Catalina salad dressing and topped with tortilla chips or doritos)

Do your kids have a favorite condiment that you can use to your advantage? One of my boys eats ranch on anything and the other eats ketchup on anything. If they are hesitant about eating something, we give them a puddle of their sauce of choice on their plate and tell them to dip away.

[momof2inohio]

My kids love stuffed peppers, homemade mac and cheese, tacos, BBQ pork chops, chicken terriyaki, salad with grilled chicken.

[jolly321]

My son loves many of these things posted here and the following:

Hotdogs, Shrimp salad (Suddenly Salad mix with frozen bagged shrimp), Lasagna, and breakfast for dinner any of the following:eggs, sausage, pigs in a blanket, biscuits, pancakes, muffins, bacon

[lbrown1618]

My kids love spongebob, so when we make burgers, we tell them we're making crabby patties. We let them help where they can, and they eat it up cause its "Fun".

They also like "turkey tacos". All it is is rolled up turkey slices. Then you add whatever each person likes for other items....cheese, salami, etc. My son likes to eat just the turkey slices. This would make it easy to do that for them, and then make yourself a sandwich

[sbp]

oh, thought of another one -

spaghetti and shrimp - tossed with either Italian dressing or Ranch.. you can also toss in whatever veggies they'll eat.

[crecian]

ham and cheese sandwich with the cheese side put under the broiler to melt the cheese, grilled cheese sandwich, chicken with gravy and any vegetable if I gave her the choice of what she wanted from the pantry.
(my dd would eat anything if given a chance to choose it herself, I would ask, do you want turnip greens or green beans...whichever she chose she ate)

[mom2Isaac]

I have recently discovered that my son loves turkey sausage, so I would do that with son rice and corn, and call it a day!

[Jillibean]

Thank you ladies! I will give some of those ideas a try! If ya think of any more feel free to post them!