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[elis mom 08]

As some of you know, we are house parents to 10 girls, ages 9-16. And then we have our picky eater son. It is really hard to satisfy everyone, especially because we have kids from so many cultures in our cottage. Most of our kids hate veggies and healthy eating, and no matter what (unless I make pizza calzones, or enchiladas) there is always some complaints. I could really use some good dinner and breakfast, and everything else for that matter recipes. We have a store on our campus, so we don't get tons of types of meats. In fact, we mainly get boneless chicken breasts, pork chops,and hamburger meat. I was really surprised to find out, that our girls loved beans and cornbread. Who would have thought? Anyways though, cooking for an army, and improvising, and creating new meals are some things that I have gotten really good at since working here. Shoot, I didn't know what Monkey Bread was, and now the girls ask me to make it all the time haha
Also, some quick meal ideas would be appreciated. Trying to cook for 10 people, and get them all off to school in the morning is sometimes a challenge too.

[genhand]

well, my kids aren't picky but I use those 2 books that are "family and kids friendly" plus they always tell you if you can freeze it, nice change you can make and what the kids can do to help you cook the meal.
Amazon.com: The Family Table: Marie Breton, Isabelle Emond: Books
Amazon.com: Lunch Box: Creative Recipes for Everyday Lunches: Marie Breton, Isabelle Emond: Books

They sometimes use tofu or mock meat, but the recipes are very good! Belive me, DH is a meat lover and still love those "alfretofu linguine" . There recipes are so good, that I even makes them when I have visit over for dinner or my kids b-day party.

Also, have you look at allrecipes.com ? it's a nice webpage with tons of different recipes that you can cook and you also have comments on if it's good or not!

Hope I help

[genhand]

here's are 2:
It's called Macaroni tout garni (all dressed mac)
it's from a book of cooking for kids

1 onion
2 cloves of garlic
1 big carrot diced
1 can of diced tomatoes
1 tbsp chili powder
1 tsp cumin
1tsp origano
1 cup of macaroni uncooked
1 tbsp lemon or lime juice
12 oz of ground round (yves veggies make some, usually it's next to tofu and you can try their flavor one)
3 tbsp coriander or parsley chopped
salt and pepper

In a big pan, heat some oil and cook the onion, garlic et the carrot for about 5 min or until tender. Add tomatoes and spices. bring to boiled than reduce heat and lets simmer for 15 min.
Cook pasta until al dente. Add the pasta, juice of lemon, ground round, coriander or parsley, salt and pepper.
Add water if it's to thick.

It's like a macaroni and chili mixed. Sometimes I'll incorporate a cup or ½ cup of frozen corn at the same times as the tomatoes. And if you don't tell is not meat, they won't notice it, even my DH doesn't know!!!

and a chicken one:
Pilons de poulet pas mal collants ( Very sticky chicken drumstick)

½ cup frozen orange juice, defrost and "undilute"
3 T orange marmalade
3 T honey
3 T soy sauce
1 glove garlic
12 chicken drumstick skinless

Mix all ingredients except chicken, poor in a ziploc bag and add the chiken. Let marinated at least 2 hours or over night

Place chicken in a baking dish cover with parchment paper. Poor all marinade left in a small sauce pan.

Cook at 400F 50 min and don't forget to "whitewash" a couples time at the end.

Boiled the marinade 5 min. then let it simmer until the drumstick are done. You can serve the marinade after it's cook with your chicken. SErve with rice and brocoli.

[kimberlym322]

First off I know ALL to well about picky eatters because i am one. Find what works and stick with it...if that means for 3 nights you have hamburgers that go with it.

Secondly have you tried some of the girl scout web pages??? They have some great recipes on there, also go to the local girl scout office and they have cookbooks there.

http://home.earthlink.net/~bnsganderson/
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts - Recipes

The above is two links you maybe able to use. You can maybe also go to the local library and see if they have any of them also.


I forget what it is called by here is one from GS:

eggs
cheese nips or something like that (crumbled)
bacon bits

scramble the eggs with the bacon bits, when eggs start to cook (losing some of their runnyness) add the cheese nips. Dont sound good but it really is.

Another one is tacos in a bag.

ground beef
taco mix
small bags of daretos -crumbled in the bag (you can also use a big bad and just crumble them on a plate)
shredded cheese
lettuce
tomatoes

brown the ground beef and make it like you were making tacos. once the ground beef/taco mix is ready one the bag of crumbled daretos, add some meat, the cheese, lettuce and tomatoes. Eat out of the bag and toss.

You could make bags of GOURP for snacks.

You just put in cheereos, m&ms, rasins, nuts (if everyone can have them), cheese nips in to a big bowl, mix and then put into small ziplock bags.

You can do shepards pie

Ground beef
cheese
mashed potatoes (real or instant)
corn and/or green beans (dont have to put in)

brown the ground beef. Make the potatoes. Layer it on the bottom of a backing dish, (if there is a layer and still some left over put a layer of cheese and then the rest of the ground beef, then another layer of cheese (if you you want it to be cheesey).) put in a layer of cheese, put in the corn and/or the green beans. Put on the potatoes and put a few slices of cheese on top. Back in a 350 oven until the cheese on top is melted and starting to turn brown.

Chicken and dumplings are a good one for alot of people. you could do stuffed chicken (pound it so that it is a few inches thick. bread it. put some chicken stuffing on it and roll it and back at 350 until chicken is done. or you can do the last but instead of using stuffing you could put a slice of ham and a slice of cheese in there, roll and back at 350 until the chicken is done.) you could also do stuffed pork chops, bread the pork chops, put cover a baking pan/dish with the pork chops, put some pork stuffing on them and put another layer of pork chops on top and back at 350 until chops are done. You could also do a stuffed port loin if you got any of them. SOS is good for breakfast. If you need any more let me know at work I have about 150 pages of different recipes that i would be happy to pass on to you. I also have some sweets also. Just let me know if you would like them.

[lakelandcallsme]

I use mostly chicken breast when I cook. My kids love marmalade chicken,just cut up as much chicken breast as you need into cubes and cook in a little olive oil and butter until browned, while that is cooking i mix hot chicken stock(from cubes) and orange marmalade when the chicken is cooked pour this over and simmer until it's reduced to a sticky sauce. Just make sure you keep an eye on it because it will burn quick at the end if your not careful. There are no measures for this you can make it for one or twenty. I use about 2T of marmalade to a !/2 pint of stock. MMMM! Also, i usually make more juice than nessacary because the longer it simmers the more tender the chicken is.

[stretch2864]

Originally Posted by lakelandcallsme

I use mostly chicken breast when I cook. My kids love marmalade chicken,just cut up as much chicken breast as you need into cubes and cook in a little olive oil and butter until browned, while that is cooking i mix hot chicken stock(from cubes) and orange marmalade when the chicken is cooked pour this over and simmer until it's reduced to a sticky sauce. Just make sure you keep an eye on it because it will burn quick at the end if your not careful. There are no measures for this you can make it for one or twenty. I use about 2T of marmalade to a !/2 pint of stock. MMMM! Also, i usually make more juice than nessacary because the longer it simmers the more tender the chicken is.

No kids at my house anymore, but this chicken sounds delicious!