So what are you eating...

[thedamage]

What are you feeding your kids this afternoon? I'm at home with mine and today they're getting rattatouille.

[enk]

We had Kotipizza because the boys' basketball goes so late and we
take a couple of busses to get home. So we had a family pizza
for the four of us with mushroom, pineapple, shrimp, bell pepper
and ham. Most of us pick off the pineapple and give it to the eldest,
who gives the middle kid his shrimp I usually end up with all the
crust pieces To drink we had water, especially after the middle
one decided he needed to taste Tabasco for some reason ;D.

-enk

[raamv]

I suggest the Tex mex pepper sauce the next time..
But then the original posters question can be answered in different ways from a 1 yr old to a 30 yr old..

[enk]

They had some choice meals today otherwise anyways We all woke up
late, so they had some joulutorttu as a quick brekkie, but then at least
the one in daycare got some non-descript sh*t on a shingle looking food for lunch.
Don't remember what the other two had, but it musta been delicious since they
ate me out of house and home the two hours they were here by themselves.

Thank god we go back to normal food tomorrow morn

-enk

[karen]

We had smoked rainbow trout and potatoes. The kid eats about a fourth of the fish by himself.

enk, what is "normal" food for you guys?

[raamv]

We follow a simple pattern:
A staple carbohydrate ( like potatoes, rice, tortillas, pasta, lihaperunasoselaatikko, tacos, etc)
Veggies ( carrots, pasta sauce with oregano/pizzamauste, cauliflower/brocolli etc)
Protien( Chicken filet/shredded, ground beef, Fish patties, Fish filets)
Fruits ( After main food)(pear, banana, apple, mandarin etc)
Desert ( If they eat well)..
Pizzas on days that we dont have anything else of the above Like Sundays where we make them from flat pizza crust or Lidl's pita bread)

[enk]

We had smoked rainbow trout and potatoes. The kid eats about a fourth of the fish by himself.

enk, what is "normal" food for you guys?

Break: yoghurt or a sandwich (usually open-faced ham sandwich
or then a PNB), fruit and milk

Lunch: whatever's on offer at school or day care for all of us.

Snack: Fruit, veggies, yoghurt, rahka, viili, some other dairy product

Dinner: Salad, veggies are constants. The "main food" changes based
on what they had in school or day care, i.e., I avoid feeding them
the same thing. I cook the stuff from scratch usually (hence my kids'
overwhelming joy last year when I broke my foot, since I couldn't
make dinner and they got to eat anything that could be put in a micro ),
so it could be pasta/noodles with more veggies, soup, stirfries,
banchans (both Korean and "western" versions), Japanese dishes '
(tonkatsu, chirashizushi, sashimi).

Ah, kinda hard to describe, but it's not Kotipizza

-enk

[karen]

Okay, I see.

Tonight ds will have a homemade cheeseburger and fries. Dh and I will possibly finish off the rest of the turkey with turkey quesadillas. Any remaining turkey will go in the freezer. I'm tired of it.

[enk]

I stopped by Lidl today to get some bacon (CM was out of it )
and ended up buying that dang duck that Lidl had in the freezer.

So tonight we'll be having salad, veggies and duck á la orange

-enk

[juskdi]

We very often put together a big pot of pasta - the rye (ruis) kind - with a sauce, generally creamy, and some kind of vegetable like a courgette, peppers, eggplant, spinach, tomatoes, or mushrooms of really any kind and/or some kind of meat (lately it always seems to be salami but chicken, beef, reindeer, fish...it all works fine) to get as many food groups covered as possible. With that is a salad. The nice thing about that is that we make a huge pot of it and then we keep the leftovers for a few days afterwards.

Breakfast is pretty much restricted to porridge or müsli/fruit/yoghurt/any combination of the three.

Generally I buy kotimainen and luomu (made in Finland and organic) as much as possible. Ruohonjuuri in Kamppi (Helsinki) is excellent, but pretty expensive, but the larger K-Markets (Super- and Citymarkets) also have got good options.

As far as snacking it´s fruits, nuts, cookies, jerky or olutmakkara, popcorn...

And in a pinch we get the Saarioinen lihamakaroonilaatikko.