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Menu help for an 11 year old
My mom and a family friend left town today for 5 days. The family friend's 11 year old daughter is staying with me. She is an extremely picky eater. She likes mac n cheese, chicken strips, cheerios, toast, hot dogs, grilled cheese, and salad (with no dressing). She does not like anything with red sauce- including pizza.
I am trying to come up with a menu for 5 days, but struggling. Breakfast will just be cheerios, she's eating lunch at school during the week. We will go out to dinner twice so that helps a bit.
Any ideas for foods she might also like based on the above parameters? I will obviously pick up all of the stuff she likes, but would like a bit more variety. She is willing to try stuff, I asked if she liked tator tots- she'd never had them, so going to serve those with the chicken strips tomorrow night along with some fruit.
Re: Menu help for an 11 year old
My kids were NOT picky eaters, but I have had to have my friend's son stay with me who is exactly like you posted. He LOVES tater tots. Try chicken noodle soup with crackers, he likes spaghetti noodles with just butter and parmasean cheese, soft tacos with only beef and cheese for her.
those are the only ones I can think of so far. Ask her mom about those options or her when she gets there.
America's Test Kitchen has a fantastic recipe for homemade chicken nuggets. You can google it. I think you might have to sign up for the free account version to get the full recipe. I've made it several times. It's a lot healthier than the frozen box stuff.
How about pigs in a blanket? Just roll hotdogs up in the crescent roll dough (out of a can) and bake.
Grilled ham and cheese sammys. BLTs. Maybe a salad with chicken strips on top.
Does she like any other breakfast foods like pancakes? You could do breakfast for dinner.
Tired after a long morning of hiking and swimming.
you could do mac and cheese 'cupcakes', let her choose what she would like to put in hers. Here's an example.
Here are a few of our favorite quick/kid friendly meals that she may like, you could always show her and if there is a particular ingredient she won't eat maybe you can leave it out or substitute it (coming from a reformed extremely picky eater, I wouldn't touch a meal that had onions but if given the option to not use them I would eat the meal).
Baked ravioli with lemon cream sauce
Creamy taco mac (we add ground turkey)
cheesy meatloaf balls
black bean and salsa soup with cheese quesadillas
bubble up enchilada casserole (turkey instead of bison, add black beans, can take out chiles)
herb rubbed chicken with orzo