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[quote=Anonymous]I have a picky eater, too, OP.  He doesn't like sauces or things mixed together, and he very underweight so the ped wants us to be sure he eats.  We are a 2 WOH family, too.  Here is what we do:

I cook, so I hand off DC duties to husband 1/2 hour before dinner needs to be ready.

I grab a meat or protein, a carb, and a veggie.  Usual suspects are sausage, ground beef, chicken thighs, eggs, tofu; rice, pasta, potatoes; broccoli, kale, cabbage, peas.

Choose a "style" - Asian stir fry, typical american, Italian.  This determines the cooking method and the kinds of seasonings.

If you chose chicken thighs and broccoli, you can stir fry those with some stir fry sauce for the adults and plain jane for the kids.  Throw on top of rice or noodles.

Or, go "Italian" and pan fry the chicken (cut in chunks), microwave the broccoli, and boil some pasta and toss it together with olive oil and parmesean for the adults, serve plain for picky kids.

Or flip the chicken out and instead scramble two eggs into the stir fry pan with the broccoli and serve with rice.  For picky kids you can have veg/egg/rice separate.

If you have 45 minutes you can pan fry any kind of meat, steam or stir fry any kind of veg, and do these roast potatoes which my kid adores: cut up potatoes into 1/2 inch chuncks, or you can buy cut up potatoes in a bag.  Toss with couple teaspoons of olive oil and spread on baking sheet.  Bake at 400 degrees for 40 minutes, stiring  them once.

I've found this method - grab a protein, a carb, a veg - works pretty well for us.  Has resulting in some odd combos - stir fried ground beef? - but hey, it was dinner.[/quote]

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