For suppers that are able to make themselves. I’m going away Monday. I think I’ll get pizza for them.
After my surgery I was told to not exert myself for at least 5 days so Thursday to tuesday I’ll be unable to do much. So they need to cook thursday to sunday for themselves. I hope it works out.
What ideas do you have?
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How old are they?
Stock up on sandwich meat and bread maybe with some Mayo or whatever condiments they like. Or maybe precook some meals that they can microwave.
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They are 17 and 15. I have pizza pops for the microwave. I also have chicken fingers. My son knows how to make hamburger helper and grilled cheese sandwiches. They also know how to make nachos. And of course peanut butter and honey sandwiches.
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I don’t know. My dad made me start cooking when I was 8.
Macaroni and cheese from the box is pretty easy. Macncheese With chopped up hot dogs or tuna is good and easy.
Hamburger Helper is really easy.
Also after cooking the Mac n cheese you can stir in a can (dont add water) of cream of mushroom soup and a half cup of sour cream. Then add in a can of precooked roast beef. Microwave for a minute if needed. Voila you have beef stroganoff.
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Oh well. They’re fine then
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Man, I wish you lived close enough to invite over for tea. I think you’d get along just fine with Mrs. Squirrel and I!
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Was Mrs cooking at 8?
My dad raised my niece from 2 years old. She went deer hunting with my dad when she was still in elementary school. I think she got her first buck at 11 or 12?
Thanks for the invite btw!!!
She cooked from about age ten. I caught hell from my mom because at nearly age six I baked chocolate chip cookies on my own before she got home from work (yes, my mom left a six-year-old alone for hours at a time). They turned out, btw. I had memorized everything baking with her and did it just fine on my lonesome.
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Bless your heart. It’s good your cookies turned out 
Oh boy. Hoping you’re not using that in the pejorative Southern sense?
No. I had to look up pejorative up. No pejorative southern stuff here. I really meant it. It’s a southern colloquialism not pejorative in this sense.
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I’m given to understand that it’s an extremely versatile expression that can have multiple meanings. Sorta like how I F-bomb people.
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Man!!! Now I want cookies!!!
@FatMama. You can also get frozen cookie dough from the store and your kids can make cookies for desert.
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Boxed macaroni & cheese is a bunch of empty calories without nutritional value. But you can buy a box or bag of dried pasta and cook it up yourself and add some medium priced pasta sauce and maybe add some ground beef. If you buy whole wheat pasta it’s better for you. But cooking elbow pasta or penne is just boiling water, throwing in enough dried pasta to last two or three days, cooking it for 8-10 minutes, take it out and drain it and adding the pasta sauce and cooked ground beef.
It’s really easy and can be reheated in the microwave at will. A
Another easy idea is simply buy a package of flour tortillas, a can of refried beans, and an 8 oz bag of shredded cheese. You can make fast easy burritos in the microwave. Just put a tortilla on a microwave safe plate, spoon a tablespoon or two of beans in the middle and top with some cheese. Microwave for 30 seconds, take out and fold. These can be quickly be made for lunch or
dinner.
Oatmeal or cream of wheat for breakfast.
Buy some boneless, skinless chicken breasts. If they are 17 and 15 they are capable of preheating the oven for ten minutes, putting two chicken breasts in an oven safe pan and baking them for 35 minutes
I like to “make them Mexican” and spoon some light sour cream on the cooled breasts, add some medium priced salsa and shredded che
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It has a pretty good amount of protein, though mac n cheese has gone downhill in the supermarkets. In the past you could get a box of mac n cheese for 33 cents that had 36 grams of protein in it. The way I fixed it was horrible for my heart, though. I would boil the macaroni and melt down half a stick of margarine in it, put in the other ingredients, and mix it all up together. I also put some mustard or bar b que sauce in it. Nobody else likes it, but I think it is good. Now you have to pay 70 cents for a box of mac n cheese. You have to be careful boiling the macaroni because its not very robust, and it will turn pasty if you’re not careful. Also, the bag of cheese is much smaller than it has been in the past.
Do your children know how to make pasta type dishes?
I cook a lot of those up myself. They’re super easy to make. Just boil some fettucini or regular noodles, fry up some turkey or beef, add some pasta sauce, and you’re set!
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I think they could do spaghetti or hamburger helper
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Cool!
Hamburger helper is another one that’s easy to make. I love that stuff. 
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They could also make farmer sausage patties
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I grew up on Hamburger Helper!!! My dad also cooked a lot of stuff from scratch. During the Reagan era we also got ‘welfare cheese’. I think they put something in that stuff. It was soooo good!!!
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