Food preparation doesn’t need to be complicated or time-consuming, but, if you are slightly more ambitious, you may wish to invest in a basic recipe book such as Jamie’s Dinners: The Essential Cookbook by Jamie Oliver (Michael Joseph, 2004) to give you more ideas and variety.
The quantities of ingredients for each recipe are hard to estimate,as some small children eat tiny amounts while teenagers might eat loads (and vice versa), but each recipe here makes enough for about ...