Easy dinners

Arrange all the ingredients in separate bowls and let your child wrap up her own surprise packet for dinner. To avoid mix-ups, label each one with the name of the rascal who made it.

This make-ahead simple salmon pasta recipe is healthy and hearty, and seems creamy without using any cream!

This chickpea and tuna salad is just as good as a filling for pita pockets as it is served on a plate and eaten with a fork.

Float an orange slice in each cup of this spicy orange tea for extra fanciness. Lovely.

If you have any leftovers from this dish, just cut the remaining chicken into chunks and mix with whatever rice is left. Add any other cooked vegetables you may have hanging around - broccoli, green beans, zucchini - moisten with a bit of broth, and bingo! An (almost) totally different dish.

A steamed artichoke with creamy dipping sauce is as much an activity as it is a food. Serve at dinner and keep your kids busy for at least 15 minutes.

A distant cousin to a perfectly respectable Mexican dish - chicken mole - this is a rich and tasty chili. The chocolate flavour is just barely noticeable (but don't tell the kids).