RAmen
My kids love it anytime I do a "build-your-own" because it means they control how many vegetables and how much meat goes on their plate. It also means that if cheese is involved, it will all be devoured.
Last night my first born said, "I want junk food tonight - I don't feel like having anything healthy." Then he asked if they could have Top Ramen. Of course I took a little insult to that and made it a challenge. I said I would make them ramen and they'd love it. And they did.
To be on the up-and-up, I did use the packaged ramen noodles most of us starving college students lived on, but just the noodles, not the seasoning package. I'm not going to give you a recipe for this, it's really quite that simple, but I will tell you what I did.
I brought a pot of stock (I used chicken flavored Better Than Bullion) to a boil. While that was getting hot and steamy, I sliced some veggies real quick - whatever I found in the fridge that made sense...in this case much of what came from our garden: cherry tomatoes, jalapenos, cilantro, basil, and garlic flower buds. And from elsewhere, shallots, garlic, and ginger. I heated a pan with a drizzle of sesame oil and tossed the garlic in and cooked till browned and tender.
The broth is boiling by this point, so I tossed all those noodles into that hot, steamy, chicken broth bath and let them start to soften up.
Everything got put into their own bowls and set on the counter. When the noodles were ready, I served them up in bowls and let each person take it from there, adding in an egg poached in the broth. And because each one made it how they wanted, they all loved it (otherwise they only had themselves to blame).