Give me your easy fast dinner ideas

[Anonymous]

eggs and marinara sauce - simmer 1/2 a jar of marinara, crack in 3-4 eggs, cover for 10 minutes. top with shredded cheese, serve with toast.

[Anonymous]

Throw stew meat and a couple of jars of gravy in the crock pot, at supper time boil some egg noodles and make a veggie.

[Anonymous]

Burrito bowls:
Tortillas warmed in oven until crispy
Brown rice
Black beans
Cheese
Lettuce
Tomato

Baked pasta (not quick but makes a ton so you have leftovers) cook once, eat twice

[Anonymous]

Saute chicken or turkey meatballs (Costco) with garlic and onion in olive oil. Boil pasta. Mix all with pasta sauce. DD loves it...she can eat this daily if I let her.

[Anonymous]

Whoah awesome simple ideas. Not OP but thanks PPs!

[Anonymous]

Sometimes I make a lasagna after the kids go to bed and that lasts for two nights' worth of dinners. Daal (lentils) is another easy make ahead option.

Quick & easy meals when I get home also include: quesadillas, tuna melts (make a quick tuna salad then it's basically grilled cheese with tuna inside), ham steaks with make ahead mashed potatoes, and if I have left over rice, I'll make a fried rice and throw in random pieces of left over meats & veggies. I often steam some veggies while cooking the main item. If we've got a lot of lettuce, I might do a lettuce wrap with whatever we've got - I can make tuna salad real quick, or I might do taco fillings in lettuce instead of taco shells.

[Anonymous]

Burritos - I make black beans in a crock pot every few weeks and freeze portions

Pasta "stir fry" - pretty much any vegetable you have in the fridge stir fried with garlic and olive oil tossed with cooked pasta and pesto, sprinkle with some parm. Sometimes I'll throw in left over chicken or some chicken pesto sausage if I have some.

Egg and tofu stir fry - scrabble eggs in a pan until almost cooked, toss in cubed extra firm tofu, add soy sauce and some sliced green onions and stir fry until eggs are done, green onions are wilted and tofu is warmed. Eat with rice and Sriracha!

[Anonymous]

I cut up a head of cabbage, a turkey kielbasa and a couple onions, and throw them in a lidded pot with a 1/2 cup of water and a bag of baby carrots. It takes about 3 minutes to prep, and then cook for about 20 - 30 minutes. It makes good left overs too.


Fry some bacon, and then use a little of the bacon grease to fry some shredded Brussels sprouts from Trade Joe's. We call these "Hash Greens" in my house. Serve with toast, and, if time, a poached egg.


Turkey sausage sauteed with chopped granny smith apples.


In case you couldn't tell, I'm the OP of the thread about not knowing how to season anything so I over-rely on processed meat, but all of those are delicious.

[Anonymous]

Tomato cream pasta is my ultimate easy comfort food. Fettuccine, and a sauce made of tomato sauce with cream and Parm and maybe some fresh basil.

Tonight is carnitas. You basically throw a pork shoulder with spices into the oven for a few hours, shred it with a fork, and make tacos or tostadas or salads with it. Refried beans and tortilla chips on the side.

When all else fails I am not above snack plates for dinner with lots of variety - some kidney or black beans, cheese, berries, snap peas or broccoli, maybe some small pasta.

[Anonymous]

We like crock pot stuff. Yesterday we did a flank steak in the crock pot, I put a dry rub on the night before, throw it in, cook for 8ish hours, shred and serve with taco fixins. Tomorrow I'm doing a preseasoned pork tenderloin in the crock pot. Salsa chicken (chicken, salsa, taco seasoning) is great too as well as pulled pork.

Sides I rely heavily on trader joes - love the zucchini fries, vegetable nests, garlic potatoes, sweet potato fries. I often bake a big batch of sweet potatoes and roast big pans of veggies on the weekends or after the kids are in bed.

Also breakfast for dinner, grilled cheese & soup, ham & cheese sliders (google it, you preassemble night before, pour a butter sauce over & bake), TJs fish nuggets

[Anonymous]

Lentil soup made in slow cooker
Taco night
Baked fish in panko breadcrumbs
Scrambled eggs
Chicken in one of the trader joe simmer sauces

[Anonymous]

Rice in rice cooker, place in warm ovn, then steamed broccoli in rice cooker/steamer

Warm black beans (drained/rinsed) in microwave

Have small bowl of shredded cheese, salsa, tomatoes, chopped steak or nuggets.

Then, each of my three kids creates his own meal; vegetarian DD eats all listed, other meat loving DS has broccoli separate from rice and steak separate, youngest, pickiest does rice/beans/cheese and nothing else...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rice in rice cooker, place in warm ovn, then steamed broccoli in rice cooker/steamer

Warm black beans (drained/rinsed) in microwave

Have small bowl of shredded cheese, salsa, tomatoes, chopped steak or nuggets.

Then, each of my three kids creates his own meal; vegetarian DD eats all listed, other meat loving DS has broccoli separate from rice and steak separate, youngest, pickiest does rice/beans/cheese and nothing else...

Laziest mom in the world here and will add:

All three love pasta, but, of course, all three like it three different ways! So, penne pasta with sides of olive oil and balsamic, marinara for another kid and butter for youngest. With this meal, I serve fruit kabobs - oranges, blueberries, strawberries and pineapple skewed and tossed on square tray. Might be one thing that all three agree upon.

[Anonymous]

Nachos (ground turkey w/taco seasoning and some grated carrot and zucchini served with chips and melted cheese

And my latest invention: pizza chicken. Boneless chicken flattened with meat hammer (not sure what is this called exactly) cooked on fry pan on stovetop. After brown on one side, flip and put pizza sauce and grated cheese on top. Voila pizza.

10-15 min prep for each.

[Anonymous]

17:58 again. We also do pancakes and bacon and fruit for dinner. Of course, only one eats bacon. I serve hot chocolate (light on chocolate, heavy on the milk) and sometimes alexia hash browns.