Chicken enchiladas
Pasta with meatballs
Salad wraps

Quesadillas

Spaghetti and meatballs ( mine like Raos red and Alfredo together over meatballs)

Meatball subs ( easy leftover )

Chicken Caesar salad

Chili

Short ribs braised with noodles

I try to make one of these every week to appease.

Salmon with a soy/sesame glaze
Tacos
Chicken cutlets with an arugula,parm, tomato salad

Tacos (in tortilla, on chips, or on lettuce for me). Add corn (frozen or canned), tomatoes and black beans to your ground beef/turkey/pork

Shrimp scampi is quick and easy

Any steamed veggies, baked fish (salmon, cod, tilapia), and rice, potato or pasta

Spaghetti and Costco meatballs with a steamed veggie

Quessadillas- everyone chooses their own fillings, cheese + beans, spinach, chicken

--box Mac and cheese with tuna and peas mixed into it
--swedish meatballs with egg noodles and whatever vegetable is handy
--shrimp scampi with spaghetti and broccoli

We obviously eat more than pasta, but we have at least one of those pretty much every week.

Both my kids really like baked potatoes too.

*Tacos (we buy hard taco shells), and fill with lettuce, corn, cheese, tomatoes, shrimp or ground beef, with taco sauce on top.

*Lasagna

*Noodles and pasta sauce

* Homemade pizza made with flour+ one of those yeast packets

*Brisket made in crockpot (simple)

Mac n cheese, homemade, DD likes chicken added so I add rotisserie chicken to hers.

Pesto salmon ( bake 15-20 mins) with rice and broccoli

Black bean and cheese quesadillas

Quesadillas, with sides of refried beans and sliced avocado

Cooking Classy’s Cheddar Broccoli Potato Soup

The viral Boursin cheese pasta

Pizza
Spaghetti and meatballs
Smitten Kitchen chicken marsala meatballs

Yeah, there's not much my picky youngest will eat.

This breakfast for dinner, made with frozen hashbrowns:
https://www.spoonforkbacon.com/simple-cheesy-skillet-hash-browns-and-eggs/

Tofu bowls, using either mango or pineapple. No sauce for the kid. Tofu cooked in air fryer:
https://www.budgetbytes.com/mango-coconut-tofu-bowls/

Pizza beans from smitten kitchen

Also chili or black bean soup with cornbread, because everyone loves cornbread.

chicken cutlets
An Ina Garten recipe of chicken with mustard sauce that's super simple but seems nicer than it is
spaghetti and meatballs

Tacos
Egg roll in a bowl
Red beans & rice

Lasagna.

Mississippi pot roast.

Pizza.

For a simple dinner: Mac and Cheese with peas. It's my kids' favorite and if I'm being honest it was my favorite at the same age.

Butter chicken with naan. If I'm feeling up for something more complicated, I make the naan, but it's by far the most labor intensive aspect of it.

Peanut tofu stir fry. It's the peanut sauce that makes it a bit hit with the kids.

I'm looking for ideas, both quick and easy dinners and anything time-intensive but worth it. What does your family love to eat? What makes your kids say "yay" when they walk in the kitchen and see what's for dinner?