Top 16 Easy Dinner Recipes for the family
This is part of a sponsored campaign with Foodie.com featuring the top 16 easy dinner recipes. As always, my thoughts are entirely my own.
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by Amber Louise Edwards at Foodie.com
I love to bake and make desserts, but let me tell you I’m not a fan of the constant meal prepping. Especially when you have picky eaters like my kids. It sort of takes the fun out of making dinner. Then add on daily life. Life is more hectic than it was when I was growing up. More places to be. More rush. Not as much time to play in the kitchen. So easy dinner recipes are a must in our modern family. But that doesn’t mean you have to skimp on flavor.
Top Easy Dinner recipes
When it comes to meal preparation I have three requirements:
- Tastes good!
- Kids will eat it
- Easy to prepare without a lot of time
If the recipe fits; then it gets to stay in our family dinner recipe pile. For that reason I’ve started a collection. Finding various easy dinner recipes for families that can be made with minimal effort; but still taste fantastic! Plus if the kids will eat it; that’s always an added bonus!
Most of our recipes on JadeLouise Designs fits those criteria. Because let’s be honest; when would I have time to make anything that wasn’t easy?
My favorites include our Italian Baked Chicken with only 5 ingredients and made from FROZEN chicken, Homemade Spaghetti Sauce, Perfectly Spicy Steak, and of course a grilled Chicken Caesar salad!
In my hunt for more amazing and family friendly easy dinner recipes I found some goodies! You’ll have to visit my Easy Dinner Recipes for Families foodie collection board to see them all. But some highlights include an amazing One Pot meal Shrimp Boil, One Pan Baked Salmon and Veggies, and Lasagna with Italian Dumplings.
Each of these amazing recipes will hopefully be able to spice up your dinner menu planning for more great family dinners! Because family dinner is a great time to gather at the end of each day and reconnect. It should be a meal that is enjoyed, wholesome and create a family friendly setting to build relationships with each other.
What are your requirements for family dinner?
Which is your favorite of the easy dinner recipes?
I love these recipes! The perfectly spicy steak would be perfect for my husband.
In our house things with pasta always go over better than anything else. Lucky for them, my side of the family is Italian, so I have lots of good recipes.
The italian baked chicken sounds delicious. My whole family would love any of the pasta recipes
All of these recipes look delicious, but I think I’ll be trying the homemade spaghetti sauce first. My dinner requirements are easy. We all have to be together. No eating in separate rooms!
This is perfect timing for back-to-school since we are going to have hectic schedules and it’s nice to have easy dinner plans. Lasagna with Italian Dumplings is at the top of my list.
O those dinners look so good. I’ve been looking for some new dinner ideas. Our favorite dinners involve pasta even though I realy want to cut pasta out. But it’s just too good!
That Italian Chicken looks amazing! I love easy dinner ideas, I thought I’d have more time to devout to cooking in the summer, but I don’t. Life is too busy!
I love quick and easy dinners. That Shrimp Boil recipe looks good to me, and my kids would eat it too!
Easy is important on busy nights. I generally opt for something in the crockpot when it’s really hectic.
Great recipes! Easy recipes are so important for school nights!
What a delicious post. I’m going to try the shrimp recipe. We live in Rhode Island, so fresh seafood is always available.
What a great post. I am italian and just love these recipes. Book marking for later.
That Italian baked chicken looks and sounds really good. I like five ingredient recipes because even my kids can’t mess them up! Haha.
I love quick and easy dishes for the family. As much as my boys like some of the convenience foods, I do strive to have more healthy options.
these are some great recipes. I would love to make some of these for my family.
I need dinner to be on the faster side- anything more and an hour and a half, prep to cook, is too much! And I love to make roasted veggies with anything- but especially broiled steak! SO easy!
Easy, flavorful, and liked by the majority are what family meals have to have for us. Many of these look like winners!
My kids are super picky now too. I miss the days when they would eat anything I made.
The Italian baked chicken would go over well in my family! I am always looking for easy recipes on those busy days when I don’t have time to cook!
Great recipes. I am trying to get far more organized in the meal planning and grocery department. Everything that you shared looks delicious.
I love cooking but I have a family of six and it can be hard to cook things that they all like. I enjoy cooking comfort foods for sure.
I’m always looking for simple and delicious meals! I really want to try the lasagna and dumplings!
The grilled chicken ceaser salad looks and sounds amazing! I would love to try it out!
Well I require dinner to be tasty and generally HOT (temperature) but usually with two kids, neither one happens, so I settle for fast and on the table. I desperately need some new ideas!
I could always use quick dinner ideas. Thanks for sharing.
We have one month until back to
School chaos sets in. Soccer and gymnastics and scouts for all 3 plus swim team means my time is limited ! Easy dinners are my fave
Quick dinners are a must at our house. Our go to is tacos or stir fry! My kids will eat them without fighting and they I always have all the stuff on hand!
These look like great meals. I like this brand olive oil, we use it too.
It’s so true, there’s little time for making dinner so something quick and simple is best. For this reason I like making casseroles. Put everything together, in the oven and done!
These recipes look very tasty! I especially like the One Pot meal Shrimp Boil recipe.