30 Quick & Easy Dinner Ideas

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Brush slices of bread with butter, add Cheddar bread
slices. Bake in a preheated 425 degree oven Cheddar slices
for about six minutes on one side, flip and butter
Oven Grilled Cheese, bake for an additional 3 minutes or until tomato soup
Tomato Soup and Fruit toasty golden. Warm up soup, and for the apples, bananas
Salad salad, chop up fresh fruit, and in a large bowl grapes, kiwi
combine with canned peaches and pineapple. canned peaches
canned pineapple

Put chicken thighs in crockpot and pour entire 3-5 pounds chicken
bottle of BBQ sauce over them. thighs
Cook on high for 5-6 hours till falling off the 16 oz BBQ sauce
Crockpot BBQ Chicken bone or 165 degrees throughout. Scrub 1 baking potato
Thighs, Baked Potatoes potatoes, poke with fork and bake in 350 per person
and Green Beans oven for around 75 minutes or till tender. green beans
Cook green beans according to package
instructions.

Cook and drain ground beef, then add to soup 28 oz can petite
pot with tomatoes, pasta sauce, with 1 tsp. diced tomatoes with
Italian seas., 2c beef broth, 1 cup water and garlic, 1 pnd. Ground
simmer for about 15-20 min. while you cook beef, 15 oz pasta
Lasagna Soup, Green
and drain pasta. Then add pasta to soup and sauce, Italian seas.
Salad and Garlic Toast
stir gently. Serve and top with Parmesan or 2c beef broth, 12 oz
Mozzarella cheese and sides of salad and rotini pasta, Parm-
garlic toast. esan cheese, salad
ingred., garlic toast
Cover bottom of large frying pan with oil and 8 flour tortillas
heat on medium heat. Mix beans with 1 tsp ta- 16 oz can refried
co seas. Put 2 Tbs. of beans down each beans, taco season.,
tortilla, and top each w/ 1/4 cup Ched. cheese. veg. oil, Cheddar
Crispy Bean Burritos and
Roll up, and fry while turning, till each side is cheese, salsa, sour
Green Salad
golden. Serve with salsa and sour cream and cream and salad
a green salad on the side. ingredients and
dressing

Drain tuna and vegetables well. Mix gently 5oz OR 12oz canned
together with the soup. Pour into pie plate. tuna, 10.75 oz can
Top with pie crust OR cut up biscuits. Bake in cream of chicken
preheated 350 degree oven for 25 minutes. soup, 15 oz can mix-
Tuna Pot Pie Note: for pie crust, may need to broil at end to ed peas & carrots,
get golden. For biscuit top may need to bake 1 pie crust OR small
on lower oven rack so biscuits don't overbrown. can of biscuits

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Put meatballs and pasta sauce (enough to Good quality frozen
cover meatballs) in crockpot and simmer on meatballs, sub buns
high for around 4 hours or till nicely heated pasta sauce,
Oven Grilled Cheese, through. Slice open sub buns but not all the Provolone cheese
Crockpot Meatball Subs
Tomato Soup and Fruit way through (don't want leaks), fill with meat- slices
and Carrot Sticks
Salad balls and sauce, top with cheese. Wrap lightly baby carrots
in foil, and bake 15 min in 400 degree oven till
cheese is all melted. Serve with baby carrots.

Bake, grill or boil chicken breasts till thorough 8 oz spaghetti

ly cooked (165 degrees throughout) and dice. 3 chicken breasts or
Boil, drain and rinse spaghetti, then equivalent canned
mix together cream soups and 1 cup of milk. chicken, two 10.5oz
Chicken Noodle Soup
Gently add chicken and spaghetti to mixture. cans cream of chick-
Casserole and Broccoli
Pour into greased 3 quart casserole dish and en soup, milk, bread
bake at 400 degrees for 20 mins. Mix 2T soft crumbs, butter
butter & 4T breadcrumbs, sprinkle on top, bake frozen broccoli
5 more mins. Cook broccoli and serve.
Cook your bacon (I often buy precooked), Bread, Colby Jack
Fry eggs (or microwave eggs in round microwave cheese slices,
safe cups), Spread bread with butter, layer on bacon, eggs, butter
Bacon & Egg Grilled
eggs, bacon, and cheese, to make sandwich. apples, bananas
Cheese "Breakfast"
Toast on both sides in frying pan or panini grill grapes, kiwi
Sandwiches and Fruit
till bread is golden and cheese is melted. canned peaches
salad
For salad, wash and chop up fresh fruit and canned pineapple
lightly mix with canned fruits.

Wash, drain and shred lettuce, brown ground 1 head lettuce

beef thoroughly, drain, then add taco seas. to 2 cups shredded
meat and stir till incorporated. Let cool for a Mexican blend
few minutes. Wash and chop tomato into bite cheese, 1pnd ground
Taco Salad size pieces. Mix together lettuce, shredded beef, 1T taco seas.,
cheese, ground beef and tomato. When ready 1 large tomato, 10 oz
to serve, crumble HALF bag of Doritos and mix bag Doritos, Zesty
in, along with about half bottle of dressing (or Italian dressing
2/3 c)
Brown and drain ground beef, add pasta sauce spaghetti
and simmer till hot throughout or about 10 -15 pasta sauce, ground
minutes. Make your salad and heat up bread- beef, frozen bread-
Spaghetti with Meat sticks. ( I don't give specific amounts because sticks, green salad
Sauce, Green Salad and we all have different size families, but for 4, ingredients and
Breadsticks it takes 1 pound ground beef and 24 ounces of salad dressing
pasta sauce).

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Bake, grill or boil chicken breasts till thorough- 3 14 1/2 ounce cans
ly cooked (165 degree Fahrenheit throughout) chicken broth, 16 oz
and dice. Rinse and drain black beans. Then jar chunky salsa, 3
Oven Grilled Cheese,
Chicken, Black Bean & in large soup pot or crockpot add: cooked chic- chicken breasts, 1 15
Tomato
Salsa Soup
Soup and
with Fruit ken, chicken broth, salsa, black beans, rice and
Tortilla oz can black beans,
Salad
Chips corn. Heat through thoroughly. 2/3 cup instant rice,
This is delicious garnished when serv- 1c corn Optional: tor-
ing with: crushed tortilla chips, Cheddar tilla chips, green on-
cheese, green onions and sour cream. ion, Cheddar cheese
Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl, 2 cups cooked cubed
except the dressing. Then you can add about chicken breast,
1/2 the bottle of dressing and mix again, or 16oz bag coleslaw
serve salad and let each add their own amount 8oz shredded lett-
Asian Chicken Salad of dressing. There are different flavors of uce, 3.5oz bag roast-
Asian dressing. We use the orange ginger ed sliced almonds,
flavor. 3.5oz bag tortilla
strips, bottle of
Asian dressing
In a large bowl, lightly combine the 2 pie crusts
cooked chicken, DRAINED vegetables, 3 cooked and diced
cream of chicken soup (don't add water), and chicken breasts
sour cream. In pie dish lay first crust, pour the 16oz can mixed veg-
Easy Chicken Pot Pie chicken mixture over it. Top with other pie crust etables, 8oz sour
& seal edge. Poke 2-3 slits in top pie crust. cream, 1 10.5oz can
Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 45 min cream of chicken
utes. Let sit 15 minutes before serving. soup

Brown and drain ground beef, and stir in the 1 pound ground beef
refried beans, taco seasoning and tomato 1 cup refried beans
sauce. Portion mixture into 10 taco shells, then 4oz tomato sauce
top each one with shredded cheese. Stand 1T taco seasoning
Oven Baked Tacos them up in oven safe dish, and bake in pre- 1 cup Mexican blend
heated 400 degree oven for 10 minutes or till shredded cheese
heated throughout. Top with sour cream , 10 taco shells, lett-
taco sauce and shredded lettuce, and serve. uce, taco sauce &
sour cream
Take rotisserie chicken meat off bones, toss rotisserie chicken
with taco seasoning. Spread tortilla chips out tortilla chips
on a foil covered baking sheet. Rinse and drain black beans
black beans, then spread the chicken and fresh tomatoes
Rotisserie Chicken
beans over the tortilla chips. Top with Cheddar cheese
Nachos
green onions, tomatoes, jalapenos and cheese taco seasoning
Cover lightly with foil and bake in preheated green onions, jala-
400 degree oven for 10 minutes. Serve with taco penos, salsa, sour
sauce, salsa, sour cream and lettuce shreds. cream, lettuce

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Thaw hashbrowns and drain well between 3 cups frozen hash-
paper towels, then mix with 4T melted butter. browns, butter, eggs
Pat into greased 9 inch pie plate to form crust. half-n-half, bacon,
Oven Grilled Cheese, Bake in a preheated 450 degree oven for 20 min dried minced onion
Quiche with Hashbrown
Tomato Soup and Fruit utes or till they get lightly crispy. Combine 3 1c Cheddar cheese,
Crust and Raw Veggies
Salad large eggs, 1c half-n-half, 6 slices cooked and your choice raw veg-
crumbled bacon, 1T dried minced onion, & 1c gies on the side
shredded Cheddar, then pour over crust & bake
at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
Brown and drain ground beef, then add to 1.5 pnds. ground
crockpot with canned tomatoes, drained green beef, inst.rice, dried
beans and carrots, 1T minced dried onion, beef minced onion, 1 14.5
broth, 1tsp Italian seasoning and 3/4 cup oz can green beans,
Crockpot Beef, Rice &
instant rice. 1 14.5oz can carrots,
Vegetable Soup and Rolls
Cook on low for 4 hours or high for 3 hours or 1 28oz can chopped
till bubbly hot. Serve with a crusty Italian stewed tom-
bread or rolls. atoes, 42oz beef
broth, Ital. season.
Cook and drain pasta. In a blender combine 16oz angel hair
2 tsp jarred chopped garlic, 3 Tbsp soy sauce, pasta, garlic, light
1 1/2Tbsp. Rice vinegar, soy sauce, rice vin-
1/4 cup sesame oil, 1/8 tsp red pepper flakes, egar, Asian sesame
Cashew Sesame Noodles
1 tsp sugar, 1/2 cup cashews, 1/3 cup water, & oil, sugar, salted
and Broccoli
blend well. Serve over the pasta at room temp- roasted cashews,
erature with steamed broccoli on the side. red pepper flakes
For presentation serve with a few cashews
sprinkled on top.
Scramble eggs, I use 2-3 per person. Making eggs, bread, butter,
buttered toast in the oven is easy and quick, apples, bananas,
and my family loves it sprinkled with a little kiwi, grapes, canned
garlic salt. To make fruit salad, wash and chop peaches, canned
Scrambled Eggs, Toast
fresh fruit, then add to the canned peaches pineapple, banana
and Fruit Salad
and canned pineapple (I don't drain the
canned fruit).

Ok this is easy :) Assemble your sandwiches Sub rolls, deli turkey

with your favorite toppings and dressings, and ham or roast beef
serve with baby carrots or other raw veggies Provolone cheese
and some healthy baked chips! slices, fresh tomato,
Sub Sandwiches, Raw
lettuce, onions, pic-
Veggies and Baked Chips
kles, mustard or
oil & vinegar, baby
carrots, baked
chips

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Brown and drain ground beef, then add onion 6 large flour tortillas
and hamburger seasoning, and salt and pepper 1 pnd. ground beef
to taste. Then mix hamburger and cheese toge- 1c Cheddar cheese
Oven Grilled Cheese, ther. Warm a frying pan on medium heat and McCormick Hambur-
Easy Cheeseburger
Tomato Soup and Fruit spray with cooking spray or use melted butter. ger seas., onion, let-
Quesadillas
Salad Lay tortilla in pan and add about 1/2c mixture tuce, tomato, pickles
on one side of tortilla with desired toppings, ketchup, mustard,
fold over & flip when it's golden on bottom. mayonnaise, BBQ
Repeat. Slice and serve with condiments. sauce
Open crescent rolls and unroll on a lightly can of 8 crescent
greased baking sheet. Layer on top chicken, rolls, 8 slices of deli
ham and Swiss cheese. Carefully roll the cres- chicken breast, ham,
Chicken Cordon Bleu cent rolls back up with ingredients inside and and Swiss cheese
Crescent Roll Ups and tuck the ends under. Bake in a preheated 375 mustard
Raw Veggies degree oven for 12-15 minutes. Serve with your raw veggies or fruit
favorite mustard. as a side

Scrub potatoes and poke with fork. Either bake Baking potatoes
in oven at 350 degrees for around 75 minutes salsa, black beans,
or till tender, or wrap in foil and bake in crock- Mexican blend shre-
pot on high for 3 to 4 hours or till tender. dded cheese, avoca-
Southwestern Baked
Set up topping ingredients buffet style or in do or guacamole,
Potato Bar
center of table and let each choose their cilantro, sour cream
favorite toppings! green onion, left-
over taco meat or
seasoned chicken
Mix together dry ingredients for pancakes: flour, sugar, baking
2 cups unbleached flour, 2T sugar, 2 tsp. baking powder, salt, eggs,
powder, 1/2 tsp. salt. Then mix wet milk, oil, bacon,
ingredients: 1 3/4 cup milk, 2 eggs and 2T oil. grapes, kiwi
Pancakes, Bacon and
Then add dry ingredients to wet & mix together. apples, bananas
Fruit Salad
Drop by 1/8 c measure onto medium hot pan or mandarin oranges
griddle. Flip when bubbly. Cook bacon accord- canned pineapple,
ing to package instructions. Wash & cut up syrup, whipped
fresh fruit, then add to the canned fruit. cream optional
Brown and drain ground beef, then add 1 tsp. 1 pnd. ground beef
Italian seas., 1 tsp. minced garlic and salt 12oz penne pasta
and pepper to taste. Add pasta sauce to meat 32oz pasta sauce
mixture. Cook and drain pasta. Mix together Parmesan cheese,
Baked Pasta Casserole,
1/4c Parmesan & 2c Mozarella cheese. Toss Italian seas., garlic,
String Beans and Rolls
beef mixture, pasta and half of cheese mixture Mozarella cheese,
together and pour into greased 9x13 baking string green beans,
dish. Top with rest of cheese. Bake at 350 for and rolls on the
20 minutes. Serve with cooked string beans. side.

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Beat 6 eggs well, add 2 cups milk, whisk again, eggs, bread, ham,
In a separate bowl break up 6 pieces of bread milk, shredded
in small cubes, add six slices of cubed up ham, Cheddar cheese,
Oven Grilled Cheese, stir 1c Cheddar into the bread mixture, along minced dried onion
Baked Eggs and Cheese
Tomato Soup and Fruit with 1tsp mustard and 1tsp dried onion. Pour mustard, fresh
Casserole and Fresh Fruit
Salad egg mixture over bread mixture and let sit for fruit of choice
a few hours or overnight. Pour into greased 9x
13 inch baking dish, bake in preheated 350
oven for 45-50 mins. Serve with fresh fruit.
Butter one side of each slice of bread, lay face Italian bread, pep-
down and layer on pepperoni and Mozzarella peroni, sliced Moz-
cheese. Top with other slice of buttered bread zarella, butter,
Pizza Grilled Cheese and toast in frying pan or panini grill around 2 pasta sauce, lettuce
Sandwiches and Green minutes each side or till golden and cheese is tomato, cucumber,
Salad nice and gooey. (Can weigh it down with lid red onion, salad
while toasting). Can serve with warmed pasta dressing
sauce for dipping. Wash and chop up veggies
for salad.
Wash and cut up lettuce and grape tomatoes. Romaine lettuce,
(Save avocado till right before serving so it grape tomatoes,
won't get brown). Cook and dice up bacon, cooked cubed turkey
(many times I buy the precooked just for con- or chicken, avocado,
Cobb Salad and Rolls venience). Dice up turkey or chicken. To serve, bacon, blue cheese,
lay out lettuce on plates then make pretty dressing, rolls
rows with tomatoes, turkey, bacon, blue cheese
crumbles and finally chopped avocado. Serve
with favorite dressing and rolls on the side.
Let dough thaw, then spread out on greased Frozen bread dough
rectangular cookie sheet, spread with pepperoni, Mozza-
pepperoni slices, then cheese, roll tightly start- rella cheese, butter
ing with one long side of rectangle to the other Italian seas., garlic,
Stromboli and Veggie
tucking the edge underneath. (Like a jelly roll) If desired for dip-
Tray
Let raise for 30 minutes or so, brush top with ping--pasta sauce
melted butter and 1tsp Italian seasoning. Bake Amounts are to
in preheated 350 degree oven for around 25 mi- taste.
nutes. Serve with raw veggie tray.
While frying pan or panin grill is warming up, Rye or Deli Swirl w/
butter one side each of bread slices, then layer Rye and Pumpernic-
on meat, cheese, THOROUGHLY DRAINED sauer- kel, Corned beef sli-
kraut, Thousand Island dressing or chosen ces, Swiss cheese
Grilled Reuben Sandwich
condiments. Toast each sandwich for about a slices, Sauerkraut,
and Raw Veggies
couple of minutes on each side or till nice and Thousand Island dr-
lightly crispy. Leave lid on pan to help cheese essing, opt.: mayo,
melt nicely & inside to get warm. Serve with mustard, baby car-
raw veggies of choice. rots or raw veggies

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