Best quick dinner recipes will squash your kids’ urges to feed their dinners to the dog. They love what they love, and sometimes that can make cooking for them, to put it mildly, a challenge.
To make things easier on parents, a number of these recipes can be prepped ahead of time or in your slow cooker or Instant Pot. Less time stressing over what your kids will or won’t eat in the kitchen means more time to enjoy, well, kids being kids. Get even more ideas with our easy dessert recipes for kids too! These highlight everyone’s favorite part of grilled cheeses—the crispy, cheesy edge bits. Get the Waffle Iron Grilled Cheese recipe.
The genius shortcut in this grown-up take on Spaghetti-Os? This recipe is super flexible, too. There is no limit to what you can add to a frittata! We love using muffin tins for genius hacks like this. Get the Black Bean Tostadas recipe. Italian night is just so better when your two favorite pasta dishes are combined. In this case, we layer meat sauce, store-bought ravioli, and tons of melty mozzarella with ricotta.