Happy Monday! Here’s this week’s edition of “Quick Dinner Ideas.”
To me, “quick” dinner ideas doesn’t necessarily mean a meal you can throw together in five minutes. To me, the quick part comes before dinner time by:
- having a plan for this week’s dinners
- having the ingredients on hand–(a.k.a. a trip to the grocery)
That is the biggest hurdle to jump in having a quick dinner. Once you do that, for the most part you are set!
For those nights however, that you literally may have minutes to spare, plan a few super simple dinner ideas:
- light all beef kosher hot dogs (nitrate free if you can find them)
- pasta
- scrambled eggs
- frozen veggie burgers
- burritos with whatever fillings I have on hand
- frozen chicken, veggie and pasta “dinner in a bag” from the freezer section of the grocery
- a crockpot meal that you started in the morning and is ready at dinner time
- keep raw veggies and fruits on hand to add to a less than ideal dinner
Check out my post 10 Ways to Make “Making Dinner” Easier.
To help with menu planning and grocery shopping, be sure to check out my free printables:
Dinner Planner and Grocery List Printable
Weekly Meal Planner
Printable Grocery List
Okie doke, on to this week’s quick dinner ideas:
Super easy Chicken Pot Pie
Grocery List: Chicken, sour cream, cream of chicken soup, mixed vegetables and pie crusts
Italian meatball soup and breadsticks
Grocery list: Meatballs, beef broth, Italian style stewed tomatoes, frozen stew vegetables and breadsticks
Grocery list: Romaine lettuce, tomatoes, red onions, chicken, breadsticks and dressing
BBQ sandwiches
Grocery list: Pork loin, ketchup, onion, apple cider vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, buns, coleslaw, fruit and baked chips
Grocery list: Bow tie pasta, olive oil, pesto, Italian dressing, chicken, fresh spinach, cherry tomatoes and feta cheese
Hope you have a great week!
Blessings, Margo
I love the idea of eggs and biscuits for dinner and the bbq. I am doing a Whole 30 but my family is not. lol
Pam
I probably should be doing the Whole 30! 😛
I love Biscuits & Gravy with Scrambled Eggs but haven’t made it in a long time. I popped over from Menu Plan Monday. Have a great day!
The chicken pot pie looks amazing and I’m a Southern Diva, so I love me some biscuits and gravy any ol’ time! I’m hopping over from The Orgjunkie! Great menu!
Thanks, my parents are from the South, so we love our biscuits and gravy! 🙂
I have a real love for anything pasta. This Scrumptious Pesto salad looks good. Me and my daughter will be giving this a try. Did I say I love pasta!:)
Pasta and pesto, you can’t go wrong! 🙂
I do something similar with chicken pot pie, but I use alfredo sauce. That pesto looks delicious!
I bet the Alfredo sauce is tasty!! 🙂
Hopped over from Menu Plan Monday at OrgJunkie. You had my attention at quick dinner ideas! With baby #2 arriving soon, I don’t have the energy for anything elaborate! 🙂