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    Create Bake Make / Dinners / 30 Easy Family Dinner Recipes

    30 Easy Family Dinner Recipes

    June 8, 2015 by Lauren Matheson 7 Comments

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    Dinner time in our house always involves chaos.  Even though I’ve learnt that being prepared is the best way to combat the whinging, tears and general crankiness of the late afternoon/early evening witching hours there are still those days where I’m hopelessly unorganised and scrambling to put something together for dinner.

    I was recently looking through the dinner recipes I have shared on the blog (I was really looking for some inspiration for our meal that night!) and was more than a little surprised to find so many easy family dinner recipes.  While they are certainly greatly outnumbered by sweet recipes, there are still plenty of recipes to suit the tastes of most families.

    To make my life just a little easier (and hopefully yours too!) I’ve put together a collection of my favourite easy Family Dinner Recipes so they are all in the one easy place to find.  I’ve made all of these recipes for our family and they are all relatively easy and best of all – toddler approved!

    Family Recipe Ideas

     

    Our Family Favourites

    Zucchini Slice

    Beef Sausage Rolls

    Thermomix Sausage Roll Recipe

    Baked Potato Cakes

    Rissoles

    Easy Egg and Bacon Pie

    Egg and Bacon pie

    Beef and Tomato Pasta 

    Curried Sausage Pasta Bake

    Curried Sausages Pasta Bake

    Soups

    Ham, Potato & Lee Soup (Guest Post from Bake Play Smile)

    Minestrone Soup with Green Beans

    Minestrone Soup with Greens and Beans

    Chicken and Corn Soup (Guest Post from Bake Play Smile)

    Chicken

    Zucchini and Quinoa Chicken Nuggets

    Chicken Fried Rice

    Chicken Fried Rice

    One Pot BBQ Chicken Pasta Bake

    Chicken Parma Pasta Bake

    Chicken Parmigiana Pasta Bake

    Chicken, Bacon and Baby Spinach Pasta

    Easy Chicken Dinner

    BBQ Chicken Pasta Bake

    Salads and Stir Fries

    Mushroom and Cashew Stir Fry 

    Mushroom & Cashew Stir Fry Feature

    Roasted Vegetable and Fetta Salad

    Roast Pumpkin, Tomato and Green Bean Salad

    Easy Caesar Salad

    Pasta

    Spinach and Ricotta Cannelloni

    Spinach and Ricotta Cannelloni Feature Pic Final

    Copycat Kung Pao Pasta (Guest Post from Bake Play Smile)

    Chicken, Tomato, Asparagus Pasta with Pesto

    Tomato, Eggplant and Bacon Pasta

    Italian Sausage and Broccoli Pasta Bake

    Chicken and Broccoli 3

    Oven Baked

    Baked Potato Wedges

    Cheesy Corn, Pea and Pumpkin Baked Risotto

    cheesy corn, pea, pumpkin  baked risotto

    Shepherds Pie

    Homemade Pasties

    So there you have it, a collection of my favourite easy Family Dinner Recipes.  Most of these recipes take no time at all to put together and some are also freezer friendly.  I hope you enjoy them xx

    What is your favourite family dinner recipe?

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    Filed Under: Dinners, Food for Kids, Savoury

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    1. Eva @ The Multitasking Mummy

      June 12, 2015 at 11:10 am

      OMG thank you for some inspiration. Mine has been completely lacking lately!

      Reply
    2. Lucy @ Bake Play Smile

      June 12, 2015 at 10:02 am

      This is brilliant! You could keep me going for a whole month! These all look great! Definitely going to try your poached chicken in the Thermomix too – very clever!

      Reply
    3. Vicki @ Boiled Eggs & Soldiers

      June 09, 2015 at 5:48 pm

      This is brilliant Lauren – months worth of dinner ideas all on one page! Thanks so much for linking up too. x

      Reply
    4. peregrinationgourmande

      June 08, 2015 at 9:02 pm

      This is a very good idea! thanks! xx cathy

      Reply
      • Lauren

        June 09, 2015 at 6:58 am

        I’m glad I could help Cathy x

        Reply
    5. Toni @ Finding Myself Young

      June 08, 2015 at 1:54 pm

      OMG Lauren this post has made me so hungry! I’ve made a few of them but Im going to have to go through and pin others to try as well.

      Reply
      • Lauren

        June 09, 2015 at 6:57 am

        Sorry Toni!! I hope you enjoy them 🙂

        Reply

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