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Cool School Lunch Ideas
The lunch ideas here are easy, healthy lunch recipes for kids. Most of these school lunch ideas take only minutes to prepare. Others can be made in advance. All of these easy lunch recipes will turn that boring brown bag into an untradeable school lunch kids will love!
Smoothie Recipes for Kids
Smoothie recipes like the ones featured here not only taste great, they're good for you, too. All of these smoothie recipes are made with only natural ingredients. Kids love these healthy smoothie recipes.
Quick and Easy Dinner Recipes
These ten quick and easy dinner recipes will have you out of the kitchen and at the table in no time!
School Lunch Ideas
School lunch ideas should be tasty, healthy and easy to pack. These healthy lunch box recipes will tempt the kids' taste buds and make parents feel good about serving them. Kids will love these healthy lunch recipes.
Ice Cream Sandwich Cake
This ice cream sandwich cake recipe makes an impressive and refreshing summer dessert. No baking or cooking is required for this easy ice cream sandwich cake recipe.
Beef Brisket Recipe
A classic beef brisket recipe with onion soup mix and bottled chili sauce, this beef brisket takes just a few minutes to prepare.
Healthy Zucchini Bread
This healthy zucchini bread recipe uses less sugar and canned pumpkin in place of some of the oil to make a low fat zucchini bread that's moist and tasty. Whole wheat flour adds fiber, and lemon zest adds flavor to this delectable zucchini bread recipe.
How to Boil an Egg
It's easy to learn how to boil an egg perfectly, once you follow these simple steps. This hard boiled egg recipe gives you everything you need to know.
Healthy Breakfast Recipes
These healthy breakfast recipes will get your kids going even on their busiest mornings. From mini frittatas to blueberry smoothies, everyone loves these quick and easy breakfast recipes.
Mexican Dip
This Mexican dip is always a crowd-pleaser. Made with lettuce, refried beans, cheese, guacamole, salsa and sour cream, this Mexican 7 layer dip recipe has all the flavors of good Mexican food. Black olives top off this tasty Mexican dip.
Strawberry Smoothies
Strawberry smoothies can be made with either fresh or frozen strawberries. This strawberry smoothie recipe calls for frozen strawberries so it can achieve the texture of a milkshake. If you use fresh strawberries, you can get the same texture by adding ice to your strawberry smoothie.
Turkey Wraps
These turkey wraps are filled with deli turkey breast, cheese and bacon. And to give this turkey bacon wrap recipe extra flavor, it is grilled, so the turkey gets warmed, the cheese melts and the tortilla gets crunchy.
Healthy Snacks for Kids
Healthy snacks for kids can include anything from popcorn to yogurt parfaits. These ten snacks are among my favorite healthy snacks for kids.
Zucchini Bread Recipe
Zucchini bread recipes should be cake-like and tender, and this one is. Pumpkin pie spice and mace make this zucchini bread recipe taste and smell delicious. A hint of lemon zest adds zing to this easy zucchini bread recipe.
Zucchini Recipes
These zucchini recipes will give you great ideas for using that bumper crop of zucchini. From zucchini bread to polenta with zucchini, these easy zucchini recipes will satisfy everyone's palate. Here you will find lots of creative, healthy recipes for zucchini.
Italian Pasta Salad Recipe
This Italian pasta salad is made with zucchini, black olives, onions, marinated artichokes, red pepper and a creamy garlic ranch dressing. Whether you're looking for a potluck side dish or an accompaniment for burgers or chicken, this cold pasta salad recipe is it.
Baked Spaghetti
Baked spaghetti is a great make-ahead meal. This baked spaghetti recipe is made with ground beef, but you can leave it out if you want to make this baked spaghetti casserole vegetarian. Everyone in the family will enjoy this baked spaghetti casserole.
Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Healthy chocolate chip cookies are often loaded with sugar to compensate for less fat. Not these. These cookies are full of healthy oats, bran flakes and nuts for a uniquely healthy chocolate chip cookie recipe.
Crispy Kale - Kale Recipes
Kale recipes don't normally top the list of favorite vegetable recipes for kids. But this crispy kale recipe is different. The kale is not fried, but it takes on an almost french fry-like taste. This is sure to become one of your favorite kale recipes.
Ramen Noodle Cole Slaw
This ramen noodle cole slaw recipe is made with oriental flavor ramen noodles, cole slaw mix and peanuts. Kids love this ramen noodle coleslaw recipe.
Freezer Meals
Freezer meals are essential when you lead a busy life with kids. These make ahead recipes range from pasta to beef to chicken. Everyone in the family will enjoy these tasty, nutritious make ahead freezer meals.
Baked Ziti
Baked ziti is one of those super easy recipes the whole family will love. Ziti is cooked, then tossed with spaghetti sauce, ricotta and mozzarella cheeses, and baked in this easy baked ziti recipe.
How to Make Fruit Smoothies
Learning how to make a smoothie is easy. And once you master a few simple tricks, you can learn how to make fruit smoothies of all kinds. Here are also a number of smoothie recipes.
Red Carpet Roll-Ups
Bologna and cheese gets jazzed up in these rollups, which are served with a mustard dipping sauce.
Oven Barbecued Chicken
Oven barbecued chicken is the perfect solution when you're craving that barbecue flavor, but it's cold or rainy outside. With just a few ingredients, it only takes a few minutes of active preparation to make this oven BBQ chicken.
Zucchini Lasagna
This zucchini lasagna recipe is a terrific way to use up that bumper crop of zucchini from the garden. What makes this vegetable lasagna recipe so tasty is roasting the vegetables first. Garlic adds wonderful flavor to this vegetable lasagna.
Recipes for Picky Eaters
Got kids who are picky eaters in your house? Here are ten of my favorite delicious and healthy recipes for picky eaters.
Peach Smoothie
Peach smoothies make a refreshing drink for breakfast, a snack or anytime. With just three ingredients, it's easy to make this peach smoothie recipe.
Roasted Green Beans
Oven roasted green beans are naturally sweet and tender. I'll show you how to cook fresh green beans to bring out their best flavor with this wonderful roasted green beans recipe.
Peach Pie
This peach pie recipe is made with fresh peaches, sugar and lemon juice. A frozen pie crust makes this fresh peach pie a cinch to prepare. A pecan streusel crumb topping provides crunch and contrast to the warm peach filling in this peach pie recipe.
How to Make Pancakes
Pancakes are kids' favorite breakfast food. These tips on how to make pancakes will have you whipping up perfect pancakes every time.
Baked Chicken Tenders
Baked chicken tenders get a little kick from Dijon mustard, paprika and Parmesan cheese. This chicken tenders recipe is especially easy because it uses store-bought, pre-sliced chicken tenders.
Spaghetti Sauce Recipe
This spaghetti sauce recipe is made with onions, peppers, tomatoes and Italian spices. Serve this homemade spaghetti sauce with everything from meatballs to rigatoni.
Strawberry Banana Smoothie
Strawberry banana smoothies are a wonderfully healthy way to start the day. With frozen strawberries, banana, vanilla soy milk and orange juice concentrate, this is a sweet and tasty strawberry banana smoothie recipe.
How to Make Lemonade
Homemade lemonade tastes far better than bottled, frozen or powdered lemonade. With these step by step instructions, you can easily learn how to make lemonade.
Dirt Dessert Recipe
This dirt dessert recipe is made with chocolate pudding, frozen whipped topping, crushed oreos and gummy worms. These pudding dirt cups make a great cooking activity for kids. And everyone loves eating this oreo dirt dessert recipe.
Tomato Soup Recipe
This tomato soup recipe is easy. With just some onions, carrots and a can of tomatoes, you can have homemade tomato soup in no time.
Roast Beef Wraps
Roast beef wraps make a tasty lunch or a quick and easy dinner. This is one of those tortilla wrap recipes that can be made in less than 15 minutes.
Lunch Ideas for Picky Eaters
These lunch ideas are designed with picky eaters in mind. Whether your kids are sick of peanut butter and jelly or you want healthy new ideas for their lunches, these recipes for picky eaters are just the ticket.
Baked Macaroni and Cheese
Baked macaroni and cheese has to be the all-time number one comfort food. And why not? Warm, creamy and satisfying, there is nothing like baked mac and cheese recipe to lift the spirits when you're down. Penne pasta and two cheese make this baked macaroni and cheese recipe stand out from the crowd.
Zucchini Bread Sandwiches
Zucchini bread and cream cheese are combined to form sweet and healthy sandwiches. Serve these zucchini bread tea sandwiches for breakfast, lunch or an afternoon snack.
Dinner Recipes Picky Eaters
These dinner recipes are designed to help picky eaters expand their palates. Healthy and nutritious, your kids will love these dinner recipes for picky eaters
Fruit Dip
Fruit dip is a sweet and tasty way to enjoy fresh fruit. This recipe for fruit dip is made with just three ingredients. Serve this dip for fruit with fresh fruit skewers or cut-up chunks of pineapple, strawberries and bananas. Kids love this recipe for fruit dip.
Mini Frittatas
Mini frittatas are the perfect breakfast for kids. Bite-sized and easy to hold in one hand, this frittata recipe makes a great breakfast on-the-go. Turkey bacon adds flavor and protein to these mini frittatas.
Oven Fried Zucchini
Oven fried zucchini gives you all the flavor of regular fried zucchini with less fat. A bread crumb and Parmesan cheese coating adds extra flavor to this recipe for oven fried zucchini.
Hawaiian Chicken Recipe
This Hawaiian chicken recipe is made with boneless skinless chicken breasts, duck sauce and red chili sauce for a sweet and spicy flavor combination everyone will love. This recipe for Hawaiian chicken goes well with rice.
Frozen Hot Chocolate
Frozen hot chocolate, made popular by the restaurant Serendipity in New York, is a lovely concoction of hot chocolate mix, chopped chocolate, sugar and ice. The Serendipity frozen hot chocolate recipe became public a few years ago. This is my version.
Guacamole Recipe
This guacamole recipe is a cinch to make. Just mash fresh avocados with fresh cilantro, lime juice and sea salt for a guacamole dip recipe you'll want to make again and again.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Stars
Homemade peanut butter recipes don't have to taste like they came from a health food store. This gourmet peanut butter recipe combines dark chocolate chips with roasted peanuts and pretzel pieces for a flavor sensation they won't soon forget.
Chocolate Zucchini Bread
This chocolate zucchini bread recipe is chock-full of vegetables and fruits, including zucchini, shredded apple, and applesauce. Chocolate chips make this recipe for zucchini bread sweet.
Easy Peach Cobbler
This peach cobbler recipe is a snap to prepare, because it has only three ingredients. Peaches, cake mix and butter are all it takes to make this easy peach cobbler recipe.
Shrimp Pasta Recipe
This shrimp pasta recipe has a mild lemon butter sauce that appeals to kids. Garlic adds sweetness and an extra layer of flavor to this shrimp pasta recipe.
Tres Leches Cake
This tres leches cake recipe starts with a cake mix, making it a super tres leches cake.
Chicken Quesadillas
Chicken quesadillas are a great way to use leftover cooked chicken breast. And this chicken quesadillas recipe is so fast, you can have dinner on the table in 15 minutes!
Nutella Breakfast Sandwiches
Breakfast sandwiches don't have to be savory. These Nutella waffle breakfast sandwiches are sweet, yet surprisingly healthy.
Garlic Bread Recipe
This garlic bread recipe uses both olive oil and butter, plus three cloves of minced garlic. Once you learn how to make garlic bread, you can vary this garlic bread recipe.
Vegetable Lasagna
This vegetable lasagna recipe uses all the vegetables from a summer garden, including zucchini, red and green peppers, onions, and mushrooms. What better way to get your vegetables than in this easy vegetable lasagna recipe.
Breakfast Cookies
These breakfast cookies are packed with kid-appealing foods like peanut butter, bananas, mini chocolate chips and rolled oats. This breakfast cookies recipe also makes a nice snack. Kids love these healthy breakfast cookies.
Crock Pot Macaroni and Cheese
Crockpot macaroni and cheese recipes are perfect for busy weekdays. There are eggs, butter, milk, macaroni and three kinds of cheese in this homemade macaroni and cheese recipe.
Whole Wheat Pizza Dough
This whole wheat pizza dough is made with a combination of whole wheat and all-purpose flours. This whole wheat pizza dough recipe couldn't be easier. It only takes 10 minutes of active prep time, because this is a pizza dough recipe for the breadmaker.
Seven Layer Dip Recipe
A seven layer dip recipe that's loaded with good-tasting and good-for-you ingredients, like black bleans heart-healthy guacamole, salsa and more.
Zucchini Pancakes
These zucchini pancakes are made with shredded zucchini and a hint of parmesan cheese. This recipe for zucchini pancakes makes a great side dish for any meal.
Orange Creamsicle Smoothies
These orange creamsicle smoothies are bursting with flavor and vitamins.
Summer Desserts
Summer desserts featured here include everything from blueberry cobbler to ice cream sandwich cake. These summer dessert recipes are cool and refreshing. The whole family will enjoy these easy summer desserts.
Peach Dump Cake Recipe
This peach dump cake is made with cream cheese, canned peaches, vanilla pudding and a yellow cake mix. The end result is like a cross between a peach cobbler and a dump cake.
Potato Chip Chicken
For this kid friendly dinner recipe, chicken cutlets are marinated, then dipped in potato chip crumbs and baked, for a potato chip crusted chicken the kids will love.
Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Learn how to make chocolate covered strawberries with this easy step by step guide.
Oven Baked BBQ Chicken
This oven baked bbq chicken recipe really allows the chicken to absorb all the flavors of the barbecue sauce. Because this barbecue chicken is not done on the grill, you don't have to worry about it burning. Any time of year is a good time for this oven baked BBQ chicken.
Hash Brown Casserole
This hash brown casserole is made with hash brown potatoes, eggs, red pepper, onion, bacon and cheese. Whether you're serving this for breakfast, lunch or dinner, everyone likes this hash brown egg casserole.
Salmon Patties Recipe
Salmon patties are a terrific way to use leftover salmon. Panko bread crumbs, red pepper and spring onions make this salmon patties recipe flavorful.
Crockpot Breakfast Casserole
This Crockpot breakfast casserole recipe is just like a regular breakfast casserole with eggs, hash browns, red and green peppers, bacon and cheddar cheese. Orange juice is all you need to accompany this Crockpot breakfast recipe.
Blueberry Cobbler
This blueberry cobbler recipe is made with fresh blueberries, lemon juice and sugar. A cake-like biscuit topping gives this easy to make blueberry cobbler great texture. A scoop of ice cream is all you need to top this recipe for blueberry cobbler.
Goldfish Rice Cakes
Kids snacks can be healthy and fun to make, too, and this Goldfish in the pond recipe is a perfect example. Rice cakes, cream cheese and Goldfish crackers, and a little food coloring are all you need to make these fun kids snacks.
Chicken Stir Fry Recipe
This chicken stir fry recipe has a slightly sweet and slightly spicy sauce, made with orange marmalade and a pinch of red pepper flakes. On busy nights, make this stir fry chicken.
Easy Meals - Family Friendly Meal Plans
Meal plans featured here are for busy families who want a month's worth of easy meals.
Chinese Chicken Salad Recipe
This Chinese chicken salad recipe includes rotisserie chicken breast, mandarin oranges, chow mein noodles and slivered almonds. If you're in a hurry, you can use a store-bought Asian salad dressing for this Chinese chicken salad recipe.
Peanut Butter Sandwich Rolls
Peanut butter sandwiches get a facelift in this clever recipe, in which bread is rolled flat, then topped with peanut butter, apple butter and raisins.
Simple Meatloaf Recipe
Meatloaf is the ultimate comfort food. Moist and full of flavor, this is a classic meatloaf recipe, using ground beef and ground pork.
Chicken Breast Recipes
The chicken breast recipes here include everything from chicken parmesan to chicken kabobs. Kids and adults alike will enjoy these easy chicken breast recipes.
Roast Beef Stromboli Recipe
Roast beef stromboli is one of those easy, kid-friendly dinners that comes together in a snap. You can make this stromboli recipe with refrigerated pizza dough.
Sunrise Smoothies
Orange banana smoothies are the perfect breakfast. These sunrise smoothies combine frozen orange juice concentrate, vanilla soy milk and a whole banana for a vitamin-packed way to start the day.
Beef Enchiladas Recipe
This beef enchiladas recipe is easy to make and a real crowd-pleaser. You can make these ground beef enchiladas with leftover ground beef, too. Just skip the step that requires browning.
Buffalo Chicken Pizza
This buffalo chicken pizza recipe puts the flavors of buffalo chicken wings in an easy-to-make tortilla pizza.
Berry Fruit Smoothies
These berry fruit smoothies combine sweet cherries with blueberries, vanilla soy milk and lemon yogurt. The result is a delicious and healthy fruit smoothie that is perfect any time of day.
Chicken Francaise Recipe
This chicken francaise recipe is made with apple juice mixed with lemon juice, rather than the typical lemon juice and white wine sauce. The result is just as tasty, and kids love this chicken francaise.
Buttermilk Fried Chicken
Fried chicken gets really tender and juicy on the inside and crisp on the outside when it is marinated in buttermilk first. This buttermilk fried chicken recipe tastes delicious hot or cold. Hot sauce adds great flavor to this buttermilk fried chicken.
Blueberry Fruit Smoothies
These blueberry fruit smoothies are made with unsweetened blueberries, pineapple and lemon yogurt for a refreshing smoothie treat everyone will love.
How to Make Smoothies
Learning how to make a smoothie is easy with this step by step tutorial. Use the pictures here to discover how to make smoothies you can enjoy all the time. This example is for how to make a strawberry smoothie.
Peanut Butter Banana Smoothies
These peanut butter banana smoothies are a cross between a banana smoothie and a peanut butter smoothie with a little honey added for sweetness.
Microwave Brownies
Microwave brownies are the perfect dessert when you want something chocolatey, and you're short on time. Hazelnuts and chocolate chips top this microwave brownies recipe.
Banana Smoothies
Banana smoothies make a healthy breakfast or a refreshing snack. This banana smoothie is made with only fruit, juice and yogurt. Cinnamon is the perfect garnish for these banana smoothies.
BBQ Chicken
BBQ chicken is easy to make with this recipe. Unlike most barbecue chicken recipes, this one uses an electric skillet. This solves the problem of the outside burning without the inside being cooked through. This method also produces an especially tasty barbecue chicken.
Impossible Chicken Pie
Impossible chicken pie is one of those Bisquick recipes that's perfect for kids to make because it's so easy.
Green Smoothie
This green smoothie recipe is one of my favorite kale recipes. The pineapple chunks and juice add sweetness to balance out the earthiness of the kale. To make this smoothie more appealing to kids, try calling it an emerald smoothie instead of a green smoothie recipe.
Sauteed Zucchini Recipe
This sauteed zucchini recipe is made with fresh zucchini, olive oil and garlic powder. Parmesan cheese adds an extra layer of flavor to this tasty sauteed zucchini recipe.
Mexican Rice
This Mexican rice recipe is super simple, because it's all made in one pot in the oven. Corn, black beans, tomatoes and cheese jazz up this recipe for Mexican rice.
Steel Cut Oatmeal
This steel cut oatmeal recipe is a tasty mixture of steel cut oats, brown sugar, walnuts and bananas. What makes this Crockpot oatmeal even better is that the whole recipe can be made the night before, and the oatmeal will be ready when you wake up in the morning.
Strawberry Baked French Toast
This French toast casserole has a homemade strawberry syrup topping. Whether you're looking for a special occasion brunch dish or a weekend breakfast, this baked French toast is always a hit.
Breakfast Sandwich Recipe
This breakfast sandwich has cheesy scrambled eggs and bacon on a toasted English muffin.
Snacks for Kids
Kids snacks don't have to be loaded with sugar or artificial ingredients to taste great. These snacks for kids are delicious and healthy, too.
Zucchini Bread
Zucchini bread recipes should be moist, tender and slightly sweet. This zucchini bread fits that description perfectly. A hint of orange juice concentrate adds sweetness and flavor to this wonderful zucchini bread.
Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe
Chicken noodle soup recipes don't have to be complicated to be wonderful. This chicken noodle soup is really quite simple to make. All you need is chicken, carrots, celery, onion, a few spices, water and noodles to make this homemade chicken noodle soup.
Broccoli Stuffed Potatoes
These stuffed potatoes are a kid-pleasing favorite. The filling for this recipe for stuffed potatoes features a creamy combination of broccoli, cheese, sour cream and bacon. Serve these stuffed baked potatoes as a side dish for dinner or a main dish for lunch.
Blueberry Muffins Recipe
Blueberry muffins make a perfect breakfast, brunch, snack or tea time treat. This blueberry muffins recipe shows you how to make blueberry muffins that are moist and bursting with blueberries. The lemon streusel topping adds zing to these blueberry muffins.
Lemon Blueberry Smoothie
This lemon blueberry smoothie recipe pairs frozen blueberries with frozen lemonade concentrate and vanilla soy milk for a refreshing twist on blueberry fruit smoothies.
Broccoli Slaw Recipe
This broccoli slaw recipe is easy to prepare, because it starts with packaged broccoli slaw. Just add grated carrots, raisins and crunchy tortilla chip strips, and you've got a family-pleasing recipe for broccoli slaw salad.
Easy Calzone Recipes
Calzone recipes like this one, are wonderful to have on hand for busy weeknights. Using Bisquick for the dough and rotisserie chicken and barbecue sauce for the filling, this is one of those super easy calzone recipes.
Raspberry Cool Whip Jello Mold
Serve this layered Cool Whip Jello mold for dessert or a side dish at your next holiday gathering.
Watergate Salad Recipe
Watergate salad harkens back to the 1970s, though no one knows quite why it is called Watergate salad. The recipe for Watergate salad is a combination of pistachio pudding, pineapple, marshmallows, nuts and Cool Whip. This Watergate salad recipe also includes coconut.
Chicken Nachos Recipe
This chicken nachos recipe is made with rotisserie chicken breast. Whether you're looking for a filling appetizer or a quick and easy dinner for kids, you won't be disappointed with this recipe for nachos.
Fruit Kabobs
Fruit kabobs are as fun for kids to make as they are to eat.
Strawberry Yogurt Parfait
These yogurt parfaits are a quick, elegant and healthy breakfast or snack.
Fruits and Veggies for Kids
Finding fruits and vegetables that kids will actually eat is a constant challenge for many parents. The 50-Exposures Rule is a way to help get kids to eat vegetables without forcing, bribery, sneaking or shaming. Better yet: It's the best way to help kids develop a lifelong taste for fruits and vegetables.
Pretzel Chicken Recipe
This recipe for pretzel crusted chicken breasts starts with boneless chicken breasts that are marinated, then covered in a crunchy crushed pretzel coating and baked. This pretzel chicken makes a perfect dinner for kids.
Baked Chicken Recipe
Baked chicken with vegetables is home cooking at its best. Bone-in chicken pieces are browned, then baked with carrots, celery and potatoes in this easy baked chicken recipe.
Taco Salad
Taco salads make great quick dinners or satisfying lunches. This recipe for taco salad uses seasoned ground beef, black beans, chips and an easy homemade dressing. Everyone loves this taco salad recipe.
Healthy Cinnamon Rolls
Cinnamon rolls are a favorite with kids. This easy cinnamon rolls recipe is a bit healthier than the average cinnamon buns, thanks to whole grain flour.
Green Salad with Apples
This green salad recipe has chopped apples, hazelnuts, cheese and greens in a sweet raspberry vinaigrette dressing. Fruit and nut salads are popular, and this apple salad recipe is no exception.
Broccoli Cheese Soup
Broccoli cheese soup recipes like this one are ideal for cold, winter days. Broccoli and cheddar soup is one of the best ways to introduce kids to broccoli.
Fruit Smoothies
Fruit smoothies recipes make a healthy and tasty breakfast, snack or dessert anytime. Fruit smoothies are icy and refreshing. Everybody loves these tasty fruit smoothies.
Greek Pasta Salad
This Greek pasta salad is made with short-cut pasta, black olives, cucumbers, yellow peppers, and feta cheese. Bottled salad dressing makes this an easy pasta salad recipe.
Hot Dog Soup Recipe
This hot dog soup recipe is a favorite with kids. Thickened with cannellini beans and potatoes, it is a healthy soup recipe, too.
Camping Recipes
Camping recipes like these are as fun to prepare as they are to eat. From grilled corn to chicken kabobs, these campfire recipes are really tasty. Everyone loves these easy camping recipes.
Broccoli Salad Recipe
This broccoli salad recipe is made with broccoli, raisins, bacon, cheese, almonds, and red onions. To make the broccoli more tender, it is blanched briefly before tossing into the salad. Picnics and potlucks are the perfect time to serve this broccoli salad recipe.
Lasagna Recipe
Lasagna is the perfect dinner party food. This easy meat lasagna recipe is made with ground beef, three kinds of cheese, tomato sauce and no-boil lasagna noodles. Garlic bread and caesar salad go well with this lasagna recipe.
Broccoli Salad
Broccoli salad is a wonderful dish to bring to potlucks, parties and cookouts. Dried cranberries, bacon and walnuts make this a great broccoli salad recipe.
Strawberry Ice Cream
This strawberry ice cream recipe is made without eggs, so you don't have to cook it before you freeze it. If fresh strawberries are in season, use those. They'll make this strawberry ice cream recipe even better. If not, use frozen strawberries for this homemade strawberry ice cream.
Roasted Potatoes
Roasted potatoes taste best when they have a browned, slightly crunchy coating on the outside and a soft center. These oven roasted potatoes fit that description perfectly. Potatoes are tossed in olive oil, garlic powder and sea salt, then roasted in the oven in this easy roasted potatoes recipe.
Pan Fried Tilapia with Lemon
This tilapia recipe is a favorite among kids. Pan fried tilapia is smothered in a delightful lemon butter sauce in this tasty tilapia fish recipe.
Meatball Subs
This meatball sub recipe tastes just like an authentic Italian meatball sub. But it is easier to make, thanks to frozen meatballs.
Kids and Vegetables
Everybody wants kids to eat vegetables. Is sneaking vegetables into their food the best way?
Butternut Squash Fries
Butternut squash is cut into steak fry-sized strips and tossed with olive oil and salt in this tasty recipe for butternut squash fries.
Soft Pretzel Recipe
Soft pretzels, like these bread machine soft pretzels, are as fun to make as they are to eat. And because the bread machine does all of the hard work, it's easy to make this soft pretzel recipe.
Breakfast for Picky Eaters
These breakfast recipes include French toast, breakfast sandwiches, breakfast rice pudding and smoothies. Healthy and nutritious, these breakfast recipes really appeal to picky eaters.
Chocolate Chip Muffins
This recipe for chocolate chip muffins uses dark chocolate chips and vanilla yogurt for truly moist chocolate chip muffins.
Beef and Broccoli
This beef and broccoli recipe is quick and easy, because it uses sliced deli roast beef. So you don't have to marinate the beef in advance, or separately stir fry the beef and broccoli.
Chocolate Cherry Smoothie
This chocolate cherry smoothie recipe is made with dark sweet cherries and Nutella. You won't believe that this is one of the healthiest fruit smoothie recipes ever!
Orange Chicken Recipe
This orange chicken recipe is a cinch to prepare because it has so few ingredients, and you just dump everything in the Crock pot. This recipe for orange chicken tastes almost like the orange chicken you'd get at a Chinese restaurant, except it's not fried!
Broccoli Bacon Salad
This broccoli bacon salad will have even broccoli-haters clamoring for more. This recipe for broccoli salad is made with fresh broccoli and lots of bacon. Juicy red grapes add sweetness to this broccoli bacon salad, and peanuts add crunch to this broccoli salad.
Vita Mix Blender Review
Vita Mix blenders are a great way to make smoothies, but the Vita Mix 5200 is an expensive kitchen tool. This article will help you decide whether or not to buy a Vitamix.
Apple Bran Muffins
These bran muffins are filled with a crunchy apple and walnut mixture that makes these apple bran muffins especially tasty.
Crockpot Meatloaf Recipe
This Crockpot meatloaf recipe is not only easy, it's incredibly moist, too. You just make the meatloaf mix, shape it, and put it in the Crockpot. Hours later, you can enjoy this easy meatloaf.
English Muffin Pizzas
These English muffin pizzas are a fantastic quick and easy dinner for kids. You can have dinner on the table in less than 15 minutes once you knowhow to make English muffin pizzas.
Corn Chowder
Corn chowder is one of our favorite summertime treats. But even if fresh corn isn't in season, you can make this recipe for corn chowder with frozen corn. And because this corn chowder recipe is thickened with potatoes instead of cream, it is low in fat. Crusty bread is all you need to go with this corn chowder recipe.
Cheesy Chicken Tenders
These chicken tenders are dipped in a spicy egg wash, then coated with crushed Goldfish cheese crackers. This is one of those chicken tenders recipes that's so quick and easy, you'll make it again and again.
Oscar Party Menu for Kids
Planning an Oscar party or a hollywood theme party for kids? The food to serve at an Academy Awards Party for kids should reflect a movie theme or black tie party theme. This Oscar party menu fits the bill.
Tomato Salsa - Salsa Recipe
Tomato salsa is the ideal accompaniment to tortilla chips, burritos, quesadillas and all your favorite Mexican foods.
Asian Chicken Noodle Soup
This chicken noodle soup recipe has an Asian flair, thanks to the addition of bok choy, shiitake mushrooms, ginger and other Asian seasonings.
Carrot Cake Smoothies
Vegetable smoothies can be just as sweet and tasty as fruit smoothies. These carrot cake smoothies are a great example. Bursting with carrots, pineapple and yogurt, these carrot smoothies make a great breakfast, snack, or dessert!
Pasta Recipes
These pasta recipes include lasagna, chicken manicotti, spaghetti pizza and more easy pasta recipes.

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