What are some family friendly dinner meals you routinely use?

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Lisa Spencer, EdD, FNTP · Answer

The question is, what are some family friendly dinner meals? You routinely use? Well, we all need dinner ideas. So this is fun to answer. I have two teen boys in between the four of us in our house. We eat a lot of food. Come dinner time. Everyone is generally hungry and we're all pretty busy. So hopefully these are useful go Twos for you. Probably one of our favorites or fish tacos. It's great to just just have the fish defrosting in the fridge. Come home and skillet it with some fish taco seasoning on it. Kids get a choice of corn or flour tortillas that are also warming up the same time. The fish is it's pretty easy to engage everyone pulling things out of the refrigerator that they might want to talk their tacos with. I always make sure we have something fermented to go with the fish. Tacos at the Released we would do something pickled like the pickled onions. Hopefully, I'll we also have some fermented cabbage to go with this meal, will throw in a little bit of black beans and always a side salad to round out our vegetables. Another favorite is instant pot enchiladas. So these are the quick version of an enchilada where you can throw a bunch of chicken in the insta pot with enchilada. Mix turn. Turn it on for the 40 minutes that's required to cook the chicken. Throw in some cheese after that, maybe some other enchilada flavorings, maybe some diced Peppers, whatever your family likes and Shred up some corn tortillas to add to that. We always serve this again with some refried beans and usually I'll have hummus and cut vegetables sitting on the counter when someone comes in. If this is our Our dinner. So right, when they come in, they are getting their vegetables. In another. Favorite one is probably just A good stir fry. I can add a variety of different vegetables in there and it's great for leftovers. Probably a final would be a Cobb salad that my husband calls clean the fridge salad. I hope those help.

Lauren O'Connor, RDN · Answer

What are some family favorite dinner meals that you routinely use? Well, one of my favorites is preparing like a baked salmon, roasted salmon. Once a week it makes perfect leftovers and it just comes out nice and fresh. My kids love it. We usually add some like potatoes, air fried potatoes, maybe steamed broccoli, some kind of vegetable. And sometimes they just like to eat it with just loose leaves of crisp romaine. Two other things that we routinely make are gonna be mac and cheese. And don't get me wrong, we do add yogurt to it. We use a little bit less cheese and we do add plenty of veggies. So I always have some type of veggie on hand, whether it's steamed broccoli or maybe peas and carrots to add to it, to bulk it up. And sometimes adding a bit of protein, like whatever leftover protein I might have, some skinless chicken or you know, something. Or we go with pizza. Pizza is something great that you can load up with veggies. You can add chicken to it. You can add leftover salmon. You can add almost anything into a pizza. Even like an easy over egg is delicious over pizza. But yeah, so taking crowd pleasers like mac and cheese and pizza, it's fine as long as you create it in a healthful way by adding more veggies, you know, keeping it lean enough and adding quality protein. It works just fine and, you know, these are just things my kids request a lot. And we just make it healthier.

Tamara Freuman, MS, RD, CDN · Answer

So the question is, what are some family friendly dinner meals that you routinely use the million dollar question, how to feed a family with kids. So I've got two kids or 12 years old. One of them is a vegetarian. And so, when I think about family friendly dinner meals, I'm really thinking about things that can kind of be customized by all the different eaters in my family. I'd say, at least once a week we do some sort of soup because everyone seems to like soup and so we might do like a pasta, fazool, a vegetarian pasta fazool soup, with some noodles and some beans and the veggies are in there. We put some Parmesan cheese on top and serve with a fresh baguette. Another family. Favorite soup is a black bean soup that I whip up from canned black beans and just some carrots. Celery peppers and onion chop chop, chop saute, saute four cans of black beans. Some cumin, some salt, some broth, and then you kind of pureed, at the end to get all the visible veggies out of there. And I'll serve that with some just guacamole, and some chips, and some cheese and crush the chips in there and it's super yummy. So Bunches of soups that we love. To do another thing. Believe it or not, I'll do is nachos, which I know people think, oh, nachos aren't healthy. But if you use sort of like a nice chip that has like whole grains and seeds in it and then I cook up some canned, black beans, with some cumin and garlic powder. And then I make a little avocado Mash with just some lime juice and salt and then I'll have some salsa and some cheese and some pickled jalapenos and everyone can kind of put on their nachos, what they want. There's lots of veggies in that meal. There's lots of fiber in that meal and everyone really seems to Enjoy it. I love customizing noodle dishes, like Asian noodle dishes. So I'll make some brown rice noodles or even frankly whole wheat spaghetti you could use. I'll make a quick peanut sauce out of peanut butter, soy sauce, rice vinegar, and some hot water, stir stir, stir to make this like really nice, peanut butter sauce, and then I'll just put out a whole array of toppings. And so, for my daughter, we'll give her some tofu or some fried tofu for my son. We might give him some leftover chicken or steak. If we have, I'll make some edamame. I'll cut up some cucumbers. I'll shave some Carrots, cut up some peppers, may be some leftover steamed broccoli, and then everyone could just mix whatever veggies or proteins they want, and they drizzle the peanut sauce on it and that's a real crowd-pleaser as well. So for us a lot of soups, a lot of beans, a lot of customization and seems to get everyone fed pretty much all the time. So, hope that helps

Lisa Andrews, MEd, RD, LD · Answer

What are some family-friendly dinner meals you routinely use? Well in our house, we usually have pasta at least once a week. We usually have beans and rice at least once a week. We typically make tacos at least once a week. We make some kind of chicken. Sometimes we have grilled chicken and we might put that over salad or we might serve it with potatoes or some other type of vegetable. We probably eat fish at least once a week and I would make that in my air fryer because my kids like that better than baked or grilled fish. And some other family-friendly dinner ideas would include some kind of soup. So especially in the winter months, we usually have some kind of soup or chili at least once a week. I'm all about simplicity. I love to use up leftovers, but when it comes to family-friendly things, we do have some routines. Thank you.

Jessica Jackson, APD · Answer

What are some family friendly dinner meals? You use routinely. I only use family-friendly recipes. I am a busy mom. We've got four and a household including two toddlers. So I just need a recipe that's going to appeal to everyone's taste buds but it's also nutritious and I don't have time to make or cater for everyone. So it's just the one recipe in terms of ones that I will go to, I'll choose a vegetarian one once a week. So often I'll cook up for two nights. This one recipe, P vegetarian chili is really popular and I'll just serve it in different ways. So the first night, I will serve it on rice and the second night, I'll serve it as a burrito style dish with a whole lot of sides. Like cherry tomatoes, corn cheese, avocado, that kind of thing. So actually in the vegetarian chili, you've got great source of protein from legumes. So chickpeas and kidney beans and also from lentils, and there's a whole lot of vegetables already in the deer. So that's a fantastic one. It freezes really well. Well, as well, I'll choose a red meat dish once a week and typical go to one will be beef casserole. I'll use my slow cooker to get that started in the morning. So I'm going to add in the beef and a whole lot of edge go into that like potato, onion, carrots, celery. And that just Cooks away all day. I can often serve it just as it is or will often serve it on Rice as well. And for chicken base dish, that we use a lot is a chicken Pasta bake. So chicken. Lots of veggies in there and the pastor and I'll often do it with like a cheesy sauce style source that I've actually Blended cauliflower into for extra vegetables as well. That's really popular in our house. I will attach a link to a website called healthy little Foodies. This I find has some great recipes that I refer to a lot so I'm going to give them a shout out and you can see the link and find hopefully some great family-friendly recipes for your household.

Mandy Tyler, M.Ed, RD, CSSD · Answer

So this is a great question. What are some family-friendly dinner meals you routinely use? Several meals that we eat regularly at my house, first and foremost, a burrito bowl, super easy weeknight meal. I make some taco meat with extra lean ground beef. I make some brown rice, black beans, and make a bowl out of it. Then we add on diced tomatoes, we'll grill onions and bell peppers, sliced avocados, and some shredded lettuce, and it's a great easy meal. Spaghetti with meat sauce is another super easy meal. Once again, we use extra lean ground beef. In addition, we use either whole grain or chickpea pasta noodles, so we have extra fiber and nutritional benefits with that. Another easy weeknight meal that we do is breakfast for dinner. So typically we do breakfast tacos. So we do scrambled eggs with turkey sausage, serve those on either corn or whole wheat tortillas. Once again, top it with diced tomatoes, salsa, and sliced avocado, and it's a great easy weeknight meal. If you're looking for more ideas, I actually have a blog on 11 easy dinner ideas for athletes that I will include the link for in the comments section.

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"What are some family friendly dinner meals you routinely use?"