I am looking for SUPER easy recipes. With 2 kids and a full time job plus some, I have no time and no desire to cook big meals. So, I am on the lookout for really easy and healthy choices to eat. As many of you know, Chad is really only a chicken man. I can only fix chicken so many ways so many times. So, please leave me a comment of some quick and easy ideas (I'm looking for something other than Rachael Ray's 30 minute meals). Sandra Lee is more my style and affordability. LOL
In the meantime, here is something I found on sale at Kroger Sunday. It is the quickest way to make cupcakes. The bonus is that Marlee really feels like she is helping and there is hardly any mess to clean up afterwards!
Marlee patiently waited as I iced the cupcakes, so she got to lick the spoon. Then she got mad at me for taking her picture.
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Oh, I am so on the hunt for those cupcakes!
Do you have a crockpot? If so, I find them so easy, and you can fix everything up the night before (after the kids go to bed and you actually have time!) and then plug it in in the morning and it's ready when you get home.
Also look for Reynolds Crockpot Liners (near the aluminum foil and plastic wrap). It makes clean up a breeze. Simply put the liner in the crockpot, put in all your stuff, then once you're finished with dinner, you just throw away the bag with everything in it, rinse out the crockpot and put it away -- no scrubbing!
My favorite recipe: Put peeled potatoes and carrots and one quartered onion in the bottom with just a little water; put a whole chicken on top, sprinkle it with Lipton Beefy Onion Soup Mix and let it cook for 8 hours on low. You will come home to the best smelling house, an already prepared dinner, and you can make chicken soup or salad with the leftover chicken a few days later.
Here's a woman who blogs nothing but crockpot recipes. She has over 40 chicken recipes. I hope this helps!
http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/
PS - if you don't have a crockpot, let me know. I have a $5.00 mail in rebate for any Crock-Pot brand slow cooker I can mail to you.
Thanks Elizabeth! I do have a crockpot. I'll have to dig it out. I will be trying your chicken next week and visiting that website for more ideas!
Thanks for the reynolds idea. Wonder why you like those?!?! :) I will for sure try them.
Hey Kelly! Our friends Dave and Erin also have a blog and back in September Erin posted her favorite easy-to-make recipes.
Check it out:
http://thejacksonvilleburkes.blogspot.com/
I second the crockpot--it makes life a whole lot easier for us because we end up with so many left overs I don't have to cook for a few days and B has plenty of food to pack in his lunches when he goes out on a trip. Happy cooking and hope you all are doing well! ~C
Hi Kelly! I am also on the hunt for easy & nutritious recipes. I just bought Jessica Seinfeld's cookbook which has recipes that you puree vegetables into so you can basically fool your kids (and husband). There are several chicken recipes that Chad and Marlee would probably both like. I can email them to you if you want me to (klgraser@yahoo.com). I made mozzarella sticks tonight and they had pureed cauliflower in them (which my husband hates) and he loved them. All the recipes are easy too!
Hey Kelly,
Here's one my family loves.
Refrigerated pizza dough pressed in a 9x13
Cook Lean Ground Meat (any kind, I use beef)
Chunky tomato sauce
After cooking meat and straining add in tomato sauce to a boil. Put this mixture into your pan that has the pizza dough spread into it and cook until dough is cooked and put Mozzarella on top. I have also made this Mexican style where I added FF refried beans and rotel tomatoes with Mexican Cheese on top. Always a hit at my house.
Thanks,
MB
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