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Inspiration for Simple Dinners
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Tired of the same old food for dinner? Need some inspiration for a quick meal? Here are some suggestions from our HomeschoolChristian.com recipe board participants.
Quesadillas
Posted By: Kara
Heat up a skillet, throw a tortilla in and sprinkle it with cheese and anything else that you like, then throw another tortilla on top. Heat for a few minutes, flip and toast on the other side and it's done. This is a great quick meal with a salad or black beans. We have used chicken, onions, black olives, and or bell pepper in the filling.
Burritos
Posted By: Debi
Put some canned refried beans in the center of a tortilla, add some grated cheese and microwave till the cheese melts. Fold quickly or the tortilla will crack. We also add whatever else is in the refrigerator: leftover meat, olives, lettuce, sour creme, etc.
Chili
Posted By: Debi
I always have canned chili around: We make chili over baked potatoes (yummy), chili over spaghetti (one can will feed us all this way!), chili over rice. The children love it. Start the chili in your crock pot before you leave, and it will be ready in time for dinner, if you don't want to use canned.
Fried Rice
Posted By: Debi
Cook rice. To a frying pan, add some bacon and cook. Drain the grease, leaving just a bit in to pan. Add the rice, a couple eggs, some cooked veggies (peas, corn) and the bacon. Add some soy sauce to taste. You can leave out the bacon, use some vegetable oil instead, and add cooked chicken (or elk, I suppose). A yummy, one pan meal.
Taco Salad
Posted By: Debi
Put some tortilla chips on a plate, add shredded lettuce, hot chili, cheese, salsa, sour creme. My children love this. You can take corn tortillas and bake them till crispy if you want to lower the fat.
Some Ideas
Posted By: Mary Leggewie
Make a menu plan each week with a variety of meals they can pick from each night and have everything you need for them if you think it'll work.
Crock pots are great for this kind of thing because they only take a couple minutes to start.
My favorites are: dump chicken pieces and jar of spaghetti sauce in crock pot. When it's dinner time, cook angel hair pasta (it's thinner so it cooks fast and the kids like it better here).
Roast of any kind, or stew meat: put in meat, dump in mixed up gravy packet.
OR put in meat, mix Lipton onion soup mix and water and dump in. You can also dump a small can of tomato sauce on top of it if you want.
Experiments like this are limitless and so easy and good! The meat is also softer for those kids who don't like food that's hard to chew.
If your husband is really kitchen challenged, you could start the crock pot, baggy up the vegetables with instructions on how long to cook (so they don't come out mush) and what's going with it and when to start it all.
