Quick and easy dinner recipes you’ll actually have time to cook on a weeknight. All these dinners are totally kid approved and we think you’ll just love them too!
All our dinner recipes can be ready to eat in 30 minutes or less – work night winners!
Cheesy Buffalo Chicken Subs
Totally delicious spicy buffalo chicken breast just dripping with melted cheese all stuffed into a soft sub roll with salad – easy and oh so good!
20 Minute Beef & Baked Bean Chilli
Real chilli in just 20 minutes! Serve with rice, wraps or potato wedges and a side of salad for an easy midweek dinner.
Sweet Chilli Chicken Wraps
The whole family are just going to love thesedelicious sweet chilli chicken wraps. Serve with lots of salad and try a side of our cheat’s Chinese style chips.
Tuna Bolognese
Tuna bolognese is a great go-to family meal for a busy weeknight. Made with store cupboard ingredients, it’s ready to eat in just 15 minutes, low fuss and really tasty. A quick and easy kid friendly dinner.
Healthy Turkey Burgers
Homemade peri peri turkey burgers that just ROCK! Slide them on to brioche rolls and load them high with halloumi, grilled pineapples and chilli jam
Super Easy Pasta Pesto
Super easy pasta pesto is perfect for busy weeknights. It’s quick, packed with tasty veggies and best of all pesto is always a huge hit with the kids so it’s a win-win for me.
Smoky Beef Burritos
You guys are going to love these smoky beef burritos, they make a fab go-to family dinner recipe that’s ideal for a busy weeknight. Ready in just 25 minutes – real food, really quick.
Pizza Puff Tarts
Puff pizza tarts are just the most brilliant recipe for busy parents, you can have these prepped, cooked and on the table in just minutes. They’re great for kids tea time, just serve with baked beans and sweetcorn or a great big salad and some coleslaw.
Savoury Mince
Savoury mince is a quick and easy family dinner, ready and on the table in under 20 minutes making it perfect for a busy school night. And better still it’s a meal kids really love especially if it comes with a side of cheesy mash. Proper comfort food.
Spaghetti Margherita
We just can’t get enough of this delicious, quick Spaghetti Margherita recipe, it’s just so quick to prepare, super quick to cook and is literally on the table in under 15 minutes, with just 10 minutes cooking time – which is just great for busy work nights.
Easy French Bread Pizza
French bread pizza is proper comfort food and great for a midweek dinner or throwing together on a busy school night as it cooks in just 10 minutes. You can vary the toppings and pile on combinations that make your tastebuds tingle.
Honey and mustard chicken is so simple and so tasty and as it’s ready in just 30 minutes it’s a great midweek dinner, perfect for a busy school night. Add a side of mashed potato or rice and a pile of seasonal vegetables.
Potato Wedge Melt
Potato wedge melt, hardly a recipe but totally delicious and ready in under 20 minutes which is pretty perfect when you want a really quick and cheesy meal.
Chicken and tzatziki wraps are perfect for a simple, fresh and tasty dinner – add a side of veggie rice or sweet potato wedges.
Fish Finger Sandwich
A quick and easy family dinner – packed with freezer cheats for convenience – be sure to whizz up a pot of pesto pea dip for those wedges! It’s just so good!
Easy Vegan Burger
Our super tasty vegan burger is simple to make and packed with flavour. Add wedges and salad for a filling family dinner.
Vegetarian Posh Dogs
Tuck into lightly toasted brioche rolls filled with salad, vegetarian sausages and topped with salsa – easy and delicious.
Tuna Muffin Melts
Delicious, quick and easy tuna muffin melts that are ideal for when you need to make dinner for lots of kids at once. These are a great standby dinner – serve with baked beans and coleslaw to up the veggie content.
Quick BBQ Pasta Pot
Super quick BBQ pasta pot that the kids go mad for! This BBQ pasta pot literally takes minutes to throw together. It’s easy, yummy and counts towards the kids five-a-day.
Some nights all you need is a toasted sandwich – easy and quick. Add a fresh salad or pot of slaw on the side.
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