Have you ever had one of those nights? You know the ones: it’s late, you’re tired, and it’s hard to get the energy to make a good dinner, but you do really need some good food. I’m sure you know what I’m talking about.
These lazy dinner recipes are quick, easy, and yummy! They are perfect for THOSE nights when you’re just too tired to cook.
Baked Ham and Cheese Sliders Recipe
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Serve hot and delicious sandwiches with these easy-baked ham and cheese sliders. They are the perfect quick and easy lazy dinner.
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Vegan Cabbage Soup
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This Vegan Cabbage Soup is the perfect hearty meal for busy weeknights or lazy Sundays. It’s easy to make, budget-friendly, and so tasty!
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Gluten-Free and Vegan Mac & Cheese
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Missing out on that ‘Easy Mac’? Not anymore! This microwave gluten-free, vegan, and top 8 allergy-free mac & cheese for one is just the recipe you need! Nothing beats a quick and easy bowl of macaroni and cheese for lunch that’s healthy and doesn’t require pots and pans!
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Bubble Up Pizza Casserole
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This Bubble Up Pizza Casserole is a quick and easy meal option using refrigerated biscuit pieces, pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, and your favorite pizza toppings! This casserole can be oven-ready in only a few minutes using a few simple shortcut ingredients!
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Loaded Campfire Nachos
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Looking for a go-to, easy camping meal that everyone will love? These loaded campfire nachos are so easy and one of our favorite camping meals! The gooey cheese and warm chips are hands down a crowd-pleaser.
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Express Pizza With Flaky Dough
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This is an easy way for busy families to fill their stomachs! This Express Pizza Margarita made with pre-done flaky dough in under 30 minutes is a true lifesaver.
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Creamy Almond Butter Noodles
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These almond butter noodles are creamy and flavorful. They’re so quick and easy to make. These noodles are perfect for a fast and simple dinner or lunch.
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Impossibly Easy Cheeseburger Pie
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This impossibly easy cheeseburger pie is so easy and tastes fantastic! This is a classic dinner that your whole family will love!
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Homemade Silly Chili Macaroni Recipe
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Looking for an easy dinner recipe that children will love? Try this simple, Silly Chili Macaroni! It’s a favorite of kids and adults alike and easy to customize! It’s also a perfect pantry, stockpile, or food storage meal.
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Skillet Chicken Pot Pie
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This Skillet Chicken Pot Pie is comfort food at its finest! It has a golden, flaky crust with a rich filling of tender chicken, colorful veggies, and a creamy sauce. It’s cozy, satisfying, and ready in just 30 minutes for an easy dinner win.
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Ravioli with Tomato Cream Sauce
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This ravioli with tomato cream sauce is ready in 30 minutes; smoked sausage and ravioli are simmered in a simple sauce for a weeknight quick fix the whole family will love!
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One-Pot Easy Vegan Pasta Bake
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This One-Pot Easy Vegan Pasta Bake is the perfect weeknight dinner that’s comforting, flavorful, and sure to please the entire family. Made with simple, wholesome ingredients, this vegan pasta bake recipe features a rich tomato sauce, fresh baby spinach leaves and simple seasoning, creamy plant-based ricotta, and gooey mozzarella cheese—all baked in one dish for minimal cleanup!
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Cottage Cheese Butter Chicken
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This Butter chicken is a classic comfort food – creamy, flavorful, and perfect with a side of rice or naan. We’ve given this recipe a little twist by adding whipped cottage cheese to the sauce. It’s a quick, easy way to lighten the dish while keeping that rich, creamy texture everyone will love. Best of all? It comes together in just 20 minutes!
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Slow Cooker Mexican Shredded Chicken
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This slow-cooker Mexican shredded chicken with salsa verde is a flavorful dish made by slow-cooking chicken breasts in a zesty blend of green tomatillo salsa, garlic, and spices. The shredded chicken absorbs the delicious flavors, making it perfect for tacos, burritos, or served over rice.
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Goulash
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This goulash is hearty, delicious, and super simple to make. This wonderful recipe comes together quickly with just a few staple ingredients, so it’s perfect for an easy weeknight dinner. This one-pot dish has less mess and less clean-up which is always a bonus!
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One Pan Tomato and Mozzarella Gnocchi
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This is the most simple gnocchi dish you’ll ever make. It needs just 4 ingredients plus water, salt, and pepper. You don’t even need a knife – you tear the ingredients with your hands. It’s so incredibly easy.
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Creamy Vegan Spinach Pasta Recipe
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This Creamy Vegan Spinach Pasta is a total comfort food. It is a gentle twist on the classic pesto pasta, swapping cheese for coconut milk. It’s flavored with oregano, fresh garlic, lemon juice, and black pepper.
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Sheet Pan Sausage and Vegetables
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This Sheet Pan Sausage and Vegetables is an easy, flavorful, and filling meal that will be a hit with the whole family. What can beat a large sheet pan full of your favorite veggies and sausages?
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Penne Pomodoro Recipe
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Penne Pomodoro or Penne al Pomodoro is a classic Italian recipe that everyone will love. All you need is a handful of simple ingredients and around 30 minutes to have this easy tomato-basil pasta recipe on the table. It’s perfect for busy weeknights and family meals.
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Easy Vegan Fettuccine Alfredo Recipe
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Are you craving a creamy, delicious pasta recipe that is super simple? Then look no further than this vegan fettuccine alfredo! It’s made with simple ingredients and delivers all the creamy goodness you want in your pasta alfredo.
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Lemon Garlic Shrimp
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You can easily whip up this Lemon Garlic Shrimp recipe! It’s the perfect quick and easy dish for any day of the week, boasting the taste of lemon and the aromatic warmth of garlic that turns simple shrimp into a mouth-watering high-protein meal.
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Ukrainian Lazy Cabbage Rolls
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These Ukrainian lazy cabbage rolls are incredibly fulfilling and easy to make. They are nothing but deconstructed cabbage rolls, aka ‘’Lenivie Golubtsi,’’ where everything is cooked in one pot and is healthier than the authentic version and easier!
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Baked Pork Chops
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These Oven-Baked Pork Chops are the juiciest, most flavorful pork chops you’ll ever make! Made with simple pantry ingredients for a perfect weeknight dinner the whole family will love.
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Quick Thai Salmon Red Curry Recipe
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This Quick Thai Salmon Red Curry is the perfect weeknight meal since it’s full of flavor and takes less than 30 minutes!It has Salmon, kale, Thai red curry paste, and coconut milk and makes for a super quick and healthy dinner.
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Easy Frozen Burrito Casserole
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This frozen burrito casserole recipe starts with store-bought burritos, but with its delicious sauce and gooey melted cheddar cheese topping, no one will know it’s a shortcut recipe! This frozen burrito hack is super easy, but this meal is so tasty it will become a family favorite!
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Creamy Sausage Tortellini Soup
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This easy 6-ingredient Sausage Tortellini Soup will become a family favorite. This popular soup recipe can be made on the stovetop or in a slow cooker. It’s a rich, creamy, flavorful soup that everyone will rave about!
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Chicken Parm Panini
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Chicken Parmigiana can be a labor-intensive meal, but this Chicken Parm panini can be made quickly! You will need leftover chicken to make it quickly and easily, so save it for a day when you have leftover chicken around.
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Pollo al Limone (Italian Lemon Chicken)
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This pollo al limone (Italian lemon chicken) is the perfect cozy recipe for a night in. Thinly sliced chicken cutlets are pan-fried and coated in a rich, buttery lemon herb sauce. This popular chicken dish packs a bold lemon flavor that will have your entire family asking for seconds.
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30-Minute Spaghetti With Canned Clams and Fresh Tomato Sauce
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This Spaghetti with canned clams and fresh tomato sauce is a real weeknight standout. All it takes are a couple of pantry items and some fresh tomatoes. In less than 30 minutes, you’ll have a delicious, briny, bright pasta dish that everyone will love.
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Easy Chopped Chicken Caesar Wrap
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If you’re a Caesar salad lover, you will be obsessed with this delicious chopped chicken Caesar wrap recipe. It’s everything you love about a classic Caesar salad using leftover or precooked chicken breast wrapped up in a soft tortilla for an easy meal perfect for a lazy lunch or dinner.
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Oven Baked Buffalo Chicken Thighs Recipe
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These flavorful, boneless, skinless buffalo chicken thighs are easy to prepare and oven-baked to crispy perfection in just 30 minutes.
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Almost Instant Miso Noodle Soup
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This steaming pot of soothing, flavourful miso noodle soup can be made in about the amount of time it takes to boil water. What can be easier?
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Easy Frito Chili Pie
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This is an easy Frito chili pie that will become one of your favorite fall and winter comfort and lazy foods. This is a 25-minute recipe that comes together for an easy, filling, and delicious meal.
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Chickpea Spinach Curry Dinner
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This Chickpea Spinach Curry Dinner is a delicious meal recipe made with garam masala and baby spinach.
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Creamy Pesto Gnocchi Bake
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This pesto gnocchi bake is the answer to your weeknight meal struggles! With a no-cook sauce and helpful store-bought shortcuts, it comes together in under 30 minutes. All you need is a baking dish!
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Miso Salmon Bowls
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These Miso Salmon Bowls are a hearty, satisfying restaurant-quality dinner ready in under 30 minutes. With just miso paste and a few pantry staples, you can create a quick savory marinade for salmon and quickly cook it in the air fryer.
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Easy Cheesy Beans on Toasted Garlic Bread
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Need dinner in 20 minutes with just a handful of ingredients? These Easy Cheesy beans are baked in flavorful marinara sauce and topped with a yummy layer of melty mozzarella.
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Baked Goat Cheese Oyster Mushroom Pasta
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This Baked Goat Cheese Oyster Mushroom Pasta is a delicious vegetarian pasta recipe. Since it is baked in one baking dish, it is super easy to make and easier to clean up.
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Mediterranean Quinoa Salad
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This Mediterranean Quinoa Salad is an easy-to-make, Mediterranean-inspired salad made with quinoa, black olives, red onion, feta, red bell pepper, and cucumber. Topped with a lemon oregano vinaigrette, this is sure to be a favorite quinoa salad to meal prep for the week!
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Garlic Parmesan Pasta
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This recipe calls for gluten-free pasta, but it can be made with any pasta of your choice. It’s ultra creamy so this Garlic Parmesan Pasta is the perfect easy comfort food dinner. It’s a meatless meal, but you can add chicken or shrimp which both pair well with this pasta.
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Naan Pizzas- Three Ways
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Whipping up a satisfying vegetarian dinner of naan pizzas is as easy as asking, “What are your favorite toppings?” It is this easy because the greatest thing about this recipe is that you don’t have to worry about making or shaping a crust- its so easy to customize which will make this a hit with everyone in the family.
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Sweet and Spicy Skillet Shrimp
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This mouthwatering Sweet and Spicy Skillet Shrimp is a quick and easy dish perfect for a weeknight dinner! The shrimp is flavorful with a unique sweet and zingy flavor.
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Gemelli Garlic Lemon Pasta Recipe
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Ready in less than 30 minutes, this Gemelli Pasta recipe is so delicious! This garlic lemon pasta recipe will have your family asking for seconds!
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Pizza Pasta
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This Pizza Pasta made in One-Pot is a weeknight meal saver that’s as easy as it is tasty. This all-in-one meal is sure to please the whole family. You’ll enjoy the big flavors with little effort!
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Sweet Potato and Tomato Pasta
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This sweet potato pasta ticks all the boxes to become a family favorite lazy dinner: it’s quick to make, uses only a handful of ingredients, is packed with fresh vegetables, and is a rich and hearty one-pot meal for a busy weekday.
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Asian-Inspired Avocado Toast
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This Asian-Inspired Avocado Toast combines the creamy richness of avocado with the savory, tangy notes of Asian flavor, making it a delicious and unique lazy meal for any time of day. It’s ready in 15 minutes!
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Salad With Steamed Vegetables and Brie Cheese
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This Salad with Steamed Vegetables and Brie Cheese is perfect to pack for lunch to take to work or for a quick and lazy dinner, this salad is made with an assortment of plant-based ingredients topped with French soft cheese.
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Easy Vegan Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce
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This vegan Alfredo is creamy, made with wholesome ingredients, and is super easy to make. It pairs well with just about any pasta you’d like, plus it goes great on roasted veggies or baked potatoes.
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Chicken Biscuit Bake Casserole
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Want an old fashioned southern dinner that’s really easy to make? Well, you can have that with this Chicken Biscuit Bake Casserole. You’ll love the savory flavor of tender chicken, mixed veggies and creamy gravy topped with warm and flaky biscuits. It’s an easy one-pan meal!
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