25 Easy Dinner Ideas for Kids

25 Easy Dinner Ideas

1. Omelets or scrambled eggs. Add vegetables, ham, cheese or leftover chicken. Serve with toast, fruit salad, pancakes or a smoothie. Add a fun toast recipe to make breakfast-for-dinner more interesting.
2. Stir fry. Use frozen stir fry vegetables or leftover vegetables. Add teriyaki sauce and serve with cooked rice.
3. Tuna melts. Mix tuna salad, spread it on bread or rolls, add cheese and toast until warm. Serve with vegetables.
4. Quick chicken soup. Use broth, chicken, noodles or rice and frozen vegetables for a fast soup dinner.
5. Pasta salad. Cook pasta and add meat, cheese, vegetables and bottled dressing or vinaigrette.
6. French bread or English muffin pizzas. Spread sauce on bread or English muffins, add cheese and toppings, then bake or toast until melted.
7. Spaghetti. Use jarred sauce or homemade sauce from the freezer and serve over any pasta shape.
8. Mediterranean spaghetti. Heat drained tuna with onion and garlic in olive oil. Add tomato sauce, olives or leftover vegetables and serve over cooked pasta.
9. Tuna or chicken salad sandwiches. Drain canned tuna or chicken, mix with a little mayonnaise, salt and pepper, and serve on bread or rolls.
10. Crackers deluxe. Set out crackers, cold cuts, cheese, fruit and raw vegetables for an easy snack-board-style dinner.
11. Baked potato bar. Set out toppings for baked potatoes. See this baked potato bar idea.
12. Rice and beans. Cook rice, add canned beans and season with salt, pepper or tomato sauce.
13. Pasta with black beans. Cook pasta and warm sauce or chili. Add drained black beans and top with cheese.
14. Veggie fried rice. Use cooked rice, vegetables and simple seasonings for a quick dinner.
15. Taco salad bar. Use taco meat, beans, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, olives and toppings. See this taco dinner for more ideas.
16. Chicken. Try simple grilled or baked chicken, roast chicken or breaded chicken served with vegetables.
17. Pizza. Make homemade pizza, calzones, stromboli or pizza bites.
18. Meatloaf. Use ground beef, chicken, turkey or a combination to make easy meatloaf.
19. Chicken casserole. Combine vegetables, meat and a simple sauce to make an easy casserole.
20. Roast beef or pork roast. Put a roast in the crockpot with onion, salt and pepper. Add potatoes and carrots if you like.
21. Chili. Make a fast stovetop chili or try chili in the crockpot.
22. Grilled cheese sandwiches. Make a simple grilled cheese or try a deluxe sandwich.
23. Zucchini pizza bites. Use sliced zucchini, sauce and cheese for a vegetable-based pizza bite.
24. Quesadillas. Use cheese, beans, chicken or vegetables you have on hand.
25. Spring rolls. Use vegetables or meat for a simple hands-on dinner idea.