How are you doing with your resolution to meal plan this year? Hopefully it’s making the dinner time dance a little easier in your home. Sometimes your meal plan can get derailed when life changes course. Dinner invitations are accepted, kids get sick, grocery delivery gets delayed. Stuff happens and it’s helpful to have some favorites planned as a back up.
18 Dinner Ideas When you Don’t have Time to Cook:
- Omeletes
- Quiches (keep a crust in the freezer)
- Scrambled Eggs
- Oatmeal
- Super salad (hard boiled eggs, cheese, or bacon to make it a meal)
- Grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup
- BLT
- Buffalo Chicken Wraps
- Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
- Quesadillas with whatever is left in the fridge
- Stir fry veggies and chicken or flank steak. Keep them in freezer ready to go.
- Pasta with sauce and green olives (my personal favorite pre kids)
- Tacos. Super fast with black beans.
- Frozen pizza
- Tuna or chicken salad on greens
- Hot dogs or sausages
- Leftovers (also known as C.O.R.N.)
- When in doubt…cold cereal.
Pin this post so you have a quick cheat sheet for those soccer nights and times when meal planning goes awry. Another way to get ahead of the week of meals? Do some Power Cooking! Prep on Sunday or when you have a pocket of time. Stash some stuff in the freezer and you are good to go when the week gets a little bumpy.
On the menu this week…
Sunday- Soy Ginger Pot Roast was amazing!
Monday- Cheddar and Broccoli Quiche, stewed tomatoes and toast. {Meatless Monday}
Tuesday-Sloppy Joe’s , summer squash and salad
Wednesday- Orange Hoisin Chicken in slow cooker (from this cookbook) with steamed broccoli
Thursday- C.O.R.N.
Friday- To be determined…it’s my birthday. Should I cook or shouldn’t I cook?
Saturday- Date night!
For more recipes, see three years of past dinner menus here,
my Pinterest board here, or OrgJunkie for a link-up of meal plans.
I love your quick dinner cheat sheet! I can pretty much always make most of those things, but my brain goes blank when everyone is hungry and I just need something quick. Pinning!
Quiche is our go-to time-crunch meal. Great list!
Emily I do not like to cook so half of this list is my go to meal plan. I have to add BLT and wraps into the family menu plans.
Eggs have definitely been on our quick dinner meal menu..I just need a pan that covers three burners to make it happen.
BLTs are also fab!