Did the back to school season catch you by surprise? Are you struggling with getting delicious and nutricious dinner on the table, now that the kids are going back to school? No worries, we have put together easy easy weeknight dinners and meal plans to help you make easy weeknight dinners for family!
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We have great news for you! We have put together a list of amazingly delicious dishes that are perfect for back to school easy weeknight meals! You can make these weeknight meals either on a Sheet Pan or in the Instant Pot, which leaves you time to make a salad or a vegetable, while the main dish cooks.
And these are healthy weeknight meals for back to school! No more eating unhealthy food during the week — use these delicious recipes to eat healthy!
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Easy Instant Pot Spinach Tortellini Soup
What can be better for a fall healthy weeknight dinner than soup? And this is such a great soup, made with frozen tortellini and frozen spinach that you already have in your freezer! Just put the ingredients in the Instant Pot, and press the Start button, to get the most delicious soup ready in no time!
And you can use different veggies, depending on what you have in your house, to make this amazing vegetarian soup!
Serve this easy Instant Pot soup recipe with Cheesy Garlic Bread Made With Regular Bread, Cucumber Tomato Salad and Easy Cucumber Lemon Mint Water.
Garlic Butter Chicken Breast in Creamy Sauce
More healthy weeknight dinners! This delicious garlic butter chicken is so fast to make! Your whole family is going to love eating this delicious garlic lemon chicken, because it is so flavorful and delicious. And since it is so simple to make, this this is going to become your go to meal for back to school.
This amazing chicken dinner tastes just like what you can get at an Italian restaurant, except that you can make it in your own kitchen in just a few minutes.
Serve this Italian chicken recipe with Garlic Olive Oil Pasta Recipe, Watermelon Salad Recipe With Blueberries and Instant Pot Peach Iced Tea.
Instant Pot Whole Chicken Recipe
Check out this amazingly delicious and very easy to make whole chicken recipe. This is one of my most popular Instant Pot recipes, and everyone is going to love it! And this is one of the best weeknight dinner recipes for back to school, too!
It tastes just like Rotisserie chicken from the store, but it is much healthier, and is very easy to make. The secret to this healthy chicken recipe is my secret Rotisserie Chicken Rub, that takes just two minutes to make!
Once you try this delicious Instant Pot Rotisserie Style Chicken, you will never buy rotisserie chicken at the store!
Serve this amazing Instant Pot Whole Chicken Recipe with Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes, another Instant Pot hit, Easy Cucumber Tomato Salad and Strawberry Blueberry Infused Water.
Meatballs are another great idea for quick weeknight meals. These low carb Italian meatballs are so very delicious, and they are a crowd pleaser! Everyone loves meatballs, so they are a perfect dinner dish to make when you want to make a quick and delicious dinner during school year.
Do your kids like meatballs? Who doesn’t like meatballs, right? And these amazing Italian meatballs take just a few minutes to make, and then they just cook by themselves in the oven.
As the meatballs are cooking, make the side dishes, Spaghetti a delicious Caprese Salad, which will go perfectly with the meatballs. And add some Instant Pot Cranberry Apple Infused Water to the meal.
Here is another great weekday dinner idea. Here is another crowd pleaser, something that everyone in your family will definitely enjoy! I am talking about Salsa Chicken, an Instant Pot Dish that everyone will love, because it is delicious. I am always amazed that Salsa Chicken needs just a few ingredients, frozen chicken breasts (yes, you don’t even need to defrost them!), salsa and Taco Seasoning, to make the most delicious chicken.
And make extra salsa chicken, to serve it the next day as well!
Once it is cooked, serve it with taco shells, Instant Pot Rice, Instant Pot Black Beans and Fresh Tomato Salsa.
Instant Pot Black Beans do take some time to cook. So if are planning on serving Salsa Chicken Tacos, make the beans the day before, or serve canned black beans. We won’t tell!
Stews are easy to make, perfect for fall and delicious! They are also easy healthy weeknight dinners! Kids love them too, so they make such a fabulous dinner once school starts. More back to school recipes, healthy and delicious.
I love making beef stew, because you can make a delicious, healthy and hearty dish from a cheap cut of beef. So yummy, delicious, AND you save money on groceries, too!
My favorite thing to do about beef stew for back to school is to make it the day before, and then store it in the fridge and reheat it for dinner. Stews taste best the next day anyway, so next day just reheat some of this delicious Instant Pot Beef Stew and serve it with mashed potatoes and fruit salad.
Shrimp With Asparagus Sheet Pan Dinner
More delicious back to school dinner recipes! This Shrimp With Asparagus Sheet Pan Dinner takes very little effort to make, and it is delicious and healthy!
The best thing is, this recipe tells you exactly how to make the best, juiciest shrimp in the oven. No more guessing how long to cook shrimp on the stove top! And no more overcooked, rubber shrimp!
While you are cooking shrimp and asparagus in the oven, make Greek Spinach Rice to go with it! This is going to be a healthy and delicious dinner, perfect for serving this fall.
Ten More Back To School Easy Dinner Ideas
– Best Garlic Butter Baked Cod Fish Recipe, delicious quick weeknight dinner, ready in 15 minutes.
– Instant Pot Shredded Chicken Recipe (From Fresh or Frozen), perfect for an easy weeknight dinner, such as BBQ chicken sandwiches, just add BBQ sauce!
– Instant Pot Air Fryer Lid Garlic Parmesan Chicken Legs Recipe, another easy weeknight dinner, made in the airfryer.
– Extra Crispy Instant Pot and Air Fryer Lid Chicken Wings (Fresh or Frozen), delicious wings that kids will love.
– Healthy Instant Pot Air Fryer Lid Sweet Potato Fries, great weeknight dinner ideas, and kids love sweet potato fries!
– Instant Pot Butternut Squash Recipe, this Instant Pot butternut squash is perfect for easy weeknight meals,and it is ready in minutes.
– Instant Pot Acorn Squash, perfect for a weeknight dinner, and is ready in minutes!
– How To Microwave Broccoli, ready in 5 minutes, this is a great side dish for healthy weeknight meals!
– Instant Pot Air Fryer Lid Chicken Breast Recipe
– Best Greek Grilled Chicken Recipe
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Always helpful to have some new, quick and easy ideas as back to school so often hits with a bang, for sure!
So many great recipe ideas! I want to try them all!
What a delicious back to school dinner, your family is very lucky to have such great meals and fabulous cook in the house!
Back to school recipes are so needed at this time when kiddos are back to school. Love this recipe.