Easy Dinner Recipes to Give Your Family the Meals They Deserve

Easy dinner recipes really are lifesavers! If you are anything like me, after a tough day at work you do not have the energy or the inclination to make something creative. Until about a year ago I had got sick and tired of having to think of something original and exciting for my family to eat. Because I have zero time to think about ingredients, shopping and variety of dishes I became stuck in a rut of making the same few meals week after week.

My family was bored long ago with my cooking and I as much as I hated disappointing them with the same food over and again, I was always too exhausted to do something different. In the end we used to eat out up to 2 times a week spending hundreds of dollars a year on visiting restaurants. Although my family got something they actually enjoyed eating this was costing us way too much. Something had to be done.

Then a lightbulb moment came! A friend of mine had recently bought a book of copycat recipes which solved her what-to-cook? dilemmas. This book contained tens of recipes for the food her family loved to eat in their favourite restaurants.

Quick Easy Dinner Recipes - Mexican Style!

We all want quick and easy recipes for dinner but also want something that is flavorful, easy on the budget and something the whole family will enjoy. Here are some easy quick easy dinner recipes with some Mexican flair!

Enchilada Casserole

This is a fun, kid friendly enchilada type recipe. Kids and adults alike love the crunch of the tortilla chips. If you want to make this recipe extra quick, use the dehydrated onion flakes rather than chopping fresh onions.

Ingredients:

1 pound ground beef
1 package enchilada seasoning mix
1 can tomato soup
1 ½ c shredded cheese
½ c chopped onion (or 1 tablespoon dehydrated onion flakes)
1 can cream of chicken soup
Tortilla chips

Why We Need Easy Dinner Recipes For The Family

It seems we are always running. In our family there is, more often than not, too much to do and not enough time to do it. When the parents get home from work, the last thing anyone really wants to do is to spend hours in the kitchen. When we have easy dinner recipes for the family to supplement out cooking ideas, we can realize a savings of time and money.

I don't know about other families, but in our family, saving time and more is important. The kitchen is one area where having some quick and easy recipes for dinner impacts both the budget and the clock.
There are two ways to look at easy dinner recipes. You can go store bought, or you can go with simple ingredients. Things like "Skillet Sensations" ® certainly may taste good, and they qualify as fast, but in the long run, they aren't going to be the most economical. When it comes right down to it, they aren't necessarily any faster than cooking with your own ingredients.

Along with this, when you do it yourself, not only can you have easy dinner recipes for the family, but you can also have easy dinner recipes with the family. In other words, you can do some cooking with kids when you use easy recipes for dinner. We can call our house and with a few simple instructions, my teenage kids can put a scrumptious dinner on the table. That provides an additional benefit, because in cooking with kids, you are cooking for kids. They will cook what they like to eat.