Family Dinner Recipes + Meal Planning Ideas made with LOVE and most importantly, food my kids will eat, for busy parents and tired mamas who sometimes doesn't feel like cooking and sometimes does.

Cozy Winter Food

Cubed Steak Dinner with Mashed Potatoes and Corn

This Beef Cubed Steak Dinner looks like an old-fashioned home cooked meal, but it’s quick and super easy to make. Also super …

Photograph of beige bowl of chili over wooden fence overlooking fallen autumn leaves and bare trees.

Best Chili Recipe for Kids and Super Easy to Make. Perfect for Fall Vibes and Sweater Weather. Soup of the Season.

Grandmas Cabbage Rolls with cabbage and beef with red marinara sauce.

Grandma's cabbage rolls, a traditional recipe for beef balls laced with a cabbage shell served with a tomato sauce. Nostalgic comfort food.

Swedish Meatballs with thick Amish egg noodles, homestyle meatballs, and a creamy sauce.

Crave-Worthy Swedish Meatballs

Easy Dinner Recipes

Cubed Steak Dinner with Mashed Potatoes and Corn

This Beef Cubed Steak Dinner looks like an old-fashioned home cooked meal, but it’s quick and super easy to make. Also super …

Pizza Eggrolls Recipe featuring pepperoni, cheese, sauce inside a crispy egg roll

Super Fun Kid-Friendly meal or snack, pizza egg rolls are crispy and delicious comfort food.

Caprese Burger featuring hamburger topped with tomato, fresh mozzarella, and basil on french bread garlic toast

Super delicious Caprese Burger featuring fresh mozzarella, basil, and tomatoes. Like you probably don’t need to read the recipe. Make it Keto, …

Poor Man's Steak with Bearnaise Sauce

Quick & Easy cheap luxury dinner, Poor Man's Steak is the ultimate family dinner, 5 ingredient recipe - Beef Stew Meat & Bearnaise Sauce.

Keto my kids will eat

Photo of Grilled Cheese on Pumpernickel Bread with cheddar, swiss, tomato and Dijon mustard

Delicious fancy lunch, Cheese Lover's Adult Grilled Cheese Sandwich is a gourmet grilled cheese for grown ups.

Photo of Chicken Lio Caliente in a teal bowl on a yellow plate featuring beans, cauliflower rice, red pepper, green pepper, onion, and cilantro.

Keto Chicken Lio Caliente is a super easy, skillet dinner. Basically it's a chicken mess, a throw together meal, but with the flavor of Puerto Rico Cuisine.

Poor Man's Steak with Bearnaise Sauce

Quick & Easy cheap luxury dinner, Poor Man's Steak is the ultimate family dinner, 5 ingredient recipe - Beef Stew Meat & Bearnaise Sauce.

Keto Low Carb Pizza Casserole, almost like a pizza lasagna, with pepperoni, sausage, green pepper, red pepper, onion, mushrooms and mozzarella cheese.

Low Carb Keto Pizza Casserole, it could be a dinner, it could be a snack.

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Puerto Rican Cuisine

Puerto Rican Ham and Salami Soup featuring corn on the cob, salami, carrots, noodles, and red peppers

Best Traditional Puerto Rican Soup Recipe straight from the grandmothers in Ponce, Sopa de Hamon y Salchichon or Ham and Salami Soup.

San Juan Puerto Rico - Flavors of Puerto Rico

When it comes to cooking Puerto Rican Cuisine, I have found some patterns in cooking that I refer to as the flavors …

Photo of Chicken Empanadilla Egg Rolls on white plate. One is cut in half displaying Puerto Rican Chicken goodness with red peppers and cilantro.

Chicken Empanadas but with Egg Rolls, Puerto Rican Style, and mmm.

Photo of Puerto Rican Rice and Beans

Easy side dish or small meal, Puerto Rican Rice and Beans (Rice and Pigeon Peas or arroz con gandules) is a delicious rice recipe with flava.

Easy throw-togethers

Photo of Chicken Lio Caliente in a teal bowl on a yellow plate featuring beans, cauliflower rice, red pepper, green pepper, onion, and cilantro.

Keto Chicken Lio Caliente is a super easy, skillet dinner. Basically it's a chicken mess, a throw together meal, but with the flavor of Puerto Rico Cuisine.

Italian Sausage Marinara served over cauliflower rice for keto low carb, or rice, or quinoa, topped with zucchini and collar greens.

Super Quick. Easy. Healthy. Yummy. Italian Sausage Marinara.

Photo of Black Bean Spaghetti with marinara sauce, tomatoes, mushrooms, mozzarella cheese and parmesan cheese.

One pot meal and low carb, this easy spagetti recipe is one of my favorite lazy dinner ideas. Black Bean Spaghetti.

Easy Crockpot Dinner, Mississippi Roast. On a white plate with a pepperoncini pepper, corn on the cob with a butter slice on top, and mashed potatoes with Mississippi gravy

Crockpot Mississippi Pot Roast is a throw together meal and easy 5 ingredient recipe that is my personal favorite comfort food to make for a family dinner that I crave.

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Beef Shepherds Pie Cottage Pie Comfort Food

Easy to make comfort food my kids can't get enough of, Beef Shepherd's Pie or Cottage pie is a crowd pleaser covered dish + a great family dinner.

Puerto Rican Ham and Salami Soup featuring corn on the cob, salami, carrots, noodles, and red peppers

Best Traditional Puerto Rican Soup Recipe straight from the grandmothers in Ponce, Sopa de Hamon y Salchichon or Ham and Salami Soup.

Poor Man's Steak with Bearnaise Sauce

Quick & Easy cheap luxury dinner, Poor Man's Steak is the ultimate family dinner, 5 ingredient recipe - Beef Stew Meat & Bearnaise Sauce.

Photo of Black Bean Spaghetti with marinara sauce, tomatoes, mushrooms, mozzarella cheese and parmesan cheese.

One pot meal and low carb, this easy spagetti recipe is one of my favorite lazy dinner ideas. Black Bean Spaghetti.

Black and white photo of Michelle Grewe drinking what appears to be a Capri Sun juice pouch but it's Sangria with rum in it.

Meet Michelle

Hi. I’m a single mom of 3, former overachiever, who is still on a life-long journey to climb out of the abyss the toddler years put me under. They are teenagers and preteens now so there really is no excuse, but you know, there hasn’t really been a solution either. I’ve been dividing zero by zero since the moment the pregnancy test showed a plus sign.  

I have embraced the chaos, and the one thing I have some control over is the meal planning. I’m just unorganized, so this site is to help me track nutrition, reduce carbs, avoid allergies, and stay within a budget.

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picture of white paper bowls on a teal background for easy way to store leftovers blog post

Simplify life by creating a system for your easy way to store leftovers. This is how I do mine where the kids actually eat the leftovers.

More Family Recipes

Photo of Chicken Empanadilla Egg Rolls on white plate. One is cut in half displaying Puerto Rican Chicken goodness with red peppers and cilantro.

Chicken Empanadas but with Egg Rolls, Puerto Rican Style, and mmm.

Swedish Meatballs with thick Amish egg noodles, homestyle meatballs, and a creamy sauce.

Crave-Worthy Swedish Meatballs

San Juan Puerto Rico - Flavors of Puerto Rico

When it comes to cooking Puerto Rican Cuisine, I have found some patterns in cooking that I refer to as the flavors …

photo of creamy bacon soup from bendy and the ink machine's recipe and spinach bacon salad with hot bacon dressing

Bacon lovers and Bendy fans, this dinner idea is both quick and fun, and can be Keto. Creamy bacon soup and spinach bacon salad for the ultimate soup and salad combo.

Beef Shepherds Pie Cottage Pie Comfort Food

Easy to make comfort food my kids can't get enough of, Beef Shepherd's Pie or Cottage pie is a crowd pleaser covered dish + a great family dinner.

Photograph of beige bowl of chili over wooden fence overlooking fallen autumn leaves and bare trees.

Best Chili Recipe for Kids and Super Easy to Make. Perfect for Fall Vibes and Sweater Weather. Soup of the Season.

Grandmas Cabbage Rolls with cabbage and beef with red marinara sauce.

Grandma's cabbage rolls, a traditional recipe for beef balls laced with a cabbage shell served with a tomato sauce. Nostalgic comfort food.

Photo of Puerto Rican Rice and Beans

Easy side dish or small meal, Puerto Rican Rice and Beans (Rice and Pigeon Peas or arroz con gandules) is a delicious rice recipe with flava.

White Chocolate Sweethearts Bark. 5 Chunks of bark stacked with one chunk facing front leaning on stack showing yellow conversation heart that says, love, and red heart sprinkles. with some shaved chocolate and sprinkles around it on a white table with a gray background.

A festive Valentine's Day snack, white chocolate sweet hearts bark will satisfy sweet cravings with hunks and chunks of white chocolate covered in conversation hearts and heart sprinkles.

Easy AF Apple Pie Recipe with Decorating Tips and Hacks

Best and Easiest Apple Pie Recipe + Pie Decorating Inspiration to wow people on Thanksgiving, Christmas and the Holidays

Photo of fortune cookies covered in drippy gooey milk chocolate and red chocolate foe shizzle drizzles on a cooling rack on a white background.

How to make homemade fortune cookies, decorate fortune cookies + fortune cookie fortunes or message ideas for Valentine's Day or Everyday.

Steak Glop Easy Stovetop Dinner photo showing teal bowl on white background, square shaped, with white rice, california style vegetables, corn, mushrooms, beef and gravy. If you are looking for beef recipes and stew meat ideas...

Looking for quick and easy beef recipes? Steak Glop is a stew meat dinner idea. a one pot stovetop dish and a great weeknight lazy dinner.

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