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

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.

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 Easy Potato Soup covered in melted cheese and bacon bits.

The best potato soup recipe ever because it's both delicious and easy and easy cleanup. Quick and Easy soup dinner that you can easily crave. Potato soup is a great comfort food winter meal.

Photo of Pork Roast with Sauerkraut, mashed potatoes and peas on a white plate on a white tabletop.

Featured in PopSugar, this Pork Roast Recipe with Beer & Sauerkraut uses only 3 ingredients in a crockpot. The perfect winter dinner.

Easy Dinner Recipes

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 Steak Salad featuring salad in a yellow bowl with chunks of beef steak, carrots, tomatoes, french fries and baby spinach.

This keto but hearty steak salad recipe is a healthy and yummy family dinner. 😋 Instead of croutons, we use French Fries. Easy to make.

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.

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

Crave-Worthy Swedish Meatballs

Keto my kids will eat

Sloppy Wills - Philly Cheesesteak Sloppy Joes Keto Style and Low Carb - Food my Kids Will Eat - Recipes for People who Breed

Imagine Philly Cheesesteaks and Sloppy Joe had a baby, and named it Sloppy Will after the Fresh Prince.

Photo of Chicken Florentine on gray plate with spinach and creamy white wine sauce and parmesan cheese

My kids loved this dinner. My favorite part of this Chicken Florentine Recipe is that it calls for wine and cream cheese.

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 Steak Salad featuring salad in a yellow bowl with chunks of beef steak, carrots, tomatoes, french fries and baby spinach.

This keto but hearty steak salad recipe is a healthy and yummy family dinner. 😋 Instead of croutons, we use French Fries. Easy to make.

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Puerto Rican Cuisine

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.

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 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.

Easy throw-togethers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Pineapple rings stuck to the side of cooked, somewhat blackened, ham. It's honey holding it in place.

Pineapple belongs on ham. Get this super sweet delish ham recipe that puts a yummy in the tummy.

Photograph of Easy Potato Soup covered in melted cheese and bacon bits.

The best potato soup recipe ever because it's both delicious and easy and easy cleanup. Quick and Easy soup dinner that you can easily crave. Potato soup is a great comfort food winter meal.

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.

Domestic Engineering

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

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.

Photograph of Strata - an egg and sausage casserole with cheddar cheese

Super Easy Strata, a breakfast casserole. This recipe is derived from 2 super competitive sisters who tie for making this dish taste like Christmas and Nostalgia.

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 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.

Sloppy Wills - Philly Cheesesteak Sloppy Joes Keto Style and Low Carb - Food my Kids Will Eat - Recipes for People who Breed

Imagine Philly Cheesesteaks and Sloppy Joe had a baby, and named it Sloppy Will after the Fresh Prince.

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.

Photo of Italian Burger with mozzarella cheese and red pepper on Texas Garlic Toast on a white plate served with an ice cold beer.

Delicious gourmet restaurant style burger, this unique Italian Burger is perfect for lazy weeknight dinners and home movie night - inspired by bar food.

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.

photo of eggs with sausage, bacon, cheddar cheese and hollandaise sauce on a white plate, on a white counter, with egg shells sparkling in the background in front of a yellow and white towel

Easy meaty keto American breakfast for a family, Meatlover Scrambled Eggs packs a crap ton of protein.

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.

cowboy burger featuring bun, burger, cheddar and swiss cheeses, sauteed onions and mushrooms, lettuce, tomato, bbq sauce and mayo.

This cowboy burger is inspired by Cheyenne, Wyoming from a little diner downtown. Imagine a delicious gourmet burger that can round up the beef.

Photograph of Christmas Cookies including a Christmas Angel, Cinnamon Wreath, Hershey Kiss Surprise, Werther Original Stars, Blue and White Snowflake, almond wedding cookies, and Welch's Fruit Chew stars.

Make different Christmas Cookies with the same dough.

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