Easy school day dinner ideas

5 Super easy school day dinner ideas for kids that are perfect for busy days when you want dinner ready fast.

Let's face it school day dinners are usually hectic and snatched in-between rushing from school to football or dance class or play dates.

Dinners need to be tasty, quick, easy and pack in some vegetables. We've rounded up a few of our favourites for a week of easy school day dinners.

These are easy dinner recipes you'll actually have time to cook!

Easy Kids School Day Dinner Ideas

Easy Kids Dinner Recipe - Baked Crunchy Chicken Dippers

Our Crunchy Homemade Chicken Dippers are super easy to make.

You can prep the chicken dippers in the morning and just leave them in the fridge until you're ready to cook when you get home.

I serve these with oven baked potato wedges or plain pasta and a traffic light salad - which is simply - baby tomatoes, sweetcorn and cucumbers all served separately in little bowls.

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Easy Kids School Day Dinner Recipe - Quick BBQ Pasta

You can throw a pot of BBQ pasta together in just over 10 minutes. Perfect for those really busy nights.

We like our BBQ pasta made with slices of smoked sausage a a couple of handfuls of peas and corn thrown in the mix too.

BBQ Pasta is one of those recipes you can mix and match to suit your own tastes adding in any of your favourite pizza style toppings like chopped ham, pineapple or balls of mini mozzarella.

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Easy Kids Dinner Recipe - Savoury Minced Beef

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Savoury Ground Beef is a brilliant simple dinner recipe that kids love!

The savoury minced beef recipe is really versatile when it comes to serving it for dinner - you can serve it with cheesy mashed potatoes, pile it in a taco, make sloppy joes or just use it to topped oven baked potatoes.

I make the savoury mince usually the night before I want it for dinner - it doesn't take long and it just means all I have to do for dinner is to warm it up.

This recipe is a good one for making double and keeping a portion handy in the freezer too.

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Easy Kids School Day Dinner Recipe - Baked Chicken Chimichangas

Chicken Chimichangas are always a big hit with the kids - you can prep these simple healthy chimichangas ahead of time and just cook when you're ready to eat.

You can even eat our Chicken Chimichangas cold too. Any leftovers are good in lunchboxes.

I serve these with colourful salad and a little tub of sour cream and salsa for dipping.

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Easy Kids Dinner Recipe - French Bread Pizza

Total weeknight favourite - French Bread pizza is literally ready in under 15 minutes and you can swap and change the toppings depending on what's in and what you like.  

This is a great recipe for getting the kids busy with in the kitchen - they can each make up their own French bread pizzas with their favourite toppings.

Serve French Bread Pizzas with a pot of baked beans or coleslaw for extra veggies.

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Top tips for getting more fruit & vegetables into kids diets on busy weeknights

• Serve salad, beans or apple slaw alongside dinner.

• Whizz up smoothies with fruit and veggies in them

• Make pots of salsa or guacamole for dipping.

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