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25 Quick & Easy Week-Day Spring Dinners

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Looking for some new Spring dinner ideas? I’ve rounded up 25 quick & easy meals to make dinner simpler for those Spring days when busy schedules and evening walks demand and you want to spend less time in the kitchen.ย In the past, I used to share recipes (here on the blog) that I made at home. While the food itself tasted awesome and I got great interaction from the posts, my photography was not that great.. LOL! Even though I now have a better camera, getting a recipe ready to blog about just takes a little more than what I’d like to do. I think it’s OK to let the pros do it!! But we still love good food over here, though!!

25 Spring Dinners for Busy Families - At Home With Zan

One thing that has helped me prep great food and have something on the table in reasonable timing is a weekly menu. I’ve heard others mentioned howย dinner menus taking them like 20 minutes to create. Not so with me.ย We do have some weekly favorites but we tend to get bored of the same stuff over and overย so I love to find new when I can. In the past, I’d searched online, magazines, and and even cookbooks, for new ideas. The problem is that I’d write the recipe titles down (with the sources beside them) on a menu notebook and then discard the book once all the pages were used up ย – I’d have to start all over again. Anyway, I’ve now learned to save them. But it’s being a while since I actually have searched and searched for recipes. As our schedules got busier that got pushed aside a bit and I would prep the ‘good ole fashion’ regulars.

In any event, I thought some round-ups of quick and nutritious dinners for busy families would be great to add to the blog. And our menus and food ideas would be all in one place too. If you are a busy mom (who isn’t right) and you love to find some new quick and nutritious meals for your family, I’m hoping this would be a help.ย ย I’ve rounded up 25 meals that looks great for Spring! I’ve not tried them yet but they look delish, easy and will help dinner be on the table in less and no time!!

I know that Spring-time comes with added play and activities outside since the sun is up longer. This along with the already busy schedules between jobs, school, extra-curricular activities, etc. etc. it may be difficult to get dinnerย on the table in a reasonable time. We still crave that balance of eating well plus keeping up with everything else and getting the kids to bed earlier rather than later. Easy, nutritious meals will definitely help save some time in the kitchen and maybe even cut down on too muchย grab and go!! Hope you find something new to try – they all look so tempting! All images are created and linked to the various sources.

25 Quick and Easy Week-Day Spring Dinners (All photosย 

Salads

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Lemon-Avocado Chicken Salad

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Skillet Steak Wilted Kale

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Dixie Chicken Salad with Grapes, Honey, Almonds, & Broccoli

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Pasta Dishes

Spinach Pesto Pasta With Shrimp

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Chicken, Rice Dishes

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Chicken & Rice

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Southwest Chicken Cutlet Rice Bowl

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BBQ Chicken Fajitas

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Triple-Mango Chicken

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Beef, Pork, Fish Dishes

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Pork Stir Fry With Snow Peaspork-stir-fry Cooking Light

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Other Dishes

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Tri-Color Vegetarian-Stuffed Peppers

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Ravioli Lasagnaย 

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25 Week-Day Spring Dinners for Busy Families - At Home With Zan

Do you enjoy recipe round-ups like these? What are some of your favorite Spring dishes for dinner? I’d love to know of some new ideas!!

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6 thoughts on “25 Quick & Easy Week-Day Spring Dinners

  1. My mouth is watering just looking at all these food photos! I always lighten up my meals during spring and these recipes are perfect for spring and summer. I’m looking forward to trying several of these. Yum!

    1. Don’t they all look so scrumptious?! There is something about great food photos that make you just want to grab whatever the food is and eat it right up!! They all look so perfect for Spring/Summer!!

  2. I would love ALL of these (ok, not the Broccoli Cheddar soup. Blech! But 24/25 is amazing)! Pinning this for reference for when I can’t think of what to make.

  3. YUM! all of this looks amazing! i love how most of these recipes are light because there is something about hot weather that makes it so I can’t eat a lot! LOL
    those salads look SO DELISH!

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