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⋆₊˚ my go to girl dinners ⊹♡ (aka.. super random yet delicious dinners)
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items Girl dinner. We've all heard the term! This list consists of all my favorite easy, low ingredient, random, and delicious meals I eat almost every week. From breakfast for dinner, to frozen essentials- you'll find it all in here!
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breakfast for dinner!!
my fave frozen snacks/dinners for SUPER lazy nights!!
the classic quick and easy meals
pasta pasta pasta
breakfast for dinner!!
the title says it all ladies, we're havin' breakfast for dinner!
So initially when I first tried these, they were meant to be for breakfast. That quickly changed and they are in fact now apart of my girl dinner menu. Ya'll need to try these literally immediately.
Amylu Foods White Cheddar and Bacon Chicken Sausage Breakfast Bites
Although technically not dinner, French toast can be breakfast for dinner!!
I love spicing up my French toast and testing out any and every bread I can find. Hands down- both the apple and blueberry, top 3 fave 🤩
‧₊˚ ⋅ ☕︎ Blueberry Streusel Breakfast Bread ☕︎ ‧₊˚ ⋅
Okay we've all had eggs and toast as a quick, easy dinner. This hack though, entirely changed the game for me. Eggs and toast just got evvvvven easier ☺
One Pan Egg Toast 🍳
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If you're not a huge fan of cinnamon french toast, I highly recommend the favorite day french toast bread. Perrrfectly thick, perfect texture, it's just all around perfect.
French Toast Breakfast Bread - 20oz - Favorite Day™
To be honest- I have never been a fan of store bought cinnamon rolls. Until now!!! A couple extra steps and suddenly Cinnabon is in your kitchen 𓁂
Fancy store bought cinnamon roll recipe
The absolute best store bought cinnamon roll mix you will ever try. Please trust me on this, I promise I would not steer you wrong! Oh, and make sure you try out the cinnamon roll hack I've linked in this section!!
Magnolia Table Classic Cinnamon Rolls - 17.5oz
-`♡´- Another recipe in my saves list!!! -`♡´- This is one of my favorite breakfast, lunch, and dinner go to's! This video is particular is one of my faves for all the different, easy options they give you. Forever omelets's #1 fan 𓐐𓎩♡
The Best Homemade Omelets You'll Ever Eat • Tasty
Store bought biscuits just got 10x better gals, and this is exactly what I do for any biscuit occasion! Primarily though, biscuits and gravy. One of my favorite go-to girl dinners hehe
The Secret to Making Canned Biscuits Taste Homemade
If you grew up in an ingredient household… you already know. 🤭
Peek at the rest of my girl dinner list to find my all time fave cinnamon toast, annnnd French Toast bread. 🤩
*.ﾟ. 𐂐 Cinnamon Toast 𐂐 .ﾟ. *
Speaking of biscuits, if ya'll haven't tried the Magnolia Table brand, I need you to immediately get on it!! Lol, truly this brand is the best for all things baking. I'm going to be linking their cinnamon rolls as well, they are TO DIE FOR!
Magnolia Table Jo's Buttermilk Biscuits - 12oz
I am in a constant battle between this bread and target French toast bread. I genuinely cannot decide which is better!😭
Pepperidge Farm Bread French Toast bread Thick Slice
If you're looking to make your girl dinner a teeny bit fancier, I absolutely love this gravy recipe for biscuits and gravy. Quick, easy, and of course delicious.
The Best and Easiest Southern Sausage Gravy for Biscuits
And who would I be if I didn't also add in the Magnolia Table after school banana bread. She said it best, perfect for an after work or school snack.. or half the loaf for dinner if you're like me hehe
Magnolia Table After School Banana Bread - 16oz
my fave frozen snacks/dinners for SUPER lazy nights!!
this primarily consists of frozen appetizers.. but I don't care! that's what girl dinner is all about hehe
I'm not joking when I tell you I buy like 3 boxes of these every single time I shop for groceries. They really are just as amazing as they sound. The perfect girl dinner.
Hot Honey Chicken Pretzel Bites - 7.05oz - Good & Gather
These pigs in a blanket from target will always be one of my fave's. Game day snack? I think you mean girl dinner ☺︎
Parmesan Pastry Wrapped Beef Pigs in a Blanket 🐷
Auntie Anne's is a must whenever I'm at the mall, discovering that I can now take it home with me literally changed my life. ♡
Auntie Anne's Classic All Beef Pretzel Dogs 🌽🐶
Have I ever been to PF changs? Nope. Have I tried everything they have in the frozen section? Absolutely. My all time fave frozen dumplings- pair it with their chicken fried rice, or your own!
P.F. Chang's Frozen Chicken Dumplings
Alright I didn't ever expect to be recommending mixed veggies to anybody- but these are only .99 cents.. I had no choice!
Good & Gather Frozen Mixed Vegetables
Idk about ya’ll, but chicken fries are better than nuggies in my book. I don’t generally shoot for organic either, but these are just that good. 🤩 (And yes I know it says for kids.. but girl dinners be like that sometimes)
Earth's Best Organic Frozen Chicken Fries
the classic quick and easy meals
these are all the classics that many of you may already know (you probably do lets just say it) but that I'm still gonna suggest in case you need a reminder!!
I nearly forgot one of the classics 😣
Quesadilla’s with 1 tortilla instead of two LOL
Add your fave things to spruce it up a little & you’re ready gf (or don’t, hehe- this is lazy girl dinner)
⋆˚࿔ Lazy, Easy, Delish Quesadillas 𝜗𝜚˚⋆
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Alright I know we don't need a recipe for this one... but I still had to add it to the list! A classssic girl dinner for when I'm low on groceries or simply feeling lazy. (:
Microwave Nachos ♨︎
When I made fried rice for the first time ever, I found this recipe here and have never looked back. 🤭 I pair it with PF chang's frozen fried dumplings, quite literally, every time I make it! Of course you can pair it with something fancier- but thi...
SUPER easy & yummy Chicken Fried Rice
I was never a hot dog girly, until one day my roomie was cooking some up- and omg it smelled so good LOL. I took a sneak peek and had to try for myself. From then on, one of my go-to girl dinners with some box mac & cheese •ᴗ•
How To Cook a Hot Dog, Dummies
pasta pasta pasta
need I say more? pasta. one of the quickest and easiest girl dinners out there.
Alright, this is truly probably the thing I make the most- and yes directly from this tiktok creator!!!!
I have not found a single buttered noodles recipe that tops this one- when she says “somebody on here was trying to say they make the best buttered noodles…” She was not just bragging!!!! By far the best buttered noodles you will EVVVVER make.
I have not found a single buttered noodles recipe that tops this one- when she says “somebody on here was trying to say they make the best buttered noodles…” She was not just bragging!!!! By far the best buttered noodles you will EVVVVER make.
‧₊˚ ⋅ 𓐐Girl Dinner Garlic Buttered Noodles𓎩 ‧₊˚ ⋅
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Pair this with the Bertolli Alfredo sauce- and you're about to have the best quick pasta meal you've ever had.
Frozen Four Cheese Gnocchi - 22oz - Good & Gather™
This is truly one of the easiest and most delicious recipe's I've tried yet. (sometimes i even skip the chicken to make it easier hehe) Follow her steps and grab the pasta sauce of your choosing- you're good to go. (⌐■֊■)
Side note- I will be adding ...
Lazy Creamy Chicken Alfredo Pasta Recipe | Alfredo From A Jar???!!!
Alright I have tried a lot of alfredo sauce in my 25 years of life. In regards to store bought alfredo sauce- Bertoli will alllllways be my go to. Not breaking the bank, yet still so yummy and flavorful!!
Bertolli Garlic Alfredo Sauce with Aged Parmesan Cheese
Is calling pasta bouncy weird? If not, bounciest pasta I have ever tried. I won't lie, I didn't think I'd ever have a preference for store bought pasta, LOL. Yet this pasta caught my eye when browsing trader joe's though- and here we are. Best store ...
Organic Fusilli Corti Bucati Pasta
I'm not generally a red sauce girly, but when i say…. wow. This sauce quickly changed my mind. I couldn't find the Trader Joe's link directly for. the. LIFE OF ME for some reason! Which is not for my benefit, I'm not even a trader joes affiliate on B...
Trader Joe's Vodka Pasta Sauce
I'll be totally real- linking a reddit comment as a recommendation wasn't necessarily what I expected from this list, but that's how you know it's real LOL! I found this comment when searching for ways to spruce up my ramen noodles, and it is now my ...
Fancy Ramen Noodles