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Quick & Easy Meals for Busy Families

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Quick and easy meals for any time of the day! This collection offers a variety of options that are simple to prepare, with plenty of ways to mix and match so you can keep meals interesting. Whether you’re cooking for yourself, your family, or friends...
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Easy Meals

Simple and Easy Recipes for families and people with busy lives. All are kid-friendly and very tasty.  Great ideas for parties and family get togethers.  

 
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Easy Rice Crispy Chicken - a quick meal for the family.  Great for after school sports, or the rushed dinner.  Simple ingredients that can be pulled together and tailored to suit your tastes. Yum! Everyone comes back for seconds?
Easy Rice Crispy Chicken Recipe from My Tasteful Threads
 
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Simple Sausage and Vegetables that is quick to make and tasty.   The mix of mild Italian sausage and vegetables makes this simple dish a family favorite. It will bring back memories if you have a Polish background.
Celebrating Polish Kielbasa: Tradition, Family, and Flavor
 
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Freshly made salsa is a favorite at gatherings. This simple recipe makes it easy to attract people. It's kid friendly and so easy the kids can make it.
Easy Salsa Recipe in 15 Minutes: Kid-Approved and Delicious
 
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Quick and easy meals - I love it. I am about making things simple and quick. It's easy to grab a few items to make these delicious recipes.
Dinners for When I'm Too Tired to Cook
 
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Simple and quick ideas for breakfast. I am one person that breakfast is perfect for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Easy to pull together eggs and toast.  Yogurt with granola is another simple fare with a bit of added fruit. Yum!
Easy breakfast ideas
 
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Pasta Salad! Yum!  One of my favorites. Pinch of Yum has some great recipes to try, It doesn't matter of you are new to cooking or been cooking for years, you can make any of the recipes work.  I love the yummy pasta salad.
I Tried Pinch of Yum's Pasta Salad ...
 
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Shawn has some pretty great recipes.   She does soups, breakfasts, lunch and dinner recipes. She has this recipe for apple cake that is awesome that i love with my morning tea.  I just saw a baked potato soup recipes I am going to try.  Yum!
I Wash You Dry
 
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I share more cozy living, recipes, and travel stories on my blog, My Tasteful Threads.
Home - My Tasteful Threads

Recommended Cookbooks

When in doubt refer to a cookbook. This list of curated cookbooks offers a view of different aspect of cooking. From how to pull things together and what flavors go with what. 

 
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This recommended cookbook is reference book every cook should have. It's simple and give detailed instructions on how to make everything you can possibly imagine. (affiliate link)
Joy of Cooking: Rombauer, Irma S. ...
 
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I have this book! Sally makes it so simple to pull flavors together and make it happen. Some food items are hard to find and may not even be in your area, but it's a good real to learn about flavors (affiliate link)
The Improvisational Cook
 
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trying to lose weight you need decent cookbooks with recipes that work. I found these, still have them and still use them. They are pretty cool and pretty simple to follow.
Cooking for Weight Control, Books