Skip to Content

Easy recipes for dinner is our focus here. We will share family friendly meals kids will love too! With few ingredients found in your pantry here are tons of simple dishes you can make throughout the week to eat together more often.

Let’s start with the most popular dinner recipe categories on The Typical Mom Blog;

  1. Easy air fryer recipes for beginners will help you cook crispy snacks, meals and even desserts.
  2. We were one of the first blogs to share easy Instant Pot recipes on the web. It is a fast way to cook homemade dinners you will love.
  3. If you have the popular multi-cooker and want more Ninja Foodi recipes we have those too!
  4. Last but not least the other category we are known for is easy Crockpot recipes y’all will love…..did I say EASY enough so you know what we are about?? ;)

This is just a peek of our most popular kids recipes in our house and others can’t get enough of.

A collage of four food dishes. Top-left: stuffed bell peppers with melted cheese in bowls. Top-right: a hand holding a cooked drumstick over a bowl of similar drumsticks. Bottom-left: chicken in yellow curry sauce in a bowl. Bottom-right: pasta with sauce and grated cheese.

What is the easiest thing to cook for dinner?

This depends on whom you ask of course but to me my go to’s are my 5 ingredient chili that you can make in a slow cooker or pressure cooker and one pot spaghetti. For both they are both thrown together in 1 pot and cooked together which means less to clean and the flavors can really meld together.

What’s a good idea for dinner tonight?

2 other favorite meals we can throw together quickly beyond spaghetti and chili would be our 3 ingredient sloppy joes or anything off of our long list of easy ground beef recipes roundup. Both are cheap and kids always ask for seconds so win win.

What can you make for supper when you don’t want to cook?

I mean anything you can fit between two slices of bread is a win. No cooking involved and the choices go well beyond peanut butter and jelly y’all! Try switching it up with tuna inside, use up leftover meat chopped up with mayo and relish for a new high protein sandwich option. Or easy recipes for dinner can = a bowl of cereal, I mean, make the kids happy. ;)

Caramelized Banana Upside Down Cake

Caramelized banana upside down cake with sour cream or yogurt made from scratch or with cake mix is a moist dessert that everyone will love. Enjoy this easy recipe with your family and friends year round. This homemade banana upside down cake is fabulous. Made with slightly browned fruit it is a great overripe banana …

Read More about Caramelized Banana Upside Down Cake

Cake Mix with Pudding and Sour Cream

Easy cake mix with pudding and sour cream recipe makes boxed taste like it’s from a bakery! Use chocolate, strawberry, vanilla or any Duncan Hines bundt cake flavor you love to make the moistest fork tender dessert. This is literally the best cake mix hack ever friends!! Yes you can make it as directed on …

Read More about Cake Mix with Pudding and Sour Cream

Easy Air Fryer Stuffed Peppers with Rice

How to make Ninja Foodi air fryer stuffed peppers with rice and ground beef or sausage and cheese. Comfort food at it’s best done in no time, the same great taste but way faster than baking stuffed green peppers in the oven. Air fryer stuffed peppers with ground beef, rice and cheese are the bomb. …

Read More about Easy Air Fryer Stuffed Peppers with Rice

Ninja Foodi Pressure Cooker Chicken and Rice

Easy Ninja Foodi pressure cooker chicken and rice casserole recipe can be made in our Instant Pot or Crockpot Express too. The best classic Campbells creamy family favorite meal we love so much so that we have continued on with others like our Instant Pot Mexican Chicken and Rice too. This amazingly easy pressure cooker …

Read More about Ninja Foodi Pressure Cooker Chicken and Rice