41 Family-Friendly Recipes That Kids Will Actually Love (And Grownups Will Love, Too)

Make these freezer-friendly eggs right in your muffin tin. This version calls for ham and cheese, but you can use whatever is in your fridge from tomatoes and spinach to bacon and Gruyère.

Recipe: Ham and Cheese Muffin Eggs

How adorable are these? And best of all, you can make them in a big batch and freeze them for up to three months for an easy breakfast on the go.

Recipe: Banana Pancake Muffins

Is it breakfast or dessert? This recipe — a French toast-apple pie hybrid — can be either...or both.

Recipe: Overnight Apple Cinnamon French Toast Casserole

Toss scrambled eggs, cheese, and bacon into tortillas, then top them with your favorite quesadilla toppings like guacamole and salsa.

Recipe: Breakfast Quesadillas

Not only is this recipe quick and easy, but it's an incredibly affordable way to feed the whole fam. If you want to save even more money on ingredients, you can buy canned sloppy Joe sauce.

Recipe: Classic Sloppy Joes

It doesn't get much easier than a dump-and-bake casserole. You don't even need to boil the pasta or cook the chicken. Everything gets tossed into a baking dish and baked in the oven.

Recipe: Dump and Bake Chicken Parmesan Casserole

Just like what they watched on TikTok!

Recipe: Breakfast Tortilla Wrap

Stuffed peppers are super versatile, not to mention fun to make. Hollow out some bell peppers, and fill them with a mixture of your favorite ground meat, rice, black beans, tomatoes, chiles, and whatever else you have in your pantry.

Recipe: Mexican-Inspired Stuffed Peppers

You can personalize these lettuce wraps to your taste. Start with turkey, chicken, pork, or even tofu. Sauté the ground meat, chopped carrots, scallions, hoisin sauce, garlic, and ginger, and serve them DIY style with crunchy bibb lettuce.

Recipe: Chicken or Turkey Asian Lettuce Wraps

With just three essential ingredients — pasta, tomato sauce, and mozzarella cheese — it doesn't get much easier than this pasta bake. If you have some basil or red pepper flakes or garnishing, it's never a bad idea.

Recipe: Wagon Wheel Pasta Bake

Sheet pan meals are great for the whole family: They require minimal clean-up, they are easy to make, and they feed the whole gang. Make these fajitas with chicken, shrimp, or even flank steak, and serve them with tortillas and your go-to Mexican toppings on the side.

Recipe: 30-Minute Sheet Pan Fajitas

With just five ingredients — ground beef, pasta, taco seasoning, canned salsa, and shredded Mexican cheese — this one-pot recipe is a perfect weeknight dinner.

Recipe: One-Pot Taco Pasta Skillet

These roll-ups are made with cream cheese, flour tortillas, and lots of chopped veggies, but you can always work with whatever deli meat, cheese, and spreads you have in the fridge.

Recipe: Vegetable Cream Cheese Tortilla Roll-Ups

While the recipe calls for a number of ingredients, you can really minimize your grocery list by sticking to a good store-bought marinara sauce. Toss the sauce with pre-made ravioli and Italian sausage, and top it all with cheese.

Recipe: Cheesy Ravioli and Sausage Skillet

Grab a rotisserie chicken, or use leftover chicken breast from last night's dinner. Use whatever BBQ or buffalo sauce you like best, and top the stuffed sweet potatoes with anything from mozzarella cheese and red onion to blue cheese dressing and chopped celery.

Recipe: BBQ Chicken Stuffed Baked Sweet Potatoes

You could order take-out, or you could make this classic recipe at home. This meal comes together like magic. Everything from the chicken to the egg and the veggies are cooked on a single sheet pan.

Recipe: Sheet Pan Chicken Fried Rice

It comes together in under 30 minutes, and who doesn't love egg noodles?

Recipe: Easy Ground Beef Stroganoff

It really doesn't get much easier (or cuter) than these four ingredient Caprese skewers. Add on some extras like prosciutto or melon, and give the kids the task of assembling them.

Recipe: Caprese Salad Skewers

Let the little ones pick out their favorite toppings and assemble these adorable pizza bagels that are ideal for any time of day.

Recipe: Pizza Bagels

You can never have too many skillet dinners in your arsenal. This recipe calls for orzo, your go-to pork or sausage, onions, peppers, and garlic-y tomato sauce.

Recipe: Italian Orzo and Sausage Skillet

You can pretty much sub in whatever cereal your kids like best. The rest of the recipe remains the same!

Recipe: Cinnamon Toast Crunch Rice Krispie Treats

Baking is a great activity to keep kids entertained. And after one bite of these gooey skillet cookies, you'll want to make them every day.

Recipe: Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie