If you are looking to shake up your dinner rotation, look no further than these healthy meal ideas for family. In this post you will find eight easy and nutritious dinner ideas perfect for feeding your hungry family!
If you are anything like me, you spend quite a bit of time in the kitchen. Cooking three meals a day is a lot, which is why I love to have healthy and simple meals that I can get on the table quickly to satisfy my whole family.
These nutritious family dinner ideas are perfect for busy weeknights. All of these recipes are some of my favorite easy healthy dinners. They feature wholesome ingredients, are packed with so much flavor and are a great way to shake up your dinner rotation.
Why You’ll Love These Recipes
Easy – Each of these healthy meals is what I consider a perfect easy dinner recipe. Simple ingredients come together quickly to create entire dinners, making healthy eating achievable!
Nutritious – These healthy recipes are made with nutrient packed ingredients, like protein-dense bone broth, healthy fats, and filling carbohydrates.
Versatile – A lot of these recipes can be tailored to your family’s taste preferences. Talk about versatile and great for picky eaters.
Key Ingredients for Healthy Meal Ideas for Family
Protein – Protein is a key part of a meal, and these weeknight dinners feature everything from chicken, to ground beef, to nutrient dense salmon.
Fresh veggies and herbs – An essential part of a well balanced diet. These meals feature a number of different vegetables and herbs adding variety and flavor to your meal plan.
Carbohydrates – Whether it’s potatoes in the vegetable hash, pasta in the homemade hamburger helper, or a sourdough topping finishing off the sourdough skillet, these carbohydrates help to energize and stretch the meals to make sure no one leaves the table hungry.
A full ingredient list with exact amounts can be found in the recipe cards within each recipe.
Healthy Meal Ideas for Family
Sourdough Skillet
How To Cook a Perfect Roast Chicken
Creamy Chicken And Wild Rice Soup Recipe
Easy Homemade Hamburger Helper Recipe
Salmon Croquettes
Stuffed Bell Peppers with Ground Beef
Sausage Zucchini Boats
Vegetable Hash Recipe in a Cast Iron Skillet
Tips for Healthy Meals
- Place meat in the fridge to defrost for the week, making sure that you have meat ready to use when you need it.
- Keep side dishes simple. A side salad with homemade dressing or crispy potatoes paired with a simple dinner like roast chicken or salmon croquettes, can go a long way while still being healthy and easy.
- Consider doubling a batch of dinner to give you healthy lunch options for the week, or save you a night of cooking. A little meal prep can make eating healthy meals for the entire family so much easier.
Interested in Meal Plans?
While I am not what you would call a conventional meal planner, I know a lot of people appreciate having a plan.
If that is you, make sure to check out my Summer Meal Plan and Fall Meal Plan. Each includes a month’s worth of recipes to fit the season!
If you try these recipes and love them, I would love it if you could come back and give it 5 stars! Tag me on Instagram @farmhouseonboone.
This has just reminded me of the best tip that has really helped me, and that’s to take all your freezer items out of the freezer for the whole week and use them in the order that they thaw. I have been doing this every Sunday evening since I heard you talk about it and it’s a total game changer! Not only do I have something defrosted ready and have a base ingredient right there to help my inspiration, it also helps to keep me accountable and motivated to cook something from scratch no matter how tired I am…because I cannot stand food waste! So now when I look in the fridge I breathe a sigh of relief because so much of the decision making is already done 🙂 Thank you Lisa! From Cornwall, UK
Yes! It is such a game changer. Also, not trying to figure out how to use frozen meat and thaw it quickly.
I love this! I have struggled with meal planning for years. It is so relieving to know that I am not the only one, and that I don’t “have” to plan meals. I can just relax and put meals together with what works for that day, which is pretty much what I have been doing all along. Can you tell me the recipe for the avocado dressing? It looks so good!
I really enjoyed this post and video and do feel so very similar to you in that I feel stressed with the idea of planning out every meal and having a specific grocery list each week. I guess I didn’t realize how okay that is until I found your videos 🙂 Would love to see a summer edition of this sort of video!
I am one of those people that can open up the fridge and put a meal together. I am encouraged to know that others don’t meal plan and find economic/time management success. I eat a simple, healthier diet, have a fridge that does get emptied into a pot instead of the garbage. My coworkers always comment that my food smells good.
“Simple diet is best, for many dishes bring many diseases.”- Pliny
Yes! Couldn’t agree more. 🙂 Just simple healthy meals. You don’t need a plan for that!
I love this! I would love to see a winter edition of lunches and breakfasts too.
Lunches are pretty much the exact same. Breakfasts are just eggs, kefir smoothies and sometimes sourdough pancakes. We are pretty boring! 🙂
Your bone broth recipe using the instant pot has been a favorite of mine this winter! When my co-workers smelled my soup during lunch today, they asked if I brought enough for everyone! ha.
Chelsey
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Yay! So glad to hear you re enjoying it, Chelsey!
How wonderful that there is someone else who does not plan the week’s recipes in advance!! Thank you for sharing.
So glad to know we’re not alone, right?! 🙂