Before long, the September rush will begin and we’ll be hurtling towards (dare I say it?) Christmas at breakneck speed. With after school clubs, activities and sports starting up, easy back to school dinner ideas are the key to making a full schedule much more manageable and life a lot more fun.
Even if you don’t have school age children, September signals the start of a busy new season. Work picks up for most everyone and easy meals are more important than ever. No matter how frantic our schedules, my family and I make a real effort to eat together when we are all at home. It’s a chance to reconnect and recharge. And while I love to cook, when it comes to weeknight dinners for the family, I’m all about quick and easy.
Looking for Easy Vegetarian Back To School Dinner Ideas?
My easy back to school dinner ideas will fit in any menu plan and there’s something for just about everyone.
My Easy Lemon and Herb Chicken Marinade lets you cook up a batch of moist and delicious chicken breasts early in the week to serve both hot and cold. I serve the chicken hot the first night with potatoes or rice and some veggies. Then I keep the leftovers in the fridge for easy pasta dishes like my Chicken Stroganoff Pasta Bake and salads such as my tasty Coronation Chicken. The latter is perfect for lunch boxes.
Quiche is delicious for breakfast, lunch or dinner. On busy weeknights I serve slices of my Sausage and Leek Quiche with baked potatoes and salad or coleslaw for a hearty meal that is seriously easy on the cook.
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My Salmon and Broccoli Stir Fry is a tasty, nutrient dense meal in a bowl that only takes around half an hour to prepare. Serve it with chopsticks to make dinnertime more fun!
This hearty Spicy Sausage Pasta is a full of flavour family favourite that lets you adjust the spice factor to suit your family’s tastes. It works well with veggie sausages too!
This low effort, high flavour Moroccan Shrimp and Couscous is a nutritious dish that looks really impressive. Easily doubled, it’s a great recipe for last minute weeknight dinner guests too.
Store bought ready-made pastry make this Chicken and Vegetable Pot Pie one of my favourite easy back to school dinner ideas. It’s comfort food for both the cook and all the family!
My Easy Sausage and Apple One Pot is a recipe I come back to time and time again. It’s wonderful the day you make it but the flavours deepen if you keep it in the fridge for a day or so. I often make a double batch so I can serve some on the day I make it and freeze another batch for later. Great with rice or mashed potatoes, I also like to serve it in those big Yorkshire puddings we can buy in the freezer section of our grocery stores here in the UK.
Easy back to school dinner ideas can make a real difference in the shape of busy September evenings, giving you more time for family, activities and fun!
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Comments & Reviews
Great meals, we sure need some help now that summer is almost over!!
Thank you, Tara 🙂
Perfect timing for these great back to school food ideas! Thanks for sharing this one!!
Thank you, Dan!
Regardless of if it’s back to school or not, I can always use easy meal ideas! Thanks or this! They look great!
Thank you, Debi! I love easy meals too 🙂
All of these are great dinner ideas for families during the hectic school year. Hard to choose a favorite – I love them all!
Thank you so much, Patty!
Wonderful collection, looks fantastic!
Thank you, Florian 🙂
Loving these meal ideas, perfect for back to school. That will be us next week, so it’s good to have a game plan 😉
Thank you, Cindy! I’m really glad you like them 🙂
April there are some really wonderful ideas here! Great collection!
Thank you, Kecia 🙂
Mmmm.. I love all these! Such a wonderful round up!
Thank you, Serena!
Thanks for sharing this yummy group of recipes, April!
I’m so glad you like them, Nancy! Thank you 🙂
Great Ideas! I know my boys would love these. Thanks for posting. Found you on Friendship Friday, hope you hop by my blog as well. 🙂
Charles
Thank you, Charles 🙂 It’s nice to ‘meet’ you!
Some great ideas here! I’m always grateful for new recipes to expand my repertoire, especially as I am without a working hob currently!
I’m so glad you like them, Vicky! It can definitely be challenging without a hob – I hope yours is repaired soon! The Chicken recipe would definitely be a good one until it is, and so would the quiche 🙂
I will definitely be passing on your fantastic collection to my daughter as well as my clients with families. So many yummy recipes to try! Thank you April!
Thank you so much, Linda, and thank you for sharing too!
Hi April,
What a great collection of Back To School Dinner Ideas. It seems like no time when we were talking about summer fun and now its time for school again. Hope you are having a great Labor Day weekend and thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
Come Back Soon!
Miz Helen
Hi Miz Helen, I’m so glad you like them! I agree, the time really has flown by. I had a lovely weekend, thank you, although our long weekend was the weekend before and is called August Bank Holiday. I really miss the Labor Day holiday – we don’t have it here in the UK. It always seemed like such a great way to start off the fall! I hope your weekend was wonderful.
My favorite of your features is the Quiche, I love a crust!!
I love your post and have featured it on Friday Features and would love to have you stop by and share even more link! Friday Feature-Linky-Party
Hope you have a great weekend!
Karren
Thank you so much, Karren, and thank you for the feature too! Hope your weekend was wonderful!
Yes! I need some back to school meal ideas!
I hope you enjoy these, Jillian 🙂
What a great collection of Back to School Meals! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, Maribeth!
Hello April, I love all of your back to school dinner ideas and recipes. Thanks for sharing them at C&C with J&J.
Enjoy the week.
Julie
Thank you so much, Julie! Hope you have a lovely week too 🙂
So many wonderful and simple meal ideas. I just made a turkey pot pie this weekend and we have a quiche in the freezer (I typically make two at a time so we can eat one fresh and freeze the other for another night). I find casseroles, make ahead meals, and my crock pot to be the best ways to get easy and delicious meals on the table when we’re busy. Pinned.
Thank you so much – and thank you for pinning too!
Thanks April for sharing these delicious and nutritious recipes at #overthemoon. It is always so hard to think of dinner when we are busy working mums. You have made it easy and I have selected your post to Feature at #overthemoon for this week.
I’m so glad you like them, Sue! Thank you so much for the feature 🙂