This post has kindly been sponsored by Village Farms, but all opinions are 100% my own.

Just because back to school has rolled around and life is a little hectic right now, doesn’t mean that family dinners should go bye-bye because of a lack of time! If anything, this is the time of year where family dinners become even more important because it just might be the only time everyone is together in one place! As you know by now, easy dinners that use minimal ingredients and can be on the table in around 30 minutes are kinda my thing! That’s why I partnered with Village Farm Tomatoes to bring you not one, but THREE easy dinners that can be on your table in a hurry any night of the week! My Mexican Tomato Soup, Grilled Tomato and Cheese Sandwiches, and Skillet Chicken with Green Beans and Tomatoes are three recipes that your whole family is going to love!

PostedSeptember 18, 2018

AuthorLeigh Ann Chatagnier

CategoriesDinner

Tagsweeknight dinners, back to school dinners, family friendly meals, easy recipes, village farms tomatoes, tomato recipes, simple ingredients, simple recipes, simple dinners, easy dinners, healthy recipes, healthy dinners

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Raise your hand if you cook chicken at least once a week? (Me!) I am raising my own hand because we have chicken on the regular at our house. I love buying whole chickens because you get more for your money and then you end up with white and dark meat, which in my house is a good thing because everyone wants something different! This always usually means leftovers are an option and I can turn them into a whole other meal! Talk about cost effective! The problem with chicken is that I can get burnt out on it and I'm sure you do too! I'm sharing three different ways to roast a chicken that will keep you and your family from getting bored with chicken from week to week!

PostedApril 24, 2018

AuthorLeigh Ann Chatagnier

CategoriesDinner

Tagsways to roast a chicken, roasted chicken, weeknight dinners, easy recipes, chicken recipes, healthy recipes, family friendly dinners, chicken

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Happy Monday! How was your Easter weekend? We had family in town and the kids dyed eggs, ate their weight in candy, played in the mud, and just had the best weekend together! Yesterday I am pretty sure that 90% of Parks' diet was sugar and I wasn't far behind him! So now that Easter is over and my excuse to eat candy is no longer valid, I am meal planning for the week and I am all about preparing light meals that the whole family will love while keeping me on track! My sloppy joe stuffed peppers are just the kind of meal that is super satisfying while being low carb and healthy at the same time!

PostedApril 2, 2018

AuthorLeigh Ann Chatagnier

CategoriesDinner

Tagssloppy joe stuffed peppers, easy weeknight meals, easy recipes, easy dinner recipes, weeknight meals, weeknight dinners, family friendly recipes, gluten free recipes, low carb recipes, stuffed peppers

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Y'allll...easy weeknight dinners are something that I cannot live without. They have to be ready in under thirty and have to be easy enough to be cooked with a toddler distracting me at every turn. Yesterday, for instance as I was making this very dish on Instagram Live, mid-video I had to run outside and chase Parks down the side of the house because he had escaped outside. He also proceeded to try and dump a large amount of salt into my pan, needed a new snack every second, and needed to make sure his voice was heard talking over me every chance he got! Days like yesterday (most days) can be a little stressful when all I want to do is get dinner on the table. Enter Healthy Sweet and Sour Grilled Chicken Quinoa Bowls...

PostedMarch 29, 2018

AuthorLeigh Ann Chatagnier

CategoriesBreakfast, Dinner

Tagssweet and sour chicken, healthy sweet and sour grilled chicken quinoa bowls, healthy sweet and sour chicken, homemade sweet and sour chicken, buddha bowls, quinoa recipes, asian recipes, weeknight dinners, family friendly meals, chicken

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We've been on a taco kick lately. Tacos for breakfast, tacos for lunch, and tacos for dinner. Matter of fact, we are having tacos for dinner tonight too! I can't get enough of creating different flavor combinations to throw into a taco shell and call it a day. For a while now I have been making banh mi bowls for dinner and my guys go crazy over them. I got to thinking, wouldn't these be amazing in taco form too? Why yes, yes they would...and they are! My slow cooker beef banh mi tacos are just the easy weeknight meal that you have been waiting for to spice up your weekly meal routine!

PostedMarch 20, 2018

AuthorLeigh Ann Chatagnier

CategoriesDinner

Tagstacos, bahn mi tacos, beef bahn mi tacos, slow cooker recipes, slow cooker beef bahn mi tacos, slower cooker bahn mi recipes, easy recipes, weeknight dinners, gluten free recipes

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Monday whipped my booty y'all. I am not going to lie, it was a little rough. I didn't sit down until well after 7:00pm (but for real) and then when I attempted to take a bath, my toddler hijacked it. Like straight up, "mommy Parks take bath too." And I mean of course I couldn't tell him no, so I took a cold bath and he swam in a sea of bubbles and was the happiest kid on the block. Which, in turn made me the happiest mama on the block too, but man I had been looking forward to that bath. When I put him to bed, I yawned really big and he said "Mommy sleepy"...yes buddy mama was super sleepy last night. I totally get it now why my mom would fall asleep as soon as she would sit down my whole life! This mom stuff is no joke! So while we are on the topic of days where you literally don't have energy to think about dinner, let me help you out! My 30 minute gluten free cilantro pesto chicken pasta is a cinch to make on any day of the week, (even the exhausting ones.)

PostedFebruary 13, 2018

AuthorLeigh Ann Chatagnier

CategoriesDinner, Pasta

Tagseasy recipes, weeknight meals, weeknight dinners, gluten free recipes, gluten free meals, gluten free family meals, family friendly recipes, kid friendly recipes, healthy recipes, gluten free pasta recipes, pasta recipes, easy pasta recipes, chicken, pasta

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