Add this recipe for Pan-Seared Beef Bavette with Chili-Maple Sauce to your arsenal of quick, and tasty, weeknight meals. While this bistro-style skillet steak cooks up, you have about 10 minutes to get a couple side dishes going. Couscous with a handful of frozen peas to soak up some of the chili-maple sauce and microwave-baked sweet potato. There you go, …
Beef & Mushroom Thai Lettuce Cups
Lettuce cups are great for nights when a heavy dinner timed just before my child’s sports practice just won’t do. Flipping and tumbling in gymnastics with a heavy dinner in your belly is not something I even want to think about! Beef & Mushroom Thai Lettuce Cups Save Print Prep time 10 mins Cook time 15 mins Total time …
Beer-Soaked Beef Rotisserie Roast with Skillet Corn and Kale Salad
Making a bigger roast ensures you’ll have leftovers for lunch. It takes no extra work and leaves you with lots of meal options. If you know you won’t use leftover roast beef within 2-3 days you can freeze it for up to 2 months for a head start on enchiladas or chili. Beer-Soaked Beef Rotisserie Roast Save Print Prep …
Glazed Beef Kabobs with Easy Asian Eggplant
Kabobs cook up quick and it’s so easy to add extra to the grill to make sure you have leftovers for lunches. Invite the kids to help thread the meat on to the kabob sticks (with your supervision). On busy weeknights, there is often not enough time to get the kids to help out making the entire meal, so just …
Southwestern Beef Steak with Succotash Saute
Here’s a recipe where you can toss the leftovers into a container and call it lunch. The tender pieces of steak go great with the corn, zucchini, peppers and edamame in this colourful succotash. Southwestern Beef Steak with Succotash Saute Save Print Prep time 10 mins Cook time 10 mins Total time 20 mins Kids Cook! Get your kids …
Tandoori Marinating Steak with Roasted Curried Cauliflower
Does the sound of cooking tandoori or curried anything make you want to take a pass for fear your kids won’t eat it? One of the challenges of feeding a family is dealing with different likes and dislikes. I never bothered making separate meals, even for my nose-plugging kid, who at one point did not like the smell of spicy …
Super Simple Quesadilla
My kids will happily eat wedges of cold quesadillas for lunch. And with cooked ground beef on hand in the freezer, I can make these with the kids in a snap. Super Simple Quesadilla Save Print Prep time 5 mins Cook time 5 mins Total time 10 mins Kids Cook! Get your kids involved in the kitchen …
So Simple Beef Provolone Pizza
Take this pizza lunch idea and run with it to suit your child’s tastes and what food you have on hand. Use cooked frozen beef from the freezer to save time and, come to think of it, include frozen corn too! Consider making this the night before so the pizza can cool completely. I always tell my kids, to avoid food poisoning, …
So Simple Spaghetti Sauce
For nights when there are no leftovers for lunch, cook up this easy meat sauce using cooked ground beef from the freezer. Spoon over some cooked pasta from the fridge and you’ll have a healthy lunch ready to add to a thermos the next morning. Pack some Parmesan cheese on the side – just 1 tbsp delivers 70 mg calcium …
Big Batch Beef
Big batch cooking saves time when it comes to packing healthy kids’ lunches. I got into the habit of cooking ground meat before freezing it a long time ago and now it’s just park of my unpacking groceries routine. It’s a great head start on pasta sauce, chili, soups, or casseroles, and on busy weeknights saving 15 minutes matters! Big …