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Enchiladas? I think you can make them ahead and then just pop in the oven when you get home.

I eat a lot of eggs because it's so quick and easy. I also really like those Dole salad mixes and will just throw some eggs or beans on it.

@T.H.O.U.: try calzone with the rolled dough. Roll it out, fill with toppings on one half. Fold the other half of dough over, seal it. Cut vent holes in the top (I do 4), brush with olive oil, bake. Then heat up some sauce on the side. Super easy.

Summertime easy meals = kabobs for us on the grill. We marinate some chicken in a little italian dressing and moores sauce and cut up veggies (squash, zucchini, red, orange and green peppers, onions, etc.) sprinkle some peppers, salt and cavenders seasoning (greek) on top and put them on the grill. So good with a side of rice and easy clean up!

Our go-to quick meals are -
- Ham steaks (you just need to heat them up) with rolls and a canned veggie
- BBQ Chicken Salad - using the ShortCuts chicken that is already cooked, we just put the plain chicken with some BBQ sauce in a frying pan to heat it up / glaze it
- Ravioli or tortellini with pesto or tomato sauce
- English muffin pizzas
- Rotisserie chicken

TJ's has a lot of good frozen stuff.

I love to make quesadillas for easy nights - you can easily customize to your liking or per person. my base is usually refried beans and cheese, then throw in whatever you like (chicken if you have some pre-cooked, bacon, green onions, tomatoes/vegetables, you name it). I just heat them in a dry pan until lightly browned, so the pan doesn't really need to be cleaned.

Sounds like the grill would be an ideal way for you guys to make things a little more fun and better-tasting.

I don't know how much your picky DH might be willing to branch out, but Indian and Thai dishes are really easy to make at home (many are one-pot prep). Or stir-fry with rice or noodles. Or dinner salads. This is one of our favorites, which I'm making tonight with toasted pita points: https://smittenkitchen.com/2013/04/lentil-and-chickpea-salad-with-feta-and-tahini/

Oh and Aidells makes some great chicken sausages. Huge variety of flavors. We like those - they are fully cooked so just heat. Also serve with easy veg and carb.

Pizza pinwheels on crescent dough goes over well with my son. We also do lots of all in one rice dishes - Mexican rice with corn, beans, and ground beef all in there together topped with lettuce and salsa and what not. Jambalaya. Dirty rice. Fried rice. We just add lots of chopped veggies or frozen veg to bulk it out. Potstickers or egg rolls are an easy meal - just add some veggies or edamame pods. Rotisserie chicken one night, then chicken salad on rolls or crackers the next night. Tortellini pasta salad with chunks of cheese and veggies. Pasta with chicken sausage, tomatoes, broccoli or zucchini, tossed with lemon juice, butter/olive oil, lots of Parmesan, white wine if you have it. Pulled pork BBQ sliders on Hawaiian rolls.

We do ham and cheese calzones for an easy meal...
I make them with pizza dough (the bagged kind, just add water), butter the dough, top with ham, mozzerella cheese, and basil, roll up, butter the top and sprinkle with garlic/italian seasoning. Bake for 20 minutes.
Can also do the same but with pizza toppings. Side of mashed cauliflower. Yum.

Also, a one-pot mexican skillet (google for the recipe). It's basically just hamburger (or turkey) with salsa, egg noodles, black beans, corn, and mexican cheese. Delicious.

I cut chicken breasts into 1x2 inch pieces, slice up bell pepper and onion, toss it all with taco seasoning and put it on a sheet pan. 20 minutes at 425 and you have fajitas. We like simple so we just have it with tortillas, avocado and salsa.

@MrsSRS: oh yes we do that too! So quick and easy.

Leftover grilled chicken or rotisserie chicken tossed with a Caesar salad kit, grill packets with potatoes, frozen corn, and halved grape tomatoes served with a grilled meat. Quesadillas are also great, as others have mentioned. For pizza we usually pick up a papa Murphy take and bake so we can have it hot from the oven but have no prep and minimal clean up.

Sweet potato and black bean tacos are popular in our house.

I also pulled out my 20 year old george forman grill. If I hit a chicken breast with a mallet I can get out my aggravations and it cooks in about 5 minutes (which is about as long as it takes to steam a bag of broccoli and put it in a bowl).

I make a batch of potato or pasta salad on Sunday and you can have that with a piece of grilled meat (steak, chicken that's been marinated, hot dogs, sausage, fish) and fruit or green salad. Super fast.

@looch: I don't know if that was me! But I buy the vacuum packed bags of rotisserie chicken breast meat they sell at Costco and make a huge batch of entree salads (like they take an entire shelf in our fridge) to eat for lunch during the week. We chop up the chicken and then we have a Chinese chicken (chicken, shredded carrots, mandarin orange slices, cucumber, lettuce, crunchy chow mein noodles, slivered almonds over lettuce with a bottled ginger sesame dressing), a Cobb with the precooked and chopped bacon bits, hard boiled egg, avocado, blue cheese, tomato, cucumber, croutons, etc, and usually a fruit and nut one with apples, raisins or craisins, pecans, veggies, feta, and vinaigrette. Usually we also have a Chef salad using leftover lunch meat ham and hard boiled eggs, and a taco salad using leftover taco fixings for taco night too.

I make chicken salad with the remaining chicken and it's a standard chicken salad with mayo and pickle relish but I add lots of celery, chopped apple, red grapes, and almonds with a dash of cinnamon. We do add some sweet curry powder to it to switch it up a bit.

Or I use the meat for a curry. We use Kitchens of India chicken curry paste (cheap, all natural, on Amazon), the chicken, and either yogurt or a can of coconut cream, plus a dash of sugar to make a creamy tikka masala style curry that we bulk out with chickpeas and frozen green beans.

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We really like the Stouffer's frozen veggie lasagna at our house. They also have a chicken and pasta with pesto sauce that we like, but it doesn't seem to make as much food as their other family sizes.