30 Healthy Dinner Recipes That Are Easy and Family-Friendly

Healthy Dinner Recipes

Sometimes it can be really difficult to find healthy dinner recipes that are also easy, convenient, and cheap to make. Until now! Today, we’re going to share with you 30 of our favorite family-friendly, quick healthy dinner ideas.

In this list, we’ve included 15 of our favorite healthy dinners, 5 delicious and healthy soup recipes, and 10 super convenient freezer meal ideas…that are also healthy! Enjoy!

1. Slow Cooker Lemon Pepper Chicken

This simple and delicious lemon pepper chicken can be prepped in just 20 minutes and then thrown in the slow cooker for an easy meal! The finished result is a tender and juicy chicken.

2. Slow Cooker Honey Parmesan Pork Roast

This is another easy one! Cook this flavorful pork roast in your slow cooker or Instant Pot and enjoy it with rice, potatoes, or a green salad. The roast is covered in a tasty honey parmesan gravy so keep that in mind when choosing a side dish!

3. Crockpot Whole Chicken and Potatoes

Cooking a whole chicken in your slow cooker has a lot of benefits – it’s convenient, and you can enjoy part of it as dinner then use the leftover chicken in sandwiches, wraps, salad, and more! Learn how to cook a whole chicken in an Instant Pot too if you want an even quicker meal.

4. Healthy Asian Lettuce Wraps

I don’t know about you, but I love lettuce wraps! This particular recipe uses pork but you can substitute it for ground turkey or something else if you’d like! Using ground turkey makes each serving cost only 1 Weight Watchers Freestyle point.

5. Blackened Chicken with Avocado Cream Sauce

There’s a lot to love about this recipe. One, it tastes amazing: it’s spicy and the avocado cream sauce is fantastic. Two, it’s ready in less than 30 minutes! Doesn’t get much better than that!

6. Beef Kebabs

Grilling up some kebabs on a spring or summer day is a wonderful feeling, and I highly recommend adding these beef kebabs to your list of grill recipes! The kebabs are coated in a balsamic marinade that is FULL of flavor, and it makes the beef nice and tender.

7. Taco Bowl

I love having some oven-baked tacos on a taco Tuesday, but sometimes it’s nice to switch things up – that’s when this taco bowl recipe comes into play! This bowl is filled with flavorful and healthy ingredients.

8. Honey Mustard Grilled Chicken

Here’s another healthy chicken recipe that can be made in less than 30 minutes! The honey mustard glaze is simple but packed with flavor.

9. Lemon Parmesan Shrimp

If you came here looking for seafood recipes, this is one of our faves! Takes 30 minutes or less to make, it’s not too expensive to make, and it tastes restaurant quality.

10. Sausage Egg Roll in a Bowl

This is a low carb (great for keto), gluten-free recipe that is quick and easy to make and packed full of tasty ingredients. Just note that it’s a bit spicy if you put in too much Sriracha (as we did the first time we made it)!

11. Honey Balsamic Chicken

This recipe isn’t as quick as some of the other healthy dinner ideas on this list (it takes about 50 minutes in total), but it’s still pretty easy! The prep time is 100% worth it too – the kebabs are delicious.

12. Skillet Honey Lemon Glazed Chicken

This is another one of those simple recipes that are quick and easy and great for regular meal rotation.

13. Chicken Stew with Butternut Squash

This stew is super filling but only clocks in at 2 Weight Watchers Points! Plus it only takes 10 minutes to prep!

14. Zucchini Pizza Crust

It’s up to you what toppings you decide to put on your pizza (and whether they’re healthy or not), but this zucchini crust is a good starting point! It’s a healthy, keto-friendly, low carb, and gluten-free recipe.

15. Sausage Zucchini Skillet

This is another 30-minute meal and it’s a good one! It’s similar to our Mexican skillet dinner but it’s packed with turkey sausage, zucchini, green bell peppers, tomatoes, cauliflower, and more delicious and healthy ingredients.

Healthy Soup Dinners

Some of the best healthy dinners I’ve had have been when I just made a simple soup. Something about a warm bowl of refreshing ingredients just can’t be beaten! Here are our top 5 healthy soup recipes…

16. Slow Cooker Vegetable Soup

This vegetable soup is the perfect healthy soup to have when you’re feeling a bit under the weather, or if you just feel like something fresh.

17. White Chicken Chili

This white chili chicken is loaded with protein and nutrients but with super low calories per serving! Also, it only takes about 5 minutes to prep!

18. Chicken Enchilada Soup

This is a low-carb keto-friendly soup that is ready in less than 30 minutes with only 5 ingredients needed!

19. Zupas Copycat Yucatan Chicken Tortilla Soup

If you’ve ever had the Cafe Zupas Yucatan Chicken Tortilla Soup this copycat is pretty close to the real thing! Plus it’s super easy to make, taking only 10 minutes to prep.

20. Zupas Wisconsin Cauliflower Soup

Yes, another Cafe Zupas copycat and this is my favorite! It’s cheesy, creamy, super flavorful, and can be made at 5 Weight Watchers points per serving.

Healthy Freezer Meal Dinners

You all know how much we love freezer meal cooking around here. Being able to pull a healthy dinner out of the freezer and have it on the table super-quickly is quite an awesome feeling! Below are some of our top 10 favorite healthy freezer meals…

21. Mexi Stuffed Peppers

These mexi stuffed peppers are a party in your mouth! They’re filled with ground beef, taco seasoning, rice, green onions, black beans, frozen corn, shredded cheese, and whatever else you want to add!

22. Honey Sesame Chicken

If you enjoy chicken with a bit of sweetness, you’re going to love this honey sesame chicken. Tastes great on rice with a side of vegetables! (Try this delicious and healthy garlic broccoli.)

23. Honey Teriyaki Chicken

This recipe is in a similar style to the one above and it’s another one that’s great served over rice. Plus, it’s made with a delicious homemade teriyaki sauce and costs only 7 Weight Watchers Freestyle Points!

24. Honey Mustard Chicken

This is another slow cooker chicken recipe similar to the two above, but with a nice, sweet honey mustard flavor.  Easy to make, easy to freeze, and super versatile.

25. Steak Fajitas

Fajitas are great because they’re highly customizable and easy to make. Perfect for a freezer meal! Feel free to substitute the steak for chicken if you’d like.

26. Cilantro Lime Chicken

This recipe is nice and versatile which makes it a perfect freezer meal. Use it in tacos or quesadillas with your favorite toppings, add it to a salad, or serve it simply over rice.

27. Whole Wheat Pancakes

Who said you can’t eat pancakes for dinner sometimes? Not me! These healthy blender pancakes are quick to make and perfect for a healthy breakfast-for-dinner type of night.

28. Skillet Honey Lime Tilapia

Here’s another seafood recipe that is nutritious and delicious 😉 It takes about an hour to prep these tasty tilapias fillets but it’s worth the effort!

29. Mexican Shredded Chicken

I love this recipe because it’s a one-pot wonder; the whole meal can be cooked in the Instant Pot! Talk about easy cleanup! Plus, it’s super flavorful and versatile.

30. Garlic Pork Stir-Fry

For our last freezer meal recipe on this list, we have a scrumptious pork tenderloin stir-fry. This one takes only 30 minutes to have ready and is super easy to double for freezing.

Learn More About Freezer Meal Cooking:

• Why you NEED Freezer Meal Cooking in your life!
• How to start a Freezer Meal Group (Should you?)
• 24 Freezer Meal Hacks you need to learn
• Foods That Don’t Freeze Well
• Freezer Meal Connected eBook

Final Thoughts

If you’re meal planning, the recipes above should be nice additions to your recipe list! They’re healthy, family-friendly, easy to make, and there’s a lot of variety to keep things interesting.

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