Easy Recipes for Busy Lives No Stress, Just Flavor

Dinner should be the easy part of your day. Here you’ll find fast, flavorful recipes, slow-cooker lifesavers, and meal-prep plans that leave the sink empty and the table full.

Healthy banana bread recipe with ripe bananas and nutritious ingredients.

Healthy Banana Bread Recipe for Easy Nutritious Comfort

Fall Pasta Salad with roasted butternut squash, cranberries, and seasonal vegetables.

Autumn Pasta Salad with Smoked Gouda and Bacon

Freshly baked Banana Nut Bread with walnuts on a wooden cutting board

Easy Banana Nut Bread Recipe for Weeknight Comfort

Delicious Harvest Quinoa Salad with butternut squash, apples, and cranberries.

Harvest Quinoa Salad with Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Ground Turkey — 30-Minute Meals

30-Minute Meals

1 Cheesy Mississippi Mud Potatoes Casserole — Home 70

Slow Cooker

Slow cooker frozen meatballs — Home 71

Southern Desserts

Plated chicken fried steak meal with mashed potatoes and green beans — Home 72

Meal Prep

Greek yogurt frozen treats — Home 73

Appetizers

Yogurt covered pretzels — Home 74

Side Dishes

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30-Minute Meals

Real dinner, real quick. No complicated steps. No sad salads.

Halved General Tso’s chicken wrap showing crispy chicken, slaw, avocado, spicy mayo

General Tso’s Chicken Wrap: Takeout Flavor, Weeknight Easy

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Classic Chicken Tuna Egg Sandwiche

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Garlic Butter Salmon with Mushrooms and Spinach

pineapple brown sugar chicken wings

Pineapple Brown Sugar Chicken Wings

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Slow Cooker Recipes

Toss it in, set the timer, come back to cozy.

Crockpot French Onion Meatloaf with Swiss Cheese

Crockpot French Onion Meatloaf with Swiss Cheese

Crockpot French Onion Meatloaf with melted Swiss cheese

Crockpot French Onion Meatloaf

Air fryer frozen meat

Air Fryer Frozen Meat

Vibrant Southeast Asian food

Authentic Southeast Asian Recipes

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Meet the Lazy Meal Prep Family

I’m Ethan Walker Texas-raised, Sunday pancake trained, and forever team sheet-pan. Lazy Meal Prep is a family kitchen: Mom Linda’s comfort food, Aunt Susan’s desserts, and Grandma Angela’s slow-cooked magic.

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Southern Desserts

From slow-cooked greens to smothered pork chops, these crock pot favorites honor true Southern roots and flavor.

Franoi Chocolate Bar—glossy 70% dark chocolate with freeze-dried strawberries and sea salt shards

The Franoi Chocolate Bar Is the Only Sweet Treat You’ll Ever Need

No-bake Biscoff cheesecake with spiced cookie crust and silky swirled top

Easy No-Bake Biscoff Cheesecake

Matcha Basque cheesecake with deeply caramelized top and jiggly green center

Matcha Basque Cheesecake

Vanilla cold foam white mocha over ice with silky vanilla foam and white chocolate drizzle

Vanilla Cold Foam White Mocha

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Meal Prep Recipes

Cook once. Coast all week. Future-you approves.

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Plum Muffins with Oatmeal

Layered sugar-free plum yogurt parfait in a glass with granola and fresh plum slices

Sugar Free Plum Yogurt Parfait

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Greek Yogurt and Stone Fruit

Creamy Protein Mac and Cheese

Protein Mac and Cheese

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Appetizers

Snacky bites and simple sides for every craving.

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Parmesan Cabbage Fritters with Garlic Dip

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Fresh Apricot Recipes

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Homemade Nectarine Gummies

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Homemade Apricot Jam

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Simple, Family-Tested Recipes

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