Easy Meal Ideas

Ragu and Noodles

Get a jar of pasta sauce (my favorite is Ragu Chunky Garden Style) and serve with any type of noodles, but egg noodles are especially good. You can also brow ground beef or ground sausage to go in the sauce.

Potato Bar

Bake potatoes (350 for around an hour, scrub, poke, and bake, wrapping in foil is not necessary, or cook in the microwave). Serve with heated canned chili, cooked broccoli (chop and cook in a covered dish in the microwave for 5 min), and grated cheese, or other toppings (sour cream, bacon, etc.)

Crunchy Tacos

Taco shells, ground beef, canned refried beans, tomatoes, lettuce, ketchup/salsa

Homemade Burritos

Soft tortillas, refried beans, cheese

Breakfast Burritos

Soft tortillas, sausage, scrambled eggs*, hash browns*, cheese, salsa (or ketchup), tomatoes (optional)

*For scrambled eggs, crack eggs into a small dish, stir with a fork/whisk, pour into hot, oiled/sprayed skillet, and cook until done. You can buy the has browns frozen, or bake potatoes, then shred when cool enough and heat through in butter or oil.

Easy BBQ Chicken or Pulled Pork in the Crock Pot

Put 2-4 large THAWED chicken breasts in the Crock Pot with some BBQ sauce on low for around 8 hours. (If you use chicken breasts that came frozen in a bag, they will be smaller and you'll want to use 4 or more.) Shred with forks at the end of cooking time and add more BBQ sauce. Serve on buns.
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Put a pork roast (really any kind of cut, like a pork shoulder or whatever, but not pork chops because that would be weird, but I guess it could work, but you should just bake those in the oven or cook them on the grill) in the Crock Pot with some BBQ sauce on it. Cook on low for around 8 hours. Drain off the liquid into a can to dispose when cooled. Shred with forks and add more BBQ sauce. Serve on buns with additional BBQ sauce if desired.

French Toast

To make French toast for one person, crack an egg or two in a wide-bottomed bowl or pie dish or something similar, whisk it and add a little milk and stir that in. Add some spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger (or Allspice as it has those kinds of spices in it already, or pumpkin pie spice). You can also add some vanilla if desired. Dip the bread (both sides), even stale bread, into the mixture, and cook on an oiled/sprayed hot skillet/pan. Serve with syrup.

Biscuits and Gravy

Brown a tube of Jimmy Dean sausage (it's the best!). Once cooked, stir in 1/4 C flour.  Gradually add 2 1/2 C milk. Cook until it comes to a boil and thickens, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to med-low and simmer for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Season with salt and pepper. Serve on biscuits, either homemade or those that you bake from the refrigerated section in the grocery store. (From All Recipes)