We all have those days.

We all have those days...those days where the washer decides to wash the floor instead of the clothes. Those days where the car battery decides to take a rest, or the kids forget their lunch money or their book bag or, whatever.  Those days , those glorious days that test our patience and try their best to stress us out.

Que the no brainier meals.

Having a core of nonbrainer meals is a necessity on this day and age.   No one is indespensible , but there are culinary challenged family members in any household.  Most people can do at least one go to dinner well.   But, having easy, fast, healthy meals in your “ personal cookbook” is a great asset.

• Impossible pie.   Great for the culinary challenged or not and in five minutes flat you can have dinner in the oven .  Add a vegetabke or salad and you have a balanced meal.  The recipes are varied and can scan the gambit from Mac and cheese to a breakfast pie.  We usually make it on a small rectangle baking dish instead of a pie plate.   Basically, you spray the baking pan, fill it with basic,my meat and cheese or vegetables and pasta or so,e other bulk, amd add a mixture of milk, eggs, amd bisquick.  Make the bisquick portion in a blender and it is easier,.  It is also easier if you have orecooked your ground meats and de fatted them.  A quick smash on the counter and the meat is broken up and ready for the oven or you can put on on defrost in the microwave for a minute while you gather the other ingredients. 
• Tacos.  Again the fast here is having the meat already cooked and portioned,   You can prep the meat as above , put your homemade taco seasoning on a small pan and add some water,   Put your meat on the pan and place on a low heat whikemyoumchop the lettuce, and gather cheese and tomato, onion? Probably 10 minutes. 
• Spaghetti in the insta pot takes about five minutes if you are slow to load and processes for 8 minutes.  It’s one of those things that an adult or teenager can do easily, challenged or not as long as they understand that all the ingredients have to be on the pot and you need to set the seal lever.   As long as you Always add liquid, don’t add flour or other thickener, amd Always set the seal lever, the insta pot is safe and a good time and money saver. 
• Breakfast for dinner.  Vegetabke omlettes, a little fruit and an English muffin works and almost anyone in the family can contribute to the dinner.   Granddaughter has been buttering bread since she was three. 
• One day, when granddaughter was three, I was cutting vegetables for oven roasted vegetables and sausage .  My mother always said it was easier to engage a child in what you are doing than it was to clean up the mess they were making while you were working,   I set my granddaughter buttering the French bread across the island from me,   She got half way through the project, and said,   “I can’t believe I get to do this,   “ oven roasted vegetables is a sheet pan dinner that we were eating before the term sheet pan dinner was made popular.   Potatoes, carrots, radishes or any other root vegetable  is washed cut into uniform sized pieces and tossed with olive oil and garlic pepper.   Bake close to an hour in a 400 degree oven .  

We all have those days, but there are always ways to get dinner in a hurry, or have recipes that even the culinary challenged can master.