Real Life Dinner

Recipes your real life family will love!

Home

What's for dinner tonight?

Check out our recipe index of more than 2000 "real life" recipes...

All Recipes

A large pot of Cheeseburger Soup with a sprinkling of shredded cheddar cheese on top in the middle with a black ladle inserted from the left.

Cheeseburger Soup Recipe

Velveeta Fiesta Dip in a small bowl surrounding by corn chips.

Three-Ingredient Velveeta Fiesta Dip

9-photo picture collage of cafe rio sweet pork, tres leches cake, shredded mexican beef, enchiladas, chicken taco meat, burritos, horchada drink, and taquitos. The text of the title is overlaid on the photos and centered in the picture.

60+ Mexican Christmas Food Ideas

7-photo horizontal picture collage of 40 Favorite Classic Christmas Candies & Treats with the text of the title centered and overlaid on top of the photos of white chocolate peppermint crisps, chocolate fudge, mint oreo muddy buddies, reindeer poop fudge, candy bar fudge, jello popcorn ball, and peanut butter fudge.

40 Favorite Classic Christmas Candies and Treats

7-photo picture collage of peanut butter blossom cookies, gingersnap cookies, peppermint kiss cookies, cranberry bliss bars, holiday snowballs, classic no-bake cookies, and meltaway cookies. The text of the title is overlaid and centered on the photo.

40 Popular Classic Christmas Cookie Recipes

10-photo picture collage of Fresh strawberry pie, lemon blueberry chiffon pie, chocolate pecan pie, Key lime pie, Oreo pie, apple crisp, Samoa cookie pie, pecan pie bars, cherry pie, and pumpkin pie with the text of the title overlaid and centered on the photos.

25+ Traditional Thanksgiving Desserts

9-photo picture collage of cherry cheesecake, peanut butter Oreo pie, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, Texas Sheet Cake, pumpkin slab pie, pumpkin chocolate chip cheesecake bar, berry galette, coconut cream pie, eclair dessert, and French silk pie. The title of the text is overlaid and centered on top of the photos.

25+ Simple and Easy Thanksgiving Desserts

A plate full of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.

Cake Mix Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

A large round plate with sliced red and green apples with a dark blue and white polka-dotted patterned small bowl in the middle with caramel dip. Surrounding the plate are apples in the upper left corner, bottom left corner, and bottom right corner.

Caramel Apple Dip

A sheet pan full of toasted parmesan baguette slices.

Toasted Parmesan Baguette Appetizer

Three quart-size jars of homemade salsa.

The Best Homemade Salsa for Canning

Three small plates with square pieces of apple sheet cake with brown butter frosting. Two whole apples are in the right bottom corner, and three forks are laid on top of each other on the left side.

Jewish Apple Sheet Cake with Brown Butter Icing

A slice of fresh peach dessert sitting on a small dark blue plate with polka dots with a fork on the plate. In the background is the edge of patterned dark blue 9x13 dish and two whole peaches.

Fresh Peach No-Bake Dessert

A strawberry rhubarb muffin on a small plate with two whole strawberries on the left. A partial picture of a plate bowl with strawberry rhubarb muffins. Whole strawberries are scattered around the small plate.

Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins

Shredded chicken curry with green beans, diced carrots, corn, and peas served over white rice on a dark blue plate.

Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Curry

Several banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies on a cookie sheet lined with a silicone baking mat.

The Best Banana Oatmeal Cookies

Side salad with sliced Roma tomatoes, sliced cucumber, Romaine lettuce, and crumbled feta cheese.

Easy Greek Side Salad

Texas Sheet Cake in a large baking sheet cut into 25 square pieces.

Texas Sheet Cake

Ice cream cone cupcakes with vanilla frosting and sprinkles on a cookie sheet.

Easy Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes

Broccoli slaw salad in a dark blue and white bubble patterned Polish pottery serving bowl with a set of tongs held diagonally from the right partially inserted in the salad and grabbing some salad.

Broccoli Slaw Salad

A partial picture of eggless banana bread in a metal loaf pan.

Easy No-Egg Banana Bread