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A dinner bowl plate with three baby potatoes, chopped chicken and green beans with bacon bits.

Slow Cooker Country Chicken and Veggies

A serving of chicken buffalo pasta topped with sliced green onions in a white polka dotted and dark blue Polish pottery bowl. Faded on the right is a metal fork.

Instant Pot Buffalo Chicken Pasta

A soup bowl with steamed broccoli and shredded pork and gravy served over long-grain rice.

Slow Cooker Pork Roast and Gravy

A dinner plate with barbecue chips, sliced cucumbers, sliced carrots, and a slow cooker Mississippi pot roast sandwich with melted cheese.

Slow Cooker Mississippi Pot Roast

Slow cooker goulash in a white and dark blue bubble patterned Polish bowl with a cloth napkin and spoon on the left and a hard roll up in the right-hand corner.

The Best Slow Cooker Goulash

A roll sitting on a plate with a bowl of Cowboy Stew.

Cowboy Stew

A sliced balsamic pork loin with glaze sitting on a large white plate.

Slow Cooker Balsamic Pork Loin

Rice and chicken curry in a peacock patterned Polish pottery bowl with a spoon held above with rice and a piece of chicken on it. On the left of the bowl is a faded white and blue hand towel.

Instant Pot Chicken Coconut Curry

Slow cooker full of party meatballs.

Party Meatballs

A white bowl sitting on a blue plate with a serving of Eggnog French Toast. A spoon is held above the bowl with a bite of French toast on it.

Slow Cooker Eggnog French Toast

Mashed potatoes with a small scoop of butter in the middle with parsley sprinkled on top all in a white Polish potter bowl with scallops, blue trim at the top, and dark blue polkadots throughout the bowl. On the left side of the bowl is a cloth yellow napkin scrunched up.

Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes

A blue plate with a serving of salmon, broccoli and mushroom Risotto. A kitchen towel is on the left side of the plate with a fork sitting on it.

Instant Pot Mushroom Risotto

A blue plate with chicken stew, green beans and a crusty roll. On the left of the plate is a fork sitting on top of a white and blue checked patterned kitchen towel.

Slow Cooker Creamy Ranch Chicken Stew

plate of nachos, the pate is blue with white dots. the nachos have chees, black beans, olives, tomatoes, shredded beef and jalapenos

Easy Mexican Shredded Beef

A light blue bowl filled with Cajun stew. A spoon is held above the bowl with a scoop of stew. Above the bowl in the background is a blue and white towel with a hard roll sitting on it.

Cajun Style Slow Cooker Beans, Greens and Sausage Stew

A serving of Instant Pot Beef Sundaes in a blue bowl with a spoon digging in to take a bite.

Beef Sundaes

Instant pot pan full of Instant Pot Roast Beef Gravy

Instant Pot Roast Beef Gravy

collage with words over it

50+ Easy Dinner Ideas for Busy Schedules

A blue plate holding a serving of crazy good pork and potatoes with green beans and a fork to the side

Crazy Good Pork and Potatoes

In the background on the left is a yellow cloth napkin with a fork sitting on the left side of a blue plate with chicken tetrazzini on spaghetti noodles all topped with grated Parmesan cheese and some parsley.

Instant Pot Chicken Tetrazzini

Cheesy beef taco pasta sitting on a blue plate with a salad with chopped tomatoes and a yellow cloth napkin in the background on the left side wrapping partly around the top of the plate.

Instant Pot Cheesy Beef Taco Pasta