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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

Sweet corn, small red potatoes cut in half, Kielbasa pieces, and shrimp on a sheet pan.

Sheet Pan Shrimp Boil

A large soup pot full of stuffed zucchini soup.

Stuffed Zucchini Soup

A dutch oven with sliced potatoes and onions sprinkled with cheese and bacon pieces with a serving spoon held above from the left with a scoop of dutch oven potatoes.

Oven Baked Dutch Oven Potatoes

9-photo picture collage of cranberry fluff salad, easy quiche, biscuits and gravy, baked potato with peas and meatloaf, spaghetti and sauce, chicken tetrazzini, chicken parmesan with angel hair pasta and green beans, stuffed meatloaf with mushroom gravy, and pork chop parmesan with linguini. The title Simple yet "fancy" Christmas Eve Dinner Ideas for busy families is overlayed and centered on the photo collage.

Simple yet “Fancy” Christmas Eve Dinner Ideas for Busy Families

A serving of stovetop Moroccan chicken tajine over couscous in a bowl.

Stovetop Moroccan Chicken Tajine

A serving of ground beef rice casserole and two scoops of pumpkin on a dark blue plate. A fork is inserted into the casserole from the left and a spoon in the upper left corner.

Dinner in a Pumpkin

6-photo picture collage of minestrone soup, manicotti, teriyaki chicken kabobs with rice, roast beef with mashed potatoes and gravy and peas and carrots, pesto pork chop on top of fettuccine, and meatloaf. Centered in the middle are the words "30+ Sunday Dinner Ideas" overlaid on the photo collage.

30+ Sunday Dinner Ideas

Horizontal 6-photo picture collage of sheet pan fajitas, chili Mac, loaded pepper jack mack and cheese, South of the Border Pie with corn chips and a green salad, sloppy joes, and sausage and peppers with egg noodles. In the middle the words "35+ Back to School Dinners" are overlaid on the collage of photos.

35+ Back to School Dinners

A 9x13 Polish potter dish of Authentic Eggplant Parmesan with a few basil leaves on top in the middle.

Authentic Eggplant Parmesan

A white Polish pottery bowl with a blue upside down "Y" and a blue circles pattern filled with authentic Italian tomato sauce with fresh basil leaves on top.

Authentic Italian Tomato Sauce

The corner of a glass 9x13 dish filled with classic tuna casserole.

Classic Tuna Casserole

A dinner plate with coconut rice, broccoli, and 4 ounce filet of baked bang bang salmon with a fork held diagonally from the left inserted into the salmon.

Baked Bang Bang Salmon

Rice topped with green curry with chicken and potatoes in a dark blue bowl with white polka dots with a blue dot in the middle. A spoon is on the left of the bowl.

Slow Cooker Green Curry with Chicken and Potatoes

White chicken chili with hominy in soup bowl and topped with shredded Colby Jack cheese, chopped avocado and chopped cilantro with tortilla chips on the upper left.

White Chicken Chili with Hominy

A dinner plate of ground beef broccoli with shredded carrots served over white rice.

Easy Beef Broccoli with Ground Beef

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