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Our top 30 kid-friendly recipes will have everyone leaving the dinner table happy, healthy, and full-bellied. What more could you ask for?

Our Most Popular Family-Friendly Recipes, Under One Roof! You're Welcome.

We can all use a win in the kitchen every now and then, especially when it comes to being able to quickly prepare meals that our whole family will enjoy. With that in mind, we’ve taken the liberty of rounding up our top 30 kid-friendly recipes that will have everyone leaving the dinner table happy, healthy, and full-bellied. What more could you ask for?

Soup For Everyone!

Slurpable and simmering, soups are the ultimate kid friendly dinners!

• This comforting and Easy Chicken Noodle Soup uses our favorite rotisserie chicken hack and tastes like love in a bowl making it one of our favorite, easy family-friendly meals.


• My kids love crushing chips and piling on all the cheese atop this Smoky Tortilla Soup, while I enjoy some bright cilantro and cubed avocado. This is one of our best kid friendly meals.


• This Tortellini Soup with Italian Sausage and Kale practically broke the internet when it debuted and might just be one of the best quick and kid friendly dinner ideas out there.


• Our easy Chicken Ramen Soup is a favorite in my house. My kids love the long, slurpable noodles, and I love that I’m not loading them with sodium from those preservative-laden seasoning packets.


• This Tomato Bisque with fried cheese is a fresh take on a classic pairing that makes for a dunkable, fun, and kid-friendly meal that is sure to end the day with smiles.

The Best of The Bowls

These bowls get lots of really good (and good for you) stuff into one compact little package, and are one of our simple weeknight dinner staples. A lot of them can be prepped ahead making for some quick dinner ideas for kids!

• We’re obsessed with this Chicken Teriyaki Sushi Bowl. Shredded seaweed, thinly sliced cucumber, creamy chunks of avocado, and of course that sriracha mayo all add up to one incredibly tasty take on dinner. We serve all the deconstructed parts to our kids and they love it!


• Brown rice and black beans kick of this loaded Chicken Fajita Burrito Bowl that’s topped with our Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas and alllll the toppings for a completely customizable dish even picky eaters will chow.

Kid Friendly Dinner Recipes: Updated Classics

These classic dishes may sound familiar, but we’ve upped their flavor, healthfulness, and kid-approvedness (thats a word right?) in a big way.

• What’s crunchy and juicy and keto all over? These Baked Pecan Chicken Tenders, that’s what! Serve them with a side of homemade buttermilk ranch and your kids just might think they’ve died and gone to heaven.


• This Turkey Quinoa Meatloaf is protein packed and full of lots of veggies. And the best part? Your kids will never know just how healthy it is….muhahahaha!


• These Steak Bites with Sweet Potatoes are perfectly sized for little mouths and, as an added bonus, are paleo-friendly! Healthy and delicious is something we can all get behind.


• Everyone loves a juicy cheeseburger and we think our Classic Cheeseburger with Secret Sauce is the best!

Kale soup

Here's to a winter filled with healthy comfort foods. First up, this wonderfully savory kale soup with white beans and potatoes.

A touch of the English condiment Marmite adds an extra layer of savoriness to this stew, but in a pinch, you can leave it out.

Healthy comfort food

Happy New Year, friends! Hope you all enjoyed the last few days of 2016 with your friends and family. We continued what's become our little tradition of hosting good friends for a low-key New Year's Eve overnight with lots of catching up, playing and eating and a good New Year's Day hike.

This year we've added a legit table tennis situation, air hockey and (ahem!) a Wii U to the mix, which definitely didn't detract from the fun we would've had together anyway. As usual not all of us stayed up until midnight, but this time all the kids did.

A time for self-care

I really look forward to this time of year, when there's momentum in the air, both for professional productivity and for being good to ourselves. I'm excited to eat lots of dinners like this one: deeply delicious, super-healthy comfort food. And I'm equally excited to share lots and lots of these recipes with you.

For January and February, I'll be sharing two recipes and one travel post per week, with some bonus interiors and fitness posts sprinkled into the mix. As always, I'd truly love to hear from you about pretty much everything, including what you'd like to see more of on Umami Girl this year.