A different gourmet meal prepared and placed on the dinner table by 7 pm each night sounds great. It looks amazing in your head and even better on your Instagram feed but seriously, no one has time.  This is real life. After you work long hours, fight traffic, kick your shoes off, and step over the pile of laundry to make it to the kitchen, we’re pretty sure you don’t want to spend hours making food to impress Chef Ramsey. It’s time to step out of la la land and ditch the complicated dinners. You can try different variations of these quick and easy healthy dinner ideas every week.  Your family will be satisfied and you will be able to kick your feet up in no time to wind down with a glass of wine and your favorite show.

The key to getting away with these same meals week after week is the switch up. Make sure you switch up the type of veggies, or type of lettuce, or the type of crunch in the salad, or the type of pasta/grain. Wherever there is a possibility for a quick and easy switch up try your best to do it. It’s also helpful to have Beverages that vary.  A nice glass of wine, a specialty cocktail, his favorite beer or even a cute “mocktail” lemonade with sliced fruit can boost morale at meal time Your husband or wife might not even notice that this week’s dinner is basically the same as last week’s dinner.

Variations of Healthy Dinner Ideas

1. The Rice, Meat, Veggie Bowl

2. The Not So Boring,Fancy, Crunchy Salad

3. The Pain-Seared Fish on Top of Any Kind of Grain

4. The Steamed Veggies & Shrimp meal

5. The Chicken + Pasta + Any Kind of Sauce