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Vegetable flatbread pizzas on baking trays beside salad leaves on a home kitchen bench.
Quick Family Dinners

10 Quick Family Dinners You Can Prep in 15 Minutes

Choose from ten family dinners with short preparation steps, starting quantities and…

Dovelyne editorial team
Dovelyne editorial team
Five simple dinners: tuna pasta, bean quesadillas, chickpea couscous, tomato gnocchi and egg rice.
Quick Family Dinners

5 Quick Family Dinners that Use Only 5 Ingredients

Choose from tuna pasta, bean quesadillas, chickpea couscous, tomato gnocchi and egg…

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Dovelyne editorial team
Vegetable odds and ends on a chopping board beside a bowl of vegetable and lentil pasta.
Quick Family Dinners

How to Build a Dinner Out of Whatever Vegetables Are Wilting in the Fridge

Turn vegetable odds and ends into dinner by choosing a meal shape…

Dovelyne editorial team
Dovelyne editorial team
Tomato sauce beside lentil pasta, a bean and rice bowl, and chickpea curry on a kitchen bench.
Quick Family Dinners

Batch-cooking one sauce base into three different dinners

A mild tomato sauce can become pasta, bean bowls and chickpea curry.…

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Dovelyne editorial team
A shared bolognese sauce served separately from a bowl of plain pasta and a small bowl of grated cheese on a dinner table.
Quick Family Dinners

Dinners for a household with one fussy eater

Cooking a second dinner every night is not sustainable long term. A…

Dovelyne editorial team
Dovelyne editorial team
Three separate containers of meat, rice and vegetables on a kitchen bench, kept apart so each can be served at a different sitting.
Quick Family Dinners

Feeding a family when everyone eats at a different time

When nobody in the house eats at the same hour, the fix…

Dovelyne editorial team
Dovelyne editorial team
Roast chicken dinner, chicken and bean wraps, and roast-vegetable lentil soup shown as three separate meals.
Quick Family Dinners

Sunday roast that stretches to three meals

A roast can start three different dinners when you plan the extras…

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Dovelyne editorial team
Clear labelled containers of leftovers lined up at eye level on a family fridge shelf.
Quick Family Dinners

Using leftovers so they get eaten

Most family leftovers are thrown out not because they went off but…

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Dovelyne editorial team
A slow cooker and an air fryer side by side on a bench with diced beef and halved potatoes between them.
Slow Cooker & Air Fryer

Air fryer or slow cooker: which one for which meal

These two appliances solve opposite problems, which is why households that own…

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Dovelyne editorial team
An open pantry with sealed clear containers of pasta, rice and flour above a row of plain tins.
Budget Meals

Freezer and pantry staples worth always having

A pantry is only useful if it produces dinner on the night…

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Dovelyne editorial team
A frying pan on the stove with an unlabelled tin and a jar of dry pasta on the bench beside it.
Quick Family Dinners

Beating the 5pm what-is-for-dinner panic

The 5pm problem is a decision problem, not a cooking problem, and…

Dovelyne editorial team
Dovelyne editorial team
Flat sealed freezer bags of sauce stacked on their sides in a freezer drawer beside a shallow container.
Quick Family Dinners

Freezer meals that actually taste good reheated

Some meals improve in the freezer and some are ruined by it.…

Dovelyne editorial team
Dovelyne editorial team