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Make One Meal and Be Done: Go-To Weeknight Dinners That Your Kids Will Eat -- Promise!

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Make One Meal and Be Done: Go-To Weeknight Dinners That Your Kids Will Eat -- Promise!

Courtesy of Maryellen

18 Go-To Family Dinners

You've got a family of picky eaters -- the toddler who won't eat sauce, the 7-year-old who only likes white food and a spouse who thinks bacon is a vegetable -- and approximately a nanosecond to get something edible on the table. We get it. Leave the short-order cooking to the diner and take your weeknight dinner inspiration from these parents, who shared their favorite everyone-will-eat-it meals. Yes, you really can cook just one dinner!

Tuna and Rice
"Tuna and rice. Literally: cook rice, put some butter on it, top with plain tuna in water from a pouch (preferably cold from the fridge), a little salt and pepper, et voila! It's actually a recipe from my husband's mom. It was HER go-to working mom's dinner when the kids were small, and now it's family legend. My sisters-in-law make it for their families, too." -- Maryellen

Click here for another great tuna recipe!