Don’t spend your summer stuck in a cooking rut! Grab some of these recipes to mix up your main courses, cook outs, snacks and desserts. These easy summer recipes for the family are made with real foods and won’t heat up the kitchen with a seven hour simmer.
And get your kids involved! Some of these recipes they can make by themselves after some supervision.
Take a little time up front and print these recipes off for your favorite recipes binder!
Easy Summer Recipes for the Family: Main Course
Creamy Red Beet Salad
Make the day before so the eggs have time to cool and the flavors time to mix.
Creamy Cucumber Salad
Best made the day before but delicious still made the day of.
Pizza
Make this pizza in 45 minutes! Or have dough frozen and make in 25 minutes.
Ranch Dressing and Dip
Make once a week and always have it on hand.
Breakfast Quiche
Make the day before so you don’t have to get up early!
Hard Boiled Eggs
A quick, healthy, easy snack.
7 Ways to Fix Hard Boiled Eggs
Mix up your hard boiled eggs so the kids don’t get tired of them. Grab the mayo recipe from my free resource library!
Easy Summer Recipes for the Family: Dessert
Popsicles
No popsicle molds required!
Ice Cream
Healthy fats, healthy egg yolks. Happy family.
Caramel Popcorn
Three versions for this sweet treat!
Fresh Strawberry Pie
Try this recipe that doesn’t require artificially colored Jello!
Easy Summer Recipes for the Family: Drinks
Kombucha
A bubbly drink to replace soda and provide probiotics.
Kefir
Milk kefir is a wonderful source of probiotics.
11 Ways to Use Kefir
Easy ways to include kefir in your diet.
Switchel
A refreshing summer drink to replace Gatorade.
awesome! Will definitely be trying some of these! Especially the hard-boiled eggs. I don’t really like them, but they’re a great way to add some protein to breakfast since hubby is usually grabbing it to-go and eat on the way to work.
I agree! It is hard to fix foods I don’t like for my family! I branched out and bought some olives recently and my toddler loves them. Maybe they’ll grow on me?