21 Homemade Recipes You Can Realistically Cook For Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

An hour's worth of prep work on a Sunday means you'll have meal-prepped cheesy egg muffins for breakfast every day of the week. A muffin tin creates the perfect portions, and all you have to do is pop two of them in the microwave in the mornings.

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Add everything you need for a smoothie (besides the liquid) in a freezable bag and then breakfast is a matter of tossing it all in the blender.

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This peanut butter banana microwave oatmeal takes two minutes to make, and it legitimately tastes like cookies.

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Skip the overpriced breakfast from the coffee shop and make a batch of these freezable breakfast sandwiches that will last for up to a month in the freezer.

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I'll never give up avocado toast, and I'm OK with that. Toasted bread, smashed avocado, and a fried egg — what's not to love?

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A big batch of slow-cooker beans and quinoa goes a long way, and a few simple garnishes like cheddar, scallions, and hot sauce take the flavor up a notch.

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Satisfy your lunchtime chips-and-guac cravings with this healthier guacamole mason jar salad.

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You don't have time to stand over the stove for an hour at lunch, but you do have time to make this superquick chicken noodle soup in the microwave.

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This sesame ginger quinoa salad only gets better with more time to marinate in the fridge, so it makes for fantastic leftovers for a few days of lunch.

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Meal prep this filling steak cobb salad with hard-boiled eggs, and you'll look forward to lunch every single day.

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I personally make this five-ingredient parmesan garlic spaghetti more often than I'd like to admit, but sometimes you just need pasta.

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This one-pan chicken dinner doesn't take any longer than a standard baked chicken breast recipe, but it's infinitely more flavorful.

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As long as you have already-defrosted salmon in the fridge when you get home, you'll have this one-pan dinner baked in about 15 minutes.

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Ever heard someone describe a recipe as a "dump and done" dinner? This one definitely qualifies.

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This breakfast fried rice recipe serves as one of those "clean out the fridge" types of dinners. Use instant brown rice, eggs, spinach, soy sauce, and ham to whip this up in a matter of minutes.

Get the recipe: breakfast fried rice from Rise and Shine: Better Breakfasts For Busy Mornings by Katie Sullivan Morford

This is the definition of a one-pot pasta recipe: the fettuccine actually cooks in the chicken broth and milk and you add the cheese at the end to form a delicious, creamy sauce.

Get the recipe: one-pot fettuccine alfredo