Serves: 5
Look for festive sombreros at party supply stores...line with brightly colored cloth napkins and serve up tortilla chips in style!
Make assembly part of pizza-making fun! Roll out refrigerated biscuits to individual pizza-size crusts and bake until golden. Pass them out to family members, set out the sauce, veggies, seasonings and cheese to top. Slice into quarters and dinner's done!
Munch on kabobs after school...skewer fresh veggies and cubes of cheese on toothpicks and make snack time more fun!
Set up a fruit salad bar on the kitchen counter and add some fun to dinnertime. Bowls of fresh strawberries, blueberries, grapes, kiwi, sliced apples and bananas along with some sweet and creamy fruit dip are all yummy additions.
Have appetizers for dinner! Set up a family-size sampler with Mozzarella Sticks (see Oodles of Noodles), mini pizza snacks, mini egg rolls, potato skins and a bunch of dippers to try too. Don't forget the French fries!
Blend chocolate milk, a scoop of ice cream and a spoonful of peanut butter to make a quick and scrumptious milkshake in minutes.
Need a snack to tide the family over until dinner? Head to the pantry and mix up cereal, raisins, chocolate chips, coconut and mixed nuts in a big bowl. Scoop into individual bowls or cups and let them enjoy!
Host pizza night and make dinnertime fun! Use English muffins, pita rounds, bagels or tortillas for the crust. Set out some ready-made pizza sauce, plenty of cheese and toppings in individual bowls. Everyone can put together their own pizza and play a quick game while they bake.
Make s'mores even easier! Use striped fudge cookies in place of the graham cracker and sandwich a marshmallow between them. Just microwave and they're ready in a flash.
Spread cool and creamy vanilla ice cream between gingersnaps and freeze...yummy!
Make ghastly good cupcakes for Halloween! Add shoestring licorice pieces for legs and two chocolate chip eyes to turn chocolate cupcakes into spiders. Kids love 'em!
From "Meals in Minutes." Copyright Gooseberry Patch. Used with permission of the publisher, Gooseberry Patch. All Rights Reserved.
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