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Weeknight dinners

What to make with what you have

You have two foods and about half an hour. These pages give you three dinners, not a list of thirty. The time on each card is the total, start to plate. If the list doesn't match your fridge, snap a photo instead.

Snap your fridge

Leftovers, under 30 minutes, or nothing in the fridge

Questions people actually ask

What can I make for dinner with what I have?

Look at the protein and the starch you already have, then open that combination. If you don't want to name them, snap a photo of the fridge and start from whatever is actually in the picture.

What can I make with these ingredients?

Pick the page that names both foods, not a list of 39 recipes. Each page has three dinners, 30 minutes or less, with the total time first. A photo works when the ingredient list is a jumble.

What can I make with ground beef when I have nothing else?

Tomato rice, a cheese quesadilla, or a bean skillet. Those use ground beef plus cupboard food. The page is ground beef and pantry staples.

What can I make for dinner in 20 minutes?

Garlic noodles, a tuna melt, or a white bean skillet. The under-30-minute page collects those, and every combination card on this site is 30 minutes or less.

What's a good lazy dinner?

Garlic noodles, or a rotisserie chicken pulled into a quesadilla. Lazy means the food is already cooked or the ingredient list is tiny. Eggs and rice is the other one.

What is your go-to dinner when you have absolutely no idea what to make?

Snap the fridge. If you want an answer before you find the phone, use eggs and potatoes, or a rotisserie chicken. Both are on this site as their own pages.

When you have random fridge ingredients and no idea what to cook, what do you actually do?

Name the one thing that will go bad first, then the starch next to it. Open that page and cook the fastest card. A photo does the naming for you.

How do you decide what to cook when you already have food but don't know what to make?

Pick the fastest card that uses the food you have. Don't add a second shopping trip. The time on the card is the total, start to plate.

What are some easy chicken and rice recipes for dinner with few ingredients?

Chicken fried rice, a covered pilaf, and a tomato skillet. Oil, salt, garlic, and soy sauce are the staples. The chicken and rice page has the steps.

What's a quick dinner I can make with rotisserie chicken?

A quesadilla in 12 minutes, a chicken salad, or a short soup from the carcass. The chicken is already cooked. You are only heating it.

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