38 Easy Back to School Recipes
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These easy Back to School recipes will hopefully inspire you to get into the groove of a new school year. They’re simple, delicious recipes that are always favorites. From snacks to quick and easy dinners and the all-important school cookies!
I can’t quite believe that in days, I’ll see the yellow school buses roaming the streets of my community! How did summer fly by so quickly?
But secretly, I love this time of year. The prepping for school, back to school shopping and supply lists. And certainly, the food.
Because back to school food is different than all others!
Easy Back to School Recipes
If you’re prepping for heading back to school or even back to work, here are some recipes to inspire your menus!
Back to School Snacks that are Quick & Easy
These back to school snacks are mostly healthy, but also delicious. You will find breakfast foods that serve well for healthy snacks, sweet and salty snacks, smoothies, crackers, granola recipes and more!
Greek Yogurt Banana Bread
This Greek Yogurt Banana Bread recipe is moist and sweet, and creamy. A perfect balance of ripe bananas, creamy yogurt, and vanilla. Made even sweeter with a dash of chocolate chips.
Baked Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal
Baked Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal is a healthy, make-ahead breakfast recipe that kids and adults alike love. Delicious served warm from the oven, and just as yummy as a cold afternoon snack.
Easy Apple Pie Smoothie
Ready for a treat? This Apple Pie Smoothie is everything you love in apple pie, just healthier, and cold! Plus, it's a 3-minute treat, gluten-free, and naturally sweetened with maple.
5 Minute Fall Crack (aka Fall Snack Chex Mix)
A quick and easy 5 minute Fall Crack Chex Mix recipe that's super simple and yummy. Packed with the sweet and salty flavors we love, it's a treat perfect for the season!
Breakfast Cookies: Easy Healthy Morning Starts
These healthy Breakfast Cookies are gluten-free, low in sugar… and taste amazingly good. Guilt-free soft and chewy cookies for breakfast!
Healthy Granola Recipe
This easy, healthy granola recipe is a whole grain, naturally sweetened nutrient-rich breakfast or snack that's easy to adapt with your favorite ingredients. A batch makes about 8 cups or 16 half-cup servings.
Healthy Peanut Butter Granola Bars with Chocolate Chips
Peanut Butter Granola Bars with Chocolate Chips — a healthy, energy boosting, chewy and soft homemade granola bar that’s so much better than it’s store-bought cousin.
Homemade Crackers: A Healthy Oat Cracker Recipe
These homemade crackers recipe is a healthy oat cracker and super easy to make from scratch. Perfect for snacks and parties, it's a crispy, savory cracker that's full of flavor with no additives.
Everything Bagel Pretzels: Quick & Easy Party Food
Take your party pretzels to a new level and make Everything Bagel Pretzels. They are the quickest and easiest party food, and absolutely delicious. Made in minutes with 3 simple ingredients.
Healthy Mediterranean Egg Muffins
These Mediterranean Egg Muffins are a delicious way to enjoy a healthy breakfast. Simple to make, perfect for making ahead and having ready for quick morning meals, or protein-rich snacks. Packed with healthy Mediterranean ingredients and flavors, they are a go-to in the mornings.
3 Ingredient Frozen Yogurt Bark
This Frozen Yogurt Bark is a 3 ingredient, 5-minute healthy summer snack you'll want to have in your freezer all season. Super simple to make, this frozen treat is perfect for hot summer days.
Healthy Oatmeal Smoothie Recipe
This healthy Oatmeal Smoothie recipe is a simple and easy, energizing breakfast to whip up in minutes with ingredients you likely have on hand. Filled with healthy protein, it's a delicious morning drink packed with flavors you will love.
5 Minute Pinwheel Sandwiches: Protein Veggie Wraps
This bright Pinwheel Sandwiches recipe is easy to make with a tortilla in 5 minutes or less! Packed with protein, healthy vegetables, and delicious flavors, they are perfect for healthy lunches and snacks. Or, wrap it up and take it to the park for an easy picnic favorite!
Healthy Egg Bites Recipe
Quick breakfasts in the morning can still be healthy and delicious with this protein-rich easy-to-make Egg Bites Recipe made with fresh vegetables and herbs. Excellent breakfast on the go or as a healthy snack.
Easy Back to School Recipes: Dinners
10 Minute Instant Pot Macaroni and Cheese: Easiest Comfort Food Ever
Instant Pot Macaroni and Cheese is simply the easiest comfort food… ever. And delicious? Oh, my, goodness. It's creamy, cheese, and so incredibly tasty. It's everything you love about Mac and Cheese… in 10 minutes or less.
15 Minute Chicken and Broccoli
Chicken and Broccoli is a super quick and easy, utterly delicious one skillet dinner recipe that's ready in under 15 minutes. No need for takeout, it's a simple recipe with mostly pantry ingredients.
Instant Pot Asian BBQ Chicken Thighs
These Instant Pot Asian BBQ Chicken Thighs with noodles and steamed broccoli is a super easy and quick adaptation of classic takeout chicken. With a sweet and spicy Asian BBQ sauce, it's wonderfully delicious and cooks in 8 minutes.
Simple Chicken Perloo: South Carolina Classic
Chicken Perloo is a South Carolina classic one pot chicken and rice dish that's smokey, a little sweet, hearty, and so delicious. It's Southern comfort food at its best. And — easy to make, with simple ingredients and amazing flavor… even for weeknight dinners.
Easy Baked Macaroni and Cheese
A comfort food classic in our home, this baked Macaroni and Cheese dish. Most especially on cold winter evenings. Easy Baked Macaroni and Cheese is a comfort food classic at our house. Especially when it's baked in ramekins. An old family recipe that's comfy and cozy and perfectly simple.
4 Minute Instant Pot Taco Mac and Cheese
This Instant Pot Chili Mac and Cheese is an easy pasta dish and family favorite dinner. A blend of lean ground beef, macaroni, chili beans, tomatoes, and spices. And, of course, melting cheddar cheese. An easy dinner to table meal in around 15 minutes, give or take a few.
Greek Chicken with Yogurt Cucumber Salad
This Greek Chicken with Cucumber Salad is an easy, refreshing meal with herbed yogurt coated chicken seared quickly in a skillet, and served with fresh cucumber and tomato salad.
Orecchiette Pasta with Sausage and Broccolini
This quick and easy Orecchiette Pasta recipe is made with delicious sausage, savory mushrooms, broccolini, and jarred marinara sauce. Packed with tremendous flavor, it's wonderful for quick, easy, and filling pasta dinners.
Easy Grilled Beef Kofta: Lebanese Street Food
Easy grilled Beef Kofta or Kafta, as it's sometimes called, is a Lebanese style street food that's super simple to make at home. Tender and delicious Kofta Kebabs are made with Middle Eastern spices and are grilled indoors or out in less than 10 minutes.
Easy One Pot Pasta with Ground Beef and Broccoli
This easy One Pot Pasta with Ground Beef and Broccoli is for those nights when dinner needs to be quick and easy. As in, almost hands-free. And family-friendly too. I love making this simple all in one pasta dish that is super customizable, is and manages to be light and flavorful without the addition of a red sauce or any cream!
15 Minute Chicken Taco Salad
This Chicken Taco Salad recipe is quick, hearty, and delicious! Packed with taco flavors, chicken, juicy tomatoes, beans, corn, cheese, and an easy, easy Taco Dressing. It's healthy, protein-rich, and so wonderfully yummy– in 15 minutes!
Easy Southwestern Chicken Quinoa Bake with Spinach
When it comes to easy weeknight dinners, this Southwestern Chicken Quinoa Bake with Spinach is the best! Loaded with healthy nutrients and protein, not to mention incredible Southwestern flavor, it’s a family favorite every time it shows up on the dinner table.
Delicious Sloppy Joe Recipe
Perfect for Friday nights, when you’re feeding a crowd, or busy nights when you need something easy.
Mexican Lasagna Skillet Casserole
Mexican Lasagna Skillet is a Southwestern-inspired casserole made up of layers of tortillas, cheese, and taco meat. Simple, packed with flavor, and delicious!
One Pot Easy Skillet Taco
This Skillet Taco is the easiest, most delicious way to serve tacos at your next party. With a few simple, healthy ingredients, it's a go-to game day, Super Bowl, Friday night tradition.
Back to School Cookies
In my world, cookies were almost always a part of afternoon school snacks and treats. At least… it was the “snack” I most often recall! Sometimes they were healthy, like our Breakfast Cookies, but often… just plain yummy.
My mom reminded me of a poem she has tucked away in her recipe card file… it goes something like this:
A Cookie and a Kiss
A house should have a cookie jar
unknown author
For when it’s half past three
And children hurry home from school
As hungry as can be
There nothing quite so splendid
In filling children up
As spicy fluffy ginger cakes
And sweet milk in a cup
Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies are the best grain free cookies ever. Soft and chewy, just like chocolate chip cookies should be, filled with the buttery and vanilla flavor we love but with lower sugar than their traditional cousins. Easy to make, they are a go-to almond flour cookie at our house.
Easy S’mores Cookie Cups
These easy S'mores Cookie Cups are the answer to s'more cravings when a campfire isn't handy. Sweet tender graham crusts, roasted marshmallows, and melting chocolate. Hungry yet? These delicious bites are ready in minutes with only a handful of ingredients. Yum!
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars are the ultimate blending of oatmeal cookies and chocolate chip cookies… made incredibly easy baked into bars. Oozing with melty chocolate, chewy and crisp with oats, and irresistible with a sprinkling of flaky sea salt.
Sweet Iconic Snickerdoodle Recipe
Some cookies are so indelibly imprinted in our memory, and so incredibly delicious, they earn the title, “iconic.” The Snickerdoodle is one of those cookies. Sweet and chewy, pillowy fluffy and addictively wonderful with their cinnamon-sugar coating.
Giant and Soft Ginger-Spice Cookies
These Spiced Ginger Cookies are the perfect fall and Christmas cookie! The richly spiced flavors of ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and molasses are a comforting and familiar blend that evokes memories of warmth and love, and laughter.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Chocolate Chip Cookies are irresistibly chewy, buttery, and chocolaty. Truly a cookie for all time. America's favorite cookie, hands down. A tried and true recipe to memorize.
3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
This incredible simple 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies recipe is a go-to, delicious treat you'll make often. Cookie cravings satisfied in minutes!
Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies are a bit different than your average cookie. Deliciously moist and chewy with zucchini, healthy with whole wheat flour, and utterly yummy with warm spices of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. And, chocolate chips, of course!
Maple Pecan Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Maple Pecan Oatmeal Raisin Cookies: chewy, dense and richly flavored with cinnamon and maple and pecans. A cookie that’s quickly becoming a seasonal favorite at my house.