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What Kids Can Do While You Cook Dinner (Easy Activities by Age)

A sad boy and three images of a plan to cooking for picky eaters.

Picky Eater Dinner Planner (Free Printable)

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What Makes a Dinner Work for Picky Eaters: The Platein28 Approach

A collage of kids crafts for kids to make while parents cook dinner.

Easy Crafts for Kids While Dinner Cooks: The Platein28 Approach

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30 Minute Dinners for Busy Families: Our 28-Minute Approach

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Kids Kitchen Tasks by Age for Dinner Prep (Free Printable)

A closeup of an enchilada skillet made with ground turkey, veggies and cheese.

One Pot Enchilada Skillet Kids Will Actually Eat (28 Minutes)

Closeup of sausage tortellini soup in ladle.

One Pot Sausage Tortellini Soup with Cream Cheese

Four apple crafts made with colored yarn in a white bowl.

Apple Craft with Yarn and Tennis Balls

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Quick Recipes with Hidden Vegetables for Kids

A brown plate filled with stacked sausage, egg and cheese sliders.

Sausage, Egg and Cheese Breakfast Sliders with Hawaiian Rolls (under 30 Minutes)

Paper mouse head glued to a yellow piece of paper to look like cheese.

Rocking Paper Mouse Craft with Cheese

green plate with yellow Mediterranean chicken, cucumber, couscous, Tzatziki, feta and tomato

Instant Pot Mediterranean Chicken

Caesar salad pasta in large bowl on deck table, ready to serve

20-Minute Homemade Caesar Pasta Salad

A spoon full of caesar dressing held over a white bowl full of the dressing.

Caesar Dressing with Capers (No Anchovies)

Three yellow fans decorated and painted to look like lemons surrounded by three real lemons.

Lemon Paper Fan

Closeup of spoon full of cheesy tomato pasta and basil.

Boursin and Tomato Pasta for Picky Eaters (28-Minute Meal)

Hands holding two plastic ladybugs with pom poms as faces.

Easy Ladybug Craft for Kids (Plastic Cup)

Four broccoli figurines on a white background and made from wine corks, green felt, pom poms and googly eyes.

Easy Kids Craft with Wine Corks (Broccoli Craft)

3 stacks of potato pancakes with sour cream and a blue towel in background

Easy Cheesy Potato Pancakes

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