It’s easy to get in a rut when it comes to family dinners and I’m as guilty as the next mom of rotating through the same handful of recipes over and over again. My kids rarely complain when breakfast for dinner makes it into the rotation several nights a week but they definitely speak up when they see the same casserole more than once. As a work at home mom, I’m generally worn out by the end of the day and don’t have a lot of extra energy to spent hunting down new recipes – hence, the dinner rut.

When I heard about a new website from Kroger grocery stores that is attempting to solve the dinner dilemma called Give Every Night New Flavor, I was more than willing to give it a try.

There are tons of recipe sites out there but what really sets this site apart is it let’s you pick the type of cuisine you are in the mood for, the number of servings you need, and — my personal favorite — how much time you have to devote to cooking dinner. We’ve all had those nights where you really just don’t have more than 15 minutes to throw together something edible enough that your family won’t complain. That’s just life. Wouldn’t it be great to have a few fast meal options up your sleeve for nights like that?

You caught me on a good night so I chose the “30 minutes or more” to prepare dinner since we’re still recovering from an exciting day of hunting for Easter eggs at a local event and every one of us is nursing some degree of sunburn.

My kids aren’t huge chicken fans (believe it or not, they actually prefer fish) but they love anything with lemon and garlic on it so I had to try the Lemon-Garlic Chicken recipe. A quick stop at our local Ralph’s grocery store on the way home from our Easter hunt this morning and I had all the ingredients I needed. One of the things that has really impressed me is that none of the recipes on the Give Ever Night New Flavor website have an excess of ingredients. While I love taking the time to prepare detailed recipes (ok, so I really just enjoy eating them) it’s time consuming and expensive to make sure I have all the ingredients on hand. Quick and simple recipes make my life easier and those are usually the ones that my kids enjoy the most.

The website even includes some great store coupons that you can load onto your store loyalty card as you are planning your grocery trip. I didn’t see any coupons for ingredients in the Lemon-Garlic Chicken recipe but there was a great one for eggs. We used up most of our eggs during our melted crayon Easter Egg decorating so I definitely needed to stock up on some more.

Lemon-Garlic Chicken Ingredients

• 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
• 1/2 cup Italian-style bread crumbs
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
• 1 teaspoon lemon pepper
• 1/4 cup lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons Pure Wesson® Canola Oil
• PAM® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray

Directions

Preheat oven to 375°F.

Spray shallow baking pan with cooking spray.

Combine bread crumbs, garlic salt and lemon pepper in recloseable food storage bag. I mixed in some Panko bread crumbs I had on hand as well to give the chicken some extra texture.

Combine lemon juice and oil in another recloseable food storage bag. Add chicken to bag with lemon juice mixture; toss to coat.

Place each breast in bag with crumb mixture; shake to coat. Remember Shake ‘n Bake? It’s like that. I love that idea. It’s such a simple way to prepare chicken. Next time I think I’ll put my kids to work doing this part.

Place coated chicken in single layer in baking pan. Sprinkle any remaining crumbs over chicken, if desired.

Spray tops of chicken with cooking spray. This gives the chicken a nice toasted top and has the added benefit of making it look more appealing to my kids. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink in centers (165°F).

And the verdict is . . .

Yummy (although their image looks much nicer than mine. That’s what you get after a long day in the sun and hungry kids who are demanding dinner)! My 7 year old dumped a bunch of extra lemon juice on it, but he does that with pretty much everything I cook.  This was really easy to make and incorporated some of my family’s favorite flavors so I’ll definitely be making it again.

I served this with rice (made from frozen) and veggies. If you’ve never tried using frozen rice, you are absolutely missing out. You pay a bit more for the convenience but buying pre-cooked frozen rice saves me so much time and I’m a bit hit or miss when it comes to cooking rice anyway.

Check out Give Ever Night New Flavor if you need some ideas for getting out of your own dinner rut.

Disclosure: This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias, however all opinions are my own.