These Quick And Delicious Recipes Are Perfect For Busy Parents During The Holidays

Wouldn’t it be nice if the holidays were actually about curling up by the fire, sipping hot chocolate, and falling asleep on the couch? For parents, they usually mean anything but. Take your usual overloaded family schedule and add to it all the shopping, entertaining, and general holiday chaos that the year’s end brings. We’re making a list and checking it twice?? It’s a season of family and love, but it’s also a marathon.

But making dinner during the holidays doesn’t have to be a Christmas miracle with these quick and easy dinner recipes made with RAGÚ^® Old World Style^® Traditional Sauce. Maybe you actually can enjoy a cup of hot cocoa–or maybe you’ll just realize you forgot to mail your brother’s present and run to the post office so you can overnight his socks.

Instant Pot Spaghetti Soup

Soups usually take a long time; they’re an hours-long chemistry experiment that often results in burning the roof of your mouth when you’re checking to see if it needs more salt and pepper. But not this recipe. It’s instant, which is great because you’re going to need all the time you can get when you keep remembering you forgot to do something. Plus, even the pickiest little eaters can’t resist the sight of pasketti.

Noodle-less Zucchini Lasagna

Kids are constantly sneaking around to see what presents they got during the holidays so why can’t you sneak some vegetables into their dinner? Using zucchini instead of noodles in this delicious lasagna is a great way to keep dinner fresh around the holidays when it always seems like you’re just eating all the things constantly.

Skillet Ravioli

Some things you just can’t complain about and ravioli is one of them. This simple, saucy classic takes just a few minutes and you can cook it right in a skillet. Check and mate.

Basil Chicken Linguine

If your kids refuse to learn how to use a fork you might as well find a way to make it fun with this great linguine recipe. What could be more fun than twirling linguine around your fork? Sure, it might get a little messy but hey, they like forks now and that’s a good thing.

Chorizo Rigatoni Bake

Chorizo has definitely cemented its place on the Mount Rushmore of Sausages. This flavorful bake is a present itself! No, that’s not Santa coming down the chimney. It’s just just dad “tiptoeing” to the fridge to get the last piece in the middle of the night.

Just because you’re short on time and loaded up with prep work this holiday season doesn’t mean that the family’s dinner has to suffer. With these great recipes, there’s still hope for that mug of hot chocolate and that crackling fire, but if not, there’s always a can of whipped cream somewhere in the fridge.

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