Here Are 6 Weeks’ Worth of Our Laziest Summer Dinners
updated May 28, 2021
I’m a different cook during the summer months than I am during the rest of the year. With the occasional exception, I have little drive to spend any more time in the kitchen than I have to. Dinners that require lengthy prep, standing at the stove, or my undivided attention are not in the cards right now.
In part it’s because most nights it feels too hot to consider turning on the oven to make anything. But also because I’d rather trade dinner duty for spending every last second I can outdoors, or extra time with a toddler who’s growing up entirely too fast. And then there are the nights I’m running on empty and just don’t have any energy.
Simply put, when summer arrives I become a lazy cook. And it’s more true this summer than ever before. Now is the time I want to lean on the fastest, easiest, lowest-effort recipes possible because dinner has to get made, even when I absolutely don’t feel like cooking. These are the meal plans I’m cooking from all summer.
Buy Now1. A Week of Lazy Summer Dinners
Between an herby one-pot pasta, grilled foil packet dinners, and sausage sandwiches, not only are these weeknight dinners easy to pull off with barely any prep, but each one also keeps the dirty dishes to a minimum.
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2. 5 Absolutely Easy, No-Heat Summer Dinners
Want to make dinner happen without the oven, stove, grill, or any appliances? This meal plan has you covered. Between black bean and corn burritos, caprese avocado toast, and Mediterranean tuna and white bean salad , these dinners call for nothing more than some chopping, stirring, and assembly.
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3. How I Prep a Week of No-Cook Meals in 1 Hour
This week’s meal plan, which sets you up for five days worth of breakfast, lunch, and dinner, just might make you a meal prep believer. It walks you through just one hour of upfront prep, and rewards you with meals like BBQ chicken bowls, spring rolls, and broccoli and tofu salad that just need some light assembly to get dinner on the table.
Get the plan: How to Turn One Hour of Cooking into a Week Where You Don’t Cook at All
4. 5 No-Cook Dinners for When It’s Too Hot to Cook
Let this meal plan serve as your reminder that on the hottest days of summer, ice cream cones are a totally acceptable dinner. For the other nights of the week, lean on favorites that keep the oven off, like DIY summer rolls and a Mediterranean-inspired panzanella salad .
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5. How I Prep a Week of Easy Meals for the Grill in Just 1 Hour
Grilling is often my go-to on the nights I really don’t feel like cooking. For some reason cooking outdoors just feels easier and less effort than any cooking that would happen in the kitchen. Start the week with an hour of meal prep so getting tofu and veggie kebabs, hummus bowls, and grilled chicken sandwiches is even easier.
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6. A Week of Easy Vegetarian Summer Dinners
If you’re looking to ways to use up the contents of your CSA or farmers market haul, or just want to eat more veggies, and not put a whole lot of effort into dinner, this week of meat-free meals is an easy solution. Enjoy new favorite like grilled gnocchi, Tuscan-inspired stuffed peppers, and chilled rice noodle bowls .
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Kelli Foster
Food Editor, Plan & Prep
Kelli is the Food Editor for Plan & Prep content for Kitchn. She's a graduate of the French Culinary Institute and author of the cookbooks, Plant-Based Buddha Bowls , The Probiotic Kitchen , Buddha Bowls , and Everyday Freekeh Meals . She lives in New Jersey.
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