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A Week’s Worth of 15-Minute Meals to Make for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

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Photo: Liz Andrew/Styling: Erin McDowell

Take a minute and think about all of the time you spend grocery shopping, cooking and doing dishes. It’s a lot of your day that could be spent, well, any other way that doesn’t involve slaving away in a hot kitchen. But we’ve come to the rescue with 21 meals that take just 15 minutes. Which means you now have all the time in the world to go to the gym, play with the kiddos and finally get that matching mani-pedi.

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Kerri Axelrod

1.

Monday Breakfast: Green Machine Smoothie Bowl

The best way to power up for the week ahead, courtesy of Coterie member Kerri Axelrod.

15 minute tomato tortellini soup
Spend with pennies 

2.

Monday Lunch: Tomato Tortellini Soup

You’d never guess the base of this flavorful soup came from a can.

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PHOTO: LIZ ANDREW/STYLING: ERIN MCDOWELL

3.

Monday Dinner: Cheater’s Pad Thai

No fish sauce required.

15 minute blueberry and coconut water smoothie
Sweat Peas and Saffron

4.

Tuesday Breakfast: Blueberry Coconut Water Smoothie with Hemp Hearts

Bye-bye, breakfast rut.

15 minute couscous slide
PHOTO: LIZ ANDREW/STYLING: ERIN MCDOWELL

5.

Tuesday Lunch: Mediterranean Couscous with Tuna and Pepperoncini

The most underrated thing in your pantry? Canned tuna. (Really.)

15 minute skillet pepper steak
PHOTO: LIZ ANDREW/STYLING: ERIN MCDOWELL

6.

Tuesday Dinner: Skillet Pepper Steak

And you thought cooking steak at home was tricky.

english muffins breakfast pizza 15 minutes
Two Peas & Their Pod

7.

Wednesday Breakfast: English Muffin Breakfast Pizzas

Bonus points to Maria Lichty for the cuteness-factor.

15 minute cucumber avocado soup slide
PHOTO: LIZ ANDREW/STYLING: ERIN MCDOWELL

8.

Wednesday Lunch: Cucumber-Avocado Blender Soup

A lazy girl’s guide to lunch.

15 minute broccolini pasta slide
PHOTO: LIZ ANDREW/STYLING: ERIN MCDOWELL

9.

Wednesday Dinner: Lemony Broccolini Pasta

Gorgeous enough to serve at your next dinner party, but not too fancy for the kids.

15 minute avocado smoothie slide
PHOTO: LIZ ANDREW/STYLING: ERIN MCDOWELL

10.

Thursday Breakfast: Avocado Power Breakfast Smoothie

Hit the reset button.

15 minute gazpacho slide
PHOTO: LIZ ANDREW/STYLING: ERIN MCDOWELL

11.

Thursday Lunch: Gazpacho with Cucumber, Red Pepper and Basil

No heat (or effort) required.

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PHOTO: LIZ ANDREW/STYLING: ERIN MCDOWELL

12.

Thursday Dinner: Mezze Plate with Toasted Za’atar Pita Bread

Sort of like eating a tasting menu at home.

15 minute breakfast caprese
HEALTHYISH

13.

Friday Breakfast: Breakfast Caprese with Soft-Boiled Eggs

We’re not sharing.

15 minute parpardelle
Spoon Fork Bacon

14.

Friday Lunch: Pappardelle with Prosciutto, Arugula and Lemon

A surprisingly light pasta dish to kick the weekend off in style.

shrimp scampi 15 minutes
Gimme Some Oven 

15.

Friday Dinner: Skinny Shrimp Scampi

Treat yourself. It’s been a long week.

15 minute italian baked eggs
Damn Delicious

16.

Saturday Breakfast: Italian Baked Eggs

Hello cheese, runny egg yolk and marinara. 

creamy mushroom soup
Damn Delicious

17.

Saturday Lunch: Creamy Chicken and Mushroom Soup

Comfort in a bowl.

15 minute pasta limone slide
PHOTO: LIZ ANDREW/STYLING: ERIN MCDOWELL

18.

Saturday Dinner: One-Pot Pasta Limone

Just throw all of the ingredients together in one skillet and cook.

15 minute omelet slide
How Sweet Eats

19.

Sunday Breakfast: Spinach-Burrata Omelet with Avocado Salad

Avo + creamy mozzarella = true love.

15 minute buffalo sliders slide
PHOTO: LIZ ANDREW/STYLING: ERIN MCDOWELL

20.

Sunday Lunch: Buffalo Chicken Sliders

Shh: These start with rotisserie chicken.

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Pinch of Yum

21.

Sunday Dinner: Lo Mein

A veggie-packed stir-fry to finish the week on a healthy note.


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From 2017 to 2019 Heath Goldman held the role of Food Editor covering food, booze and some recipe development, too. Tough job, eh?