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    Home » Take Out Dinner Ideas

    Easy Take Out Dinner Ideas

    Enjoy your favorite fast food and restaurant meals at home with these Easy Take Out Dinner Ideas. When you make a take out fake out, you'll enjoy your favorite meals without the expense or the wait in line.

    Try Easy Cashew Chicken and Homemade Vegetable Chow Mein for a quick weeknight meal. Sheetpan Nachos and Easy Baked Chicken Flautas are fun food for a Taco Tuesday.

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    Sheetpan Nachos with Chicken

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    Creamy Garlic Shrimp Pasta

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    Turkey Avocado Baguette Sandwich

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    Easy Chicken Stir Fry

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    Instant Pot Italian Beef Sandwich Recipe ($2.14 each)

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    Easy Baked Chicken Flautas Recipe (26 cents each)

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    Hot Chicken Sub with Bacon (75 cents/serving)

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    Vegetable Fried Rice

    Chicken Fried Rice - Got leftover cooked chicken and rice? Then you've got the makings of a great meal.

    Chicken Fried Rice

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    Fried Chicken Sandwich

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    Jalapeno Pizza

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