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Beef Steak Fajitas with Tomato Corn Relish

This is a good meal for a casual kid get-together Have everything ready and let your guests assemble the fajitas themselves. Make it a Mexican party! Use at least a 4-quart (4 L) slow cooker. If you like heat, mince one jalapeño pepper and add to the relish.

Fantastic Beef Fajitas

For serving ease of this recipe, set out a variety of toppings and wraps and let each person build their own beef fajitas.

Beef and Fine Cheddar Wraps

By adding cashews, pepper jelly and watercress to these Beef 'n Fine Cheddar Wraps, your lunch bag looks soooo grown up! And the Canadian beef and aged Cheddar combination the recipe uses it makes them soooo good for you. Use very thinly sliced roast beef for the wraps so that they don’t get too bulky when rolling up. You can use deli roast beef if you don’t have any leftover roast.

Greek Beef Salad Wrap

Value-priced marinated beef steak becomes marvelous with the addition of Greek seasonings, feta cheese, Kalamata olives and a tangy salsa. Roll into a flour tortilla for the ultimate portable recipe.

Ratatouille Veggie and Roast Beef Wrap

Leftover cooked roast beef makes life simpler and stretches your grocery dollars further — cook once, eat twice!

Grilled Beef Burritos with Monterey Jack

Kids will love to make their own dinner, working their way through the "burrito assembly line! ”You'll love the fact that each burrito has all 4 of Canada Food Guide food groups represented!

Baked Beef Spring Rolls

These awesome appetizers start off with a delicious ground beef base mixture that you can also use to make a simple stir-fry.

Veal Tacos with Sun-Dried Tomato Tomatillo Sauce

This twist on a family favorite is delicious with or without tortillas!

Kid Friendly

Cowboy Cupcakes

These little lasagnas are easy to make and are the perfect nosh for game night at home or a tailgate party out at the field. One easy recipe makes many and kids love them too. Switch-up the flavours to make the mix Mexican or Greek versions – variety is the spice of life!

The Better Taco Salad

This pretty salad is a healthy alternative to the traditional nacho platter. Makes eight 1-1/2 cup (375 mL) servings.

Mini Cheeseburger Beef Salad

This recipe makes kid-sized burgers with a veggies bonus. Lean Beef burgers deliver an excellent source of protein, zinc and vitamin B12 – not to mention flavour!

Meat Loaf with Herbs

This Anne Lindsay extra-lean ground beef recipe appears in the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada cookbook: Lighthearted at Home.

Double Decker Italian-Style Sloppy Joes

Permission to get messy – in the most scrumptious way! These Double Decker Italian-Style Sloppy Joes are made with savoury @furlani_foods Garlic Texas Toast and tender, delicious @lovecdnbeef lean ground beef. With just a few simple ingredients and in less than 30 minutes, you’ll have a warm, comforting dinner that the whole family will love. Perfect for busy weeknights when you can place the sloppy joe sauce and prepared Garlic Texas Toast on the table, and encourage the kiddos to “self serve”!

Beef Empanadas De Picadillo

Serve as a tapas course or make larger-sized versions for a main course. You can skip the pastry in this recipe and enjoy this Spanish-style ground beef as a filling in taco shells or as a topping for baked potatoes or rice.

Classic Sweet and Sour Pineapple Meatballs

Oven-roasting the meatballs instead of pan-frying leaves you free to make the sauce. The meatballs can be assembled the night before, if you wish so you can just pop them in the oven when you get home from work. The sauce can also be made ahead. Serve with cooked rice or rice noodles and snow peas.

Quinoa and Beef-stuffed Peppers

With all the flavours of lasagna, kids love these colourful peppers. You will too, knowing that protein-rich lean beef and quinoa pack in a powerful nutrient punch.