Quick and easy meal ideas can be found in a number of locations. Check your locale book store for recipe books and you can also food network web page.
I personally find 'www.BBC.co.uk/food' to be very useful for quick dinner ideas, they are host to famous cooks such as Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood. The website is teeming with ideas for easy, quick and delightful ideas for dinner, it comes highly recommended.
There are several sites that have listed quick and easy recipes for dinner. One is allrecipes.com which lists many easy to make dishes for dinner. You may find others if you look for them.
There are so many quick and easy dinner recipes that are also very good. You can go to WWW.allrecipes.com and find several ideas and they have some of my favorites.
One of the simplest and quickest dinner ideas for yourself and the kids is chicken quesodillas. They only take a few minutes to prepare and can be customized for any childs preference.
There are lots of cookery books with easy dinner recipes, some of these are aimed at inexperienced cooks but the advantage is that the recipes tend to be simple and fairly quick. For example, "The Easy Cook Book: Real food for busy people" is available from Amazon and will give lots of good ideas. There are of course numerous websites such as that of the magazine Family Circle which have lots of quick dinner recipes ideas.
There are a number of different websites that offer cheap meal ideas. You can find some cheap meal ideas at All You, Quick And Easy Dinner, and WebMD.
My recommendation is to try lowfatcooking.about.com. They have a huge compendium of recipes which are all healthy, tasty, quick and easy. You can't go wrong when trying their ideas!
Quick dinner recipes can be found all around the internet. I know a website where you can purchase a couple recipes. family.go.com/food/pkg-quick-easy-recipes
Meals that are often considered "kid friendly" and that are easy to make include mini pizzas, chicken nuggets, grilled cheese sandwiches and macaroni & cheese.
Hamburger Helper dinners are both very easy as well as quick. All you need is the box and a pound of ground beef. I personally choose to use ground turkey in mine.
Recipes, All Recipes, Betty Crocker, and Food Finder all have recipes that are suitable for dinner party appetizers. They each contain a variety of recipes and quick steps for preparing each recipe.
There are so many excellent dishes that take under 30 minutes to prepare including chicken and ground beef recipes. Try http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/dinner-entrees/quick-meals/ and http://www.foodnetwork.com/quick-and-easy/index.html