Trader Joe’s Buffalo Style Chicken Meatballs are one of those finds that make it very easy to throw together a quick lunch. I turned them into these rice bowls with roasted tomatoes, green onion, and ranch, using frozen rice to keep the prep to a minimum.

I’m always looking for ways to turn a good store-bought sauce into a full dinner, and Trader Joe’s General Tsao’s Stir Fry Sauce makes this one especially easy. I pair it with thinly sliced steak, frozen stir-fry vegetables, and rice noodles for a quick beef noodle bowl with plenty of sweet, savory, and spicy flavor.

This is one of my favorite kinds of dinner hacks because most of the work is already done for you. Green Giant Broccoli & Cheese becomes the sauce for rigatoni, then I add crispy air fryer meatballs and a little extra garlic, butter, black pepper, and Parmesan to make the whole thing feel more like a pasta dinner than a frozen vegetable shortcut.

I had leftover rice in the fridge and some bacon sausage I needed to use, which turned into this chili crisp sausage fried rice. It has browned sausage, peppers and onion, plenty of chili crisp, and a little lime squeezed over everything at the end.