About Publix Apron's Simple Meals

Apron’s Simple Meals make it easy to enjoy a delicious homemade meal at home, even on weeknights. Here's why:

Easy-to-use weekly recipe cards. They include a photograph of the meal, a shopping list (broken down by department), the time needed to prepare the meal, nutrition information, shortcuts and tips ... even the utensils and cookware you'll need.
Cooking demonstrations. Watch the week's featured Apron’s recipe being prepared right in your neighborhood Publix. Have a taste, ask questions, get tips and learn first-hand.
You can get all the ingredients at once. Your neighborhood Publix puts all of the week's Apron’s recipe ingredients in one spot, for quick shopping.
Our handy recipe binder includes category dividers that make look-up a cinch.

For your convenience, you can also browse all Apron’s recipes online.

Recipe Binder

Our durable binders are designed to hold the Simple Meals recipe cards you collect at your neighborhood Publix, as well as the recipes you print from this site. The easy-to-use tabs make it simple to find your recipes in a snap. You can purchase a binder at any Publix store and begin your collection today.

Please note that while we regret past cards are not available, you can take advantage of our online recipes to add to your collection.

Apron’s Simple Meals Cookbook

This Apron's cookbook continues our tradition of providing you with quick-and-easy meal ideas. Since publishing our original cookbook, the Apron's team has been busy developing hundreds of new recipes for you. For this cookbook, we've asked our staff to choose their favorites, bringing you the cream of the crop!

We feel confident you will enjoy our favorite simple meals. You can even find more of our recipes on this website. We hope this collection of recipes will make it easy to bring your family back to the table.

Recipe Development

Recipe development is serious business at Publix. We began in 1999 by touring many of the most renowned recipe development kitchens in America to establish our own world-class kitchens. Then we got down to work.

Each recipe created by our kitchen begins as an idea from one of our food experts. With that idea in mind, our Recipe Development Manager shops his neighborhood Publix, just like any customer, picking up readily available ingredients from our shelves. Then, back at the test kitchen, our team creates several different recipes to transform the idea into reality.

A panel of Publix associates taste-tests all of the recipes. They must earn high ratings; otherwise they go back to the drawing board for tweaking. Once a recipe is approved, it has just begun the journey to our in-store recipe rack and website. We do a consumer test to ensure the recipe steps are achievable by the average cook, not just food professionals. We also create the cooking sequence, ensure the accuracy of nutritional information, edit and proofread, and then finally release the recipe for publication.

It's a long process, but it's what allows us to provide you with consistently great recipes.

Customer Compliment

“The recipes are simple, quick and delicious. And I am thrilled that Publix has made shopping for the ingredients for the week's featured recipe quick and easy by putting all of the ingredients near the [in-store] cooking station.”

Customer Compliment

“What an awesome program! ... The Apron’s recipes are simple, require very little time to prepare, and they are always delicious.”

Customer Compliment

“I love the Apron’s recipes. I don't know how I cooked dinner without them before.”

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