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100+ Healthy Meal Prep Recipes

May 23, 2022

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Tons of wholesome meal prep recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. One-pot meals, sheet pan dinners, meal prep bowls, wholesome Prompt Pot recipes, & extra!

I’m an enormous fan of meal prep! This is among the wholesome habits I constructed on my 100-pound weight reduction journey and it continues to serve me properly.

When you haven’t achieved a lot meal prep your self but, don’t get overwhelmed once you see what others are doing!

I’ve meal prepped 100 other ways in 100 totally different conditions.

After I was actually battling portion sizes, I meal prepped all of my snacks (measuring & portioning path combine, counting honey wheat pretzel twists, & Goldfish).
After I was single, I prepped 3 meals per week each Sunday – one for breakfast, one for lunch, and one for dinner for the week.
After I was working full-time as an indication language interpreter, I’d do one large freezer meal prep session a month (to shred carrots, brown floor turkey, make breakfast burritos, make and freeze green smoothies to have ready-to-drink)
After I first married my husband, meal prepping a breakfast recipe for the week saved us as a result of I’m not a morning particular person, however he might nonetheless have a hearty breakfast earlier than going to work.
When my husband works out of city, I’ve an enormous Sunday meal prep session the place I prepare dinner one breakfast recipe and three different recipes to feed us each all week lengthy (it saves us a lot cash and is a lot more healthy for him than quick meals!).

All of it counts as meal prep.

Each week in my weekly electronic mail, I ship out a wholesome meal plan for the week with a breakfast recipe and 5 dinner recipes. I went over the past 12 months’s meal plans and compiled a bunch of these recipes!

I’ve tried most of those recipes earlier than, however not all (the recipes I tied that had been duds didn’t make the reduce for this publish!).

My favourite recipes are marked with a double asterisk (**). I like selection so I not often make recipes twice, however all the recipes I marked as favorites, I’ve made no less than twice if no more!

I additionally included the calorie counts subsequent to every recipe. Not all people who likes to meal prep counts energy, but it surely so such useful info when you find yourself attempting to drop some weight (see how I went from calorie counting to food freedom with these 4 steps).

Glass meal prep containers filled with healthy food - 100+ healthy meal prep recipes

The Greatest Meal Prep Containers

After I began meal prepping, I simply used a budget plastic Tupperware from the grocery retailer, however I’ve slowly transitioned to the glass meal prep containers and I completely love them.

I solely have the only compartment containers as a result of I not often must separate my meals.

These containers have served us so properly! I like utilizing them at house, however they’re additionally sturdy sufficient that my husband can take them when he travels for work, too.

If I do have one thing I’d wish to hold separate, I exploit small silicone muffin liners like these.

Breakfast Meal Prep Recipes

That is the meal I attempt to prep each week. Generally we could have straightforward breakfasts that don’t require prep (like yogurt & granola or avocado toast), however more often than not, each my husband and I admire heartier breakfasts like egg casseroles or quiche.

Including veggies to my breakfasts has helped my weight reduction journey a lot!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Oat Bran (140 calories) @ Joy Food Sunshine

Cinnamon Apple Breakfast Quinoa (287 calories) @ Simply Quinoa

Crustless Broccoli Quiche (196 calories) @ Healthy Recipes

Easy Blueberry Oatmeal Bars (164 calories) @ Suburban Simplicity

Easy Paleo Breakfast Casserole (276 calories) @ Low Carb Yum

Freezer Breakfast Burritos (259 calories) @ So Very Blessed

**Green Chile Spinach Quiche (259 calories without butter) @ All Recipes

**Healthy Biscuit Breakfast Casserole (292 calories) @ So Very Blessed

**Instant Pot Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal (242 calories) @ The Holy Mess

Loaded Baked Potato Breakfast Casserole (166 calories) @ The Recipe Rebel

Low Carb Ham & Cheese Crustless Quiche (319 calories) @ Homemade Interest

Maple Pecan Overnight French Toast Bake (398 calories) @ Fit Foodie Finds

Oatmeal Blueberry Yogurt Pancakes (208 calories) @ Ambitious Kitchen

Pina Colada Instant Pot Steel Cut Oats (233 calories) @ The Girl on Bloor

**Spinach Protein Waffles (217 calories) @ Slimsanity

**Spinach Ricotta Quiche (225 calories) @ Skinnytaste

Turkey Bacon, Egg White, Spinach Breakfast Sandwich (284 calories) @ Pop Culture

Turkey Sausage Sheet Pan Eggs (214 calories) @ Healthy Aperture

**Veggie Loaded Breakfast Bake (354 calories) @ Hungry Hobby

Lunch & Dinner Meal Prep Recipes

A lot of the meals beneath are full meals in and of themselves. I are likely to gravitate towards these recipes as a result of they simplify my meal planning and save me time!

A number of of the recipes are only one a part of the meal (both a foremost dish or a couple of sides I threw in there). When that occurs, I at all times add a vegetable of some type (often roasted – my favourite!). That’s one of the simplest ways to maintain the energy low whereas nonetheless making a meal that may hold you full – hold including extra of these veggies!).

Cooking spoon holding healthier spaghetti & meatballs above Instant Pot — Healthier Instant Pot Spaghetti & Meatballs

Wholesome Prompt Pot Recipes

I’m such an enormous fan of my Prompt Pot! On the subject of wholesome meal prep recipes, I’m at all times on the lookout for excuses to make use of my Prompt Pot as a result of I can set it and stroll away (in contrast to a range the place I’ve to ensure it doesn’t boil over).

There are some unbelievable one-pot meal recipes on this record which have majorly simplified my meal prep!

**Healthier Instant Pot Spaghetti & Meatballs (380 calories) @ So Very Blessed

**Healthier Instant Pot Cheesy Chicken Broccoli & Rice (512 calories) @ So Very Blessed

**Instant Pot Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta (410 calories) @ The Girl on Bloor

Instant Pot Chicken Burrito Bowls (447 calories) @ The Girl on Bloor

Instant Pot Chipotle Chicken Bowls With Cilantro Lime Quinoa (400 calories) @ Skinnytaste

Instant Pot Coconut Tandoori Chicken (387 calories) @ Pinch of Yum

**Instant Pot Egg Roll Bowls (190 calories) @ So Very Blessed

**Instant Pot Enchilada Quinoa (374 calories) @ So Very Blessed

Instant Pot General Tso’s Chicken (511 calories) @ The Girl on Bloor

Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken (365 calories) @ The Girl on Bloor

**Instant Pot Honey Sesame Chicken Noodle Bowls (393 calories) @ The Girl on Bloor

**Instant Pot Jambalaya (364 calories) @ Eating Instantly

Instant Pot Korean Beef Bowl (286 calories) @ Fit Foodie Finds

Instant Pot Maple Mustard Chicken & Potatoes (341 calories) @ The Foodie & The Fix

Instant Pot Mexican Chicken Hash (421 calories) @ Fixed On Fresh

Instant Pot Pasta w/ Sausage, Spinach, & Tomatoes (229 calories) @ Rachel Cooks

Instant Pot Turkey Sausage, Potatoes, & Green Beans (441 calories) @ So Very Blessed

**Instant Pot Unstuffed Turkey Cabbage Roll Bowls (304 calories) @ So Very Blessed

Instant Pot Weight Watchers Beef Stroganoff (408 calories) @ My Crazy Good Life

**Mashed Cauliflower w/ Garlic & Chives (113 calories) @ Diethood

Veggies chopped and laid out on the counter ready for cooking

Wholesome Gradual Cooker/Crockpot Meals

Crockpot Creamy Cashew Chicken (238 calories) Half Baked Harvest

Healthy Pulled Pork (323 calories) @ iFoodReal

Slow Cooker Beef & Lentil Sloppy Joes (365 calories) @ The Recipe Rebel

**Slow Cooker Chicken Curry w/ Coconut Milk (330 calories) @ Evolving Table

**Slow Cooker Curry Butternut Squash Soup (177 calories) @ So Very Blessed

All kinds of different healthy meal prep recipes laid out across a kitchen counter

One-Pot/One-Pan/Sheet Pan Meals

On the subject of meal prep, these are my absolute favorites. One-pot meals save me time, brainpower, and dishes (which my husband positive appreciates!).

Chicken Caprese Quinoa Bake (537 calories) @ Rachel Cooks

Chicken Meatball & Roasted Vegetable Sheet Pan Dinner (484 calories) @ Healthy Nibbles & Bits

Chicken Sausage Cabbage Skillet (287 calories) @ So Very Blessed

**Chicken Tandoori Meal Prep Bowls (368 calories) @ The Girl On Bloor

**Dump & Bake Butter Chicken & Rice (429 calories) @ The Seasoned Mom

Easy Healthy Cashew Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner (364 calories) @ Food Faith Fitness

Easy Homemade Hamburger Helper (469 calories) @ The Recipe Rebel

**Enchilada Quinoa Skillet (388 calories) @ So Very Blessed

Healthy Chicken Enchilada Casserole (312 calories) @ Fit Foodie Finds

**Healthy Pesto Chicken & Veggies Sheet Pan (256 calories) @ Gimme Delicious

Jamaican Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner (463 calories) @ Sweet Peas & Saffron

Mexican Sweet Potato Quinoa Casserole (313 calories) @ Fit Foodie Finds