Make your own healthy bowls and build off of these five recipes. Customize any of these recipes to your tastes, goals, and dietary needs while enjoying the simplicity of healthy bowls.
Assembling a full meal in a bowl is a creative, but still simple, way to meet your nutritional goals, and have healthy and colorful meals. A bowl can be as simple as chicken, rice, veggies, and a bit of chicken stock or broth. Or, it can be complex with 6+ different toppings, as well as your base chicken and rice. Explore these healthy bowl recipes and then adjust them, use what you have on hand, leftovers, anything that strikes your fancy. The beauty of this preparation and serving technique is in it’s versatility. It’s super easy to craft a bowl you, a kid, a grandkid, or a spouse can love and enjoy, without a ton of prep or making completely different meals!
At there heart, healthy bowls are a combination of veggies, proteins, and carbs that help you meet your goals while being flavorful, interesting, and customizable. Depending on your bowl of choice, the liquid base could be a healthy smoothie, a protein rich yogurt, or delicious chicken broth, beef broth, or vegetable stock. Customize these healthy bowl recipes as much, or as little, as you like.
Make a Rice Bowl and Elevate Your Lunch
A Rice Bowl is a great way to create a fast, nourishing, and complete meal for any time of day. Start with a basic rice or cauliflower rice, and add sauce, arugula, spinach, carrots, snap peas, salsa, or even a tahini sauce or dressing to round it out. Top with chicken, beef, eggs, or tofu for protein.
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Easy Burrito Bowl for Meal Prep and More
A burrito bowl starts with a base of rice and adds in your favorite burrito-esque flavors. Use cilantro-lime rice, or tex-mex rice for the base. Add avocado, grated cheese, lemon, fried onion, corn, and black beans to round out the rice and meat base.
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Breakfast Smoothie Bowls For Fun and Easy Meals
Try making a breakfast or lunch smoothie bowl as a new bowl option, especially if you need a change from your normal breakfast or lunch routine. A smoothie bowl is based around fruit, maybe coconut milk, and seed and grain based protein. You can make a smoothie bowl vegan if desired.
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Craft a Tasty Noodle Bowl for Easier Weeknight Meals
Customize your noodle bowl with your favorite noodles, broth, veggies, and protein. Pair delicious rice noodles with broccoli, ginger, and beef or pair wheat noodles with peppers, carrots, and chicken.
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Make a Healthy Breakfast Bowl for Quick Morning Meals
Create your ideal healthy breakfast bowl for quick and efficient morning meals. You can prep many of the pieces in advance, including potatoes, tomato slices, sweet potatoes, and other ingredients. It’s great for family gatherings too, as it’s so customizable.
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There is plenty of room for customization within these healthy bowls. Tweak your add-ons with what’s in season and add in cherry tomatoes, guacamole, bell peppers, green onions, shiitake mushrooms, or whatever else is available for a nourish bowl.
Add in plenty of healthy veggies, or use unique herbs and spices. Micro greens and micro herbs are an amazing option for garnishing your healthy bowls. Micro herbs like mint, basil, parsley, or cilantro, can be great compliments to your meal as well as being very nourishing.
Making More Bowls:
Adjust any of the above healthy bowls for your dietary requirements, or current taste preferences. You can make any bowl vegetarian by switching out the protein source. A salmon bowl with coconut rice could be a fun variation.
You can also adjust your bowls by making quinoa, or couscous as the base. If you’re gluten-free, avoid couscous though. Wild rice blends can also be a fun way to vary the bowl flavors.
Serve bowls with a side salad, or use the salad ingredients as toppings for your bowl. You can add in kale, cucumbers, olives, a drizzle of tahini dressing or olive oil, and really level up the flavors and taste of your lunch.
Level Up with Microgreens:
Level up your healthy lunches, breakfasts, and dinners, with home grown microgreens and salads. Even if you don’t have garden space, or a green thumb, you can grow microgreens, sprouts, micro herbs, and more in your kitchen.
These delicious greens are awesome nutritional powerhouses, and are amazing in salads, sandwiches, as a direct snack, or as a topping for your most recent healthy bowl creation.
With the rising prices of spinach and lettuce, growing your own microgreens or sprouts for pennies per serving is more economical, tastier, and healthier over-all.
New to growing food and vegetables?
Check out the Fill Your Salad Bowl workshop and learn how to use 3 different growing methods, at home, so you can fill your salad bowl with super food, nutrient dense, greens every single day. These are greens you can use in your salad bowl, greens you can add to soups, stews, and pasta dishes, and even greens you can use in a stir fry.
In this mini workshop you will learn how to fill a salad bowl every day with food you grow yourself.
- Even if you don’t have any land.
- Even if there is 3 feet of snow covering your garden
- Even if you’ve killed house plants in the past.
- Even if you think you have a black thumb.
Have a look at what’s covered in this workshop and see if its a good fit for you, by clicking/tapping the blue button below.
