Hi friends! Nothing sabotages your healthy eating plan and your budget as quickly as eating out for lunch everyday. Restaurants almost always cook with inferior and inflammatory oils, added sugars, and the portions are almost always too large. Plus, eating out is pricey! Today, I am offering a solution to the lunch dilemma. I designed these Five Easy Protein Bowls because I love an easy, healthy, budget friendly lunch.These five bowls are perfect for Monday – Friday lunches, but also make for terrific healthy dinner options too!
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Let’s Talk About these Five Easy Protein Bowls:
These bowls can be made individually or with a little meal prep you can make enough for the whole week! Each bowl contains cross ingredients like short grain brown rice, lemon dressing, arugula, pickled red onions and avocado. So if you plan on having a bowl Monday thru Friday you can cook one batch of rice and make enough dressing for the entire week, then all you have to do is make your protein and reheat the rest! Cook once, eat multiple times is my motto.
Each of these protein bowls is designed with the proper amount of protein, healthy fat and unrefined carbohydrates to keep you satisfied until your next meal.
Variety:
When trying to eat healthy and using meal prep to save time, meals can get a little repetitive…maybe even a little boring. So to keep things interesting and different enough that you actually look forward to your protein bowl, I use a different protein in each bowl: chicken, salmon, steak, ground beef and shrimp. The rice, arugula, red pickled onions and dressing remain mostly consistent. To change these bowls up a little I add a soft boiled egg to the chicken and steak bowls, and switch out the rice for mango in the shrimp bowl. Each is colorful, nutritious and easy to make.
You Can Mix and Match:
These recipes can also be mixed and matched. Prefer mango in your chicken bowl and want an egg in your shrimp bowl? Do it! Do you prefer lemon dressing instead of lime in your Beef Taco Bowl? Do it! The point of these bowls are to meet your needs while keeping things healthy and simple. So feel free to do what you need to do. I am all about flexibility!
The Bowls:
Let’s get to it. Ladies and gentlemen, here are five protein bowls I think you’re going to love.
This bowl is made with rotisserie chicken so the only thing you have to cook is the egg. Made in minutes, and absolutely satisfying.
This bowl is one of my favorites. If you make your rice and dressing ahead of time this lunch takes about 15 minutes to make.
A classic Taco Bowl with a healthy twist! Seasoned ground beef, plenty of veggies, healthy fats and a tangy lime vinaigrette!
This Easy Shrimp Protein Bowl has a delicious and filling combination of protein, healthy fats, and unrefined carbohydrates that will keep you satisfied until your next meal.
And last but not least. this Easy Steak Protein Bowl is packed with 31 grams of protein, and the asparagus and steak are cooked on the same pan for easy clean up.
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