Discover the top 25 whole-food plant-based bowl recipes from leading vegan bloggers. Each nutritionally balanced vegan bowl features wholesome plant ingredients and provides a satisfying 400–500 calories per serving.
Top 25 Whole-Food Plant-Based Bowl Recipes (Balanced Vegan Meals Under 500 Calories)
Bowl meals are one of the most satisfying ways to enjoy balanced, plant-based eating—and they don’t need to be heavy to be nourishing. This curated collection of the Top 25 Whole-Food Plant-Based Bowl Recipes brings together vibrant, flavorful bowls from some of today’s top vegan food bloggers (including a few of mine too!). Each recipe is thoughtfully crafted with whole plant food ingredients, colorful vegetables, and hearty plant proteins to deliver maximum nutrition and enjoyment, without unwanted refined ingredients. Every bowl in this roundup is vegan, nutritionally balanced, and provides 400–500 calories per serving, offering the perfect middle ground between nourishment and satisfaction. Whether you’re planning weeknight meals, meal prepping, or simply looking for wholesome inspiration, these plant-based bowls show how balanced eating can be delicious, energizing, and sustainable—without restrictive rules or food labels.
If you’re working on achieving some new healthy eating goals this year, there’s nothing better than an amazing vegan bowl—perfectly balanced in protein, healthy carbs and fats, and calories—to get you on the right path. The goal is to be satisfied with a hearty, delicious meal, packed in vitamins, minerals, antioxidant compounds, and macros, with a modest amount of calories to help maintain healthy weight goals. That’s why I recommend 500 calorie meals as a great way to promote healthy weight, as it’s enough to keep most people fueled and feeling energetic, while still moderating your calorie intake for a healthy body weight. At the same time, it’s important to push up the clean, whole plant ingredients in power-packed vegan bowls, such as plenty of real whole grains, pulses (beans), soy foods, fruits, veggies, nuts, seeds, plant fats, herbs, and spices. We also want to limit those unwanted ingredients, such as added sugars, sodium, and additives.
So, I asked some of my favorite bloggers to contribute their best under 500 calories whole food vegan bowl recipes that are balanced in nutrients, as well as delicious. I’m also sharing a bunch of my own healthy vegan bowl recipes, too. Each healthy, nutritious bowl provides around 400-500 calories in order to keep you feeling satisfied for a fabulous day.
Cheers! Let’s eat and live the goodness every day!
Sharon
Top 25 Whole Plant-Based Bowl Recipes Under 500 Calories
Blackberry Basil Bowl with Balsamic Dressing, Renee DeLeon, Veeg (shown above)
Black Bean Tomato Carrot Curry with Brown Basmati Rice, Choclette Ammar, Tin and Thyme
Buffalo Tortilla Tofu Bowl, Renee DeLeon, Veeg (shown above)
Chickpea Power Bowl, Emily Wilson, This Healthy Table
Easy Burrito Bowl with Black Beans and Fajitas, Julianne Lynch, No Sweat Vegan (shown above)
Fajita Rice Bowl, Terry Lisa Goodwin, 2 Share My Joy
Go-To Bowl, Sarah McMinn, My Darling Vegan (shown above)
Grain Bowl with Pesto, Kelly Jones, RDN, Kelly Jones Nutrition
Meal Prep Burrito Bowl, Jessianna Saville, RDN, The Kidney RD (shown above)
Noodle Bowl with Thai Tofu and Vegetables, Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian (shown above)
Portobello Poke Bowl, Plant-Based Jess (shown above)
Quinoa Nourish Bowls, Stacey Gero, Stacey Homemaker
Quinoa Super Salad with Lemon Tahini Dressing, Vanessa Sturman, The Vegan Larder (shown above)
Rice Bowl with Smoky Tempeh, Elena Szeliga, Happy Kitchen.Rocks
Roasted Sweet Potato, Black Bean and Lime Rice Bowls, Holly Gray, This Wife Cooks
Roasted Sweet Potato Cauliflower Quinoa Bowls, Whitney Wright, Salt and Baker (shown above)
Simple Bowl With Peanut Dressing, Verna Anne Rindler, The Cheeky Chickpea
Southwest Quinoa Bowl, Emily Miller, Resplendent Kitchen (shown above)
Spring Bowl, Simple Spoonfuls
Spiralized Carrot Quinoa Veggie Bowl, Alena Schowalter, Nutritiously (shown above)
Sweet Potato Bowl, Mary Ellen Valverde, V Nutrition
Sweet Potato Chickpea Bowl, Claire Cary, Eat with Clarity (shown above)
Sweet Potato Quinoa Bowl with Cashew Curry Sauce, Jennifer Sebestyen, Veggie Inspired (shown above)
Turmeric Rice and Black Bean Bowl, Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian
Winter Roasted Vegetable Bowl, Sarah Schlichter, RDN, Bucket List Tummy (shown above)
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