18 healthy lunch bowl recipes to keep your lunch exciting! Healthy lunch recipes to fuel you all afternoon long, including rice bowls, vegetarian, chicken and beef bowl options.
Stuck in a lunch rut? Let's get you out of it! You guys are loving these healthy meal prep lunch ideas, and today I'm rounding up some healthy make ahead lunch bowl ideas for us all that would make perrrfect work lunches!
Lunch bowls are one of my favorite ways to meal prep. They are a full meal in one bowl, they are portable and convenient to eat at work, and they keep you full all afternoon long.
Making your own homemade lunch bowl is a great way to save money and stick to a healthy diet!
Tips to keep your lunch bowls fresh
- keep your dressing or sauce separate until just before you serve (unless the recipe states otherwise)
- keep leafy greens away from wet ingredients- mason jars are great for layering
- store in a glass meal prep container (keeps your food from absorbing flavors)
- store no longer than 4 days- chicken, rice, and most vegetables start to decline drastically after 4 days
- avocado- add it fresh
Healthy lunch recipes
This post has a huge variety of healthy lunch recipes in 'lunch bowl' form. There is something for everyone's diet including vegetarian bowl recipes, beef bowl recipes and chicken bowl recipes. There are also some low carb bowl recipes in there!
These healthy lunch recipes are heavy on the veggies. The biggest benefit to preparing your lunches ahead is that you are setting yourself up for eating healthy through the week and I think we can all agree that veggies = healthy!
Looking for more information on meal prep? Check out this post I wrote on How To Meal Prep.
Ready? Alright...let's go! It's make ahead lunch bowl time!
Don't forget to pin this post to save it for later!
Vegetarian bowls
These vegetarian bowl recipes have a few things in common: healthy, delicious, portable, and packed with all the good stuff! Keep the dressing separate until just before serving.
Chicken bowls
These chicken bowl recipe ideas are perfect for a balanced lunch, and check out all the delicious flavors! Isn't chicken so versatile?!
Beef bowls
Just like chicken, beef is an incredibly versatile protein. These beef bowl recipe ideas are diverse in flavor and would be incredible for lunch!
Sarkari Job
Healthy foods make your body fit and healthy, I love to eat this.!
Marion
Hi Denise,
I've been following each one of these recipes (I'm on week 16), that's actually the first time I try meal prepping and the results are incredible! Theses recipes are healthy, it's a very good way to save money and to discover new foods, it's time saving and I can tell I'm in better shape.. your post is a GREAT find, thank you so much!
Marion
Denise
Wow, that's amazing Marion! So happy to hear you've been enjoying this post!
Dragana
Are these considered as clean eating? Do they follow the guidelines for clean eating?
Denise
Hi Dragana, I can't speak for all of the recipes in this round-up, but I believe my recipes largely fall under 'clean eating' as I use very few processed ingredients.
Kelly Lee
Is there a simple way of printing each series of recipes or does one need to go into each recipe separately ? very time consuming
Denise
Hi Kelly! This is a round up of my favorite recipes from around the web, so you have to go to the recipe developer's site and click to print. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Ann Mccallum
I want the lunch suggestions please
Denise
Hi Ann I'm confused by your question, these are lunch suggestions? I also have this round up with 19 Healthy MEal Prep Lunch Ideas: https://sweetpeasandsaffron.com/2016/11/19-healthy-lunch-meal-prep-ideas.html, and you can browse the meal prep lunch category: https://sweetpeasandsaffron.com/category/work-lunch
Karman
I need help bringing prepared lunches to work. I also am on a health kick so check and check. These all look good! Thanks so much!
Ingrid
Love ur lunch ideas...all super doopper yummy
Denise
Thanks Ingrid!
Pat
Lunch bowls look amazing. I would like to print them and make for my daughter who has pancreatitis.
Denise
Hi Pat! You can print them from each page that they are on 😀 Hope you enjoy some of them!
Danielle N. Pope
Greetings Denise,
I would like to use your web link on lunch bowls in my e-book. If this is OK, would you send me a permission contract? Please let me know.
Thanks so much.
Danielle N. Pope
JENNIFER
I JUST FOUND THIS BLOG AND I'M SO EXCITED TO TRY THE RECIPES!!! THEY ALL LOOK SO PRETTY AND DELISH!
Allison - Celebrating Sweets
I'm using several of these ideas for meals this week. Off to the store! Thanks for the inspiration. 🙂
Denise
I'm so glad you got some lunch ideas, Allison! I find packing work lunches to be such a challenge!
Catherine
Dear Denise, all these lunch bowls look wonderful! What a great idea...I would love to try them all. xo, Catherine
Kelly
Love this round-up, Denise! All of these lunch bowls are gorgeous and I seriously wish I could have one of each for lunch! Thank you so much for including mine!! <3
Michelle | A Latte Food
I love your round-ups! All of these look amazing!
Kristine | Kristine's Kitchen
This round up is the BEST, Denise! Now I have no excuse for packing a boring work lunch. I'd take one of these bowls over my usual pb&j any day! 😉
Izzy @ She Likes Food
Now if I could just get someone to come over and make me one of these lunch bowls everyday, haha! Bowls like these are my favorites ever and I would happily eat any one of these for lunch everyday! Thanks for including one of mine!
Denise
Meee tooo! Thanks so much Izzy! I'm going to try your salad soon!
lindsay
GORGEOUS lunches too! sign me up! pinning. Thanks friend
Denise
Thanks, Lindsay! Your salad looks SO good, I definitely have to try it!
Helen @ Scrummy Lane
A colleague came to work with something like this one day last week, and I was so jealous.
Now I have some recipes to rival his!
These bowls are all so colourful, Denise, and we all know that means super healthy. 🙂
Denise
I am hooked on lunch bowls! Thanks, Helen!
Liz @ Floating Kitchen
Well, you know how much I love food in bowls! I'm totally giddy over this round-up. Is that weird? 🙂
Denise
HA! Food in bowls is the BEST 😉 Thanks so much, Liz!
marcie
What a great round-up, Denise! These are all so healthy and hearty, not to mention pretty! There are so many I need to try. 🙂
Denise
I was loving all the bright colors 🙂 Thanks, Marcie!
Zaheer
Any time You couldn't have been more right