25 Yummy & Healthy Meal Prep Breakfast Bowls – Little Steps, Big Happy (2024)

Eating a healthy breakfast doesn’t have to mean spending forever slaving over a stove first thing in the morning. Use these healthy (and yummy!) meal prep breakfast bowls to start your morning off right.

One of my favorite healthy eating habits is meal prepping. Having my food cooked and ready to go all week long without having to even look at my stove is seriously the gift that keeps on giving.

I start my day off with a nutritious meal, it saves me time, helps me maintain my weight loss, and saves me from having to think too hard early in the morning. (Morning person, I am not!😂)

If you’re the same, then keep reading for 25 healthy and yummy breakfast bowls you can make ahead of time.

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What’s in a Breakfast Bowl?

Traditionally a breakfast bowl takes a lot of your favorite breakfast foods that you would typically get on a large plate and mixes them together in a bowl that’s easy to eat on the go.

A Country Breakfast Bowl has ingredients like scrambled eggs, sausage/bacon, potatoes, cheese, onions, and is usually topped with cheese.

In recent years, people have started converting healthier foods into breakfast bowl style recipes that are also easy to make ahead of time and eat on the go.

In this post, I’ve rounded up 25 recipes that cover traditional breakfast bowls as well as some more unique recipes that have been adapted for easy meal prepping.

I picked meal prep breakfast bowl recipes that meet these criteria:

• Can be easily made ahead of time
• Are healthy
• Taste great
• Easily fit into a bowl or meal prep container so you can take it on the go if you need to

Are Breakfast Bowls Good for You?

The ones in this post are! The Mayo Clinic recommends eating a breakfast that includes:

• Complex carbohydrates
• Fiber
• Protein
• A small amount of fat

With the lean proteins, fruit, vegetables, and healthy carbs included in the recipes, this list of breakfast bowls has you covered.

Are Jimmy Dean breakfast bowls healthy?

I wouldn’t go so far as to say Jimmy Dean breakfast bowls are unhealthy, but they wouldn’t be my first choice. Especially when a healthier version can easily be cooked at home and popped in the freezer to be just as convenient.

Here are some of the reasons I personally don’t find them to be super healthy:

High sodium levels: At 1150mg per serving, that’s half the recommended amount of sodium a day. Considering that’s just breakfast, that’s a lot of sodium.

High cholesterol levels: One serving contains 295mg of cholesterol. That’s 98% of the recommended daily amount. Enough said!

High saturated fat levels: One serving contains 50% of the daily recommended amount of saturated fat. According to Medline Plus, too muchsaturated fatcan cause cholesterol to build up in your arteries (blood vessels).Saturated fatsraise your LDL (bad) cholesterol. High LDL cholesterol increases your risk for heart disease and stroke.

You can see the nutritional information on a Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowl here.

A Jimmy Dean breakfast bowl is a healthier alternative to say a donut or muffin, but it still has a ways to go to be as healthy as one of the meal prep breakfast bowls on this list.

25 Yummy & Healthy Meal Prep Breakfast Bowls

Savory Meal Prep Breakfast Bowls

• Breakfast Burrito Bowl from Little Steps, Big Happy. Enjoy a delicious and healthy breakfast without having to sacrifice flavor or time. This breakfast burrito bowl is simple, tasty, and comes together fast!
• Country Breakfast Meal Prep Bowl from Smile Sandwich. With sweet potatoes, eggs, and sausage, this breakfast bowl takes some of your favorite flavors but adds a healthier carb.
• Savory Breakfast Meal Prep Bowl from Smile Sandwich. Bacon, eggs, and oatmeal combine to make a tasty and filling healthy breakfast.
• Savory Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowl from Budget Bytes. Creamy cottage cheese, fresh crunchy vegetables, an extra shot of protein from a hard-boiled egg, and a little black pepper to kick things up to make this easy, protein-filled breakfast!
• Whole30 Steak Breakfast Hash from The Bettered Blondie. This Whole30 steak breakfast hash is loaded with bites of tender steak, seasoned potatoes, and sautéed onions and peppers. It is like having your favorite diner breakfast at home. Top it with a runny egg for absolute perfection!
• Buffalo Chicken Breakfast Bowls from The Meal Prep Manual. A change from the traditional style breakfasts, this meal has buffalo chicken with potatoes, mushrooms, peppers, and eggs that you can mix together in one big scramble.
• Sweet Potato Breakfast Meal Prep from With Peanut Butter on Top. Fluffy, cheesy scrambled eggs, scrambled turkey sausage, and everything bagel seasoned sweet potato rounds.
• Freezer Friendly Make-Ahead Breakfast Bowls from Kristy Still: Mommy Hates Cooking. These freezer-friendly Make-Ahead Breakfast Bowls are perfect to prepare on Sunday and use throughout the week or freezer for later! They are also gluten-free too.
• Breakfast Meal Prep from Damn Delicious. Now you can sleep in and eat a filling and hearty breakfast ALL WEEK LONG! Eggs, bacon or sausage, roasted potatoes, and broccoli.

Veggie-Loaded Meal Prep Breakfast Bowls

• Mashed Cauliflower Breakfast Bowls from Counts of the Netherworld. This an ideal Whole30, very low carb, and AIP breakfast recipe. It is a healthful AIP and gluten-free recipe, that’s simple and has lots of flavor.
• Meal Prep Breakfast Bowls from Kay Nutrition. Save yourself some time in the morning with this delicious meal prep breakfast bowl packed with boiled eggs and vegetables! Ready in under 30 minutes, you’ll have a healthy, high-protein, low-carb, grab-and-go breakfast every morning of the week.
• Meal Prep Breakfast Bowls Greek Style from Nourish Everyday. Boiled eggs with chopped cucumber, tomatoes, capsicum, feta, and olives. A healthy start to the day that’s super easy to make!
• Spinach, Mushroom, and Feta Breakfast Meal Prep Bowl from Smile Sandwich. With mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, spinach, and eggs, this breakfast bowl is a great way to get your veggies in first thing in the morning.
• Breakfast Scramble Clean Eating Meal Prep Bowls from Clean Food Crush. This recipe combines ground turkey, bell peppers, black beans, and eggs for a yummy breakfast.
• Healthy Ground Turkey Breakfast Bowl from The Meal Prep Ninja. This easy to make ground turkey breakfast bowl is made with simple vegetables, ground turkey, and eggs. All of these ingredients can be found at your local grocery store.
• Paleo Meal Prep Breakfast Bowls {Whole30} from Paleo Running Momma. Get breakfast ready the night before with these easy sweet potato, sausage, veggie, and egg Paleo breakfast meal prep bowls! They’re simple, Whole30 compliant, dairy-free, junk-free, tasty, and filling!
• Meal Prep Taco Breakfast Scramble (Whole30, Low Carb) from Beauty and the Bench Press. With this Meal Prep Taco Breakfast Scramble, you can have your tacos and eat them too. The ingredients are gluten-free and dairy-free along with being paleo and keto-friendly.

Sweet Meal Prep Breakfast Bowls

• Simple Sweet Potato Breakfast Bowl from Nourish Move Love. This simple sweet potato breakfast bowl is a great alternative to oatmeal — grain-free, gluten-free, and whole30, and paleo-friendly!
• Acai Smoothie Bowls from The Savvy Sparrow. These acai smoothie bowls are great for healthy meal prep breakfasts. Make 6 bowls at a time and store them in your freezer for when you need a quick, healthy, and filling breakfast!
• Apple Cinnamon Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowl from Budget Bytes. Protein-packed creamy cottage cheese, sweet and juicy apples, warm cinnamon, and crunchy walnuts make a delightful and healthy no-cook breakfast.
• Peanut Butter and Jelly Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowl from Budget Bytes. Hearty oats, creamy cottage cheese, sweet jam, and rich peanut butter make a filling and delicious no-cook breakfast.
• Blueberry Almond Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowl from Budget Bytes. Creamy cottage cheese, juicy blueberries, crunchy almonds, and a little drizzle of honey make a breakfast bowl that tastes surprisingly like blueberry cheesecake!
• Tropical Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowl from Budget Bytes. Creamy cottage cheese, sweet banana, and coconut, plus tangy pineapple make a delicious and easy no-cook breakfast.
• Chocolate Peanut Butter Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowl from Budget Bytes. A slightly sweetened chocolate-flavored cottage cheese makes the base for this decadent high protein no-cook breakfast.
• Apple Cinnamon High Protein Breakfast Bowl from The Herbeevore. This filling high protein breakfast bowl combines apples, cinnamon, and granola into a breakfast bowl that will keep you full until lunch.

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How Long Do Meal Prep Breakfast Bowls Last?

Meal prep breakfast bowls last about 3-5 days in the fridge depending on the ingredients and 2-3 months in the freezer.

If you want to prep your food to last the whole week, you have a couple of options.

1. Cook your meal prep on Sundays and Wednesdays and just keep it in the fridge.
2. Cook your meal prep on Sundays and keep it in the freezer. You can pull it out of the freezer a day or two early to let it defrost.
3. Cook on Sunday, but only cook enough for a few days and pick some other easy breakfast ideas for the rest of the week.

How to Meal Prep Scrambled Eggs

Meal prepping scrambled eggs is pretty straightforward. Cook them like you normally would, but instead of cooking them all the way, stop at about 90%.

Leave them just a little watery, so that when you reheat them, they don’t get dry and overcooked.

Meal prepped eggs taste best if you eat them within 2-3 days of cooking. They’re still safe to eat within the 3-5 day time frame, but the flavor and quality tend to decline.

Scrambled eggs are perfectly safe to freeze, so for recipes that call for scrambled eggs, you would probably be better off freezing your meal prep to help it last longer.

You can find step-by-step instructions on how to meal prep scrambled eggs here.

How to Freeze Meal Prep Breakfast Bowls

For many of the recipes listed above, freezing your meal prep breakfast bowls is the best way to keep them fresh and safe to eat for the whole week (or longer!).

I have found the easiest way to freeze them is to use freezer safe meal prep bowls like these.

Simply cook a big batch of your breakfast bowl, portion it out evenly into your meal prep containers, and throw it into the freezer.

For the best results here are a few tips to follow:

• Let the food cool before putting it in the freezer.
• Put a label with the type of food and date on it.
• Don’t refreeze food unless you’re going to cook it in between.
• Make sure your containers are fully sealed.

How to Reheat Meal Prep Breakfast Bowls

Reheating meal prep breakfast bowls is as simple as taking them out of the fridge and popping them into the microwave for a few minutes.

If your breakfast bowls were in the freezer, then you will need to make sure they fully defrost before you heat them up. You can defrost them in the fridge overnight, or use a microwave.

If you aren’t a fan of reheating in the microwave, then you could use a skillet or the oven. A few minutes at a low setting is usually enough to reheat the food.

The only downside to that method is that you run a higher chance of overcooking the food or drying it out.

Conclusion

So there’s your list of 25 healthy meal prep breakfast bowls. You can use this to make starting your day off with a healthy meal easy and fast.

Which meal prep breakfast bowl is your favorite? Tell us below or email me at Candice@littlestepsbighappy.com. Follow me on Pinterest for more healthy meal prep ideas.

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