Healthy meal prep menus by Sweet Savory and Steph. Every month, I release a month’s worth of meal prep for the family. Each week, you can mix-and-match to make a healthy menu that’s best for your family. April’s menu consists of lots of springtime flavors and Easter favorites.
Use my Canva template to create your monthly meal plan digitally, or print out my menu template and write it by hand. Each week should include 1 healthy breakfast meal prep option, 1 healthy lunch meal prep option, and 3 healthy dinner recipes.
These menus are purely for inspirational purposes only; feel free to make the meal prep menus your own by swapping out my featured recipes with ones that fit your taste and dietary preferences.
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Healthy Breakfast Options
This month, I’m featuring 4 spring inspired breakfast options. These healthy breakfast choices are made with bright colors and bursting with fresh flavors.
Spring Breakfast Flatbreads
Weight Watchers: 3 points
Sometimes you just need to kick your breakfast up a notch. These spring breakfast flatbreads are a great option if you are getting bored of the same old breakfast rotation. Mozzarella cheese, fresh asparagus, ham and a runny egg top these delicious flatbreads, making it a filling breakfast, lunch, or brunch option. These flatbreads are easy enough to prep for the week, and cute enough to serve to guests.
Lemon Almond Poppy Seed Pancake Bake
Weight Watchers: 4 points
A twist on my classic easy pancake bake recipe, this lemon almond poppy seed pancake bake makes a deliciously sweet breakfast, dessert or snack. Pancake batter is mixed with almond extract, the zest and juice of a lemon, slivered almonds and poppy seeds, and baked into a pie form for easy serving and storage. Instead of standing at the stove flipping pancakes, make your life easier with a pancake bake.
Spinach Egg Bake with Phyllo
Weight Watchers: 3 points
Not your ordinary egg bake: let's liven it up a bit, why not add a crispy phyllo dough topping? This savory Spinach Egg Bake with Phyllo is reminiscent of a traditional spinach pie; it's packed with delicious spinach, sautéed onion and garlic, and artichoke hearts. The filling is mixed with a combination of whole eggs, egg whites, ricotta, and mozzarella. Baked together and topped with a crispy, flaky phyllo dough topping, this is not your ordinary meal prep.
Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal
Weight Watchers: 3 points
Your favorite Springtime dessert, transformed into healthy baked oatmeal. Carrot cake baked oatmeal features shredded carrots and raisins like a traditional carrot cake, mixed together with old fashioned oats and the flavors of maple syrup, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg. It is topped with a cream cheese frosting swirl, leaving you to ask: breakfast or dessert?
Healthy Lunch Options
Healthy Spring Vegetable Mason Jar Salads
Weight Watchers: 2 points
Spring cuisine always reminds me of fresh green vegetables like broccoli, asparagus and peas. These healthy spring vegetable mason jar salads boast the flavors of spring, with roasted broccoli, asparagus, peas and shallots, lemon pepper grilled chicken, and a homemade lemon vinaigrette. These healthy mason jar salads make a delicious and filling meal prep for four days, or are fun to serve to guests for a springy theme.
Creamy Spaghetti with Roasted Spring Vegetables
Weight Watchers: 6 points
Serve with a protein such as grilled chicken or steak.
Southwest Chicken Burgers
Weight Watchers: 1 points
These southwest chicken burgers are made with diced red bell pepper, shallots, and southwest spices, and pack a ton of flavor.
Mediterranean-Inspired Salad Over Cottage Cheese
Weight Watchers: 5 points
Cottage cheese seems to be all the rage this year; there are so many ways to enjoy it, but this might be one of my favorites! This recipe is so easy, a delicious Mediterranean-inspired salad over a bed of cottage cheese. The cottage cheese almost acts like a ricotta or feta cheese in this recipe, ensuring every bite of this crisp and delicious salad is coated with creamy, delicious cheese. In addition to tasting great, cottage cheese is such a great way to add protein to every meal. Serve this salad as a side dish, or as a main course with some added protein!
Be sure to use my Canva template to create your monthly meal plan digitally, or print out my menu template and write it by hand. Tag me in your custom meal plans for the month!
Healthy Dinner Options
Skinny Big Mac Tater Tot Casserole
Weight Watchers: 8 points
If you're craving a fast food burger, but looking for something lighter, this Skinny Big Mac Tater Tot Casserole is the answer. The flavor of your all-time favorite hamburger, made into an easy-to-make casserole! Tater tots are topped with a flavorful ground beef mixture and shredded cheese then baked and dressed with burger sauce, lettuce, tomato, onion and pickles. You'll forget you're not at a fast food restaurant. This is great for meal prep or an easy weeknight, family friendly dinner.
Easy Weeknight Shrimp Marinara
Weight Watchers: 5 points
This Easy Weeknight Shrimp Marinara is fancy enough to serve to guests, but easy enough to make mid week. Shrimp is cooked in a simple yet delicious tomato sauce and finished with fresh basil and parsley for extra flavor. Add this Italian inspired shrimp dish to your meal rotation; minimal ingredients, easy to make, and easy to clean up! Serve over pasta or with a starch and veggie for a complete meal.
Easy Healthy Baked Ground Beef Tacos
Weight Watchers: 1 points
Elevate taco Tuesday with these Easy Healthy Baked Ground Beef Tacos. Lean ground beef simmers in a spice blend to form an easy and delicious filling; corn tortillas crisp up in the oven for the perfect bite. Serve with all your favorite fixin's for a delicious meal that is both healthy and satisfying. Even the pickiest eaters will love these.
Hot Honey Grilled Chicken with Pistachios
Weight Watchers: 3 points
Hot Honey Grilled Chicken with Pistachios will turn your grilled chicken up a notch this spring and summer. Tender chicken breasts are seasoned with a flavorful spice rub of paprika, onion powder, garlic powder and chili powder then grilled to perfection. A drizzle of hot honey and pistachios finishes it off. This chicken is the perfect blend of sweet, spicy and salty. This is great for a quick weeknight dinner or an extra flavorful meal prep.
Baked Honey Garlic Salmon Bites
Weight Watchers: 7 points
These Baked Honey Garlic Salmon Bites are easy and delicious. Salmon is marinated in a flavorful combination of sesame oil, honey, chili garlic sauce, coconut aminos, ginger and garlic and baked to sticky perfection then topped with sesame seeds. Serve them in a bowl with rice, cucumber, avocado and spicy mayo and it will remind you of a poke bowl.
One Pot Creamy Spaghetti with Asparagus and Chicken
Weight Watchers: 8 points
My love for one pot meals has no bounds! This one is a creamy spaghetti dish, bulked up with asparagus and tender chunks of chicken breast. An all-in-one meal that the entire family can enjoy. The best part: only one pot to clean once the meal is over. Ready in under half an hour, this spaghetti is creamy, filling, delicious, and surprisingly lightened-up. If you are looking for a delicious way to add veggies to your day, make this one pot creamy spaghetti with asparagus and chicken.
Healthy Beef California Style Burgers
Weight Watchers: 9 points
These burgers are so delicious, it's hard to believe they're lower calorie! Extra-lean ground beef is seasoned, then cooked and topped with melted cheddar cheese. Topped with sliced red onion, fresh avocado, lettuce, and a delicious dijon-mayo herb spread, this burger is piled high on an English muffin. Each bite of these healthy beef California style burgers is packed with flavor and fresh ingredients. This is a healthy recipe that is also family and kid-approved.
Chinese-Inspired Chicken Salad
Weight Watchers: 4 points
Crisp shredded cabbage, ribbons of carrots, chicken breast, vinaigrette, sliced almonds and crunchy noodles come together to create this tasty and healthy salad. Ready in minutes, there is no cooking required to create this salad, making it the ideal meal in warm temperatures. This Chinese-inspired chicken salad makes a delicious, easy, and healthy lunch with no re-heating required. Packed with protein and fiber, this dish is satisfying as well as tasty.
Lightened-Up Orange Chicken
Weight Watchers: 5 points
A favorite takeout item, but lightened up. This lightened up orange chicken recipe features tender chunks of chicken breast pan seared and tossed in a sweet and savory orange sauce, made with fresh squeezed orange juice, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, and a bit of sugar. Finished with chopped green onions, this lightened up orange chicken is perfect served alongside rice and a vegetable, like broccoli.
Almond Crusted Cod
Weight Watchers: 3 points
These cod fillets are crusted with crispy slivered almonds and panko breadcrumbs. With the simple addition of fresh lemon zest and lemon juice, the cod becomes seriously flavorful after a quick roast in the oven. Kick your ordinary fish dish up a notch with the addition of simple, flavorful, and clean pantry items.
Greek Turkey Burgers with Cucumber Salad and Yogurt Sauce
Weight Watchers: 2 points
Greek Turkey Burgers with Cucumber Salad and Yogurt Sauce makes for a perfectly well-balanced family dinner, and I also enjoy making this for myself for lunch meal prep. Ground turkey breast is mixed with kalamata olives, roasted red peppers, onion, breadcrumbs and spices to form deliciously seasoned patties. Served with a refreshing cucumber, tomato and red onion salad and homemade tangy cucumber yogurt sauce, this meal tastes like it took hours to create. In reality, you'll be in and out of the kitchen in about 30 minutes!
Shrimp Po’Boys with Remoulade
Weight Watchers: 8 points
A po'boy is a classic sandwich from Louisiana which typically features fried shrimp, lettuce, tomato and a zesty remoulade on a roll. This is my lightened-up version, which features air-fried crispy shrimp, but all the same fixin's. You'll never believe this dish is lightened up, and it's a total flavor explosion! Impress your family with these easy to make and delicious shrimp po'boys with remoulade.
Be sure to use my Canva template to create your monthly meal plan digitally, or print out my menu template and write it by hand. Tag me in your custom meal plans for the month!
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