Searching for quick meals that will keep you feeling full? Check out these 5 high-protein meal prep and snack recipes that you can make today and be set for the week! These are all recipes that we rotate often at our house. The adults love them and so do the kids!
Whether you are focusing on your macros, looking for budget-friendly protein meals, or maybe you just want a break from the kitchen a night or two this week (who doesn’t!) then make sure to bookmark this page.
Chicken Fried Rice
Chicken fried rice is a really quick and easy meal everyone in the family eats and loves at our house! You can meal prep this easily by using day old rice from earlier in the week. You can also have precooked chicken so find some in the freezer section, meal prep your own and freeze it, or grab a rotisserie chicken.
Where is the protein coming from? There will be 4 ounces of chicken in your final serving plus you will have mixed in some eggs to the rice mixture providing even more protein!
High protein meal prep isn’t hard when you have this recipe in your back pocket! It is 30 minutes or less, one pan, and seriously everyone in the family will love it!
Cottage Cheese Ranch Bowls
Not in the mood to cook but want to have a healthy high protein meal and veggies? This is the recipe you need to make!
My youngest calls this “10 outta 10 dip!” he loves when we make this and have it for a side, drizzle it on top of things, or use it as our light supper when it is paired with a veggie tray.
An easy way to make this a high protein meal prep is to pick your favorite vegetables. Chop them all up into bite sized pieces, then make the dip. Portion out a serving of it and drizzle it over all of the vegetables. Now you have a no cook, minimal dishes meal prep and you can sit and relax on the back porch with it!
You could pump up the protein for this if you wanted to do a little cooking by pairing it with 4 ounces of chicken breast that was from the freezer, meal prepped earlier in the week by you, or once again grabbing a rotisserie chicken from the store.
Black Bean and Corn Quesadillas
Keeping the food budget down, going for a meatless day, or looking for a high protein vegetarian meal for your lifestyle are all great reasons to check out this recipe. Add in the fact that it is super delicious and quick to make and you have a total win of a recipe.
Black Bean and Corn Quesadillas were inspired by the ones you can grab from the gas station. But I wanted to make them at home. These are great to meal prep because they freeze really well, so not only do you have a high-protein option, and saved money at the gas station, but you get to customize this to your liking! We usually have to make some without cheese for one of the kiddos, giving them a choice in their food options while keeping meal prep super easy.
No-Bake Energy Bites
This is seriously the easiest recipe to make. There is no heating of anything for this recipe so you will be able to make them even in a heat wave! There is a ton of healthy items in these too from flax seeds to rolled oatmeal.
The peanut butter and honey give it just the right amount of sweetness. The kids call this one “flax seed oatmeal” at our house and they ask for it often. It is definitely a snack I can get behind. It is low mess, high protein, high fiber, and refrigerates well so it can be made and at the ready for anytime hunger strikes.
Cheesy Veggie Egg Bowls
Egg bowls are a must if you are trying to get protein in in the morning. Most of the egg bowl recipes I have created have between 23 and 30 grams of protein in them, so check them out!
The protein comes from the delicious eggs and the creamy cottage cheese. Then depending on the mix ins you will get even more! This bowl is one of my favorites because it packs in the protein while making it so you can get about a serving of vegetables in at breakfast too. Even better, I like to just use whatever vegetables need to be used up to make this particular recipe and you can too! This saves you from throwing away the vegetable that have weird amounts left and keeps your morning breakfast full of variety.
Egg bowls are extremely meal prep friendly. You can make these a few days in advance so all you have to do is heat them up and wah-lah you have a healthy breakfast in seconds the morning of!
Each of these recipes is a mom-tested recipe and they are definitely easy to meal prep! Make sure to save this so you can find it next time you are looking for way to do some high-protein meal prep!