If you are trying to eat healthier every day, you may be searching for new balanced meal ideas that are economical, satisfying and easy to prepare. Have you tried making protein bowls part of your menu on a weekly basis?
Many of the protein bowl recipes that we see online are based on Greek yoghurt, with fruits and nuts. And that’s great, unless you really don’t like yoghurt. But there are other really hardy recipes that incorporate grass-fed ground beef that are so easy to make. You can even bulk prepare the ingredients for a healthy packed lunch or snack anytime you need a boost of great flavor and proteins.
We’d like to share a few tasty suggestions we found that you can try at home.
Healthy Beef Burrito Bowl
You love all the great flavors and nutrition of a quality ground-beef burrito, but let’s be honest; they can get a little messy right? You can also substantially reduce the carbohydrates in your meal and still enjoy all the goodness, by deconstructing your beef burrito with this healthy meal idea.
The recipe we’d like to share is from Rena, a food blogger at “Healthy Fitness Meals”. She shares an easy, economical and fast way to prepare the beef burrito bowls, and how to do bulk meal preparation.
When you start with Florida Raised fresh grass-fed ground beef (which is never frozen), you can make these bowls and portion them off into containers and freeze them for fast meals and lunches in a pinch. Simply bring the fresh ingredients (diced tomatoes, cilantro and diced red onion) and your sauce in a separate container to garnish after reheating your protein bowl at work. You’ll save time, money and enjoy a completely balanced meal.
Sweet Potato and Grass-Fed Ground Beef Bowl
Did you know that sweet potatoes are packed full of amazing nutrients and natural vitamins? Sweet potatoes contain almost no fat, and 769% of your daily value of Vitamin A, 65% DV of Vitamin C, 50% DV of Manganese, 27% of your daily Potassium, and a healthy amount of copper, niacin, pantothenic acid and natural fiber.
When you create a meal with sweet potato and nutritious grass-fed ground beef, it’s like rocket fuel for your body. That’s why we wanted to share this delicious meal idea for a Sweet Potato and Grass-Fed Ground Beef Bowl. The combined flavors are amazing and satisfying.
Check out this recipe from another of our favorite food blogs, at “Paleo Leap”.
Korean Ground Beef Bowl
You won’t believe how easy it is to prepare an authentic Korean Ground Beef Bowl that tastes just like your favorite restaurant. The Bibimbap or Bi Bim Bap is a traditional Korean meal that offers a lot of variety, mixing different ingredients on top of a bowl of warm white rice, with a soy, doenjang, namul or gochujang sauce.
This recipe from Fox and Briar adds a soft fried egg sunny side up, as the ultimate topping to the beef and sticky rice. If you want to increase the protein component, you can substitute quinoa instead, which has only 34 net grams (after fiber) compared to white rice, which has 43 carbohydrates in a measured cup with no fiber.
Use your fork to break the yolk of the egg and enjoy some amazing flavors. We love Korean Beef Bowls with a spicy sauce on top.
Unstuffed Pepper Bowl
When you serve stuffed peppers, are you the kind of person that prefers to scoop all the hot gooey goodness from inside and then leave the pepper? For some people, digesting sweet bell peppers can be hard, but this is a great low-mess and simply prepared alternative that helps you get more of that ‘good stuff’ you love, in a bowl.
Yumna is the food blogger behind this mouth-watering Unstuffed Pepper Bowl Recipe, on the ‘Feel Good Foodie’ blog. She suggests using tamari, which is a Japanese alternative to soy sauce (with less sodium). Small diced sweet yellow and red peppers are sautéed with the beef to soften them (and make them easier to digest), and the bowl is garnished with fresh cilantro and a delicious spoonful of sour cream.
Who knew ‘healthy’ could look and taste this good? We think your whole family will love it!
Beef and Plantain Skillet with Lemon Basil Aioli
When we saw this ground-beef recipe we thought: “now that is different and interesting!” Diced green plantains are sautéed until golden brown in a skillet (or frying pan), and then set aside. The ground beef is cooked with some fresh diced tomatoes and green onions, and then the plantains are added in at the end and garnished with an AMAZING (trust us) mayonnaise, fresh basil, lemon juice and garlic aioli.
No rice is used for this beef bowl recipe, because the plantains replace that starch component in the dish. Plantains have more fiber than rice (2g compared to less than 1 gram per cup), and they are packed with healthy vitamins like Potassium, Magnesium, Vitamins A + K and other essential nutrients.
It’s protein and fiber packed, and delicious. Head over to the Sophisticated Caveman blog and try it at home this week with Florida Raised hormone, antibiotic and artificial preservative free grass-fed ground beef.
Thai Beef Curry Bowls
Krista Price is the food blogger, writer and food stylist behind the “Paleoish Krista” website. We know that sticking to a strict Paleo diet can be hard, but she has some amazing power bowl recipes that we have enjoyed and want to share with you.
Photo: Paleoish Krista
Slivered almonds and fresh jalapeno? Now we’ve got your attention. Take a peek and let us know if you found one or two Thai Beef Curry Bowl recipes that you tried at home. Kristin’s secret weapon is to add some basic beef broth (soup base) while she is simmering the ground-beef for an even more rich and hardy beef flavor. Most of the recipes take less than 30 minutes to prepare and meet the guidelines for a Whole-30 diet.
Florida Raised grass-fed ground beef is sourced exclusively from local ranchers, who are committed to sustainable agricultural practices. Bypassing the industry norms of using hormones and antibiotics during beef production, our local ranch partners embrace the natural pasture raised method to produce nutritious world-class beef.
Florida Raised grass-fed ground beef is available only in Florida. It’s fresh (never frozen) and helps support our local ranchers. Look for our brand in the fresh meat section at Publix grocery stores across the state.