These Top 7 500 Calorie Bowls provide healthy, balanced meals that can help you meet your nutritional needs, feel fulfilled, and achieve your health goals.
Are you thinking of making some new healthy eating goals? One way is to eat balanced meals that are rich in nutrients but low in calories. But you don’t want to skimp on calories so much that you don’t feel satisfied and energized. Often, a prepared “light meal” is so light (about 200 calories) that you’ll be hungry when the last bite is gone. But a healthy weight plan should provide more than 200 calories per meal. In fact, aiming for about 400-500 calories for lunch and dinner, combined with a similar meal plan for breakfast and small snacks, provides about 1500 calories per day, which is a good amount to promote healthy, sustained weight loss for many . Each of my Top 7 Healthy Veggie Bowls Collection offers a range of delicious veggie bowls that provide about 500 calories each—and they’re so filling that you’ll feel satisfied until your next meal. Plus, they’re packed with nutrients, including protein, fiber, vitamins, minerals, healthy fats, slow-digesting carbohydrates, and phytochemicals. They’re great for cooking and an easy 500-calorie dinner. You can also make these 500-calorie bowl recipes interactive so your friends and family can prepare their own bowls just the way they like. Prepare the ingredients and let everyone make their own bowls.
Just a reminder. It’s not just about calories. If your diet includes the right amount of minimally processed plant foods, like these healthy plant-based bowls, you won’t have to worry about counting calories. Of course, calories matter. But so is activity, rest, and overall balance in your life.
Take care, eat well, live well. Don’t stress about calories!
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Top 7 500 Calorie Bowls
Tofu Kale Power Bowls with Tahini
This power bowl is packed with the nutritional benefits of baked tofu, kale, sweet potatoes, peas, peppers, hemp seeds, and tahini. It’s the perfect lunch to go through the day, feeling satisfied and ready to perform at your best. Best of all, it’s delicious thanks to the colorful combination of plant-based foods, homemade tofu, and delicious tahini. Check out the video for this recipe here.
Sesame Tempeh Buddha Bowl
This Buddha Bowl is inspired by tempeh – a traditional Indonesian cake of fermented soybeans and grains. It’s stuffed with brown rice, crunchy radishes, baby kale, asparagus, mushrooms, and peppers. And topped with a tahini-ginger dressing for a bold twist. Check out the video for this recipe here.
Mediterranean Edamame Quinoa Bowls
This delicious Greek-inspired salad is a nutritious one-bowl dish for lunch or dinner, or the perfect salad accompaniment to family meals. Packed with nutrition and flavor, this will quickly become your go-to recipe for the week.
Green Goddess Valley Bowl
Buddha bowls—light, healthy meals of whole grains, lots of veggies, healthy sources of protein, and tasty sauces—are all the rage. This bowl combines the star nutritional power of whole grain sorghum and beans with cool greens like arugula, avocado, cucumber, asparagus, and pumpkin seeds. Plus, it’s topped with a homemade, plant-based green goddess sauce that’s as delicious as it is beautiful.
Pistachio Turmeric Rice Power Bowl
What’s not to love about this exotic golden rice bowl? It’s full of tangy flavor and nutrition, and is complemented with pistachios, chickpeas, spinach, avocado, and cranberries. Simply cook delicious rice and add toppings just before serving. You can also prepare this recipe and have a ready-to-eat meal for lunch or dinner. Check out the video for this recipe here.
Moroccan Chickpea Sorghum Bowls
There’s nothing like a delicious rice bowl filled with whole grains, beans, and roasted veggies. Moroccan flavors — spices, lemon, and olives — shine in this simple, nutritious bowl. It’s perfect for meal prepping – prep this dish and pack it into 4 healthy meals for the entire week. Or serve it as a delicious side dish at your next family dinner. Check out the video for this recipe here.
Turmeric Rice and Black Bean Bowls
It’s just a bowl of rice. so. great. isn’t it? I love the combination of whole grain foundations with seasonal produce, plant-based proteins, and fruit. You can use this strategy for meal prep: Just throw all the ingredients together and you’ll have several ready-to-eat meals ready for the week. Or I like to prep all the ingredients and let the whole family make the bowls just the way they like. Regardless, this is a healthy plant-powered meal strategy that is here to stay. That’s why I really love this completely plant-based (and vegan) Turmeric Rice and Black Bean Bowl, topped with jewel-colored black beans, pomegranate seeds, avocado, scallions, and yellow bell peppers. It all starts with this super delicious golden turmeric rice. Then the toppings are all fresh and simple. You can even switch up the toppings based on your taste preferences or the season. For example, try cauliflower florets, cucumbers, radishes, and chickpeas. The sky is the limit for creativity.
Watch my video here on how to make these for a 500 calorie plant-based bowl:
Tofu Kale Power Bowls with Tahini
Pistachio Turmeric Rice Power Bowl
Moroccan Chickpea Sorghum Bowls
Sesame Tempeh Buddha Bowl