Meal Prep Snacks | Wholefully https://wholefully.com/meal-prep-ideas/prep-ahead-snacks/ Fresh Family Meals - Made for Everyday Life Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:53:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wholefully.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/favicon-150x150.png Meal Prep Snacks | Wholefully https://wholefully.com/meal-prep-ideas/prep-ahead-snacks/ 32 32 Chocolate Coffee Overnight Oats https://wholefully.com/mocha-overnight-oats/ https://wholefully.com/mocha-overnight-oats/#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:53:50 +0000 https://wholefully.com/?p=50435 I’m calling it—these are the best overnight oats I’ve ever had (and that’s saying something considering I’m a bit of an overnight oats expert)! If you’re craving something sweet and rich to enjoy for breakfast, look no further than these Mocha Overnight Oats. They are creamy, thick, and have a gloriously decadent flavor of chocolate and espresso. It’s like your favorite mocha latte packaged up in an easy-to-eat speedy breakfast! A gold spoon sits on a glass jar of overnight oats. Coffee beans surround the jar on a white countertop. Magic happens when you use cocoa powder in overnight oats. There is a chemical reaction between the cocoa powder and the acid in the yogurt, and the resulting oats are fluffy and incredibly creamy. It happens with our Chocolate Peanut Butter Overnight Oats, Chocolate Peppermint Overnight Oats (coming soon!), and our Chocolate Coconut Overnight Oats, and it happens here with these coffee-flavored oats, too! It’s a must-try for any chocolate-lover! Read the post »]]> https://wholefully.com/mocha-overnight-oats/feed/ 15 Blueberry Overnight Oats https://wholefully.com/blueberry-overnight-oats/ https://wholefully.com/blueberry-overnight-oats/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:15:22 +0000 https://wholefully.com/?p=50421 We have a lot of rich and decadent overnights oats recipes here on Wholefully, but sometimes you want something a little lighter and brighter for breakfast—and these Blueberry Lemon Overnight Oats fit the bill! Plump and sweet blueberries are suspended and a creamy and tangy lemon-flavored oatmeal. This lemon-blueberry combination reminds me of warm weather and sunshine! I make these oats when I’m craving a little bit of summertime (even in the middle of winter). Overnight oats are topped with blueberries and a twist of lemon.

What are overnight oats?

Overnight oats are a no-cook way to make oatmeal. Instead of cooking your rolled oats on the stove, you stir them together with liquid and other mix-ins, and let it all rest in the fridge overnight. It makes a great pudding-like porridge that you can eat cold, or warm up. For more on this grab-and-go breakfast favorite of mine, head on over to our Overnight Oats 101 post.

What makes overnight oats so special?

Overnight oats can be a meal prep staple in any busy household. Here’s why you’ll always find a stash in our fridge:
  • Overnight oats are delicious! If you’ve never had cold oatmeal before, it may sound off-putting, but trust me! This porridge is hearty, creamy, and tastes like pudding! (But if you really don’t like the idea of eating them cold, you can heat them up, too—more on that in a sec.)
  • They can be a healthy and hearty way to start the day. You get to control everything that goes into your overnight oats, so you can make them into a super nourishing, nutritious breakfast. Add some collagen or protein powder. Mix in some super seeds, like chia, flax, or hemp. Reduce the added sweeteners, or drop them completely. You can make these oats your breakfast superfood!
  • Overnight oats are super easy to make in advance. Spend a few minutes mixing up your overnight oats in the evening or on the weekend, and breakfast will be ready to grab-and-go by morning. Overnight oats aren’t just easy to meal prep—they are designed for it!
  • You can customize them to fit your dietary preferences. Make your overnight oats your own—they can be super nourishing or super decadent, vegan or gluten-free. We’re covering blueberry overnight oats here, but once you get a feel for overnight oats, you can discover your own favorite flavor.
  • They can be made in bulk. You’ll see overnight oats on meal prep menu after meal prep menu, and for good reason—you can make a full week’s worth of breakfasts at once.
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A tea towel-lined bowl is filled with strawberry muffins and fresh berries.
These fluffy, bakery-style muffins are bursting with the flavor of Spring—ripe, red strawberries! This strawberry muffin recipe is a perfect way to use up some of the amazing in-season strawberries in your area. Strawberry muffins are a perfect on-the-go breakfast or snack. These muffins freeze beautifully—meaning you can bake up a huge batch of them and keep them on hand for those mornings when you are rushing out the door. Let's get baking! Read the post »]]> https://wholefully.com/strawberry-muffins/feed/ 0 Almond Flour Banana Bread https://wholefully.com/almond-flour-banana-bread-paleo/ https://wholefully.com/almond-flour-banana-bread-paleo/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:00:32 +0000 https://wholefully.com/?p=49665 Never in the history of my grocery shopping trips have I ever purchased the correct number of bananas to get through a week. It doesn’t matter if I buy four bananas or forty, it always seems that at the end of the week we have exactly three speckled brown bananas left over, just asking to be made into banana bread. That’s all to say that I’ve made a lot of banana bread in my life! I’d say I make close to 30-40 loaves per year, and all that banana bread baking has made me into quite the banana bread connoisseur. To me, perfect banana bread must be: (A) super, incredibly moist (B) dense as all get out—this is not the time for a light and fluffy texture, and (C) intensely banana-flavored. So when I set out to make a grain-free, dairy-free, paleo banana bread recipe, it had an incredibly high standard to live up to! A hand lifts a slice of banana bread from a stack of slices. Luckily, dense quick breads like banana bread are the perfect introduction to paleo baking. The grain-free flours like the almond flour we use here lend themselves to dense, moist breads and are easy to find at most major supermarkets. Getting fluffy, grain-free sandwich bread is an experiment in more advanced paleo baking, but getting perfect paleo banana bread? That’s easy as can be!

How do you make banana bread paleo?

Making banana bread paleo is as simple as swapping out a few key ingredients. In place of the typical all-purpose flour (or whole wheat flour, in the case of our One Bowl Whole Wheat Banana Bread), we use grain-free and gluten-free almond flour and tapioca flour. In place of butter, we use melted coconut oil. And that’s it! Magically, your banana bread has become paleo and gluten-free. Read the post »]]> https://wholefully.com/almond-flour-banana-bread-paleo/feed/ 8 How to Make Healthy Carrot Cake Overnight Oats https://wholefully.com/carrot-cake-overnight-oats-recipe/ https://wholefully.com/carrot-cake-overnight-oats-recipe/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2024 13:00:38 +0000 https://wholefully.com/?p=48613 Carrot Cake Overnight Oats are part decadent dessert, part nourishing breakfast, and completely convenient for weekday mornings. A glass jar filled with carrot cake overnight oats sits on a marble countertop. The oats are garnished with shredded carrots, and a spoon dips into the jar. The flavors of carrot cake are positively perfect together. Sweet and crunchy carrots, tender raisins, tangy cream cheese frosting—it’s a combo that shouldn’t work together, but absolutely does! I’ve been known to turn dessert flavors into healthy breakfasts (like I did with Healthy Carrot Cake Muffins and with Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Squares), so it should come as no surprise that I took a riff from my favorite springtime dessert and turned Carrot Cake into healthy overnight oats. Mixing up these oats is a great way to feel like you are getting a decadent dessert without actually eating a decadent dessert. Welcome to the magic that is overnight oats! Read the post »]]> https://wholefully.com/carrot-cake-overnight-oats-recipe/feed/ 5 Almond Cranberry Breakfast Cookies https://wholefully.com/first-meal-of-2011-fruit-and-nut-breakfast-cookies/ https://wholefully.com/first-meal-of-2011-fruit-and-nut-breakfast-cookies/#comments Mon, 26 Feb 2024 07:27:00 +0000 http://backtoherroots.com/?p=3313 Cookies for breakfast? You bet! These cranberry breakfast cookies are a great grab-and-go option for busy mornings.
Soft cranberry almond cookies stacked on a white plate with additional cranberries and almonds around them.
Start your mornings with a burst of flavor and nutrition with these delectable Cranberry Breakfast Cookies! Packed with wholesome ingredients and the tangy goodness of cranberries, these cookies are the perfect grab-and-go option for busy mornings or afternoon snacks. Plus, we'll show you how to customize them with different nuts and fruits if you want to mix things up. Let's go! Read the post »]]> https://wholefully.com/first-meal-of-2011-fruit-and-nut-breakfast-cookies/feed/ 12 How to Make Yogurt (With or Without an Instant Pot!) https://wholefully.com/yogurt-making/ https://wholefully.com/yogurt-making/#comments Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:35:06 +0000 http://backtoherroots.com/?p=6377 Making yogurt at home is easier than you think! Learn how to make delicious, tangy yogurt with or without an Instant Pot in this step-by-step guide. </yoastmark"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"</yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"&amp;lt;/yoastmark" />"Overhead shot of 24-hour yogurt in a bowl, topped with granola and berries" width="1800" height="2696" data-pin-description="Making yogurt is one of the best and easiest ways to get started with fermenting foods in your own kitchen. This 24-hour yogurt is packed full of probiotics to keep your gut happy and healthy. #yogurt #instantpot #greekyogurt #probiotics #wholefully" /&gt;&lt;br />We go through a lot of yogurt in our house. It can get mega-expensive, mega-fast when you consume that much organic grass-fed yogurt. In our area, organic yogurts in the individual size tubs run about $1.50 apiece. Seems economical enough, until you start doing the math. One dollar for about six ounces of yogurt, times three people in my family, times once a day– that’s over $30 per week in yogurt! Yeeeesssshh. I could think of about 300 things I’d rather spend $30 on in a week than yogurt.</p&gt; <p>&lt</p> ;strong >But what if I told you could get an entire half-gallon of organic yogurt for less than you pay for a single cup of fancy coffee? Yup, you can make organic grass-fed yogurt for even cheaper than conventional store-bought yogurt by making your yogurt at home. I know, yogurt-making seems difficult and complicated, but I promise it is totally easy and only takes about 10 minutes of hands-on time. Plus, it only requires two ingredients! You can do this.</p&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt; <p>&lt;a</p></p></p> cl <p>ass="""continueRead"&gt;&amp;lt;/p></p>&lt;/p&amp;gt;]]> https://wholefully.com/yogurt-making/feed/ 60 Smoothie Booster Packs https://wholefully.com/smoothie-booster-packs/ https://wholefully.com/smoothie-booster-packs/#comments Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:15:29 +0000 http://backtoherroots.com/?p=7869
The recipe was originally published in August 2011. It was retested with reader feedback, rephotographed, rewritten, and republished for your enjoyment in May 2017.
It is no secret that I love smoothies. I especially love smoothies for an on-the-go breakfast. I can make them at home and then take them along wherever the breeze takes me. What I don’t like about smoothies? The amount of ingredients they take. You are probably saying, “Fruit. Milk. Ice. That isn’t that many.” And you are right, that isn’t! But to make my smoothies into super breakfasts, I load them full of powders, seeds, and other nutrition boosters. By the time I get out, measure and put away all of my additions, a smoothie can take upwards of 20 minutes to perfect. Ridiculous! And so not the speedy breakfast option I want it to be. So, a few years back, I came up with the idea of these smoothie booster packs—and they’ve saved me so much time over the years! These smoothie booster packs have all kinds of goodness in them, and they are just waiting in the freezer to be popped into whatever smoothie I’m making that day.
These smoothie booster packs are totally customizable to what you like in your smoothies and what nutritional goals you have. Looking for a boost of protein? Add protein powder. Want to get your dark, leafy greens in a drinkable version? Throw in some spinach. Looking to quell seasonal allergies? Toss in some local bee pollen. It’s up to you to craft your perfect booster packs! I have a basic recipe for my “normal” booster packs below, but here are some options (plus I’m sure there are a whole bunch I’m forgetting) that you can add in—I’ve added affiliate links for each of my favorite brands where applicable: Read the post »]]> https://wholefully.com/smoothie-booster-packs/feed/ 45 One Bowl Whole Wheat Pumpkin Bread https://wholefully.com/one-bowl-whole-wheat-pumpkin-bread-7/ https://wholefully.com/one-bowl-whole-wheat-pumpkin-bread-7/#comments Fri, 22 Sep 2023 18:13:29 +0000 http://backtoherroots.com/?p=27442 Happy September, friends! This is one of my favorite months of the year. I love that the crisp, cool mornings blend into jacketless afternoons. I love watching the leaves begin to change. I love how clear the sky is after months of hazy humidity. And I really love pumpkin season! Last year, I held the first ever Wholefully Pumpkin Week, where I brought you seven straight days of great pumpkin recipes (you can see all my pumpkin recipes here). I did it mostly because I was so excited to start cooking with pumpkin that I had too many fun recipe ideas to narrow it down! So I didn't, and shared them all. I never expect it to be so crazy popular! Combined, those seven recipes have been shared on social media almost 100,000 times. Y'all love your pumpkin! One Bowl Whole Wheat Pumpkin Bread I almost couldn't wait to dive into pumpkin week again this year, but on principle, figured I should at least wait until we hit September, and it wasn't 96º outside anymore before drowning you in pumpkin puree. But now that we're here? It's on. For the next week, you'll be getting a daily pumpkin recipe—and not to toot my own horn, but...*toot* *toot*. These suckers are delicious! And I'm SO excited because this year, my dear friend (and blogging queen) Melissa of Bless This Mess is joining in on the pumpkin fun. Head over to her blog each day this week to see a pumpkinful recipe! And what if you aren't a pumpkin fan? Well, I still love you, but come back next week when I've gotten all the pumpkin out of my system, k? Get the recipe »]]> https://wholefully.com/one-bowl-whole-wheat-pumpkin-bread-7/feed/ 9 Baked Pumpkin Oatmeal Cups https://wholefully.com/pumpkin-spice-baked-oatmeal-cups/ https://wholefully.com/pumpkin-spice-baked-oatmeal-cups/#comments Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:03:11 +0000 https://wholefully.com/?p=46056 Pumpkin season is one of my favorite times of year to spend in the kitchen because I absolutely adore developing recipes with pumpkin. It is such a versatile and healthy ingredient. It can be sweet or savory, baked or raw. It can be used for dinner or, in this case, for an easy grab-and-go breakfast—baked pumpkin oatmeal cups! These pumpkin oatmeal breakfast cups are soft, tender, and hearty—just like your favorite bowl of morning oatmeal! It’s just a whole lot more portable. (Have you ever tried to eat a bowl of oatmeal while driving? I have. It wasn’t pretty.) Read the post »]]> https://wholefully.com/pumpkin-spice-baked-oatmeal-cups/feed/ 2