Renting a house or condo for the week and in need of easy, healthy meals for the family? Here are my go-to vacation recipes with lots of easy dinners, meal prep snacks, breakfast ideas and even a few cocktails!
Quick Breakfast Ideas
I love waking up to breakfast already prepped and ready to go, especially while I’m on vacation. All of these recipes are great for meal prepping ahead of time and can easily serve a crowd! Some will need to be doubled or tripled depending on the servings so just check the recipe.
Easy Overnight Oats
Here's the basic recipe for overnight oats with rolled oats, milk, yogurt and chia seeds. They're delicious, so easy to make and perfect for meal prep.
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Easy Chia Pudding
This 3-ingredient chia pudding is creamy, satisfying and loaded with protein, fiber and omega-3s. It's also vegan, gluten-free, paleo and keto.
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Baked Oatmeal
This baked oatmeal recipe is a yummy breakfast dish that can easily be customized with your favorite mix-ins. It comes together in 1 bowl and is perfect for meal prep.
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Baked Egg Muffins
These healthy baked egg cups are loaded with protein and veggies. Make them at the beginning of the week for a quick, on-the-go breakfast option for busy mornings.
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Sausage Egg Casserole
This veggie-packed sausage egg casserole is the perfect healthy dish to serve a crowd. It’s dairy-free and gluten-free, but still packs tons of flavor!
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Almond Flour Pancakes
These almond flour pancakes are perfectly fluffy, naturally gluten-free and so easy to make. Stack them up and top with maple syrup and fresh berries for a delicious breakfast the whole fam will love!
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Easy Lunch Ideas
I’m all about simple, protein-packed salads when it comes to vacation lunches. I love a good pasta salad and bound salads (like tuna and egg salad) are great for sandwiches and wraps.
Tuna Salad
The best healthy tuna salad recipe made with canned tuna, red onion, celery, chopped pickles and Greek yogurt. Perfect as a snack with crackers or on a sandwich.
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Avocado Egg Salad
This healthy avocado egg salad recipe uses mashed avocado in place of mayo. It’s creamy, flavorful and great served on salad, lettuce wraps or bread!
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Vegan Pesto Pasta Salad
A Mediterranean diet inspired vegan pesto pasta salad that is loaded with veggies and tossed in a dairy-free walnut pesto sauce. The perfect dish to bring to summer parties and cookouts!
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Greek Yogurt Chicken Salad
This easy Greek yogurt chicken salad uses protein-rich Greek yogurt instead of mayo. It's lighter in calories, but still loaded with flavor.
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Avocado Salad
This easy avocado salad combines creamy avocado with ripe tomatoes, red onions and a zesty lime dressing. It's the perfect healthy side dish.
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Easy Quinoa Salad
This easy quinoa salad is packed with spinach, tomatoes, red onion, avocado and feta with a simple lemon dressing. It’s the perfect healthy side dish!
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Simple Dinner Recipes
These dinner recipes come together in about 30 minutes and are meals the whole family will love! Plus, most are made in one pan, which means easy clean-up… because no one wants to be doing tons of dishes on vacay.
Easy Shakshuka
This easy shakshuka recipe is a healthy one-pan dish with poached eggs in a flavorful tomato sauce. It comes together quickly and can be served any time of the day!
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Healthy Taco Salad
This healthy taco salad is made with ground turkey taco meat instead of beef and is packed with veggies. It comes together quickly making it perfect for a weeknight meal.
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Egg Roll in a Bowl
This egg roll bowl combines lean protein with coleslaw mix and coconut aminos for a healthy meal that has flavor similar to an egg roll, minus the fried wrap.
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Sheet Pan Shrimp Fajitas
These sheet pan shrimp fajitas are packed with Mexican flavor and perfect for busy weeknights. Simply bake your shrimp, peppers and onions together on one sheet, load up your tortillas and enjoy!
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Asian Tofu Tacos
Spice up Taco Tuesday with these flavorful and meatless asian tofu tacos. The tofu is crispy and flavorful and pairs great with the crunchy and refreshing slaw.
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Asian Chicken Sheet Pan Meal
This Asian chicken sheet pan meal is so flavorful and perfect for busy weeknights. It bakes up in 20 minutes and tastes delicious served over rice!
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BBQ Jackfruit
These BBQ jackfruit sandwiches are loaded with BBQ flavor and the texture of shredded jackfruit makes for an amazing shredded meat substitute.
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Summer Vegetable Curry
This summer vegetable curry is loaded with seasonal veggies and super easy to whip up for a vegetarian weeknight meal. Perfect for Meatless Monday!
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Spinach and Feta Turkey Burgers
These spinach and feta turkey burgers are quick and easy to prepare and taste delicious grilled and served on a bun with your favorite burger toppings.
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Salmon Burgers
Here's how to make the best salmon burgers. They come together in under 30 minutes for an easy dinner and are loaded with flavor especially when topped with a delicious herb sauce.
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Healthy Snack Ideas
I love meal prepping healthy snacks like my baked oatmeal cups or protein balls to have on vacation. And you can easily double or triple these recipes to make a big batch depending on how many people you’ll have with you.
No Bake Protein Balls
The easiest no bake protein balls on the internet with four different flavors – chocolate peanut butter, tahini chocolate chip, cinnamon raisin and almond joy. Take 10 minutes to whip up a batch of these protein balls and snack healthy all week long!
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Baked Oatmeal Cups (4 Variations)
Keep these baked oatmeal cups in your fridge or freezer for an easy, healthy breakfast! There’s four different flavor options so you’ll never get bored. Vegan + gluten-free.
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Date Energy Balls
I like making these date energy balls with cashews. They remind me of the cashew cookie Larabar.
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Healthy Dessert Recipes
These are some of EBF’s fan faves when it comes to desserts. They’re all healthy, delicious and perfect for the whole family.
Healthy Peach Crisp
Healthy peach crisp made with fresh peaches and topped with an oatmeal pecan crumble topping that's gets nice and crispy.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Bites
These frozen chocolate covered peanut butter banana bites are the perfect healthy warm weather treat. Keep a batch in the freezer for easy snacking and enjoy two bites for less than 100 calories!
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Healthy Blueberry Crumble
A delicious and healthy blueberry crumble that can be made with fresh or frozen blueberries and is topped with an oatmeal pecan crumble. It's naturally sweetened, gluten-free + vegan.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Skillet
This chocolate chip cookie skillet is gooey, chewy and absolutely delicious especially when served warm with a scoop of ice cream! Made with almond flour, oat flour, almond butter and coconut sugar, it's gluten-free, dairy-free and can easily be made vegan.
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Cocktail Recipes
I’m all about having a few cocktails while on vacation and these are my go-to skinny cocktails that are refreshing, light and perfect for vacation mode!
Skinny Paloma (no sugar added)
A lightened up skinny Paloma made with freshly juiced grapefruit, tequila, lime juice and sparkling water.
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Skinny Margarita
This skinny margarita is low calorie, but still delicious. It’s made with fresh juice and has no added sugar!
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Skinny Piña Colada
This Skinny Piña Colada recipe with real pineapple, coconut water and coconut rum is made with only four ingredients. Serve frozen or on the rocks for a lighter version of this tropical cocktail.
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Skinny Coconut Daiquiri
This skinny coconut daiquiri is creamy and full of coconut flavor, but much lighter than most frozen coconut cocktails. Only has 175 calories and 5 grams of sugar.
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Those are great ideas! Do you meal prep the energy bites before you leave on vacation or do you prep them down there?
Great ideas!! Do you meal prep the energy bites before you leave on vacation or while you’re there?
Thanks!
It depends! If we’re driving somewhere that’s not too far away I’ll prep them in advance, otherwise I’ll prep them while there! Totally up to you. 🙂