What is a Keto Diet?
A keto, or ketogenic, diet is a strict low-carb high-fat way of eating with a protein restriction. Usually, it means eating about 60-80% fat, 10-30% protein and under 10% carbohydrates. The goal of a keto diet could be weight loss, health benefits or it could be increased mental and physical performance. Keto Meal Prep Recipes can also be simple, healthy, and affordable... just like our other meal prep recipes!
Below you’ll find 25 Amazing Low Carb Keto Meal Prep Recipes to help you get started on a keto lifestyle or to give you new inspiration if you’re already doing it. We have included recipes for every meal; breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus a few snacks to keep you on track.
All of the recipes are meal prep friendly leaving you with no excuses as to why you can't stay on track with your ketogenic diet goals. And for those of you who aren't following a keto diet give these recipes a try anyway! Pair them with your favorite rice alternatives for an incredibly delicious and healthy meal.
25 Easy Keto Recipes you will WANT to make ASAP
Breakfast Recipes
T.B.H.... meal prepping breakfast has always been tough for me (Nick). Finding a recipe that's easy to make, holds well, and fits my macros can really be a struggle. So, when we were looking for simple keto meals to start the day, the number of options that were available was really surprising. Our go-to is typically turmeric eggs, sausage, and an apple, but with the simple keto meals below, we've been able to brand out into some great new flavors. Which of these keto breakfast ideas would you choose?
Bacon Wrapped Asparagus Breakfast Bowl
Keto Sausage & Egg Breakfast Scramble
Turmeric Scrambled Eggs and Sausage
The Complete Pros and Cons Of A Keto Diet
In the midst of all these diet and meal plans today, the ketogenic diet may have come to your attention. After all, there are thousands of people who follow it and claim the many health benefits, including weight loss! With this extremely low-carb diet and effective results, you may have wanted to try it out and see for yourself. But before you do that, there are some things you’ll need to know, namely the good and bad things it can do for your body. Yes, the diet can do so much more than simply burn fat! Read more here
Keto Lunch Recipes
Who needs sandwiches when you've got bacon chips? Considering the high-fat, low-carb keto diet is based on meat, eggs, cheese, and plant-based fats (nuts! Avocado!), it's easy to pack flavorful and filling keto-friendly lunches. Don't sleep on these bacon wrapped sausage meatballs fam. You will thank us later.
Sesame Salmon With Baby Bok Choy & Mushrooms
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Bacon, Chicken & Tomato Stuffed Avocado
Keto Dinner Recipes
Keto dinner ideas are plentiful when you make a quick search on the internet. We wrote this keto meals post as a resource for you to stay up to date on some of the best ket meal prep recipes out there. Even if you aren't making these recipes for the week ahead, these keto dinners will keep you asking for more once you've dusted the sheet pan full of salmon and veggies. We only have one of the keto dinner recipes listed below, but our keto pizza chicken meal preps have been on the menu at least twice a month ever since we wrote the recipe. Check out our pizza chicken recipes here
Instant Pot Beef Barbacoa (Keto, GF)
Skillet Shrimp With Tomato & Avocado
Keto Sausage Grill Packet Meal Prep
One Pan Lemon Chicken & Asparagus
Keto Snack Recipes
Snacks and desserts are the easiest to overdue. When thinking about keto snacks and desserts, you will really want to keep portion control in mind. These are typically very dense and calorie heavy (which isn't a bad thing necessarily) and it's easy to take in a lot, in a relatively short time frame. When you're prepping your keto meals, do you ever think about prepping keto snacks or keto desserts?
Cheesy Bacon Stuffed Mini Peppers
The Thai Chicken Lettuce wraps are not Keto at all... one serving is over 18 carbs. Most keto diets have a maximum of 20-25 carbs per day. Not likely to stay in KETOSIS if you go much higher than that in a whole day.
Hi Valerie -
Great catch! Thank you for pointing that out. You are 100% correct in that eating that would not allow one to stay in ketosis for the day. We have gone ahead and adjusted the post.
Mmmm.....so much yummy goodness I can't wait to try!
Thanks Danielle! We hope you enjoy the recipes!
These look great!
Not long started the Keto diet myself. Balancing my protein intake has been the biggest challenge so far, so am deffo going to add a few of these to my meal plan to balance things out. 😀
I am 53 old women with type 1 diabetes an my A1C was 7.6 to 6.3. I've been on the keto diet for three month only lost 12 pounds out 20 to lose. I should start walking to get rest of weight off with diet.
So many great recipes. Some have a higher carb count but healthy and filling.
Looks good, I'm looking at meal-prep as a way to stay on track with the keto program as well as streamlining my cooking time and food purchases, and stay flexible with my husband's and my dietary needs.
So far I'm not seeing any of these being "prep" meals
Not sure what you mean Amy? Is that because they aren't photographed in a meal prep container?
Not many of these would be good to make ahead and store for the entire week or freeze. Maybe for a day and that's about it as far as being able to be prepped.
Wow, these meatballs look great! The ketogenic diet is a very low-carb, high-fat diet that shares many similarities with the Atkins and low-carb diets.
Hello I want to start a keto diet. I wanted to see if how do I meal prep for the day
Hey Joyce - If you're just getting started with meal prep, be sure to check out this article: https://mealpreponfleek.com/meal-prep-101-for-beginners/
If you need a little more detail and mindset, check out our course to see if it would be a fit for you: http://bit.ly/Meal-Prep-Master-Course
I loved this article, it was really helpful for me. Thanks for posting it. I am following your tips with some other awesome diet plan that helped me lose a lot of weight.
I liked it a lot. Thank you!
I love these keto friendly meal prep recipes! Thanks for sharing!
Oh my! This bacon-wrapped asparagus breakfast bowl was delicious and so easy to make! Will have to try this for my family. Thanks so much!
We are so happy you loved it, Julia! Thanks for sharing your feedback with us!
That bacon-wrapped asparagus looks delicious, I just want to devour it off the screen! Thanks for sharing, Sarah!
Great article about keto , nice content, good read and informative.
I just woke up from the bed and was looking for some good Keto breakfast ideas. Glad I came to this post. There are so many interesting ideas. Saved all for later. For now, I am making easy Keto sausage & egg breakfast sandwich.
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