The best spring recipes for for breakfast, lunch, and dinner to make cooking easy with clean eating meals that nourish your body and keep you healthy! Vegetarian and dairy-free options included! Keep reading to create a meal plan you love.
Fresh Seasonal Spring Produce
I don’t know about you, but I love fresh produce! There’s not much that makes me happier than walking into a supermarket or my local farmer’s market and seeing aisles and aisles bursting with bright colors from all the beautiful fruits and vegetables
While fruits and vegetables that aren’t in-season are healthy, the best way to get the most nutrition out of all your meals is to focus on whole foods that have been recently harvested
Seasonal foods are those that are purchased and consumed around the same time period in which they are grown. This means they are not canned, frozen, or preserved. As a result, seasonal produce is fresher, tastes better, and often has more nutrients than it does when purchased out of season. Even better, in-season produce can usually be found at your local farmer’s markets meaning they’re often more affordable. Plus, shopping locally is a great way to support your local community!
If you’re looking for a complete guide to spring produce, check out this list from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. However, if you’re looking for a brief overview, the most common fruits and vegetables grown in spring include: apples, asparagus, avocados, broccoli, carrots, kale, lemons, mushrooms, strawberries, and spinach. Using these ingredients, you’ll be surprised at just how many incredible recipes you can make!
Spring Breakfast Recipes
You know what they say, breakfast is the most important meal of the day! Whether you’re looking for something quick you can grab and go in the mornings or a warm, comforting way to start your day, we’ve got you covered!! These breakfast recipes utilize seasonal fruit and vegetables such as kiwi, strawberry, kale, and leeks!
Kiwi Smoothie with Pineapple
This Kiwi Smoothie is made with refreshing flavors that improve your digestion and naturally detox your body for the best way to start your day.
Oven Roasted Leeks and Potatoes
with olive oil eggs or chicken sausage- Made in one pan, this Leek and Potato Bake is a nutrient-packed breakfast that can be modified to fit all your spring weekly meal plan needs. Top with protein of choice!
Super Fruit Kale Smoothie
Made with a handful of healthy ingredients, this Kale Strawberry Smoothie is the easiest, kid-friendly breakfast you’ll ever find!
Breakfast Power Bowls
Whether you want spring breakfast recipes that can be prepped ahead of time or made in the morning, this gluten-free power bowl is just the recipe for you. Nutrient dense and filling!
No-Bake Apricot Oat Protein Bars
Sweet, salty, chewy, and dense, these Vegan Apricot Oat Protein Bars are easy to make ahead of time and take on-the-go!
Recipes for Spring Lunches
It wouldn’t be a spring meal plan without lunch, now would it? Take a work break and rejuvenate with these easy recipes perfect to take to the office or enjoy at home. These lunch recipes are meal prep friendly and utilize some of our favorite spring greens, berries, and prebiotic rich vegetables such as artichoke!
Asian Chicken Salad Wraps
Make these Asian chicken salad wraps with simple ingredients for a mayo-free, sweet, and tangy recipe perfect for meal prep!
Strawberry Spinach Salad with Poppyseed Dressing
This Strawberry Spinach Salad is a fresh and filling meal full of vitamins, antioxidants, and fiber to keep you full throughout the day.
Swiss Chard Salad Wraps
Vegetarian, refined sugar-free, and full of antioxidants, these Swiss Chard Quinoa Wraps are delicious hand-held bundles.
Creamy Artichoke Pea Soup
This Artichoke Pea Soup can be eaten cold or warm for a flavorful prebiotic filled spring soup to keep your gut healthy.
Recipes for Spring Dinners
Complete your spring weekly meal plan with these nutrient-dense dinner recipes. Dinner recipes that spring produce such as cabbage, pineapple, garlic, radish, and new potatoes! Kid friendly, Whole 30, and low carb options!
Air Fryer Fish Tacos with Pineapple Slaw
Elevate your Taco Tuesday with these easy battered gluten-free air fryer fish tacos topped with pineapple slaw!
Garlic Herb Pan-Fried Cod Cakes
These Garlic and Herb Cod Cakes with air fried vegetables are light, easy, and paleo-friendly for a dinner recipe you won’t want to skip in your spring meal plan.
Persian-Spiced Chicken and Potatoes
The ultimate one-pan dinner, this Persian-Spiced Chicken and Potatoes recipe features flavorful, juicy chicken and tender, roasted vegetables for a nourishing meal that’s ready in minutes.
Sheet Pan Blueberry Salmon and Veggies
This One Pan Superfood Salmon recipe is made in 30 minutes with simple, nutrient-dense ingredients!
Vegetarian Spring Dinner Recipes
Whether you don’t eat meat or just want to lighten things up a bit, take a look at these spring dinner ideas for vegetarian options you’ll love. These dinner recipes utilize spring produce such as kale, mushroom, new potatoes, herbs and garlic, plus green onion!
Easy Egg Lasagna
Egg lasagna roll-ups are your new favorite meal prep breakfast (or dinner!) that also happens to be keto. This high protein recipe only takes a handful of ingredients, the filling is versatile, and it’s freezer friendly.
Creamy Mushroom Risotto Skillet
Make this gluten-free creamy mushroom risotto skillet for a side dish or main dish full of rich flavors and a creamy consistency! Vegan risotto option.
Socca Pizza
Pizza night just got better with this socca flatbread pizza recipe! Naturally high in protein thanks to the chickpea flour, it’s grain-free, gluten-free, and ready in less than 45 minutes.
Curry Spiced Foil Packet Potatoes and Eggs
Curry spiced foil packet potatoes and eggs is a gluten free, Paleo, healthy grilling recipe (or oven) for breakfast or dinner. Make this vegetarian recipe tonight!
Meal Planning Tips + Grocery List
Meal planning can be a daunting task, but creating a spring weekly meal plan doesn’t have to be hard! Especially when you pull from our lists of spring breakfast recipes, nourishing lunches, and spring dinner ideas.
First, find your favorite meals from each category. I recommend making multiple servings of each recipe to avoid spending hours in the kitchen and reduce your grocery bill.
Then, I find it helpful to write out a weekly menu mixing and matching the meals from each category above.
To make this spring weekly meal plan even easier for you, we’ve created a downloadable grocery list so you have everything you need to go shopping and get started in the kitchen!
Before you know it, you’ll have a whole week’s worth of super healthy meals to keep you on track on even the busiest weeks.
Dear Lindsay,
Hello from Paris, France.
Thank you so much for these recipes and for the information you provide us with.
They are both very inspiring and informative.
My pleasure! De rien. Thank you for the kind words. Merci!
Oh I love this! I am a very big seasonal eater and this helps tremendously. Will look forward to a summer one too (hopefully you’ll have one?)
We will definitely have more meal plans! Summer meal plan might be vegetarian due to all the abundant produce. 🙂