32 Healthy Crockpot Meal Prep Ideas

Crockpot meal prep will become your new best friend! Crockpot recipes require significantly less prep time and are a great way to add healthy braised foods to your meal plan?

The typical crockpot meal only takes 5 minutes to get started; after that, you can leave it and carry on with your day.

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32 Healthy Crockpot Meal Prep Ideas  

These healthy crockpot meal prep recipes will give you a ton of inspiration to spice up your meal plan!

Crockpot Chicken Meal Prep

Chicken is perfect for meal-prepping healthy dishes. It’s lean, low in calories, and high in protein. If you don’t know what to pair your chicken with, have a look at these tasty side dishes for chicken.

1. Crockpot Chicken Teriyaki with No Refined Sugar

Easy crockpot chicken teriyaki using a delicious, sweet, and healthy glaze. It’s a healthy twist on traditional teriyaki so that you can enjoy a guilt-free favorite! It’s a perfect crockpot meal prep idea that I rotate into my meal plan regularly. It only uses a handful of ingredients making grocery shopping a whole lot easier.

2. 5-Ingredient Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos

These crockpot chicken tacos require only five ingredients and can be prepped in 5 minutes! Tacos are one of my favorite weeknight meals because you can fill them with all sorts of good-for-you ingredients, from seafood to meat to vegetables. Black beans and avocado, along with a little more salsa, make for a tasty combo. Delicious, healthy, and perfect for meal prep if you make the chicken in advance! 

3. Healthy Chicken Chili

Healthy chicken chili in the slow cooker is a hearty, comforting dish everyone will love that takes just 10 minutes to throw together. In a warm and zesty tomato sauce, this rich and flavorful crockpot chili is filled with juicy white chicken, black beans, black-eyed peas, chili beans, hominy, and green chilis. Easy enough for weeknight dinners and special enough for weekend get-togethers.

4. Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken

The best slow cooker taco chicken recipe perfect for tacos, burritos, even quesadillas! This healthy Mexican shredded chicken is so easy to throw in the Crock-Pot. It’s gluten-free, paleo, and allergy-free! Grab your favorite taco sauce and let this meal cook itself, making it great to meal prep for lunches or dinners!

5. Slow Cooker Whole Chicken and Pasta

With only 5 minutes of prep, it doesn’t get more hands-off than this when making Slow Cooker Whole Chicken with Pasta. First, you will slow cook your whole chicken for 8 hours; next you will add pasta to the slow cooker and cook for another 30 minutes. Perfect for busy school weeknights or work weeks! 

6. Slow Cooker Thai Chicken Thighs

Slow cooker Thai chicken thighs recipe has only two ingredients! A homemade sweet chili sauce combined with chicken thighs slow cooks for under 3 hours for a tender chicken dinner full of flavor. With less than 5 minutes of prep, this chicken recipe is great for busy families!

7. Chicken Chasseur

Chicken Chasseur is a classic French dish that many cultures have adopted. This traditional chicken chasseur recipe is perfect for the crockpot.

8. Crockpot Chicken Fajitas

Crockpot chicken fajitas If you love to cook healthy meals for yourself and your family. This is a favorite go-to recipe, crockpot chicken fajitas. This recipe can be made as mild or spicy as you like, and it’s super versatile, so feel free to swap out ingredients with your favorites! Give this a try the next time you’re looking for an easy dinner idea that will please everyone at the table.

9. Slow Cooker Chicken Curry

Put this recipe in the slow cooker at the start of your day and come home to the warm, rich flavors of curry, coconut, and cumin in this Slow Cooker Chicken Curry. This is a meal your family will love served alongside rice and warm naan. Have a look at some of my favorite Indian meal prep recipes.

10. Crockpot Chicken Vegetable Soup

Crockpot Chicken Vegetable Soup is a hands-free, slow-cooked chicken soup that tastes as Grandma made it. Boneless chicken thighs, fresh vegetables, chicken broth, and savory seasonings create all the flavor and comfort of classic homemade chicken soup.

11. Slow Cooker Chicken Tinga

The sauce for this chicken tinga comes together easily and quickly in a blender for minimal chopping! Use the chicken tinga for tacos, burrito bowls, or stuffed sweet potatoes.

Crockpot Vegetarian Meal Prep

Here are my tasty vegetarian meal prep ideas that are packed with veggies and flavor!

12. Slow Cooker Vegan Chipotle Bean Chili

This smokey chipotle bean chili is packed with flavor. It uses complex carbohydrates, giving you long last enjoying, and it is extremely low in saturated fat, containing just 1g per serving. It takes just a few minutes to prep so that you can get it ready in the morning, go to work, and enjoy it once you get home!

13. Vegetarian Stew

Easy, healthy slow cooker stew that’s made from bell peppers, zucchini, chickpeas, fire-roasted tomatoes, and a pinch of Italian flavor. Very little prep work; combine the ingredients and let your crockpot do the work!

14. Crockpot Refried Beans

These Slow Cooker Refried Beans are right up my alley! About 5 minutes prep, turn on the slow cooker, and leave them! Go to work all day, come home, and they are perfect.

15. Slow Cooker White Bean Soup

This crockpot soup is thick, warm, comforting, and flavorful… and costs less than five dollars for that whole pot. Pair it with some wholesome, hearty whole-grain bread for a nutritious, balanced dinner.

16. Spicy Sweet Potato Chili

This Whole30 Spicy Sweet Potato Chili is the perfect healthy, go-to meal for busy weeknights. It’s packed with hearty vegetables, ground beef, and a delicious sweet and spicy flavor. A great meal for cold nights with tons of freezer-friendly leftovers!

17. Vegetarian Lentil Tacos

Vegetarian Lentil Tacos are a perfectly healthy and incredibly tasty taco recipe that will even impress meat lovers! They’re deliciously flavorful, unbelievably easy to make (the slow cooker does most of the work), and they make great leftovers.

18. Low-fat lentil curry

This slow-cooker low-fat lentil curry is a mild, warm, satisfying dish that makes enough to feed a family of four (or two very hungry people).

19. Breakfast Quinoa in a Slow Cooker

Wake up to delicious Slow Cooker Breakfast Quinoa! Prep this the night before, set on low for 8 hours, and wake up to a delightful breakfast. With only 5 minutes of prep, this breakfast recipe full of plant-based protein is a great way to fuel your day.

20. Slow Cooker Vegan Chili

This easy Slow Cooker Vegetarian Chili is a dump-and-go crockpot meal you can set and forget! This healthy three bean chili is vegan, gluten-free, allergy-free, and full of plant-based protein, veggies, and bold Southwest flavors! A comforting dinner for a crowd or meatless make-ahead and freezer-friendly meal you can meal prep!

21. Slow cooker Vegetable Risotto

This easy slow cooker vegetable risotto has a lux, creamy texture and rich flavor. It uses 6 different types of vegetables, giving you a balanced kick in a wide range of vitamins and minerals.

22. Crock-Pot Mushroom Stroganoff

Delicious mushroom stroganoff that takes just a few minutes to prep. It only uses a handful of ingredients make it beneficial on the wallet and efficient when in the kitchen. It has a rich, creamy sauce that pairs well with rice!

Crockpot Beef or Pork Meal Prep

Beef and pork are both high in protein and iron, making them a healthy addition to your meal plan.

23. Slow Cooker Bolognese

This is the easiest bolognese I’ve ever come across; it takes minutes to prep and is delicious. It’s just $1.65 per serving, making it very budget-friendly, and it’s packed with protein. Serve this recipe with brown pasta to make it even healthier.

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24. Slow Cooker Carnitas and Rice

These slow cooker carnitas are so easy to make while still being tender and flavorful. They’re dirt cheap, costing around $1 per serving but are still well balanced in nutrition. The spices add a massive amount of flavor and aroma, giving you a tasty Mexican cuisine experience.

25. Slow Cooker Minestrone Soup

Crockpot minestrone is a perfect meal for when you want to prepare a filling and nutritious lunch first thing in the morning. It only takes 10 minutes of prep time, then pop it all in the crockpot, and it will be ready 4 hours later.

26. Crockpot Beef Stroganoff 

Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff recipe is the easy, healthy version of the classic, making the perfect family meal prep for the week.

27. Slow Cooker Pulled Pork

This Crockpot Pulled Pork is incredibly tender and flavorful! It comes together easily, and it’s great for tacos, burritos, and salads

28. Slow Cooker Shredded Mexican Beef Bowls

These shredded Mexican beef bowls are made in the slow cooker and perfect for weekly meal prep with rice, beans, plantains, and peppers to round them out!

29. Pork Green Chili Verde Meal Prep Bowls

These mouth-watering Pork Green Chili Verde Meal Prep Bowls are filled with chunky slow-cooker green chili Verde, roasted sweet potato, black beans, sweet yellow corn, diced red onion, and fresh greens.

30. Beef Roast with Vegetables

Using the slow cooker is a great way to cook an easy warm meal. Try this Beef Roast for a complete dinner all at once that’s ready when you get home!

31. Beef Barbacoa

These meal prep crockpot beef barbacoa tacos with corn salsa can be made ahead of time. The beef and salsa can also be frozen with just 10 minutes of prep.

32. Pork Tenderloin

Have you ever wondered how to make a pork tenderloin in a slow cooker? It is easier than you think and can be used in various ways, from traditional sliced tenderloin to rice bowls to making pulled pork for sandwiches. The pulled pork works perfectly on game day or a tailgate this football season.