Weekly Meal Prep: Spring Vegetables Like Fennel, Radish, Spinach and Arugula!

Meal prep is a great way to have all of your food ready for the week, enabling you to make healthy choices, and save money while you’re at it! Not only does it keep you on track with your fitness goals, but it saves a lot of time. Imagine coming home after a long day of work, your meal already planned and ready to assemble in mere minutes. Does it sound too good to be true? Don’t worry, that’s why we’re here to send you Weekly Meal Prep inspo every week to get you in the kitchen!

We’ll give you a set of ingredients to work with every week and include seasonal recommendations, when possible. The primary goal with our weekly meal prep guide below is to help you focus your meals predominately around a new set of ingredients or theme every week. We’ll give you a plethora of creative ways to prep these ingredients to create healthy, quick, easy and tasty recipes, so you’ll never be bored.

This week, we’re prepping meals with spring vegetables like fennel, radish, spinach and arugula!

1. Fennel

Image Source: Creamy Baked Penne With Kale and Fennel

Fennel is full of awesome nutrients that make it a great piece of produce to incorporate into your diet – but more importantly, it’s a delicious addition to many different recipes! Wash and store your fennel at the beginning of the week so you can quickly whip up any of these awesome meals! It’s delicious in a Creamy Baked Penne With Kale and Fennel from Nancy Partington that you can make in a big batch for a comforting dinner and leftovers for lunch this week. In order to enjoy all the health benefits of fennel, check out Olivia Budgen‘s Liver-Protecting Fennel Juice, which you can prep the ingredients for in advance and just blend in the morning! For a simple and flavorful dish, whip up this Fennel Herb Salad With Italian Style Salsa Verde from Stephanie McKinnie – you can have the salad on its own with pre-prepped ingredients, or alongside a slice of this Chia and Fennel Green Pizza With Kale Pesto and Hummus from Harriet Porterfield that will make the perfect lunch.

2. Radish

Image Source: Chive Mustard Roasted Radishes

Radishes are amazingly versatile, since they can be enjoyed raw and crunchy or cooked to bring out even more flavor! Either way, they’re tasty. If you prefer them cook, make a nice big amount of these Chive Mustard Roasted Radishes from Noming Thru Life, which you can have as a go-to side with a variety of different dinners this week. Raw radishes are awesome because you can clean and slice them and use all week however you like – they make great sandwich toppings, or perfect salads like in this Strawberry and Radish Salad With Green Superfood Dressing from Olivia Budgen or this Carrot and Radish Salad With Lime Ginger Dressing from Melissa Tedesco.

3. Spinach

Image Source: Spinach and Tofu Ricotta Puff Pastries

Spinach is a well-loved leafy green that makes a great bass for salad, an added ingredient to pastas, pizzas, savory pies, tofu scrambles, the list goes on and on. Make sure your spinach is washed and dried before you store it so it stays good all week, and you can add it to any of these recipes – like your new favorite, these Spinach and Tofu Ricotta Puff Pastries from Kim Sujovolsky! Whip up a big batch of this comforting Spinach Rice from Clean Enough by Katzie Guy-Hamilton for a great leftover lunch (and dinner!) that you can change up by adding whatever you like so it’s never the same meal twice. For a simple but awesome recipe you can throw together in no time, check out Jamie Bevia‘s Spinach Salad With Pistachios and Sun-Dried Tomatoes.

4. Arugula

Image Source: Arugula Lemon Portobello Pitas

Arugula is an amazing green that is awesome for more than just salads (although this Orange and Fennel Arugula Salad from Diane Smith or this Hearty Superfood Salad With Arugula, Kale, and Beets from Linda Wagner will make you never want anything but salad again!). You can prep and store it at the start of the week for a great addition to all your meals – like a simple but seemingly impressive Brown Butter Gnocchi With Fresh Herbs from Rene Barker, or these Arugula Lemon Portobello Pitas from Karlie Kashat.

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