7 Healthy Instant Food Dishes You Should Try
When you’re always on the go, quick, healthy snacks and meals are so important to have on hand but can be so difficult to find. While checking all the boxes on your instant food wishlist can be challenging, you may not have to look further than this article.
Nutritious, healthy food fuels our busy days and helps us feel our best. Whether you work all day and need to feed yourself or your kids as soon as you get home, you’re in college and have no time to cook between classes and studying, or you just want convenient meals, instant food can be a great option.
Where can you find a meal that’s healthy AND requires no cooking? If you’re looking for healthy snacks and meals to buy and get delivered straight to your doorstep, we got you here at Right Foods. All of our instant products are vegan, non-GMO, made with whole foods, and only take minutes to make just using hot water. Learn more about our products here.
Our mission is to make healthy eating fun, easy, and accessible to all. With Right Foods, you can feel good about eating instant foods that are both healthy and easy.
All these recipes are plant-based, made with simple ingredients, and created by our resident recipe creators. Read on for easy, healthy recipes made using Right Foods instant products you can keep on hand in your pantry.
Easy Vegan Onion Dip by Plantifullybased
A 10-minute dip that uses an instant soup cup? That’s right, this easy, healthy snack is so quick to make and is basically a more interesting version of hummus.
Take a blender and chuck in a prepared spring onion soup cup, white beans, and a few seasonings. Blend until creamy, then top with sesame seeds and chives (optional). Serve with veggies, crackers, or both!
Black Bean Power Bowl
There’s nothing better than a bowl full of colorful veggies, protein, and healthy fats. This one uses Dr. McDougall's Black Bean and Lime Soup Cup as the protein base and adds fresh veggies, cilantro, and mashed avocado.
If you want to add a carb, quinoa or rice would go awesome with this bowl. Feel free to mix and match with whatever vegetables you have on hand, too. Just prepare the black bean cup, chop up your veggies, mash your avocado and add coconut milk, and assemble.
Arugula Pad Thai
One of our favorite quick meals is an instant noodle bowl, and this one ticks all the boxes: it’s flavorful, easy, and full of veggies.
Stir fry a cup of Right Foods Pad Thai with red peppers and garlic, then add peanuts, avocado, shallots, and carrots on top. Serve over a bed of arugula or the greens of your choice and enjoy.
Protein-Packed Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers
Another healthy snack, these stuffed peppers are like a burrito bowl, but the bowl is, well, a bell pepper. Fresh bell peppers are stuffed with black beans, guacamole, and salsa.
Use a Black Bean & Lime Soup Cup for the bean filling, and opt for premade salsa and guacamole to make it extra easy. Squeeze a lime over top and sprinkle some fresh cilantro if you’re feeling extra.
Easy Vegan Chicken Ramen
Our Vegan Chicken Ramen is the star of this dish. Simply prepare your instant noodles, add chopped cabbage, and garnish with red chili flakes, cilantro, and sesame seeds.
Dinner is served in less than 10 minutes! It’s vegan, it’s healthy, and it takes zero cooking, just add hot water.
Easy Vegan Tortilla Soup
This easy soup in a box is full of flavor, but not artificial ingredients (don’t worry). All we did was heat up the Organic Tortilla Soup with chopped peppers, then top with avocado, cilantro, and tortilla chips.
In 15 minutes, you have an easy vegan meal that’s flavorful and full of veggies and healthy fats and protein. Our tortilla soup is made with beans, corn, tomatoes, chiles, and spices.
Ramen Scallion Pancakes by @plantifullybased
We wouldn’t have thought to make pancakes out of ramen, but we’re glad Francesca Bonadonna from Plantifully Based did. You can prep these in advance and heat them up when you need a quick snack.
Dr. McDougall's Miso Ramen Soup is made into a batter with carrot, zucchini, and green onions, then fried until crispy and served with a sweet and spicy sauce.
Final Thoughts
One of the biggest shortcuts to a quick meal is utilizing instant foods. But instant food gets a bad rap for being unhealthy and processed, so can it really be healthy? Luckily, not all brands are the same.
Every Dr. McDougall’s Right Foods product is vegan, made with whole foods ingredients, certified Non-GMO, and made with paper packaging from certified sustainably-managed forests. You know when you eat Right Foods products that you’re doing something good for your body and for the environment.
If you made any of these recipes, leave a few stars down below and tell us how we did. And please snap a picture and tag us on Instagram so we can see your masterpiece for ourselves!
