Here Are 50+ Low-Carb Recipes for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Snacks

These wraps take the trifecta of breakfast foods — ham, eggs, and cheese — and turn them into portable bites that can work as breakfast or lunch.

This protein-packed meal makes a decent weekday breakfast feel manageable. It’s quick to pull together and easy enough to make in the office kitchen.

It’s the kind of midday meal that prevents snacking.

This is the salad you put together when you’re meal prepping for the week.

I love a little crunch in my tuna salad. I also am not the biggest fan of mayonnaise; I like a dab, but no more. Here’s a tuna salad in that spirit — fresh, crisp, and light, with more vegetables than tuna in the mix.

The Mediterranean flavors really shine in this simple spring salad and the roasted chickpeas add a lovely crunch. Grab a fork and dig in! Cauliflower “couscous” is a winner in our household and I hope you all enjoy it as much as we do.

This easy slaw, dressed with a creamy blender avocado dressing, hits all the things I love about slaw; it’s crunchy, tangy, and refreshing!

Delicious, versatile egg salad. Keep it plain and simple, or spice it up with an endless array of extras.

Roasted shrimp, chunks of avocado and crisp romaine are wrapped up and dipped in a creamy miso-tahini dressing for a cool, satisfying summer lunch or dinner.

If you are craving soup and you have vegetables and broth in your cupboard, you’re all set. Here’s a step-by-step guide to transforming nearly any kind of vegetable into delicious, nourishing soup.

These spiced cucumber sticks are probably the most ubiquitous of all street food. Every vendor, whatever his specialty, will also have these around as a quick, easy to-go snack.

The most difficult thing about making homemade jerky is slicing the meat evenly; freezing it ahead of time helps tremendously (and if you want to try this recipe with turkey, you’ll want an even firmer freeze). Also, using a very sharp, long knife is key.

These tiny little seeds have the miraculous ability to thicken and turn liquids into delicious pudding-like mixtures without the use of dairy or eggs!

These muffins come together quickly and are a great high-protein option for those of us who are looking for a bigger hit of protein in the morning or might be trying to avoid carbs. Plus, they’re gluten-free!

If you’re going to pick up a nice piece of steak to make this recipe, why subject yourself to a container of that sub-par crumbled blue cheese? Treat yourself! Instead, head over to the cheese counter where all the good stuff lies and pick out a nice wedge of Gorgonzola Dolce. The Italian blue cheese is mild and sweet, and melts perfectly inside the roll ups. It’s the little things that count, after all.

This recipe is a pretty direct riff off of our ultimate How To Make Fried Rice from the stir-fry queen, Grace Young. The biggest difference here is that you need to cover the pan and let the cauliflower rice steam for a few minutes before the dish is ready to be served.

What does it mean to be keto-friendly? With a ketogenic routine, you are going for a very low-carb, high-fat, and medium-protein nutrition profile. Most people on keto average around 20 grams of carbohydrates a day. Keeping that in mind, I aimed for a chili that came in at roughly 7 grams of carbs per serving, before toppings.

The smell of classic chicken soup, fragrant with herbs and vegetables, is one of the most comforting smells that a kitchen can produce. The key to a good soup that’s intensely chicken-y is a long, slow simmer. Naturally the slow cooker is chicken soup’s best friend, as it can cook all day without any supervision from you.

Who needs spaghetti? This was surprisingly quick and easy, and you get your veggies too.

It’s hard not to be intrigued by a dish with a title like this. Leave it to the Italians to name a recipe that lends a few laughs. What the heck makes the water so crazy? Actually, not much at all, which is why you should ditch your original plans for dinner and make this simple, comforting recipe instead.

The real key to this recipe isn’t the fact that cucumbers have been made into noodles, but that the noodle are very thin. This alone has made cucumber even more enticing for me. While the size of the noodle is 100 percent a personal preference (after all, this salad can be made with ribbon-cut cucumbers as well), the smaller size twirls around the fork in such a satisfying manner that it’s hard to not to smile when you tuck into a bowl.

Green beans have earned their spot as the obligatory Thanksgiving vegetable for good reason — they are delicious, kid-friendly, and easy to prepare. Whether steamed, roasted, or folded into a creamy casserole, chances are they’re on your holiday menu. Try a new method this year and steam-fry your green beans with shallots and mushrooms. Simple but unexpected, it’s a vegetable dish that will please even the pickiest of eaters.

Forget Atkins and Paleo — the new low-carb diet du jour is called keto, as in ketogenic. Although there are many similarities between these diets, a keto diet is all about restricting carbohydrates and increasing healthy fats. The goal is to force your body’s metabolism into ketosis, which means it burns fat instead of glucose — because without carbs, glucose isn’t readily available.

Radishes are a quintessential spring and early summer vegetable. Bright and crunchy with a peppery bite, they are lovely in salads and on bread with butter and salt. But until this recipe I had never cooked them, and in fact it’s not very often you see them in hot cooked dishes. Which is a shame, because as they get so juicy and mellow, I think this is really the way to go for the radish-hesitant. In fact, their small size and peppery flavor makes them ideal for a quick evening braise. Unlike potatoes or turnips or other large roots, they require little to no chopping, and they’re ready so quickly.