50 Healthy Crockpot Recipes

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Crockpot season is here and it’s time to start making all of your favorite healthy crockpot recipes!

In this post, we’ve rounded up some of the best healthy crockpot meals from Fit Foodie Finds that you are sure to love this season.

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We know that you guys love your slow cooker because some of our most popular recipes on Fit Foodie Finds are our healthy crockpot recipes. From crockpot steel cut oats to slow cooker pork roast to crockpot chicken chili, the slow cooker is one of our favorite ways to cook anything and everything.

It’s truly a time saver and typically very hands-off, which I love!

Why we love healthy crockpot recipes!

Let’s talk about slow cookers for a second here and why they make healthy crockpot recipes oh-so-easy:

Set it and Forget it: probably the best feature of the slow cooker is that all you have to do is turn it on and let it do its thing! Most recipes are made on high in 4 hours or on low for 8 hours.

Great for All Diets: slow cookers work for pretty much all dietary restrictions. All over the internet, you’ll find vegetarian recipes, gluten-free recipes, paleo recipes, etc!

Meal-Prep: slow cookers are perfect for cooking large meals that make multiple servings. This is why it’s our preferred choice in method when meal-prepping for the week. *PS: check out our Slow Cooker Freezer Meals post for more meal-prep inspo!

Easy Clean-Up: Since most healthy crock pot meals only require one piece of kitchen equipment (the crockpot), there is very little clean-up!

50 Healthy Crockpot Meals

Now it’s time to feast our eyes on all of Fit Foodie Finds’ best healthy slow cooker recipes + a few from our friends on the internet!

You’ll find a variety of easy healthy crockpot recipes that are both meat-filled and plant-based. You will also find meal-prep recipes galore featuring many vegetarian lunches, dinners, delicious breakfast recipes, and then some!

Healthy Crockpot Breakfast Recipes

Let breakfast be a cinch with our favorite healthy slow cooker breakfast recipes! Here you’ll find slow cooker oatmeal recipes, breakfast egg casserole, slow cooker French toast, and more!

This is one of our all-time favorite healthy crock pot recipes! Pumpkin Pie Slow Cooker Oatmeal is creamy as can be and full of flavor. It’s made with steel cut oats, pumpkin puree, pumpkin spice, and a hint of maple.

slow cooker steel cut oats

More Slow Cooker Breakfast Recipes

Healthy crockpot dinners (with meat)

Make healthy eating for the week a breeze by using your slow cooker! Below we are sharing our favorite healthy crockpot recipes featuring chicken, pork, beef, and seafood!

Our Crock Pot Honey Garlic Chicken is perfect for any weeknight meal, is kid-friendly, and made with only 5 ingredients! So? Make your grocery list, head to the store, and cook up this amazing slow cooker honey garlic chicken.

honey garlic chicken in bowl

More Healthy Crockpot Dinners (with meat)

Healthy Slow Cooker Vegetarian Meals

Slow cookers are such a great tool to use especially if you are vegetarian! Check out some of our favorite healthy slow cooker vegetarian meals below!

This vegan crockpot recipe is such a delicious and wholesome stay-at-home meal that will last you all week long! (get the full recipe below!)

More Slow Cooker Vegetarian Meals

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Healthy Crockpot Recipes: Slow Cooker Mexican Quinoa

This slow cooker Mexican quinoa recipe is one of our favorite healthy crockpot recipes made in the slow cooker!
By: Honeycomb Media
Prep: 10 minutes
Cook: 4 hours
Total: 4 hours 10 minutes
Servings: 6
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Ingredients 

  • 1 cup uncooked white quinoa
  • 2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and diced
  • 1 15-oz. can black beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1 15-oz. can whole kernel corn, drained and rinsed
  • 1 28-oz. can crushed tomatoes
  • 1 4-oz. can green chiles
  • 2 cups vegetable broth, or any kind of broth
  • 1/2 large red onion, finely diced
  • 3 tablespoons taco seasoning
  • 1 tablespoon sriracha
  • 2 teaspoons maple syrup

Optional Toppings

  • fresh cilantro
  • yogurt, dairy-free if necessary
  • sliced avocado
  • smoked paprika

Instructions 

  • Begin by spraying your slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray.
  • Then, place all of the ingredients into your slow cooker and mix until combined.
  • Cover and cook on high for 3-4 hours or on low for 6-8 hours (or until the quinoa is fully cooked and the sweet potatoes are at the desired texture).
  • Occasionally stir all of the ingredients together every hour.
  • When the quinoa is cooked and the sweet potatoes are soft, uncover the slow cooker.
  • Serve the sweet potato Mexican quinoa with the optional toppings and enjoy!

Nutrition

Calories: 342 kcal, Carbohydrates: 57 g, Protein: 16 g, Fat: 3 g, Fiber: 12 g, Sugar: 13 g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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Lee is the founder of Fit Foodie Finds and based in Minneapolis, MN. She started this website in 2010 as a way to share her love for real food and wellness. The internet has changed so much since then and so has Fit Foodie Finds. Today we're a female-run recipe website publishing hundreds of tried and true recipes developed and tested by our team.

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Juliya
June 30, 2021 8:42 am
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I tried the Mexican quinoa recipe with my bf as we were spending the whole day together and it was a really fun and easy recipe which made our weekend so much fun due to its deliciousness. Really Thank you, Lee.

Paginas Amarillas
June 24, 2021 7:11 pm
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incredible post, maybe I’ll create a section on my page just like you where I can share recipes for the public

regards.

Alice
June 21, 2021 11:44 pm
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I really love this page, it has many delicious recipes, the truth is, I do not know where to start, each
Once I see I want to try it, I guess I’ll start with this one.

Tintes Naturales
April 16, 2021 4:26 am
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Such a great post! Thank you a lot, Iยดll try all of this recipes,

Linley Hanson
April 16, 2021 7:38 am

Thank you!!

Alicia
February 25, 2021 4:48 pm
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I was blessed enough to find your site and couldn’t be more grateful to you Lee for providing this in depth level of help/resources! Speaks a lot to your genuine desire to educate others. I recently started cooking from home for fat loss purposes – as eating out has been a bad habit of mine – and I’ve been really enjoying the recipes on your site.

While I must carve out the time for some meal prep, at least the plan and shopping list is handled ๐Ÿ™‚ I don’t know if your audience would be interested, but I have a totally free report detailing my experience and tips I’ve implemented to aid me in losing some fat. Well done, Lee! Hope your helpfulness returns to you 10 fold.

Alisha Allred
Alisha Allred
January 30, 2021 5:58 pm

Can these be turned into freezer dump meals?

Alex Stewart
Alex Stewart
April 4, 2021 4:02 pm
Reply to  Lee Funke

Do you have recipes that you can cook then freeze, then heat up quickly? i.e. rather than: pre. > freeze > slow cook. I want to batch cook a few different (healthy) things on a Sunday and freeze them so I can come home after wok and then have some choices for dinner that I can pull out of the freezer and heat up.

Michelle
Michelle
January 18, 2021 7:52 am
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This quinoa was so good it didn’t even need meat! Kid-friendly, too!

Cole
Cole
October 19, 2020 11:01 am
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My wife made this Mexican quinoa for our family and we all LOVED it!!

Vince
October 6, 2017 8:35 pm

Great picks as the weather gets colder and I absolutely love all of the images.

The only problem? Too many of them look great. I don’t know where to start!

Aimee from Run Eat Drink Podcast @runeatdrinkpod

Looks delicious! Canโ€™t wait to try them. Have you ever done bourbon peach pulled pork or curried beef short ribs in the slow cooker? Delicious!