A Week of Meals featuring Blueberries

Love blueberries? Here’s a week of meals featuring blueberries with recipes that feature them for every meal of the day!

Hi Friends!

We’re changing up our meal plan theme this week just a little bit. Instead of focusing on a more general theme, we’re getting specific! I give you: A Week of Meals Featuring Blueberries.

Blueberries will forever and always remind me of summer. Every year while I was growing up, my mom would pick a summer day, load my sister and I into the car after an early morning swim team practice and take us blueberry picking. We’d drive for what seemed like forever, turn down a bumpy road and arrive at the blueberry fields.

There was a little shack where you’d stop and get a basket and then off you went. It was always brutally hot with no shade in sight, but I loved searching for the perfect berries to fill my basket.

When we were done, we transferred out berries to plastic bags, weighed them on the scale and headed home.

I introduced Squish to blueberries a couple weeks ago and I’m happy to say he loves them just as much as I do! So this week I rounded up a bunch of meal ideas that feature these little berries! Some use conventional blueberries, some use wild blueberries and all sound absolutely delicious!

Here you go:

Breakfast

• Oatmeal Superfood Breakfast Bars via A Healthy Life For Me
  • Grab one of these if you’re running late to work or the gym!
• Blueberry Oatmeal Smoothie via Kitchen Treaty
  • No need to heat up the kitchen, just whip up one of these for breakfast!
• Lemon Blueberry Hummus Protein Pancakes via The Roasted Root
  • Perfect for a lazy Saturday morning!
• Arugula Breakfast Salad with Blueberry Dressing via An Edible Mosaic
  • Who says veggies aren’t for breakfast?!
• Blueberry Banana Bread Breakfast Parfaits via Nosh and Nourish
  • A creative way to use up some of your banana bread!

Lunch

• Thai chicken Salad Wrap with Blueberries via Spoonful of Flavor
  • Perfect for your lunchbox!
• Superfood Bowl with Blueberry Ginger Dressing via Spoonful of Flavor
  • This dressing will make pretty much any kind of salad even more delicious!
• Pickled Blueberry Panzanella via Running To The Kitchen
  • Think beyond cucumbers for pickling!
• Blueberry Chicken Chop Salad via Gimme Some Oven
  • Make a big bowl to last all week!
• Steak & Bleu Cheese Salad with Blueberry Balsamic Dressing via The Creative Bite
  • Great way to use leftover steak!

Dinner

• Pork Tenderloin with Blueberry Bacon BBQ Sauce via The Noble Pig
  • You’re going to want to put that sauce on everything!
• Wild Blueberry Turkey Burgers via The Lean Green Bean
  • No more boring burgers!
• Blueberry Balsamic Pork Chops via Creme de la Crumb
  • Add delicious flavor to your porkchops!
• Orange Basil Butter Chicken with Blueberry Sauce via Sugar Dish Me
  • Orange and blueberry are the perfect flavor pair!
• BBQ Chicken with Pinot Noir Blueberry Sauce via Girl in the Little Red Kitchen
  • Use a little wine for cooking and drink the rest with dinner!

Snacks & Desserts

As an added bonus, I threw in a few snacks and desserts!

• Blueberry Coconut Muffins via Beyond Frosting
• Wild Blueberry Energy Bars via The Lean Green Bean
• Dark Chocolate Blueberry Energy Bites via The Creative Bite
• Dark Chocolate Blueberry Olive Oil Cookies via Nutmeg Nanny
• Blueberry Cashew Bars via The Lean Green Bean
• One Bowl Blueberry Brownies via Melanie Makes

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Want to do some food prep?

• Make a batch of pancakes to reheat throughout the week.
• Bake a loaf of blueberry banana bread for your parfaits.
• Make some breakfast bars.
• Make the maple clusters for your breakfast salad.
• Cook the chicken for your wraps
• Make a batch of dressing to use on your salads
• Pickle some blueberries
• Cook a steak for Sunday dinner so you have leftovers for lunches
• Make a batch of turkey burgers to grill
• Pick a sauce and make a batch for your meat.
• Make some cookies
• Make a batch of energy bites
• Make some cashew bars for the freezer.

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Want more ideas? Check out the full gallery of weekly meal plans here.

Enjoy!
–Lindsay–