Anyone can make and enjoy these 6 simple leaky gut dinners.

I love the kitchen (and my essential kitchen items!). I’m fairly certain I’ve made that abundantly clear by now. But most days during the week, I don’t have time to rack my brain around new and interesting recipes.
That’s the thing about the kitchen and about healing the gut in general – it doesn’t need to be a big production.
It’s not easy giving up (at least temporarily) some of your favorite foods in order to heal. But think of it as a way to try new things; discover things you never would have otherwise.
This mind shift was critical during my intense healing phase(s).
For today, let’s keep it simple.
6 Simple Leaky Gut Dinners
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Note
Not all of these ideas are full dinners. Because no, no I do not think eating Butternut squash cubes for an entire meal is healing. They can be mixed-and-matched and/or added to other dinner items.
Roasted Butternut Squash Cubes
This idea is great to be served as a side dish or even a dessert. If you choose to try it for dessert, simply pour some full-fat coconut milk on top and sprinkle with cinnamon.
- butternut squash cubes
- coconut oil
- rosemary
- cinnamon
- sea salt
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Coat a small baking sheet with coconut oil.
- Place the butternut squash on the pan.
- Top with a little more coconut oil, about 1-2 Tablespoons. fresh rosemary, dashes of cinnamon and sea salt to taste.
- Bake for about 40 minutes.
The coconut oil can be swapped with olive oil, if desired.


DIY Jumbo Side Salad
It’s so simple to toss all ingredients in a bowl and eat up.
Again, this is not a stand alone meal, but instead as an addition to another side and meat or fish.
- spring mix
- spinach
- bamboo shoots
- water chestnuts
- cilantro
- parsley
- lemon
- sea salt
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- Toss all ingredients together in a bowl.
- Stir by hand.
- Enjoy.
If you have SIBO and are following a low-FODMAP diet, there is information about spring mix and many other fruits and vegetables in Reasonable SIBO so you can create many DIY Jumbo Side Salads.

Honey-Sage Chicken Thighs
When people begin the healing journey, they oftentimes think healing equals boneless, skinless chicken breasts and broccoli.
Not true, not even a little bit – not at all.
Fat free is not the healing answer. I can promise you that.
- 4 chicken thighs
- olive oil
- sage
- honey
- sea salt
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Coat a small baking pan with olive oil.
- Place the chicken in the pan, and drizzle with olive oil.
- Top each piece of chicken with one sprig of sage.
- Drizzle a little honey over each piece of chicken, and add a few pinches of sea salt.
- Bake for about 28 minutes.

Salad and Broth
Here’s an idea for leaky gut healing of a few things to put together for dinner.
While healing, some nights all I wanted was something light and soothing.
3 things included
- DIY Jumbo Side Salad (see above)
- A cup of homemade bone broth (found on pages 53 – 54 in The Leaky Gut Meal Plan)
- On-the-Go Turkey Breakfast Muffins (found on page 70 in The Leaky Gut Meal Plan)
I’d sometimes eat the turkey muffins on their own or I’d break them up and toss over the salad.

Roasted Soft Fruit ‘n Veggies
One night, I had a lot of random things in the fridge. I cut up some cucumber, zucchini, one apple and added some organic, diced butternut squash (that I picked up from Costco).
I threw them all in a bread loaf pan with some olive oil and sea salt. Hard to believe that roasted and soft could mesh, but they did. And it was great!
- cucumber, de-skinned and de-seeded
- zucchini, de-skinned
- apple, de-skinned and cored
- butternut squash, diced
- olive oil, 2 Tablespoons
- sea salt
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Place all items it a large bowl and toss with the olive oil.
- In a bread pan (what I used) or on a baking sheet, place the mixture. Cover with tinfoil.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
- Take it out, stir. Place it back in the oven.
- Bake for another 30 minutes.


Creamy Coconut-Banana Milk Shake
And dessert.
You didn’t think I’d ever expect you to engage in healing without dessert, right?!
- 2 bananas, ripened and frozen
- ½ - 1 cup coconut milk
- ½ - 1 Tablespoon fresh mint leaves
- ice cubes, handful
- Freeze a couple ripened bananas.
- Once frozen, take them out, and place in a blender with about ½-1 c. coconut milk.
- Add about ½-1 Tablespoon fresh mint leaves.
- Add a handful of crushed ice cubes.
- Blend.

And there you have 6 simple leaky gut dinners, or things to put together to make a dinner.
Most of these are just simple ideas vs. full recipes.
For a ton more ideas (and some recipes) grab:
- Gut Healing Supplements
- A Gutsy Girl’s Master Resource
- For recipes – 75 of them to be exact – all geared towards leaky gut healing, grab The Leaky Gut Meal Plan: 4 Weeks to Detox and Improve Digestive Health.
Xox,
SKH
You will heal. I will help.
Thanks for all the great ideas!
I need to make all of these recipes 🙂 Thanks, girl!