Name: 📋 Healthy Turkey Sloppy Joes Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 2 pounds ground turkey breast; 8 tbsp ketchup (add more ketchup as desired); 4 tbsp mustard; 1 large onion (chopped * you could substitute 1 1/2 tsp onion powder); 10 oz can of condensed chicken gumbo soup (284 ml); 6 whole wheat buns ((use toasted buns, if desired)); grated low-fat cheese, melted (optional) (* Not included in points)

If you're like me and your reality is that you have 20-30 minutes to get a healthy meal on the table, one that your kids will actually want to eat, before running off to soccer, dance, baseball, swimming, volunteering, meetings or wherever it is that you need to be, you need these Weight Watchers friendly Healthy Turkey Sloppy Joes in your life!

photo of weight watchers turkey sloppy joes on a black plate with carrots and cucumbers

These Weight Watchers Sloppy Joes are 4 WW points and are quick and easy to make. You can also prep them the night before. They are a healthy comfort food that's popular during the winter, but great any time of year! These Chicken Gumbo Soup Sloppy Joes pair well with a salad or Quick Cucumber Kimchi.

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🥘 Ingredient Notes
🔢WW POINTS
📖VARIATIONS & SUBSTITUTIONS
🥗 Side dishes
🌡️Storage
👪 Serving Size
💭 Spoonburger vs. Sloppy Joe
📋 Healthy Turkey Sloppy Joes Recipe
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"Meal Prep" has become a pretty big buzzword as of late, at least in the food blogging world. And to be honest, I'm still not clear what they mean when they say meal prep. When I look at some of the blog posts and Instagram photos, it looks like a lot more work for something that is supposed to actually save you time. And often, their "prep" is way more energy than I'd typically put into an entire meal!

In my world, meal prep means frying up some ground meat with onion and freezing it until I need a really quick meal. Then when I get home, I defrost it in the microwave, add a few ingredients, and voila! I have dinner.

ground turkey sloppy joes on a black plate with a tray of buns, veggies and sloppy joes in the background

🥘 Ingredient Notes

You only need 5 simple ingredients to make these healthy sloppy joes (and buns/bread of your choice)!

lean ground turkey or ground chicken * You could use extra lean ground beef, but just be sure to adjust for WW points
ketchup
mustard
chicken gumbo soup (you can use canned or homemade chicken gumbo soup)
onions (use white) * you can substitute 1 ½ teaspoon onion powder
light whole wheat buns (you can use bread, hamburger buns, WW buns, another type of low-carb bun, or any kind of bun you prefer)

🔢WW POINTS

These healthier sloppy joes are 4 WW points. With the ½ bun, it's an additional 2 pts. You can use a lighter bun or bread (this will add less points). You could also use Cloud Bread for zero points (0 points)

If you're looking for more ww friendly ground turkey recipes, check out my Weight Watchers Shepherd's Pie.

📖VARIATIONS & SUBSTITUTIONS

Spicy -add a little chili powder or red pepper flakes to spice it up! You could also add chopped tamed jalapenos.
Toppings - add picante sauce or pico de gallo (zero points!)
Addins - add a little garlic powder or chopped green pepper, if you desire.

But please don't go asking me to chop up a zillion vegetables and stuff, then put them into a bunch of separate containers and call it meal prep! As far as I'm concerned, that's simply a make-work project I don't have time for, at least at this stage of my life anyway (and likely never).

weight watchers turkey sloppy joes on a black plate with veggies and a skillet of more in the background

Either way, I can just serve this Healthy Sloppy Joes recipe with baby carrots or cucumber slices (or even frozen vegetables) and call it a day, knowing I did my veggie duty. And these Weight Watchers Sloppy Joes are only 6 Weight Watchers points per ⅓ cup, including a dinner roll! Most recipes don't include the bun.

🥗 Side dishes

If you wondering what to serve with turkey sloppy joes (besides raw veggies) and you want to add extra veggies to your day, here are a few of my favorite side dishes (that are WW friendly)!

🌡️Storage

Store leftover turkey sloppy joes in an airtight container in the fridge. Store buns separately, at room temperature.

👪 Serving Size

This Weight Watchers Sloppy Joes recipe makes 6 servings. However, you can half, double or triple the recipe by clicking on the serving number and selecting the number of servings you'd like. The ingredient quantities will automatically adjust.

The original ground beef version of this delicious Sloppy Joe recipe came from my mother-in-law, but she never actually made it for me. This was one of many recipes my husband found in amongst her collection of scribbled-upon recipe cards after she passed away. But he remembers her making it and that's what's important.

And whenever I make it for my family, I always tell the kids "This is Grandma Jean's Sloppy Joe recipe." At least they can experience what it would have been like to eat her cooking, as they were too young to remember. I also feel like I'm carrying on a part of her through her recipes. And that is a warm and fuzzy feeling 🙂 I like those.

💭 Spoonburger vs. Sloppy Joe

Recipe for North Carolina Spoonburgers written on recipe card

I lightened it up, but it's essentially THE BEST Sloppy Joe recipe I've ever had! There are a lot of different ways to make Sloppy Joes, but there is just something about the addition of the chicken gumbo soup that really works. From what I could find, this type of Sloppy Joe with chicken gumbo soup was derived from what they called "The Spoonburger" in the southern United States. This old recipe card shows a nearly identical recipe.

There appears to be a north/south divide for what's considered classic sloppy joes, with Canada calling the dish "Sloppy Joes." But no matter what you call it, it's simple and delicious! And since this meal can be made from start to finish in 20 minutes flat, the meal prep is not only quick and realistic, it's completely optional!

This Weight Watchers-friendly Ground Turkey Sloppy Joes recipe is a healthier twist on an easy and delicious traditional sloppy joes recipe and one the whole family will love-it's sure to become a family favorite!

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