Fridays, I ship out an e mail outlining my dinner plans for the upcoming week which can be designed to work with Weight Watchers. I additionally publish them on my weblog. This observe helps me keep on observe with my meal decisions and motivates me to make more healthy meals selections.
By sharing my weekly dinner plans, I intention to supply a useful useful resource for anybody looking for meal planning concepts or trying so as to add selection to their weight loss plan. For much more inspiration, try the “101 Meal Prep Concepts from Profitable Weight Watchers” information—it’s filled with artistic tricks to preserve your meals recent and thrilling!
My Strategy to Meal Planning
Each time I fall out of the meal planning behavior , I discover myself counting on an excessive amount of takeout, restaurant meals, and unhealthy snacks. It’s surprising how rapidly the kilos creep again—and the way awful I really feel.
When I’ve even a tough concept of what I’m cooking for dinner within the coming week, I’m far much less tempted by quick meals or takeout. However my method to meal planning is deliberately easy. Making an attempt to do an excessive amount of overwhelms me, so I preserve it SUPER EASY: only a post-it be aware on the counter with a couple of dinners I plan to make. That’s it.
Because it’s simply the 2 of us—myself and my husband—we regularly have leftovers. This implies loads of ready-made lunches or dinners for the subsequent day. I take pleasure in discovering artistic methods to repurpose leftovers into one thing recent and engaging.
Our social life is pretty energetic, and plans can change on a dime. That’s why flexibility is essential for me. (You’ll be able to learn extra about my method to sensible meal planning for unpredictable schedules.)
Finally, I’m all the time asking myself, “How can I make this as simple as potential?” For me, meal planning solely works when it’s easy. So long as I’ve a stash of easy-to-prepare, wholesome meals within the fridge and pantry, I do know I’m setting myself up for achievement.
What Do I Eat for Breakfast on Weight Watchers?
Most days my breakfast is one thing fast like an english muffin with almond butter, avocado toast, cottage cheese with fruit, eggs, yogurt with fruit, oatmeal or a smoothie, relying on my temper and the season.
What Do I Eat for Lunch on Weight Watchers?
Lunch is normally leftovers or some mixture of soup / sandwich / salad. This formulation is a confirmed winner for me. I by no means fall into the temptation of takeout when I’ve a jar of soup, bowl of laborious boiled eggs, container or leftovers and/or salad fixings staring again at me once I open the fridge!
This Week’s WW Dinner Strategies with Factors
This week’s meal plan focuses on New 12 months’s favorites and nourishing soups. Many of those recipes will yield loads of leftovers, making fast, no-fuss meals all through the week. Actually, there’s nothing higher than cooking as soon as and having fun with it twice (or extra)!
Grocery store rotisserie rooster, roasted potatoes, and inexperienced beans or broccoli (like Simple Air Fryer Roasted Broccoli with Parmesan or Simple Broccoli Avocado Salad) make for a fast and satisfying meal. I respect the comfort of rotisserie chickens, which I usually embrace in my weekly meal prep. The leftover rooster might be simply repurposed or frozen for future fast and wholesome meals. (If you happen to desire, listed below are recipes for air-fryer complete roast rooster and sluggish cooker complete roast rooster)
Tuscan Rooster Bowtie Soup (utilizing leftover rotisserie rooster)
This fast, nourishing, protein-rich soup comes collectively in nearly half-hour. Filled with recent veggies and complete wheat pasta in a flavorful rooster broth, it’s a satisfying meal-in-a-bowl that the entire household will take pleasure in. Good for utilizing up leftover rotisserie rooster or cooked rooster sitting in your fridge, able to be reworked right into a comforting dish.
WW Hoppin’ John Quinoa Salad
Fast and straightforward to arrange, this colourful, flavorful facet dish requires canned black-eyed peas so it may be assembled in lower than half-hour. I’ll plan to serve this on New 12 months’s Day with sauteed greens and cornbread or Paula Deen’s Corn Casserole Made Lighter.
WW Zero Level Backyard Vegetable Soup
With zero factors and filled with nutritious greens, this Weight Watchers vegetable soup recipe is a winner. You can also make it with a large a wide range of recent veggies resembling onions, carrots, celery, tomatoes, inexperienced beans, cabbage, and/or spinach, and taste it with an array of herbs and spices to make it your personal. And now with WW up to date Zero Factors Meals checklist you possibly can even embrace potatoes on this Zero Factors Soup!
A be aware about WW Factors
If you happen to’re following Weight Watchers, all of the recipes right here on Easy Nourished Dwelling have been up to date for the brand new WW program, with factors displayed within the recipe card. The Verify the WW Factors hyperlink within the recipe card takes you to the Weight Watchers App the place you possibly can edit it utilizing the WW recipe builder or add it to your day.
(Should be logged into WW account on a cellular system, resembling smartphone or pill).
Uninterested in making an attempt to determine what to prepare dinner?
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Buyer Testimonials
I can’t let you know how thrilled we had been along with your menu posted this week! We’re on trip and in a condominium for 5 weeks. Protecting meals easy. I made each the rooster broccoli pie and the broccoli cheese soup for the primary time this week. Each had been an enormous hit. Then final evening we had your Caribbean Jerk Rooster which is a particular favourite. Made your lasagna soup final week!!! Yum!
I’m so grateful I discovered your web site and proceed to attempt new issues. I began WW March 2020 (on-line solely) and have misplaced nearly 30 kilos and am at my aim! Gradual and regular wins the race!!! (Similar to the tortoise and the hare).
Thanks for all of your encouraging emails and fantastic recipes. We’ve been married nearly 47 years. Once I first discovered ‘my pal Martha’ as all my associates know you by, my husband stated ‘you’ve all the time been prepare dinner however we by no means tried so many various issues!’ He loves your recipes additionally!!!
Thanks. Thanks. Thanks!!!!! ~ Joyce
I purchased the Desk for Two eCookbook and I like it! It saved me from giving up on my weight reduction journey. The meals are scrumptious and really easy to prepare dinner. Having a weekly grocery checklist, recipes and directions with footage readily accessible has taken a lot stress off of me in meal planning. I used to be bored with cooking recipes that had a number of servings and consuming the left overs a number of instances through the week. My husband loves the Desk for Two recipes and he doesn’t even must drop some pounds! I’ve advisable your website to a number of associates on the identical journey and so they love your recipes too. Thanks for all of your laborious work in making meal planning really easy! ~ Barbara
Hello Martha – I can not start to thanks sufficient for my month of meals. We (my husband and I) have solely had the primary week, however WOW, what nice meals! I can’t look forward to the second week. You might have a buyer for all times! ~ Sharon S.
I purchased the 12 Week eCookbook and Meal Planner by Alisha Hughes from Meal Planning Mommies. It’s nice 12 weeks with a buying checklist which is fantastic. I simply make a replica of the checklist and go purchasing for the week. ~ Roberta R.
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