Weight Watchers Weekly Dinner Meal Concepts (Dec 30 – Jan 5)

Fridays, I ship out an e mail outlining my dinner plans for the upcoming week which might be designed to work with Weight Watchers. I additionally publish them on my weblog. This observe helps me keep on monitor with my meal selections and motivates me to make more healthy meals choices.

By sharing my weekly dinner plans, I intention to supply a useful useful resource for anybody looking for meal planning concepts or wanting so as to add selection to their food regimen. For much more inspiration, take a look at the “101 Meal Prep Concepts from Profitable Weight Watchers” information—it’s full of artistic tricks to maintain your meals contemporary and thrilling!

My Method 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 strategy to meal planning is deliberately easy. Attempting to do an excessive amount of overwhelms me, so I maintain it SUPER EASY: only a post-it observe on the counter with just a few dinners I plan to make. That’s it.

Because it’s simply the 2 of us—myself and my husband—we frequently have leftovers. This implies loads of ready-made lunches or dinners for the following day. I take pleasure in discovering artistic methods to repurpose leftovers into one thing contemporary and attractive.

Our social life is pretty lively, and plans can change on a dime. That’s why flexibility is vital for me. (You possibly can learn extra about my strategy to lifelike meal planning for unpredictable schedules.)

Finally, I’m all the time asking myself, “How can I make this as straightforward as attainable?” 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 system 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 arduous boiled eggs, container or leftovers and/or salad fixings staring again at me once I open the fridge!

This Week’s WW Dinner Solutions 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. Truthfully, 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 Straightforward Air Fryer Roasted Broccoli with Parmesan or Straightforward Broccoli Avocado Salad) make for a fast and satisfying meal. I admire 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. (Should you desire, listed below are recipes for air-fryer entire roast rooster and sluggish cooker entire roast rooster)

Tuscan Hen Bowtie Soup (utilizing leftover rotisserie rooster) – This fast, nourishing, protein-rich soup comes collectively in nearly half-hour. Full of contemporary veggies and entire 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 remodeled 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 full of nutritious greens, this Weight Watchers vegetable soup recipe is a winner. You may make it with a large a wide range of contemporary veggies akin to onions, carrots, celery, tomatoes, inexperienced beans, cabbage, and/or spinach, and taste it with an array of herbs and spices to make it your individual. And now with WW up to date Zero Factors Meals checklist you may even embrace potatoes on this Zero Factors Soup!

Bored with attempting to resolve what to prepare dinner?

If you’re battling meal planning listed below are a pair meal planning sources to assist:

• My Month of Meal Month of Meal Plans eBook
• My WW buddy Alisha’s 12-Week eCookbook and Meal Planner and Desk for Two Meal Planner and eCookbook

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. Retaining meals easy. I made each the rooster broccoli pie and the broccoli cheese soup for the primary time this week. Each had been a giant hit. Then final night time we had your Caribbean Jerk Hen which is a particular favourite. Made your lasagna soup final week!!! Yum!

I’m so grateful I discovered your web site and proceed to strive new issues. I began WW March 2020 (on-line solely) and have misplaced virtually 30 kilos and am at my aim! Sluggish and regular wins the race!!! (Similar to the tortoise and the hare).

Thanks for all of your encouraging emails and great recipes. We’ve been married virtually 47 years. Once I first discovered ‘my buddy Martha’ as all my pals know you by, my husband stated ‘you’ve all the time been a great 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 uninterested in cooking recipes that had a number of servings and consuming the left overs a number of instances in the course of the week. My husband loves the Desk for Two recipes and he doesn’t even must reduce weight! I’ve really useful your website to a number of pals on the identical journey and so they love your recipes too. Thanks for all of your arduous work in making meal planning really easy! ~ Barbara

Hello Martha – I can’t 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 ahead to the second week. You could 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 procuring checklist which is great. I simply make a duplicate of the checklist and go purchasing for the week. ~ Roberta R.

Extra Weight Watchers Weekly Meal Plans

• Weight Watchers Weekly Dinner Meal Plan (12/9 – 12/15)
• Weight Watchers Weekly Dinner Meal Plan (12/2 – 12/8)
• Weight Watchers Weekly Dinner Meal Plan (11/25 – 12/1)
• Weight Watchers Weekly Dinner Meal Plan (11/18 – 11/24)
• Weight Watchers Weekly Dinner Meal Plan (11/11 – 11/17)

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