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 can be designed to work with Weight Watchers. I additionally publish them on my weblog. This follow helps me keep on observe with my meal decisions and motivates me to make more healthy meals choices.

By sharing my weekly dinner plans, I purpose to supply a helpful useful resource for anybody looking for meal planning concepts or wanting so as to add selection to their food plan. 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 preserve your meals contemporary 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 stunning how shortly 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 preserve it SUPER EASY: only a post-it word 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 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 contemporary and attractive.

Our social life is pretty lively, and plans can change on a dime. That’s why flexibility is essential for me. (You’ll be able to learn extra about my strategy to sensible 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 fulfillment.

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 components 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 onerous 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 Yr’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 hen, 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 recognize the comfort of rotisserie chickens, which I usually embody in my weekly meal prep. The leftover hen could be simply repurposed or frozen for future fast and wholesome meals. (For those who favor, listed here are recipes for air-fryer complete roast hen and gradual cooker complete roast hen)

Tuscan Hen Bowtie Soup (utilizing leftover rotisserie hen) – This fast, nourishing, protein-rich soup comes collectively in nearly half-hour. Full of contemporary veggies and complete wheat pasta in a flavorful hen broth, it’s a satisfying meal-in-a-bowl that the entire household will take pleasure in. Good for utilizing up leftover rotisserie hen or cooked hen sitting in your fridge, able to be reworked right into a comforting dish.

WW Hoppin’ John Quinoa Salad – Fast and simple to organize, this colourful, flavorful aspect dish requires canned black-eyed peas so it may be assembled in lower than half-hour. I’ll plan to serve this on New Yr’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 can also make it with a large quite a lot 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 record you may even embody potatoes on this Zero Factors Soup!

Bored with making an attempt to determine what to prepare dinner?

In case you are combating meal planning listed here are a pair meal planning sources to assist:

• My Month of Meal Month of Meal Plans eBook
• My WW good friend 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 have been together with your menu posted this week! We’re on trip and in a condominium for 5 weeks. Preserving meals easy. I made each the hen broccoli pie and the broccoli cheese soup for the primary time this week. Each have been an enormous hit. Then final evening 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 attempt new issues. I began WW March 2020 (on-line solely) and have misplaced virtually 30 kilos and am at my objective! Gradual and regular wins the race!!! (Identical to the tortoise and the hare).

Thanks for all of your encouraging emails and great recipes. We’ve been married virtually 47 years. After I first discovered ‘my good friend Martha’ as all my mates know you by, my husband stated ‘you’ve all the time been a superb 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 record, 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 through the week. My husband loves the Desk for Two recipes and he doesn’t even have to drop pounds! I’ve beneficial your web site to a number of mates on the identical journey they usually love your recipes too. Thanks for all of your onerous 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’ve got 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 purchasing record which is great. I simply make a replica of the record and go searching 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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