Weight Watchers Weekly Meal Plan (4/15 - 4/21)

Weight Watchers Friendly Meal Planning Ideas

Welcome to a week of simple and delicious health-conscious dining with our latest WeightWatchers-friendly meal plan.

Every Friday, I send out an email outlining my dinner plans for the upcoming week that are compatible with Weight Watchers, and I also publish them on my blog. This practice helps me stay on track with my meal choices and motivates me to make healthier food decisions.

Additionally, by sharing my weekly dinner plans, I hope to provide a useful reference for individuals searching for meal planning ideas or looking to vary their diet. If you're looking for more inspiration, you might find the "101 Meal Prep Ideas from Successful Weight Watchers" resource helpful.

The Benefits of Weekly Meal Planning

Planning and preparing your meals ahead of time provides tons of benefits to anyone wanting to eat better and lose weight, including WeightWatchers members:

1. Reduced Impulse Eating: Knowing what you'll cook and eat in advance helps reduce impulsive decisions and unhealthy food choices, such as hitting the drive-thru or ordering takeout. This can be particularly helpful when faced with busy schedules or stressful situations that may otherwise lead to less mindful eating.
2. Time and Money Savings: Planning meals in advance can save time and money by minimizing last-minute grocery runs and reducing the reliance on takeout or restaurant meals. It also helps in buying ingredients in bulk and utilizing them efficiently throughout the week.
3. Stress Reduction: Knowing what you'll eat throughout the week eliminates the stress of figuring out meals on a daily basis. This can be particularly beneficial for those with busy schedules, reducing decision fatigue and making healthier choices more doable.
4. Balanced Nutrition: Meal planning enables you to create well-balanced meals that include a variety of nutrient-dense foods. This ensures that you get a good mix of proteins, carbohydrates, healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals necessary for overall health and weight loss.
5. Smart Food Choices: With a plan in place, you can make informed and healthier food choices. It allows you to incorporate a diverse range of fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and whole grains, minimizing the temptation to opt for less nutritious, convenience foods.
6. Portion Control: Planning meals in advance allows you to consider portion sizes, which is crucial for weight management. It helps avoid overeating and ensures that you consume the appropriate amount of food to stay within your daily calorie or point limits.
7. Consistent Progress: Having a weekly meal plan helps to build consistent healthy eating habits. Consistency is key to achieving and maintaining weight loss goals, as it establishes a routine that supports healthier choices over time.
8. Variety and Creativity: Planning meals in advance allows you to introduce variety into your diet and get creative with different recipes. This can make the process of eating healthily more enjoyable and sustainable over the long term.

Every time I get out of the meal planning habit and resort to take-out, restaurants, and snacking on junk, it's amazing how crappy I feel and how quickly the pounds pack on.

The Key to Eating Well is Cooking

When you're trying to eat well, not cooking isn't an option. At least for me anyway. There are just too many unknowns (hidden sugar, flour, fats, chemicals, points), too many temptations, and portions are way too large for you to routinely eat well on take-out or pre-made food.

The Key to Consistent Cooking is Planning

In the beginning meal planning can be a huge chore. The key is finding an approach that works for you over the long haul. If you are struggling with meal planning here are 3 great meal planning resources to help:

• My Month of Meal Month of Meal Plans eBook
• My WW Friend Kristen's Slender Kitchen Meal Planning Made Easy Program
• My WW friend Alisha's 12-Week eCookbook and Meal Planner (affiliate link) and Table for Two Meal Planner and eCookbook (affiliate link)

This Week's WW Meal Plan Suggestions with WW Points:

What Do I Eat for Breakfast on WW?

Most days my breakfast is something quick like an english muffin with almond butter, avocado toast, cottage cheese with fruit, eggs, yogurt with fruit, oatmeal or a smoothie, depending on my mood and the season.

What Do I Eat for Lunch on WW?

Lunch is usually leftovers or some combination of soup / sandwich / salad.

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This week I am planning to make...

Air Fryer Rotisserie Chicken - I'm a big fan of roast chicken. It's easy and we can enjoy several meals with the leftovers. I'll serve it one day with this crunchy, flavorful Broccoli Salad. If if you don't have an air-fryer or don't feel like cooking, you can always pick up a rotisserie chicken from your favorite supermarket or Costco. Something I do often. 

Leftover Ham Bone Soup (Using Bone I had stashed in the freezer) - An easy and delicious way to use up a holiday ham bone. Load your slow cooker and let it do all the work while you get on with your day. I'll serve it with leftover broccoli salad and cornbread.

Skinny Chicken Broccoli Casserole (made with leftover rotisserie chicken) - This skinny chicken broccoli casserole is a lightened up version of my Mom's yummy creamy cheesy chicken broccoli casserole from childhood. I love it now as much as I did then. I'm planning to serve it with Baked Potatoes and Cucumber Salad.

Chicken Avocado Salad - This chicken salad is another easy, healthy and delicious recipe, perfect for using up leftover cooked chicken. It's from The Short-Cut Cook: Make Simple Meals with Surprisingly Little Effort (affiliate link) by Jacques Pépin. In the recipe's notes, Jacques says that this chicken avocado salad is a great way to use leftover chicken. I couldn't agree more. I'll serve it leftover cornbread.

BLT Avocado Toast - This delicious BLT Avocado Toast is topped with fresh avocado, hard-boiled egg, tomato, bacon crumbles, sprouts and everything bagel seasoning (affiliate link). It's perfect for a light supper with fresh fruit. If you are extra hungry a mug of WW zero point vegetable soup would be delicious alongside.

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I hope this helps you with your own meal planning this week 🙂

*Points® calculated by WW. *PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT each plan's ZeroPoint Foods (Green plan, Blue plan, Purple plan) using the WW Recipe Builder.

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Tired of trying to decide what to cook?

If you are struggling with meal planning here are 2 great meal planning resources to help:

• My Month of Meal Month of Meal Plans eBook
• My WW friend Alisha's 12-Week eCookbook and Meal Planner and Table for Two Meal Planner and eCookbook

Customer Testimonials

I have been using Slender Kitchen Meal Plans since last year and we love it! Even more excited now that it has the new points. The recipes are easy, family friendly, and taste good. I love that I can customize for our family and the shopping list saves me so much time and money. One of my best purchases last year. ~ Camille

I bought the Table for Two eCookbook and I love it! It saved me from giving up on my weight loss journey. The meals are delicious and so easy to cook. Having a weekly grocery list, recipes and instructions with pictures readily accessible has taken so much stress off of me in meal planning. I was tired of cooking recipes that had multiple servings and eating the left overs several times during the week. My husband loves the Table for Two recipes and he doesn’t even need to lose weight! I have recommended your site to several friends on the same journey and they love your recipes too. Thank you for all your hard work in making meal planning so easy! ~ Barbara

I bought the 12 Week eCookbook and Meal Planner by Alisha Hughes from Meal Planning Mommies. It is great 12 weeks with a shopping list which is wonderful. I just make a copy of the list and go shopping for the week. ~ Roberta R.

Hi Martha - I cannot begin to thank you enough for my month of meals. We (my husband and I) have only had the first week, but WOW, what great meals! I can't wait for the second week. You have a customer for life! ~ Sharon S.

More Weight Watchers Meal Planning Ideas

• Weight Watchers Weekly Meal Plan (Apr 1 - Apr 7)
• Weight Watchers Weekly Meal Plan (Mar 27 - Apr 2)
• Weight Watchers Weekly Meal Plan (Mar 20 - Mar 26)
• Weight Watchers Weekly Meal Plan (Mar 13 - Mar 19)

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Published April 2023; Republished with new photos and content April 2024