Welcome to my Weight Watchers Friendly Weekly Recipe and Link Roundup
Encouragement and inspiration are critical whenever you're trying to change your habits. This is especially true when the habits involve eating better, losing weight and creating a healthy balanced lifestyle.
Sticking with the slow and steady sensible balanced approach to lasting change can seem dull and out of step when everywhere you look people seem to be swinging between overindulgent excess and extreme deprivation based diets.
My mission is to provide you with a constant supply of motivating articles and Easy Healthy WW friendly recipes to encourage your pursuit of a happy, healthy, balanced life.
Here are this week's hand-picked selections, as well as the newest and most popular recipes on Simple Nourished Living this week. Enjoy!
Easy Healthy WW Friendly Recipes & Links I Bookmarked Week:
Chipotle Calories Can Add Up - I love how you can customize your meal at Chipotle, but it is important to choose wisely to avoid trouble. Lisa studied the menu to come up with the most healthy and least healthy options. (Snack Girl)
Pesto Spaghetti Squash with Turkey Sausage - This healthy low carb Pesto Spaghetti Squash with Turkey Sausage makes an easy dinner that's is packed with protein, veggies, and a quick homemade basil pesto. For just 350 calories and 6 Weight Watchers SmartPoints, it make a great substitute for your favorite pesto pasta. (Slender Kitchen)
When You Have Too Much To Do - It can be challenging to make time for taking care of yourself when you are overloaded. How do you keep up with it all? How do you find focus and peace and get stuff accomplished when you have too much on your plate? In this short primer, Leo looks at some key strategies and tactics for taking on an overloaded life with an open heart, lots of energy, and a smile on your face. (Zen Habits)
Instant Pot Beef Barbacoa (Chipotle Copycat) - The amazing pressure cooking ability of the Instant Pot (affiliate link) allows you to cook the beef in about 80% less time than if slow roasted in an oven or slow cooker. And it’s still just as moist and luscious as you'd want it to be. (LaaLoosh)
Buffalo Chicken Meatballs - These buffalo chicken meatballs are easy to make, super filling and I won’t lie they are spicy, but you can always lower the hot sauce to tone them down a bit. Makes 36 meatballs and a serving of 3 is just 1 smart point on WW Freestyle! (Drizzle Me Skinny)
Kristen's Healthy Meal Plan #5 - This week's healthy meal plan is packed with dishes you will love - Lemon Broccoli Pasta with Shrimp, Slow Cooker Banh Mi Pork, Bang Bang Chicken and Banana Blueberry Baked Oatmeal (Slender Kitchen)
Make Ahead Blueberry Pancake Breakfast Bars - Forget mixing up batter and flipping flapjacks each morning. Make a batch of these healthy pancake-like breakfast bars in advance! Then enjoy them hot, warm, or chilled. (Hungry Girl)
75 WW Freestyle Recipes for Breakfast - If you are looking for more delicious breakfast ideas that fit into the Weight Watchers FreeStyle program, this list is perfect! Katie has assembled a great collection of recipes from classic egg recipes to the best breakfast cookies all arranged by Freestyle SmartPoints value! (You Brew My Tea)
Five Popular Recipes on Simple-Nourished-Living This Week
5 Ingredient Chicken Parmesan Lasagna "My husband and I made this last night and we really enjoyed it. Very delicious and easy to assemble. He took more in his lunch today! We will make again. Thank you!" - Deanna
7 Soup, Stew & Chili Recipes with 5 WW Freestyle SmartPoints or Less
Easy Slow Cooker Cabbage Casserole
Slim & Healthy Ground Beef Enchilada Casserole
My WW Friendly Meal Plan for This Week
Every Friday I send out an email with what I'm planning to eat for dinner in the coming week which I also archive here on the blog. It helps keep me accountable and I hope you find it helpful as well.
*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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More WW Weekly Recipes and Round-Ups
- WW Recipes and Helpful Links: October 5, 2019
- WW Recipes and Helpful Links: September 28, 2019
- WW Recipes and Helpful Links: September 21, 2019
- WW Recipes and Helpful Links: September 14, 2019
- WW Recipes and Helpful Links: January 26, 2019
- WW Recipes and Helpful Links: February 3, 2018
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A longtime lifetime WW at goal, she is committed to balancing her love of food and desire to stay slim while savoring life and helping others do the same.
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A huge fan of the slow cooker and confessed cookbook addict, when she's not experimenting in the kitchen, you're likely to find Martha on her yoga mat.
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