Happy (almost) Autumn to you!

We’re still in shorts here in Indiana, but every once in a while we get a whisp of cool air that lasts for a few more than a couple of hours and it gives us hope of the Autumn that is on its way. Fall is my most favorite season. It’s just more comfortable. Pack away the bikinis and bust out the hoodie sweatshirts! Now that’s what I am talkin’ about! 🙂

Regardless of the weather you can be sure you are going to enjoy our new Weight Watcher friendly meal plan this week. Here are this week’s recipe picks:

Cheeseburger Hash Brown Cups
Emily Bites
Makes 6 servings
6 WW FreeStyle SP per (2 cups) serving

Easy Healthy Chicken Fajitas
Simple Nourished Living
Makes 4 servings
1 WW FreeStyle SP per serving
(more SP when you include the smart points for tortillas)

Beef & Broccoli Stir-Fry with Quinoa
Meal Planning Mommies
Makes 6 servings
8 WW FreeStyle SP per serving

Beef Stroganoff
Meal Planning Mommies
Makes 6 servings
7 WW FreeStyle SP per serving

Turkey and Cheese Pesto Panini
Meal Planning Mommies
Makes 4 servings
5 WW FreeStyle SP per serving

Oven Baked Skinny Shredded BBQ Chicken Sandwiches
Skinny Kitchen
Makes 12 servings
(Yay for leftovers!)
9 WW FreeStyle SP per serving

Plan ahead for this week.

Don’t you hate it when you get to the recipe you were planning to make for dinner and realize that you were supposed to have marinated the meat overnight? I know I do! There are a few things you might want to know ahead of time when you are deciding which recipe you will be making each night.  Planning ahead will make your dinner time run smoothly and keep your stress level down. I hope these four little tidbits will help you avoid some frustration this week:

1. Oven Baked Shredded Barbecue Chicken.

The oven baked shredded barbecue chicken from Nancy’s recipe can be made in an hour in the oven the day you will be serving the sandwiches. Alternately you could cook the chicken for the sandwiches in your slow cooker with similar results.  Either way, you will want to plan ahead (either an hour before you will eat or a few hours before you eat) so the chicken can cook until it is tender. Also, this recipe makes 12 servings. If you love leftovers, like I do, this can be a good thing. If you don’t want to make that much, you can always half the recipe, but make sure you change the amounts on the grocery list before you hit the store.

2. Slow Cooker Lightened Up Beef Stroganoff.

Speaking of slow cooker, the beef in the beef stroganoff is cooked in the slow cooker so you will also want to take than into consideration as you plan when to thaw meat and all that fun stuff.

3. Easy, Healthy Chicken Fajitas.

The chicken for these fajitas should marinate for at least 30 minutes, and up to overnight. The flavor of the meat will be more enhanced the longer you let it marinate.

4. Quick meals.

The paninis and the fajitas are the quickest and easiest meals in this meal plan. Save those for days when you don’t have much time to put together dinner. Save the beef and broccoli stir-fry for a night when you have a little bit more time.

FREE PRINTABLES FOR THIS WEEK’S
WEIGHT WATCHER FRIENDLY MEAL PLAN

This week’s meal plan

If you would like to print out this week’s meal plan, or save it to your computer, you can click on this PDF picture below. As always, the names of each recipe have a hyperlink you can click on to get to the recipe. (or you can click on the links above on this post) Printable has been update with FreeStyle Smart Points.

This week’s grocery list

To print off a copy of this week’s grocery list you can click on the picture below and you will be taken to a PDF you can print off. As always, the recipes are listed and numbered. All the ingredients have a number in pararenthesis next to them. In this week’s grocery list the slow cooker beef stroganoff recipe is number one, so any ingredient with a (1) next to it is for the stroganoff recipe.