Meal Planning Mommies

Weight Watchers friendly recipes, meal plans, and tips

About MPM

Meal Planning Mommies is a resource that dishes up WW friendly meal plans, recipes and other resources while encouraging our readers, to find satisfaction, enjoyment and peace of mind in the kitchen!

BEHIND THE APRON

Meet Alisha Hughes

 

 

Hi, it’s me… Alisha!

Thanks for checking out Meal Planning Mommies!! This is a recipe blog that kicked off in 2008 with three college friends who were exploring motherhood all around the same time. Our children were just babies when we started. We shared things like “How to Make Your Own Baby Food” and “Toddler Snacks” as well as the dinners we prepared for ourselves, our kids, and our husbands. Over the years, we have been blessed to journey alongside many young moms… and now also grandmas, grandpas, uncles, aunts, dads, etc.

While the name of this blog, Meal Planning Mommies, has not changed, the reach of who it helps has. Over the years, Meal Planning Mommies has evolved into a recipe website that is for people in all different walks and seasons of life who are just looking for a little extra inspiration in the kitchen. If you are interested in learning more about the evolution of Meal Planning Mommies and how we went from three bloggers to two, and then to one, you can find that here.

At this point in time, I am taking a break from regularly updating the blog as I am pouring myself into my new career in counseling while tending to the needs of my family, but I am thrilled that people are still finding the recipes and resources on here to be helpful for them!

No matter what season of life you are in my hope is that the recipes, meal plans, ebooks, and lists will alleviate stress and help you to be more efficient in the kitchen while enjoy cooking more!

QUICK LINKS TO MPM RESOURCES:

Check out our MPM recipes with links to the WW recipe builder here:
—>>> https://mealplanningmommies.com/category/personal-points/

Check out our updated ebooks here:
—>>> https://mealplanningmommies.com/store/

Check out our free printables here:
—>>> https://mealplanningmommies.com/cate…/printable-resources/

And you can check out our popular “Smart Lists with Smart Points” here:
—>>> https://mealplanningmommies.com/category/smart-foods-with-smart-points-lists/

Comments

  1. Alisha, I’m very pleased with your WW SmartPoints meal plans, and excited to find that they usually result in larger portions than those in typical frozen entrees. One addition to your weekly printable meal plan would be very helpful for those of us who cook only for ourselves: servings per recipe. I often don’t have freezer space for, say, seven servings of soup, and if the recipe isn’t easily halved, I’ll look for an alternative.

    • Good point Christina!! Thank you. You certainly are not the only who has let us know that you are cooking for one. I will keep that in mind and definitely think about how to incorporate serving sizes in the future. We are continually looking for ways improve and always appreciate feedback, so thank you. 🙂

  2. Hi Alisha,

    Your website is God sent to me as I’ve been looking for something like this for weeks. I love the way you have the recipes organized set up. I’m wondering how do you get the accurate Smart Points if your recipes are not actual weight watchers? So someone who is trying hard to lose weight, how can they be certain they are getting the right portions, protein, fats, carbs, according to the weight watchers calculations. Don’t they use a specific formula for their recipes. Just curious because your recipes look very mouth watering and I want to go shopping today, but I want to make sure the recipes will actually help me to lose the weight.

    • Hi Tanya, Great question. This is a question we get a lot. Weight Watchers has something called a “Recipe Builder”. The recipe builder allows you to plug in each ingredient, the amounts of each ingredient, and the number of servings the recipe is worth. Then it does the math for you so you have an accurate # of smart points per serving for the recipe.

  3. Thank you for this site! I can’t wait to try out a weekly meal plan. I’m tired of going to the grocery store several times a week.

  4. Thank you, thank you, thank you! for taking the time out of your busy lives to make this website to make my busy life a bit easier! You have no idea just how much all of the recipes, meal plans, information, support, etc. mean to me. Thank you again and please keep up the great work!

  5. I’m so excited to find this site!!! My husband and I are doing Weight Watchers as well with success. I’m down 120 lbs and my hus band is down 87 lbs. We’re kind of stuck in a rut with meals soo glad find more recipies with the SP values. Can’t wait to try the recipes here.

    Thanks!

  6. Wow! Your website is absolutely the best. So thorough and well organized with great info. I have been sharing your site at my weekly meeting, on our Facebook page, and on Weight Watchers Connect! Love getting your emails, too. Thank you so much for all you do. ??❤

    Dianne

  7. Awesome website, I am going to fill out the form for the newsletter. I have joined WW more than once now and always end up walking away discouraged simply because I don’t know what to cook and meal planning was stressing me out something fierce. I’ve looked over some of your meal plans and am looking forward to trying some. I just printed the recipe for the Slow Cooker shredded Beef Sandwiches and will try it out tomorrow. Like some others I’m cooking for one and appreciate the servings in the recipes. Thanks for taking some of the stress out of my journey. 🙂

    • Hey Tammy, thanks for dropping us a comment. Glad we can help. You’ll have to come back and let us know what you think of the shredded beef sandwiches when you have a chance. Love hearing from our readers. 🙂

  8. Thank you for this valuable website. You have made meal planning easy for me. I wish you had a book listing all this great information. The dessert list, snack list just to name a few are awesome. Thank you again!

  9. I’m not sure how many WW points I’m allowed, is this website for some signed up with WW?
    This is the best website with awesome information.

    Thank you!

    Pat Long

    • Hi Pat! Yes, the information about smart points is for people who are Weight Watcher members, but all of the recipes and meal plans on here can be used by anyone looking to make smart food choices. If you are interested in checking out Weight Watchers you can go here: http://www.weightwatchers.com. OH! and thanks for the compliment! 🙂

  10. Hi,
    I am new here and I love this page but I cannot find any informaiton on servings per recipe?
    Am I simply not seeing it ? Is the recipe quantitfy meant for one person or 3 or 4 ??
    Thanks for a short answer 😉
    Tatjana

    • Hello Tatjana, Each recipe is typically between 4-8 servings. If you scroll to the bottom of each recipe it will give you the # of servings, amount of one serving, and the smart points for one serving. Hope this helps. 🙂

  11. So glad I found this site! And so great of you to take the time to break down all the information that is out there! I tried WW but got so frustrated with the site I gave up. I think the WW site is sooooooooooo confusing! Yours is simple and easy to follow. Thanks so much!

  12. Hello,
    I just signed up with WW online
    And I need help with meal planning.
    Do you also give ideal for breakfast,
    lunch as well as snacks?
    Thank you,
    Cheryl

  14. Hello everyone, I am a Grannie mama! My son pass away when he was 31 and left two beautiful granddaughter s that I have help raise! So I hope it is okay to join you all! We live on a fixed income and we are not able to join WW! I order the welcome kit on E-bay but it was useless to me because did not tell how to figure our daily smart points or how to figure smart points on foods! I was so sad! Then I ran across this site and was encouraged to try to gained enough info to try to do the program! Meal Planning Mommies is loaded with so much awesome info, thank you Alisha! Happy New Year to you all!

    • Welcome to the Meal Planning Mommies community, Margie! 🙂 Happy to have you here. Just so you know, there are many “grannie mamas” that come to Meal Planning Mommies regularly, so you are in good company. There are also many who do not do Weight Watchers on here, and that is perfectly okay as well. Everyone is welcome here. Sorry to hear about your son. Glad you are able to be in the lives of your granddaughters. I’m sure that the blessing of that relationship goes both ways. Blessings, Alisha

  15. I need meal planning. I have never been a planner and need this in my life. I’m tired of eating out and now it is time to start cooking and all my life I have cooked southern meat, potatoes and beans and biscuits. I have been to ww so many times I am a shame to go back. I started when I was 18 and came within 2 lbs of reaching my goal and quit. How stupid was I. . I have struggled with my weight ever since. I have tried just about every diet out there but keep coming back to ww. It is the one that helped me the most, and I was able to stick to ww more than any diet and not feel deprived. It is the cooking in my life that I have a problem with. Eating the frozen meals gets a little old. So it is time I try to plan a meal and get down to cooking. I need help. Yeonne S.

  16. Thank you so much, Alisha! I just discovered your blog, and I have to say that this will be a lifesaver for me. I have put on over 30 pounds in a year – mostly due to a sedentary lifestyle and eating out way too much. I just started the freestyle WW program and hope to take off 80 pounds to get to goal! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

  17. You are such a nice kind and generous person! What a blessing you are! I rarely cook. But perhaps you are inspiring me. I love the new WW just joined and ha e only lost 9 lbs but most important is portion control lessons

    I send you a blessing!

  19. Bought your book on 8/5/18. Unable to download it even though the $14.99 was charged to my Visa account. I would like a reply and a solution to this. Otherwise refund my account. Why is there no way to make a phone call to you?

    • Hello Elaine, Thanks for your purchase! I just resent you the receipt to your email. You should be able to access the download from the email you received. You can also log in at Gumroad.com to access your purchases. Let me know if you need more help than that. Thanks again! -Alisha

  20. I have tried twice to sign up for the MPM emails and the one week free meal plan and ecookbook but I never receive the email. Any suggestions?

    • Hi Lori,
      From what I can tell on my end the first email that includes the link to the free downloadable one week meal plan has been sent to your email. Is it possible it went straight to your spam folder? Perhaps check there.
      Let me know if you still don’t see it.
      Thanks! -Alisha

  21. Hi Alisha! I have purchased the 12-Week Meal Plan Mega Bundle Volume 2. OMG! When I opened it and read the From the Author…section, I was blown away! You look fantastic. You need to update your photos of you on your Website!!!! Maybe a little info on your current weight loss. Keep up the good work!