This weekend Sarah and I will be getting together to talk blog stuff. It will be a nice weekend of planning, playing, and praying. Many of you may not realize this but the Meal Planning Mommies blog started all the way back in 2008 with 3 moms!

(Sarah, Katie, Candace, and Alisha)

We worked hard on the blog consistently for a couple of years along with our other really good friend from college, Katie Brabson. (second from the right in the picture above) The blog gained momentum during that time but we reached a point when we all needed to take a break from the blog. There were several reasons for it, but it really boiled down to that it seemed to be what was best for each of us and for our families at that time. May of 2015 Sarah and I felt we were ready to get back to the blog again, but Katie opted out this time around. Since May we have been working together considering how we can make this blog more helpful to other moms, while sharing our lives and kitchens with you.

We are hopeful that this will be a fruitful weekend full of inspiration and focus, along with some good old girl time. We are looking forward to this time away and are eager to brainstorm the best way to use this blog in the future!

If there is ever something we can do to make our site more user-friendly please do not hesitate to drop us a comment or an email. We are very open to feedback right now and would love to hear any, and all, of the ideas you have.

What do you want to hear more of? What do you wish was out there? How can we help you better?

One way we are trying to make our site useful right now is through our meal plans with links to printable grocery lists and recipes. This week is my week to share a Weight Watcher friendly meal plan! Are you ready for some great dinner ideas? Here is what we have planned for this week, along with how many Weight Watcher Points+ each one is:

Breaded Baked Pork Tenders- 5 WW P+

Southwest White Chicken Chili- 7 WW P+

Beef and Vegetable Potpie Casserole- 9 WW P+

Easy Chicken Parmesan with Basil- 7 WW P+

My Momma’s Tilapia recipe- 3 WW P+

Chicken Teriyaki Stir Fry- 4 WW P+

Free Printable Meal Plan with Hyperlinks

For a word document of this week’s meal plan you can go here:

MPM-weight-watcher-meal-plan-November 8

For a PDF of this week’s meal plan you can go here:

MPM-weight-watcher-meal-plan-November 8

Free Printable Grocery List

For a word document of this week’s grocery list you can go here:

Nov. 8-WW-friendly-Grocery-List-Word-Document

For a PDF of this week’s grocery list you can go here:

Nov. 8-WW-friendly-Grocery-List-PDF

If you are new to our blog read this first:

On the meal plan page you will see that the names of the meals are connected with a hyperlink to the recipe. Once you are on the recipe page you will be able to print that recipe, or just follow the recipe straight from your iPhone or computer.
On the grocery list you will see that there are numbers beside each food item. Those numbers are connected to the recipe number. For instance, when my Pineapple Pork Chops recipe was #6 on the meal plan page the ingredient “pineapple” was on the grocery list with a #6 next to it. This way if you decide not to make a particular recipe you can cross off the ingredients for that recipe on your grocery list. In this case, if you decided you did not want to make the Pineapple Pork Chops that week you could cross off anything with a six next to it.