Over the past couple of weeks I shared some waist-slimming foods, recipes, and ideas. One of the nice things about Weight Watchers is that you can eat just about anything and still lose weight, as long as you pay attention to portions and you balance out the good stuff with the “not-so-good” stuff. The nice thing about planning a week’s worth of low smart point dinners is that I can eat the birthday cake at my son’s birthday party and not think twice about it.

Stretch yourself this week.

The brussel sprout soup (Chicken and Mushroom soup) was a stretch for me the first time I made it. I assumed I wasn’t going to like it. I never ate brussel sprouts as a kid, so when I tried it I was really surprised at how I enjoyed each bite. I felt proud that I could be a person who says, “Yeah, I eat brussel sprouts! What?!” (of course I ate the cake later, but whatever! I ate brussel sprouts! That’s all that matters.) 😉

“You’ll Love Our Culture.”

I surprised my daughter on Wednesday night after church. Instead of going straight home she and I made a stop at our frozen yogurt shop that she has been asking to go to. The frozen yogurt place by where we live is called, “YoMazing” and our kids love it. The colors are bright and everything about it screams, “kid-friendly”. They sell lots of different flavors of frozen yogurt (they even have pumpkin flavored yogurt as an option right now).

(Pictured below: My daughter posing in front of the wall of different flavors of yogurt you can buy…. and by “posing” I mean “dancing”.)

Did I mention she was excited?

 

After you load up your yogurt at the yogurt station you pile on your toppings at the toppings station.

Then you pay by the ounce, and sit down and eat. Check out this sign on the wall behind where my daughter was sitting.  The sign on the wall says that the health benefits of yogurt are bone strength, immunity booster, packed with protein, lower your cholesterol, and digestion. I really wasn’t going there just to be healthy. Rather, I was going because I wanted to surprise my daughter with some girl time. It being healthy was just a little bonus. Don’t you love when that happens? 🙂

Because I was referring all week to foods that lead to a healthy gut and yogurt is definitely on the list of things that are good for your stomach, I thought I would share this. Under the word digestion (on this sign below) it says this, “The ‘good bacteria’ in our frozen yogurt aids in digestion and helps support a healthy colon. You’ll love our culture.” As far as smart points go the frozen yogurt probably isn’t a whole lot less than ice cream, maybe. I am not sure, but I wasn’t counting. Instead I just enjoyed the time with my daughter.

YASSO . . . DESSERT WITH BENEFITS.

Is there a frozen yogurt place close to you? If there isn’t Yasso is a brand of Greek frozen yogurt bars that taste DELISH and you can buy them in your grocery store. (I think we got them at Target when I got them). My favorite is the coffee chocolate chip, but they are all good!

You can go here to see what other flavors Yasso makes. (they all taste great) Join their “Fan Rewards Program” here. You know what else is fabulous? If your store doesn’t carry Yasso bars, the makers of Yasso have made it incredibly easy for you to request that your store carry them by creating a request form that you can print off, fill out and take to the manager of the grocery store you go to. You can get to the request form here.

Okay, now onto this week’s meal plan.

Here is what we have for you this week…

California Wraps
Pampered Chef
Makes 6 Wraps
4 WW FreeStyle SP per wrap

Greek Pasta Salad Bowl
Meal Planning Mommies
Makes 6 servings
6 WW FreeStyle SP per serving

Cheddar Ranch Chicken
Emily Bites
Makes 4 servings
3 WW FreeStyle SP per serving

Southwest White Bean and Chicken Soup
Meal Planning Mommies
Makes 6 servings
2 WW FreeStyle SP per serving

Grilled Steak and Potato Salad
Meal Planning Mommies
Makes 6 servings
6 WW FreeStyle SP per serving

Chicken and Mushroom Soup
Meal Planning Mommies
Makes 4 servings
0 WW FreeStyle SP per serving

THIS WEEK’S FREE PRINTABLES.

MEAL PLAN.

Click on the picture below for a printable PDF of this week’s meal plan that you can save to your computer or print off. Hyperlinks on the recipe names will take you to where the recipe is online, or you can come back to this post.

GROCERY LIST.

Click on the picture below for a printable PDF of this week’s grocery list that you can print off and take to the store with you. Numbers in (parenthesis) next to the ingredient match up with the number of the recipe in the lower right corner. If you don’t want to do a recipe you can simply cross off the ingredients with that number next to them.