I am so happy to share another Weight Watchers friendly meal plan with you!

I mixed it up this week by pairing a couple of super quick and easy (15 minutes or less) recipes, with a couple of recipes that take about a half hour to put together. I did this to give you a little extra flexibility. Make this meal plan work for you, according to your schedule.

Here’s what you have to look forward to this week:

♥ Some “Get food on the table quick” recipes.

Save the “Slow Cooker Shredded Beef Sandwiches” and the “Pork Chops with Carmelized Onions” for busy nights when you need to whip dinner together in a jiffy. The beef sandwiches are as simple as tossing some seasoning packets and some meat in a slow cooker. The pork chops just require a little sprinkling, slicing and some grilling. You can have both of these on the table in less that 15 minutes.

♥ Some “I have a few extra minutes” recipes.

Save the “Creamy Turkey and Vegetable Soup” and the “Cheesy Mexican Beans and Rice” for those nights when you have a little extra time. These recipes don’t take too long, really, but they do require chopping up vegetables and allowing them to cook. The vegetables are all part of the fun and it’s what makes these recipes healthy, colorful and fantastic. You don’t want to rush fantastic, do you? 😉

♥ And then there is our “family favorite” recipe.

The “Chicken Chili Phyllo Poppers” are my husband’s absolute favorite! We couldn’t decide if we wanted them to be an appetizer or a dinner, so we made them twice and did them both ways. We decided that we liked them for dinner better and wanted to make them part of the meal plan. They taste great and they just scream fun! Save those for a night when you feel like having a good time. Maybe eat them while you play a game as a family or have a friend over and share with them! They’ll love you for it.

♥ One little thing worth mentioning about the sandwiches…

About those shredded beef sandwiches… Because buns can be anywhere from 2-10 points I thought it would be better to just give you the number of SP for one serving of beef without the bun. This way you can add in the SP for the kind of buns you use… or leave the buns out all together. If you would like to see a list of buns that are just 2 smart points each you can go here.

A little Valentine’s dessert idea from my 8-year old daughter.

The other day my daughter came up with a dessert she thought would be fun. When she showed it to me I thought it was so pretty I asked if I could share it with you all. She was excited to find out that I wanted to show off her creation to my Meal Planning Mommies family. I loved watching her being proud of her creation, suggesting things like taking the picture with a fork and without a fork, etc. It reminded me that I should find more ways to include her in what I do for the blog because, when she gets involved, I think she loves it almost as much as I do.

Here is my daughter’s Valentine’s dessert creation:

This is all you need:

1 store-bought shortcake
+ 4 Tbsp. Lite whipped topping
+ 1 large strawberry
= 1 cute dessert and 1 proud daughter.

One of these little desserts is 6 WW SP and you can add as many strawberries as you like. (Pile ’em up honey!)

A big welcome to my new Simple Nourished Living Friends!

I want to say a big welcome to Martha’s readers coming from Simple Nourished Living!! Martha McKinnon has graciously offered to make me a regular contributing writer on her blog once a month! You may remember Martha’s name (and the name “Simple Nourished Living”) from previous meal plans where we featured recipes from her eCookbooks. You can go here to see her recipes and meal plans that have been featured on MPM and for more of her recipes you can get to her website, Simple Nourished Living, here.

Now, on to this week’s Weight Watchers friendly meal plan.

Here are this week’s recipes:

Slow Cooker Shredded Beef Sandwiches
Makes 12 servings of beef
3 WW FreeStyle SP per serving (+ SP for bun)

Skinny Skillet Chicken Cordon Bleu
w/ Green Beans
Makes 4 servings
4 WW FreeStyle SP per serving

Chicken Chili Phyllo Poppers
Makes 5 servings
5 WW FreeStyle SP per serving

Creamy Turkey and Vegetable Soup
Makes 8 servings
4 WW FreeStyle SP per serving

Cheesy Mexican Beans and Rice
Makes 7 servings
4 WW FreeStyle SP per serving

Pork Chops w/ Carmelized Onions
Makes 6 servings
3 WW FreeStyle SP per serving

 

THIS WEEK’S FREE PRINTABLE MEAL PLAN:

Click on the meal plan pictured 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.

THIS WEEK’S FREE PRINTABLE GROCERY LIST:

Click on the grocery list pictured 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.

Thanks and I hope you have a great week!!

*SmartPoints® calculated by Meal Planning Mommies; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT Weight Watchers Zero Points fruits and vegetables using the WW Recipe Builder.