 Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers Blue Plan. It's Wednesday, so it's another what I eat in a day. I'm going to be sharing with you all of my food for the day, a really good dinner recipe, an imperfect food haul. I just have a lot of good stuff to share with you today and I'm gonna talk a little bit about my plan moving into the month of August. So if you're excited for another what I eat in a day, give this video a big thumbs up. It really helps out my channel and of course I appreciate it and if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed, I would love to have you here. Hit the little subscribe button and click the bell right next to it so you never miss a single video. Don't forget to check out the description box down below for everything I share with you in today's video, links, discounts to all of my favorite things, nutrition coaching. 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You're my world of fire You're my heart's deep side I just wanna love you Just wanna hold you Just wanna be with you Till we grow old Please tell me you'll stay So here's my breakfast for this morning. I'm actually really excited for this. So I have two slices or one serving of those sweet potatoes. Just pop those into my toaster. They're nice and crispy. That is three points. It is zero points for the eggs and then I have three points worth of avocado. I have some fresh raspberries that look absolutely incredible. And then I have one half of a cup or one serving of cottage cheese. I weighed that out on my food scale as you saw along with the avocado. That will give me some extra protein with my breakfast. So my breakfast is eight smart points total and I cannot wait to dig in. Good morning guys. I had the best breakfast. Let me just tell you how delicious that breakfast was. I'm kind of glad Troy ate all the hash browns because that was so, so good and so filling. As I mentioned in a previous video that I'm really trying to focus more on whole real food for the month of August. A little less processed food, a little more whole real food. Really shoot for that 80% whole food, 20% processed food. Sorry if you hear my washer in the background. It's Monday, it's clean house day. So I got laundry to do, dishes to do, all the good stuff today. So sorry if you hear that in the background. But I'm really focusing more on my 80-20 rule that I have for myself. Sometimes I let that fall off a little bit and I eat a little more processed food than I really want to eat. So I'm really concentrating on that for the month of August. So you'll be seeing lots of good whole food meals in my what I eat in the days and I'm in the middle of a self care challenge on my Facebook group. My challenge group were doing self care in the month of August. So I've committed to a face mask every day in the month of August. Yesterday was my first one. It was glorious. So we'll do a face mask tonight. It's going to be a really good day. I have an amazing dinner recipe plan. So I'm excited to take you guys along with me. Like I mentioned today is my clean house day. Get my house all sparkling clean. I started my dishwasher. I'm in the process of washing all of my bedding. So as I was throwing all of my bedding into the washer this morning, I remember that I wanted to share my new Hydro Luna silk pillowcase from Souterra. I shared the Souterra body exfoliator with you guys last week. I actually used that last night. I love that. I just love Souterra products. And I am so excited about this new pillowcase. I chose the creamy colored pillowcase. I love that it has the zipper closure so it stays on your pillow. Just touching this, it is so cool to the touch which is my favorite thing about going to sleep on a nice cold pillow. There are so many benefits of silk sheets, silk pillowcases, especially silk pillowcases for your hair, for your skin, for anti-aging. But I wanted to share with you guys what the difference is of this Hydro Luna silk pillowcase from Souterra versus traditional silk pillowcases. So the Hydro Luna is 100% pure silk. The pillowcase is infused with hyaluronic acid deep within the silk fibers which can both benefit your hair and your skin all while you're asleep. I put hyaluronic acid on my face every single day. It really plumps up your face, fills in those fine lines. And when you're adding a skincare beneficial ingredient to a pillowcase, it just really enhances the already amazing benefits of a silk pillowcase. Because silk pillowcases are so nice and smooth, it prevents your hair from breaking during the night. And I find for me that my hair is much less frizzy in the morning when I sleep on a silk pillowcase. So I've been using a pillowcase that silk, but this one, you guys, this one is so much better quality. It's absolutely gorgeous. Like I said, it's cooling. It's infused with skincare properties which is absolutely incredible. Another benefit of silk is for your skin. No more pillow lines on your face. And silk doesn't zap all of your skin's hydration while you sleep, like cotton pillowcases do. It actually adds those skin-benefiting properties in your sleep while you're sleeping on a beautiful, luxurious silk pillowcase. These pillowcases, like I said, are 100% pure silk, which is top-notch best quality. So the size of the pillowcase is your traditional standard queen pillow. And again, like I mentioned, it does have that nice zipper closure. One thing I was confused on or one thing that I was questioning when I purchased my first silk pillowcase is how do you care for it? Can you wash your silk pillowcases? So it's suggested to wash your pillowcase on a light cycle using a gentle pH neutral detergent and cold water. They recommend using an actual genuine silk detergent. So that's something that I'm going to have to pick up because these pillowcases not only are absolutely highly beneficial for your hair and your skin, they're definitely more expensive than your traditional cotton pillowcase. So you wanna take really good care of them. And the last care step that I wanted to share with you for any type of silk pillowcase, especially the one infused with the hyaluronic acid, is do not tumble dry these in your dryer. Make sure that you hang dry. Any silk pillowcase that will keep its integrity and keep its nice soft cooling effect that comes naturally with silk. So I will take all of the less frizzy hair, skin beneficial properties anti-aging that I can get, especially while I'm sleeping. So I highly recommend a silk pillowcase if you suffer from any of those things or if you just wanna take the best possible care of both your hair and your skin while you're sleeping. So I will link this Souterra Hyaluronic Acid infused pillowcase down in the description box with 20% off for you. So thank you so much to Souterra for offering that 20% discount. Of course, for partnering with me on this video because you know I love your products and thank you again for offering that discount code for you guys. It's so important for you again to have the best quality sleep on the best quality pillowcase. I don't wanna wake him up and I don't know if you guys can tell but Palmer has fallen asleep with sticks in his mouth. Oh my goodness. That is so funny. He's legit out cold with sticks hanging out of his mouth. So I'm going to have a morning snack. It is 10 o'clock. So I'm going to do the healthy kombucha. This is in strawberry glow. So this is a new to me flavor. I found this at Trader Joe's. So I wanted to try it. And then of course I'm going to have one of the new chocolate and peanut butter burb energy bars. I love these so, so much. Today's clean house day. So I need all the energy that I can get. Each one of these little bars is 90 calories, three points and has 65 milligrams of caffeine which is the same amount as a shot of espresso. And this new chocolate peanut butter cup is a no bake cookie. That is legitimately what it tastes like. So many of you on my Facebook group have said that you ordered these and thought that they tasted just like a no bake cookie as well. I mean, they even look like a no bake cookie. So I feel like I'm indulging in a bakery no bake cookie and it's 90 calories, three points and has 65 milligrams of caffeine. So three points for my verb bar. I count kombucha as one. So I have a four smart point snack. I'm going to make a salad for lunch today. So I'm going to start with some of the good and gather spring mix. I want to use this up. I bought this for last week's meal prep when I made those flat breads. So you can see that it starts getting kind of ugh. So I want to use this lettuce up. And then I sliced up some green onions, some radishes and just a tiny bit of bell pepper. And then I have this true story all natural turkey breast. This is actually zero points on the blue plan. And it is two ounces for 55 calories. So I'm going to go ahead and turn my food scale on set it to ounces and chop up two ounces of the smoked turkey. So that was two slices, which is actually 1.9 ounces. So close enough. And you guys just because things are zero points doesn't mean that they're zero calories. So I do always like to just wait out and make sure I'm eating one serving. And then I'm going to top my salad with one ounce of feta cheese. Again, I'm weighing that out on my food scale. I also have these organic whole dried blueberries. They're sweetened with apple juice from the patients fruit and company. These are delicious. I count these as one tablespoon, one point. You can have a quarter of a cup for like a hundred and something calories. So I figure one point for a tablespoon is perfect. And it's just going to add that little bit of sweetness to my salad. And I did buy these off of the Thrive Market. I'll make sure the Thrive Market is linked down below for you guys with 25% off your first order and a free gift. And lastly, about for my dressing, I'm going to top it with one tablespoon of sliced almonds, which is also one point. And this is going to be my healthy fat for my salad. Look how amazing this salad looks. I'm so excited. I'm using the light hidden valley ranch. My lovely husband tore the label off, but this is the light ranch. And I'm going to do two tablespoons or 30 milliliters for 60 calories. And there's my salad for lunch today. I'm super excited for this. I'm going to have to add up all the points and calories, but I will put them here on the screen for you. And I'm going to enjoy my salad along with water. I am on my third or fourth one of these tumblers of water. I will get in my gallon today. My imperfect foods box just arrived and it has been a minute since I did an imperfect foods haul. You guys know how much I love my imperfect foods box. So let's break in. I'm already super excited. So the first thing on the top are these nature's bakery oatmeal crumble bars. I picked these up for Troy. Now I will probably eat these as well, but he's been liking having some new and exciting snacks in his lunch. So this is the nature's bakery apple. And then I also picked up the strawberry as well. That way he had a couple of different options of the granola bars. A bag of the deep river sweet Maui onion chips. These just sounded really good. We may be having some friends over this weekend. I always put out a bowl of chips. So I picked those up. Some hatch chili pinto bean dip. I thought this sounded really good. How good would this be on tacos or to dip tortilla chips in? It is two tablespoons for only 30 calories. So I am pretty excited about that. And last on top here are a couple of mangoes. I love mangoes and the imperfect foods ones have been the sweetest, ripest mangoes I've ever had. So now under the cardboard, it just protects the items underneath. And you'll see here that everything that needs to be kept cold is an insulated bag with an ice pack. But on the side here, I have a honeydew melon. We love honeydew, so I picked that up. And then everything else that has to be kept cold again is in the insulated bag with a ice pack. Starting with the true story, all natural smoked turkey breast. I don't have any lunch meat on hand right now. And I do like to have it for wraps or sandwiches. I also grabbed the Tony's chocolate Nelly. This is a milk chocolate caramel sea salt chocolate bar. It's 160 calories for one sixth of the bar. And I thought this would just be kind of fun to have as a sweet treat. Just break it up into individual servings. I also picked up a pack of uncured beef hot dogs just so we had hot dogs on hand. Sometimes we just want an easy dinner and we just throw some dogs on the barbecue. This was new on their website. This is the Sanzo Leachy Sparkling Water. It is 20 calories for the entire can. It was pretty pricey. It was over $2 for the can, but it was new. And I thought that I would give it a try. And I love sparkling water. Next up is the Good Foods Avocado Mash Little Bucket. I buy these all the time from Imperfect Foods. We love these. This avocado spread is so incredibly delicious and the entire pack is only 90 calories. Ew, and a little spurgy sweet treat for Troy and I both. These are the Imperfect Foods Daisy Noir cupcakes. It's an assortment of chocolate and vanilla cupcakes. Now I know Troy won't eat the chocolate ones, but he will eat the vanilla one. And there are 190 calories per cupcake, which I didn't think was too bad. And then I also grabbed some more kombucha, this four pack of the Brew Doctor Island Mango. Kombucha was only $10. And then just two bottles of health-aid kombucha, the pink apple, and the pomegranate. So that is everything for my Imperfect Foods order. I'm pretty excited about all of my good stuff. I will link Imperfect Foods down below for you with $20 off of your first box, no minimum order. So take advantage, get some free delicious food, help save the planet and reduce food waste. So it's a total win-win. Happy 3 p.m. I'm having a snack. I know it's super boring, but I'm just going to have a cheese stick. I'm not super hungry. I am working on my gallon of water. I'm over halfway done. I'm ready to hop on a Zoom call and then I'm going to make sure I get this gallon done by the end of the day. So I'm having a cheese stick and I'm having some water. For dinner tonight, I am making million-dollar pasta. The original recipe is million-dollar spaghetti, but I am out of my spaghetti noodles and I am making a couple of other modifications to the recipe, including having it because the original recipe makes 12 servings and we just don't need that many servings for the two of us. So I'm going to have the recipe and make six servings. So let me show you what's in the recipe. So because I'm out of spaghetti, I'm going to be using the fiber gourmet, light rotini. You guys know how much we love fiber gourmet pasta. I will put nutrition down in the description box where you can order the pasta. It is only two points for two full ounces, normal pasta's five to six points. It's 100 calories versus 210. There's 25 grams of fiber versus two grams of fiber, 17 net carbs versus 41 and it also contains seven grams of protein and I'm telling you it is the best pasta. So tonight I'm going to be using rotini and then quickly jumping over to nutrition and placing an order for some more pasta. You're also going to need a pound of 96% extra lean ground beef, light mozzarella cheese and onion, these are pretty small. So I'm going to be using two, Parmesan cheese, light sour cream, cottage cheese, garlic, light butter and a jar of marinara. The original recipe also calls for an eight ounce block of cream cheese. I thought I bought that and I didn't. So I'm just going to omit that from the recipe. So let's get started. I have a pan started here with some water to cook the pasta. In my skillet, I'm going to add my chopped up onion and my pound of 96% extra lean ground beef and a big heaping scoop of garlic and we're going to let the ground beef brown and the onions to saute and become translucent while we're bringing the water for the pasta to a boil. Once the hamburger and the onions are cooked, I'm going to add my entire jar of pasta sauce and just stir that to combine and then we'll remove it from the heat. While the pasta finishes cooking, we're going to make up the cottage cheese, sour cream and cheese mixture. This is also where you would add in the cream cheese if you do use that. So I'm using half of a cup of low fat cottage cheese, one eighth of a cup of sour cream, which is really about all I have left in the container. And then I have one and a half cups total of mozzarella. I'm going to put half of that into this mixture and reserve the other half. That is stir and that is a portion of our filling. Go ahead and spray your nine by 13 baking dish with some non-stick cooking spray and preheat your oven to 350 degrees. We're going to add half of the cooked pasta to the bottom of the baking dish and then half of our sauce. Spread that nice and even with the pasta. We're going to add all of the cottage cheese, sour cream and mozzarella cheese mixture. I'm just going to kind of drop that over the top and then spread it around the best that I can. And then I'm going to add the other half of the pasta and top that with the other half of the sauce. Now we're going to sprinkle the other half of the light mozzarella right on top. And then an eighth of a cup of Parmesan cheese over the top as well. We're going to bake our casserole in the oven at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes. I just took the dinner out of the oven. It looks so delicious. I'm going to divide it up with some corn as a side of vegetables and I'll be back to share points and calories. So here is my dinner for tonight. I went ahead and divided the spaghetti casserole into six servings. So this is one sixth. It is four points on all plans the way that I prepared it. That's without the butter, without the cream cheese and using the fiber gourmet pasta. And then I just have some corn here, which for me is also zero points. So I will put all of the points and calories here on the screen. So here is my dessert for tonight. I'm having a serving of the craters, craters, however you pronounce it, caramel and cheese popcorn. I love this popcorn so much. So this is going to be my dessert and my final meal of the day. Oh, and I did finish my gallon of water. Just refills it for tomorrow. Thank you for joining me on another What I Eat in a Day on WW. I hope you enjoyed spending the day with me, seeing all of my meals. That really good dinner recipe, of course, is on my recipe website. I'll link that at the top of the description box. In the description box, you'll also find nutrition coaching, links and discounts to everything I shared with you today, as well as all of my other favorite things. And of course, my Facebook group. Definitely come join us over there. We'd love to have you. Don't forget to give this video a big, huge thumbs up if you enjoyed it. It really means a lot to me. And of course, hit the subscribe button and ring the bell next to it so you never miss a single video. Thank you so much for hanging out with me, my friends. Happy Wednesday and I'll see you all in Friday's way in. Bye.