 Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome back to another collab. I am really excited to be participating in this collab because it is all Thanksgiving. We are going to put together an entire Thanksgiving dinner for you that is WW friendly. So if you are wanting to stay on track on Thanksgiving, we have you covered. So I am making a delicious sweet potato casserole as my portion of the Thanksgiving dinner. Once you watch all of the videos in the collab, you'll have an entire dinner that is WW friendly. So you can't beat that. Thank you to Paige at Turning the Page. I'll put it here on the screen for you, here on YouTube for hosting this collab. What a fabulous idea. So if you wanna see my sweet potato casserole that I have for Thanksgiving, just stay tuned. For my Thanksgiving recipe, I'm going to be making a healthy sweet potato casserole. You guys, those sweet potato casseroles are loaded with points, but not this one. This one is the perfect pairing for your Thanksgiving table. So let me show you what is in our sweet potato casserole. You're going to need some sugar or sugar alternative. So I'm gonna be using the Loconto monk fruit sweetener, light butter, unsweetened applesauce, salt. The recipe called for nutmeg, but I'm gonna go ahead and sub in my favorite pumpkin pie spice only because this has nutmeg in it along with so many other amazing pumpkin Thanksgiving spicy flavors. This is from Dax. Dax seasonings are all no salt, which is amazing before weigh-in. Or if you're watching your salt, they are all natural, no MSG. They have very, very good ingredients, very minimal ingredients. So it makes this a fantastic choice. This particular one, cinnamon, spices, and honey. That is it. This you guys is to die for. This is the best pumpkin spice seasoning ever. I love it. Dax has over 20 different seasonings. My code here on the screen will get you 10% off and free shipping. So head over to Dax, check them out. Again, amazing, amazing products, no salt. So perfect for WW. So I'm gonna be using a pinch of this in place of the nutmeg. You will need one cup of chopped pecans or pecan pieces, some cinnamon, and sweet potatoes. Now I took the easy route and bought these precut, pre-pilled, pre-everything, Trader Joe's sweet potatoes. This is the ticket to quick, easy sweet potato, anything. So you'll need two pounds and this is a two pound container. So let's get started on this sweet potato casserole. So our first step is we're gonna put our sweet potatoes on some boil and we're just going to roll them up. They are going to go in a 450 degree oven until they are cooked through. Now the recipe, of course, wants you to use whole sweet potatoes. So they're asking for an hour to an hour and a half to cook through, but because these are precut pieces, I'm betting it's probably going to be about a half of an hour. So I'm gonna go ahead and get these into the oven and I'll be back when they are nice and soft. So I just pulled my sweet potatoes out of the oven. They actually took just about a half an hour when they're precut up like this, so huge time saver. So what we're going to do is transfer our sweet potatoes into our blender and we're gonna add in a couple more good ingredients and then we're gonna get this all blended up and make it into a puree. So I have my sweet potatoes here in my blender. To that, I'm going to add one cup of unsweetened applesauce and I'm going to blend these two things together and then we're gonna add in a few more of our ingredients, but we do ultimately wanna get our sweet potatoes and applesauce blended up first. So we're gonna do that. So we have the sweet potatoes applesauce mixed together. Next step is we are going to add in three tablespoons of melted butter. You can also use coconut oil or ghee, but we're gonna stick with the lowest point option, which was the I can't believe it's not butter. To that, we are also going to add in some ground cinnamon and again, I would just do this to kind of your liking and then it did call for that dash of nutmeg. So I'm gonna do just a dash of the pumpkin pie spice from Dax and then lastly, we are going to put in a little bit of salt and then we're going to give this another big blend and get this nice and blended together and then we will be ready to put this into our pan. So now we're gonna go ahead and take that blended up sweet potato mixture. Oh, you guys, doesn't that look delicious? And we're gonna add it to a nine by nine baking dish. I greased mine, although the recipe did not call for it to be greased, I would rather be safe than sorry. Oh my, this smells so delicious. It smells sweet, spicy, buttery. Oh my gosh, you guys, yum. So we're gonna get this spread evenly in the bottom of our dish or as even as we possibly can. And then we're gonna put together the topping with the pecans and all of that cinnamon, sugary goodness. So I have these sweet potato casserole in the bottom of my pan. This looks and smells so good, I cannot wait for this recipe. So I have that in there in my bowl here. I have one quarter of a cup of the monk fruit sweetener. To that, I'm gonna go ahead and add some of my Dax pumpkin pie spice and I'm basically going to make a cinnamon sugar or a pumpkin pie spice sugar mix to add to the top of my casserole. And that will just caramelize really nicely with those pecans and just add that caramelized, sugary, crystaly, gooeyness to the top of my sweet potato casserole. So just get that nice and mixed together. And then with my spoon, I'm just going to sprinkle it right over the top of the sweet potato mix. Get it nice and even and then we'll top it with our pecans. Next, I have my one cup of pecan pieces. So I use both of those small bags, oven's ready, those small bags of the pecan pieces. And I'm going to sprinkle those over the top. And again, once this cooks down, that caramel-y consistency will come from the cinnamon and sugar mixture that we added. Oh, I'm so excited for this. Sweet potato casserole is my favorite part of Thanksgiving. My mom makes honestly the best sweet potato casserole, but it is not anywhere near. I mean, as far from WW friendly as you can be, it is loaded with a butter and heavy cream and sugar and marshmallows. But it is absolutely to die for. And it is the one thing I look forward to everything's giving. I even have her make it for Christmas. So I'm excited for that, but I am more excited for this WW friendly version of sweet potato casserole. So doesn't this look outstanding? So I'm going to get my oven warmed up, which you heard it beep, so it is good to go. I'm gonna put this in my oven at 375 degrees, just until everything starts to crisp up and caramelize on top, probably about 15, 20 minutes. And that's going to depend on your oven. And then we'll pull this out and we'll let this cool. And we'll be ready to give you the smart points and serve this up, yum. The sweet potato casserole is out of the oven. Doesn't this look so good? My house smells all things fall. So you're going to cut this into 10 servings and each serving is going to be six smart points. So really not bad for sweet potato casserole. And you have to remember that we have pecans and butter in this as well. So you can't beat it. So one 10th of the sweet potato casserole is six smart points. I will show you what a serving looks like next. Staying me on this Thanksgiving collab and thank you again to Paige over at Turning the Page for hosting. Make sure you check out all of the other channels participating down in the description box. Also, you will find the recipe for this healthy sweet potato casserole, so good. You will not even know that this is WW friendly because it tastes just as good as the non-WW friendly full of calories, full of points sweet potato casserole. So definitely something you could take to Thanksgiving and nobody would even know that it was made using Weight Watcher ingredients. So definitely check out everyone else participating so you have a complete Thanksgiving dinner in your arsenal. Thank you so much for watching. If you are coming over from someone else's channel, welcome, make sure that you subscribe. Hit that little bell so you're notified whenever I upload a new video. If you head over to one of the other channels from mine, please let them know that I sent you. And also thumbs up this video and comment down below. Let me know if you're going to be adding this to your Thanksgiving dinner table. And I'll see you guys all in my next video. Happy Thanksgiving. Bye.