 channel and welcome if you're new here I'm so glad that you clicked on today's video I'm going to be sharing with you my meal prep for the upcoming week we do this meal prep thing every single Monday so make sure that you hit the subscribe button and the bell next to it so you're notified when new videos are uploaded you don't want to miss a single one I have a breakfast a lunch and an amazing delicious clean eating dessert for you ww friendly calorie friendly all the things so you don't want to miss a single beat of today's video if you love meal preps give this one a big thumbs up and let's jump into this week's my ww meal prep for breakfast this week I'm making a five minute oatmeal power bowl now this is essentially overnight oats we're gonna prepare it now put it in the refrigerator and eat it tomorrow or the next day when you go to eat it you can eat it cold or the recipe recommends warming it up whatever your preference is so I'm going to show you what's in the oatmeal portion and then I'm going to also show you what toppings or things I'm going to add to my power bowl when I go to eat them so let's jump in you're going to need some almond milk or nut milk of your choice rolled oats you guys know I love the thrive organic rolled oats there is a link down below for the thrive market head on over and join it you get $20 worth of free product when you join the market and you guys the prices can't be beat it's about 30% less than your traditional grocery store and they have thousands and thousands of fantastic hard to find a lot of times items so highly recommend the thrive also when you're buying oats if possible get those organic because they are heavily sprayed with glycosate which is the active ingredient in roundup so I love these organic rolled oats from thrive definitely check thrive out you're going to need some chia seeds some really really really ripe bananas I have four here I'm going to make four power bowls some water and some cinnamon now for toppings you could really do anything that you want I may add some fruit if I want a zero point topping one tablespoon of these sprouted pumpkin seeds is only one point so it's a great way to get in a healthy nuts and healthy fats I also really like this unsweetened toasted coconut so this I believe is two points per tablespoon and then another thing that's great to add our hemp heart so these are from nutstop a link in that stop down below for you guys I do have 10% off it is not an affiliate link it's just supporting that company they're amazing I love them as you know so these are the organic held hemp seeds so they're already kind of crushed up a quarter of a cup is 110 calories I usually use a tablespoon and it's one to two smart points and this is a really good way to get in some protein and some healthy fat as well so again you just choose the toppings of your choice you could do nut butter you could do almonds walnuts whatever you want to do so I'm just going to share with you the base recipe and then each day I'll kind of change up what I'm putting on for my toppings and add those points and calories accordingly so let's make some oatmeal so to make our oatmeal power bowl it's very very simple I'm going to mix everything in a bowl here and then I will transfer it into a meal prep bowl this a little bit bigger so it's easier to mix everything together so I'm first going to start with a whole very very ripe banana I picked these up about four days ago so they've sat in my fruit bowl and ripened if you need to ripen your bananas faster you can always throw them into a paper bag and that really helps ripen them quickly and then we're just going to take a fork and we're just going to smash our banana we want to get it pretty smashed up before we add in the oats and the rest of the ingredients this is going to be the natural sweetness in our oats so this is a great way to save calories and points instead of using maple syrup or any type of sugar or honey you can just use a banana and it is some calories but it's just a very sweet natural way to sweeten a breakfast or even a bakery item so once you've mashed your banana you're going to go ahead and add in one third cup of your rolled oats I have one third cup of water we're going to put in some cinnamon and I always say do it to your liking you guys know how I feel I love cinnamon so I'm going to put a decent amount I also have two tablespoons of the chia seeds and lastly two-thirds of a cup of almond milk and then I'm going to just give this a stir get everything combined really really well and then we'll transfer this into the meal prep bowl and make the second third and fourth of our power bowls so once I've stirred everything together it is pretty liquidy but the oats will soak up all the almond milk and the water we're going to go ahead and add that here to our meal prep bowl and you guys this is a lot this is a big dose of oatmeal and the chia seeds will also become gelatinous as they sit in the liquid so that's it it's a very very simple we're going to pop a lid on this throw it in the refrigerator so let's make three more bowls all right so here is a breakfast you guys look at this it's already starting to thicken up the with the chia seeds and the oats so this is one power bowl that is a really good sized bowl and then of course you would add your toppings to that as I was putting these four bowls together I thought about upping my protein game with this breakfast you do have a little bit of protein in the oats and the chia seeds but not a lot so a great way to up your protein is to add protein powder to these oats so I thought if you wanted to make these kind of chocolate you could add the cacao powder from live well you guys know how much I am obsessed with live well so many of you have ordered this and reached out to me and said that you hate plant-based protein but this one is the best protein period you've ever tried and I couldn't agree more my friends because I love live well so much 17 grams of protein with one scoop and one point so you could always stir this in I would recommend mixing the protein powder with a little bit of almond first and then stirring it into your oats otherwise it's really thick it thickens your oats a lot and then you have to add milk anyway so this would be a great way to pop in an extra 17 grams of protein and one point you could also do like these coconut oats or I'm sorry coconut protein powder you could do vanilla and I also thought if you didn't want to change the flavor you could do the unflavored and look at this you guys 23 grams of protein so that would be amazing this is just the natural flavor I like to use this a lot an oatmeal bowl smoothie bowls things that I don't want to change the flavor all if I make a fruit smoothie using a juice I add this in there love it you guys so much so that would be a really fun way really low point way but lots of protein to pump up your power bowls so if you're interested in the live well protein powder I will link it down below for you guys I have 10% off highly highly recommend as you know I have all the flavors I love them but let's talk about points and calories on this power bowl so without any toppings because you will choose toppings of your choice highly recommend protein the bowl itself is six smart points on both blue and the green plan and only three on purple because you don't actually have to count the oats on the purple plan 313 calories purple without any toppings so yeah breakfast my friends it's going to be delicious for lunches this week I'm making chicken meatball casserole like I mentioned in my grocery haul I've been craving meatballs but I also kind of wanted a casserole some pasta so we're putting it all together for the best of both worlds I'm going to have some steamed Brussels sprouts for an added veggie so let's take a look at what's in our lunch first you're going to need some nonstick cooking spray minced garlic pasta I'm going to be using my all time favorite fiber gourmet pasta this is their new packaging they reformulated their pasta and made it even better it has pretty darn good ingredients and what I love most about this pasta is you can add two ounces for two smart points now traditional pasta is two ounces for five or six smart points so it is less than half sometimes a third of the points of traditional pasta and look at this you guys a hundred calories per serving instead of 210 so half the calories you're going to get 25 grams of protein versus two only 17 net carbs versus 21 and seven grams of protein per serving where else are you going to find that this pasta is the best my husband does not allow other pasta in this house he says this is the pasta that he likes to have he always asks when I make pasta is it fiber gourmet because it is that good you guys it's so incredibly delicious you can pick this up off of the net nutrition website I'll link that down below for you guys if you use a different pasta you will need to recalculate the points of this recipe because like I said this is the lowest points you're going to be able to find so I'm going to be using the penne this is the skinnish dish marinara it was just in my freezer so it's been defrosting most of the day today now this recipe I will link on my website with this with the chicken casserole recipe you'll need some parmesan cheese I like the fresh graded this is canned pumpkin you'll need some canned pumpkin I know that sounds weird but make sure you add it to the recipe parsley and minced onion you can also use fresh onion whatever your preference I have salt and pepper one pound of at least 96 percent or leaner ground chicken and then some mozzarella cheese and then like I mentioned I am going to steam up these brussel sprouts I picked these up in my imperfect foods box you guys know my obsession with imperfect foods I will link that down below with $10 worth of a free product when you join imperfect foods you won't be sorry it's awesome so I'm just going to chop the ends off of these throw them here into my handy dandy pampered chef steaming basket and throw those in the microwave and then I'm going to season them with dax because again you know my love for dax the green zest is my favorite on vegetables I'll probably add a little salt and pepper maybe some garlic powder but I love dax not only because they are clean natural ingredients there's no salt so it's great if you watch your salt great before weighing in no msg and the flavor is outstanding it is on point you guys they have 20 over 20 seasonings they just came out with a ranch that is spectacular so check out dax I also posted a little hack on my instagram page about using the dax blackened seasoning to make your own Tyson blackened chicken tenders for way better ingredients way less expensive and just better overall taste so definitely give dax a try I do have 10% off in free shipping I'll put that code here on the screen and link it down below so let's make some lunch so the first thing we're going to do is make our meatballs because once we add everything to these we do want to throw these in the refrigerator for about 20 minutes so in my bowl here I have my one pound of 96% ground chicken to that I'm going to add half of a cup of canned pumpkin and again I know it sounds weird but it's going to just bind the meatballs and it's going to give it a really smooth taste and texture you won't be able to taste the pumpkin I promise we're also going to add in some minced onion and I would say to your liking I'm going to do about an eighth of a cup and then we're going to add some parsley you could use fresh parsley if you would rather some salt so I'm going to actually put in two pretty good sized pinches of salt and then two pretty good sized pinches of pepper as well and then we're going to add in some minced garlic so I'm going to throw in a pretty good sized scoop and then with a spoon or your hands or whatever your preference is we're going to go ahead and mix all of this together put some saran wrap on top and throw this into the refrigerator for 20 minutes while the meatballs are in the refrigerator I'm going to prep my Brussels sprouts so I'm just going to chop the ends off throw them into the steamer basket here we'll add some water a little bit of salt and we'll steam these up in the microwave so we chopped up the Brussels sprouts I added them in here with quite a bit of water I am going to add just a little bit of salt basically to salt the water and then I'm going to pop this in the microwave that way they have a chance to cool completely before we put them into the meal prep containers so the Brussels sprouts are in the microwave I have a pot here of salted water coming to a boil to add in the pasta we're going to let this cook down drain it rinse it with some cold water and set it aside so Brussels sprouts are cooked they are not cooked all the way because I am going to reheat them and I don't want them to become mushy I would say 80 cooked to those I'm going to go ahead and add in some pepper I'm also going to add in just a little bit of salt and dax which is of course the star of the show so a lot of it of dax so I'm going to go ahead and add that in and then I'm just going to give this a quick mix a good stir together and then I'm just going to set these aside and when we put together the meal prep containers with the casserole we will divide these out into those five servings of our meal prep next we're going to go ahead and take the pasta so this is cooled rinsed and we're going to go ahead and add in the marinara so this is a full jar a 20 to 24 ounce jar of marinara now it's zero smart points but I do like to watch my calories as you know so I did calculate this at about 24 ounces of marinara we're just going to give that a stir make sure the pasta and the marinara are combined and then this is the first layer in our casserole so we have a nine by 13 baking dish here we're going to add some non-stick cooking spray we don't want anything to stick during the cooking process here and then the first layer is the marinara and the pasta so we're going to go ahead and add that spread it out as evenly as you can on the bottom of your baking dish and then once our meatballs come out of the oven they're just about done we will nestle those in with the pasta add some cheese which of course is the best part and get this into the oven so I just pulled out the meatballs these look and smell delicious so they actually formed a pretty darn good meatball shape so now I'm going to use some tongs here and I'm going to gently put them in my pasta they seem to be really really moist which no one's going to complain about that but you just have to be a little bit careful when you're popping them here into the pasta so I'm going to just nestle them down in we'll add some cheese and then I have my oven still going at 350 I decided not to turn it off we'll just let it keep being nice and warm and then we'll put the pasta in so here's what it looks like doesn't this look absolutely delicious you guys I can't wait for lunches this is curing all of my cravings I've been having so in my measuring cup here I have one cup this is the Trader Joe's organic mozzarella it's one of my very favorite it's a great dupe for the light shredded mozzarella that Trader Joe's used to have that they said was coming back in 2020 but has not returned this one you can have a quarter of a cup for only two points and it is really good fatty as fatty as mozzarella can get cheese great for the smart points so we're going to add that and then I also have a quarter cup of parm and I'm just going to sprinkle that over the top as well now this is going to go back in that 350 degree oven for about 20 minutes or until everything is heated through and the cheese is nice and melted but hello meatball casserole I'm so excited look at this chicken meatball casserole you guys the cheesiness alone I am so excited this entire pan makes six servings I'm gonna go ahead and cut this into six individual servings we'll load it into the meal prep container with some Brussels sprouts and let's talk about calories and smart points but oh my goodness so this is one serving look at that you guys it's three to four meatballs pasta I seriously cannot wait for this I wish that it was tomorrow lunchtime already yes I'm excited so I'm going to go ahead and package up the other five containers there'll be one extra serving my husband will definitely dig in and I'll be back to share the points so here is lunch I like I said I cannot wait for this what a hearty delicious filling lunch packed of protein get a little pasta some veggies so how this breaks down in points is six servings total is only four smart points on both the blue and purple plan which is not bad at all and six smart points on the green plan 359 calories per serving not counting the Brussels sprouts calorie wise but the Brussels sprouts are zero points as well so yeah you guys what a fantastic lunch for four to six smart points four sweet treat this week I am making blondies now you could do almond butter peanut butter sunflower butter I'm choosing a mixed nut butter just to add that little extra bit of all those different nuts into my blondie and we're going to use a brand new lilies product that I found on the netrition website so let me show you what's in our blondies first you're going to need some flour this is the whole wheat from the thrive market again thrive is linked below I'm going to be using the Kirkland nut butter from Costco I really like this nut butter there are several nuts there's some chia seeds flats a lot of good stuff in this nut butter I will be using the sucran gold brown sugar alternative I buy this off of netrition so the same place we buy that pasta from lunch and the new lilies are new to me lilies that I'm going to show you is all purchased off of netrition so I'll link that down below as well I'm going to be using melt plant-based butter baking powder vanilla salt you're going to need eggs and here are the new chips now I have never seen these they do say new these are the white chocolate style baking chips you can see I opened them I had to try them they're delicious they are so so good so I'm going to put white chocolate chips in my blondies you could use regular chocolate chips you could really use whatever you want you can omit those and add nuts your preference but I cannot wait to have something with these white chocolate chips netrition is the only place I've ever seen these so while you're on there getting the pasta you can grab the lilies white chocolate and the sucran gold so let's make some blondies so let's get started on these blondies so the first thing that we're going to do is take the peanut butter and we're going to add it to a bowl here and then what I like to do is pop this in the microwave I know that might may sound weird but I like to pop the peanut butter and butter into the microwave just to kind of start to melt it a little bit I feel like it mixes a lot better so I'm going to throw this in the microwave for just a second and then you can either use a hand mixer or just a whisk like I'm going to do and we're going to whisk this together so that way it's a little bit warm you can see the butter is a little more melty the peanut butter is a lot warmer so we're just going to whisk this until fully combined before we go ahead and add in the rest of our ingredients this alone hello peanut butter and butter now we're going to go ahead and add in two eggs and we're also going to add in three quarters of a cup of the sucran or whatever brown sugar that you're using we're going to give this another stir we're going to kind of stir as we go now for the flour baking a powder and salt you can add that in a separate bowl whisk it together first to make sure that it's all incorporated but I honestly you guys let me know down below if you're supposed to do this but I very rarely do I usually just add it all into one bowl so that's what I'm going to do today is I'm going to go ahead and just add in the flour so I have three quarters of a cup of that wheat flour whatever flour you're using I'm also going to add in just a pinch of salt and then one teaspoon of baking powder and then I'm going to stir this again before I add in the vanilla and fold in the white chocolate chips white chocolate chips give that another stir fold those in I did measure those out on my food scale I basically did 10 servings I can't remember it's 14 grams per serving of the white chocolate chips and I did 10 servings of those and now let's grab out that eight by eight brownie pan and get this ready to go into the oven I'm going to spray my nonstick pan here with some nonstick cooking spray you can also line it with parchment paper whatever your preference is and then I'm going to scoop this deliciousness you guys look at this doesn't that look so good into my pan here spread it out as evenly as possible and then this is going to go in a 350 degree oven until cooked completely through where you can insert a toothpick and it comes out clean and then we have a blondies I can't wait for this this smells and looks so good I think the white chocolate chips are going to be a really nice addition now you can do the regular like I mentioned you could even do butterscotch chips or really whatever sounds good to you I just have been really excited since I discovered those lilies on that tradition I wanted to try the white chocolate so I am excited already so brownies are ready to go into the oven at 350 degrees look at these blondies they smell amazing my house smells like a bakery I just pulled these out of the oven I'm going to let them cool for a little bit and then we're going to cut them into 16 brownies and I'll be back to share the size we'll take a good look at them and I'll give you smart points and calories so here are the blondies cut into 16 squares so that is a good sized blondie oh my goodness that's a great size so here is the blondie look at that yum it is so delicious I tried a little bite that is a good sized blondie so again the pan made 16 servings they are five smart points per blondie which is not bad you guys you're having a blondie with lots and lots of peanut butter for some healthy fats and some nuts and you're getting some white chocolate so five points per blondie 153 calories so can't wait to dig into these this week thank you for joining me on another weekly ww meal prep I hope you are as excited as I am about these three recipes breakfast lunch a sweet treat I can't wait to dig in every single day this week I am loving meal prepping I love having all of my food ready to go pointed out calories figured out all the things are ready so it's just grab warm up go it's amazing so definitely check out my website which is linked down in the 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