 channel and welcome if you're new here excuse this I just finished Jazzercise which was amazing and now I'm going to start this week's meal prep so I have three absolutely fantastic recipes I'm literally so excited for these three recipes for this week I have breakfast I have lunch and I have a snacky type of dessert so if you want to see what I'm meal prepping this week stay tuned my breakfast this week I'm going to be making baked oatmeal with warm berry sauce you guys I'm so excited for this I've been wanting oatmeal and what's better than oatmeal with berries so let me show you what's in this week's breakfast so this is the cookbook that I took this recipe out of this is the true roots by Kristin Cavallieri I love this cookbook you guys know I've used this several times I will link it down below for you guys but basically here is the recipe that I'm making so my inspiration came from here so let me show you what's in it first you're going to need some frozen or fresh whatever you prefer for me buying this frozen mixed berry was a lot more affordable than buying all my berries fresh so I just went ahead and did that so this is the organic mixed berries I have some organic rolled oats from the Thrive Market don't forget about the link down below for Thrive and the $20 worth of free groceries when you join the Thrive Market love Thrive arrowroot powder this is my thickening agent which also came from Thrive I also have some golden flaxseed powder you'll need one egg some lemon juice you can either do a fresh lemon or the lemon juice that I'm doing here vanilla extract maple syrup and coconut oil so let's get started on breakfast also forgot to show you you'll need some sweetener alternative of your choice I of course am using monk fruit and some almond milk so let's jump into this warm oatmeal bake with berry sauce first we're going to go ahead and grab out a saucepan to that saucepan we're going to go ahead and add our coconut oil I did measure mine out on my food scale and we're going to let this melt down completely once your coconut oil is melted down we're going to add half of these berries we're reserving the other half for the actual sauce so there's about half of my frozen berries so we're going to add those and we're going to let those cook down a bit about two minutes or so in that oil get them nice and softened if you're using fresh fruit it probably will cook a little bit faster but we want to get these berries nice and soft once your berries have softened we're going to go ahead and add in our monk fruit sweetener I have about three tablespoons we're also going to add one cup of our organic oats and one cup of almond milk and one egg so I went ahead and pre-cracked my egg just because you know me in shells and lastly just the tiniest bit of vanilla extract about a teaspoon or so and then we're going to give this a stir and we're going to let this cook down for just a couple more minutes I do have my oven preheating to 350 because we are going to bake our oatmeal so let's get this stirred warm through and get this into our pan I went ahead and sprayed my baking dish with some non-stick cooking spray look at that yum okay we're going to go ahead and add that oatmeal mixture directly here to our pan and then this is going to go in the oven at 350 degrees until it's cooked through and in the meantime let's make that warm berry sauce so we're not dirtying dishes I'm going to go ahead and use the same pan it calls for a small saucepan but we're just going to use the same one I'm going to add one teaspoon of lemon juice I'm also going to add the other half of my berries and I'm going to add my maple syrup I measured that out on my food scale and three tablespoons of water and we're going to get this coming to a boil once my fruit is at a boil I went ahead and added in sorry it's foggy but I mixed my tapioca starch with about a tablespoon of water and added that in here and you can see it's already starting to thicken up so I'm going to go ahead and reduce my heat and I'm just going to let this get nice and thick and this is our berry sauce look at this yum so I'm just going to set this aside while the oatmeal continues to bake and then we'll put together our baked oatmeal with warm berry sauce look at this baked oatmeal this looks incredible it's big and thick cannot wait so what I'm going to do while it's still hot is I have one teaspoon of ground flax seed I'm going to go ahead and just kind of sprinkle that right over the top so that it kind of sticks as it's hot and then once this cools we'll package this up for the week package up our berry sauce this looks incredible as well and I'll be back to show you the completed breakfast and give you all the smart points right so here is the baked oatmeal it looks incredible and then there are my warm berry sauce I just went ahead and divided them evenly among these reusable little to-go containers and then I have a lid here I'm just going to pop a lid on the container and put it in this hole here and then I will be pairing my baked oatmeal with probably some eggs so that of course would be zero smart points so that is my breakfast minus the eggs I'm really excited about this so basically I made four servings it is seven smart points per serving on both the blue and green plan and four smart points per serving on the purple plan because you don't actually have to count for the oats that is using regular maple syrup like I use now if you decide to opt for sugar-free syrup you can save yourself a couple of points it would be five smart points on the blue and green and only two smart points on the purple plan so when I put this recipe on my website I will make sure that I include points for regular maple syrup and sugar-free maple syrup so I'm excited for this I'll also link the true roots cookbook in the description box for you so this for me is a seven smart point lunch because I use the regular maple syrup and then of course eggs are zero so what a great breakfast for lunch this week I'm making a bootable you guys I'm so excited for this this is actually a vegan recipe depending on the yogurt that you use but it could be a vegan definitely a vegetarian recipe you could add meat to this if you want but your proteins coming from your chickpeas so I am not going to add any additional meat so let me show you what's in our bootable cannot wait you're going to need some quinoa this is avocado oil you could use olive oil whatever you have on hand I have some baby kale as well as some baby spinach you'll need some garlic yogurt of your choice I'm just going to be using this grass fed maple hill I really like this yogurt and I want to use it up you'll also need a carrot or carrots some lemon juice you could use a fresh lemon or lemon juice a can of chickpeas garbanzo beans you'll need a little over two cups of water and lots of spices so we have salt and pepper parsley oregano time and I'm going to be using the DAX original red because it kind of has a mix of all of the spices that I want it gives it a little bit of a kick but not too much because I don't like my food super spicy these seasonings are amazing they're all natural no salt no MSG really really good so they're great before weigh-in great if you watch your salt but they give you a punch of flavor this one is actually one of my very very favorites there's zero points DAX has over 20 different seasonings so definitely check out their website my code here on the screen will give you 10% off I own all those seasonings I love them as you know I use them all the time so I'm excited to incorporate some of this so definitely check out DAX and again my code is here on the screen and lastly you'll need some paprika so let's make some bootables so the first thing I did is went ahead and drained and rinsed my chickpeas I'm going to use a paper towel and I'm going to get these as dry as I can and I'm going to make a big mess apparently but we want to get our chickpeas as dry as we can because we're actually gonna roast these and we want to get these in the oven first because they do take a little while to roast so I have my oven preheating to 390 degrees so once your chickpeas are patted dry we're gonna go ahead and add them here to a bowl and then I'm gonna give another quick pat here and then we're ready to add some seasoning and get these are ready to roast so the first thing we're gonna do is add about a tablespoon of avocado oil to our chickpeas and then we're gonna add lots of seasoning so we're gonna start with some paprika and I'm just gonna kind of eyeball this all of the recipe ingredients and measurements will be on my website so you can get the full recipe there we're also going to add just a pinch of salt and Dax original red definitely you guys check out Dax I love their seasonings and then I'm going to add just a pinch of thyme as well maybe a little more there we go and lastly some organic oregano give a little dash of that and then we're gonna mix this up that oil is going to help all of those yummy spices stick to our chickpeas we're gonna get these out on a baking sheet and into the oven and align my baking sheet with some parchment I always crinkle it up first it helps it lay a little more flat and look at these you guys yum so we're gonna go ahead and spread the chickpeas and you can see there's quite a bit of oil and seasoning left so I am counting for the full amount of oil but we probably didn't actually use a whole tablespoon on the chickpeas so we're gonna go ahead and spread those out and then this is going to go in the oven until these are nice and roasted all the chickpeas are in the oven I'm gonna cook my quinoa so I have one cup of quinoa two cups of water I decided not to use broth because I think we're gonna be pretty flavorful with all of the spices so I'm gonna make the quinoa a little bit more plain so I'm gonna bring this to a boil reduce the heat cover it and let my quinoa cook while the quinoa and the chickpeas are cooking let's make this avocado dressing for our bootable so I'm just gonna use my magic bullet because it isn't going to be a whole ton of it so in my magic bullet I'm going to add one clove of minced garlic and this dressing is enough for all four bowls and its points have already been figured out and included in the recipe and then I have one large avocado and I went ahead and figured the recipe on one large avocado if you do use a smaller one then you probably want to refigure because this is where a lot of the points obviously are gonna come in but I wanted to make sure that I had enough dressing for four bootables so there is my avocado I'm also going to add two tablespoons of yogurt so this is that full-fat maple Hill yogurt and lastly a pinch of salt and just a squeeze of lemon juice and then I have a couple tablespoons of water on reserve here just in case I need it to blend this a little bit better if there's just not quite enough liquid so let's get this on to my magic bullet and get this blending so it looks like we do need to add a little bit of liquid I don't think there's quite enough liquid in there but that looks really good so I'm gonna go ahead and add about a tablespoon of water and get this reblending again and I'll just continue to add water until I have the right consistency for dressing yeah I'm gonna look at this dress okay so I'm gonna go ahead and add it to a bowl oh yeah this looks so good you guys so I'm gonna go ahead and put my dressing in a bowl and just throw it into the refrigerator while we put together the rest of our bootable get this all scraped out but look at that it looks like a really creamy guacamole it smells so good also while everything's cooking I'm gonna go ahead and chop these baby carrots just into smaller pieces we're also going to slice our spinach in our kale kind of into strips toss it all in this bowl and that's the veggies we'll use to put together the bootable start putting together these bootables now we're not gonna put the entire bowl together for every day because we want our lettuce and our carrots to stay crunchy we want our chickpeas to stay crunchy so I'm going to show you how I will prep them and then we'll put an entire bowl together because that's actually what I'm gonna have for lunch today and I'll share what a completed bootable looks like with dressing and all the good things so for the pack away bowls you're going to need about a half of a cup of the cooked quinoa now I don't know exactly how much quinoa I think it might actually end up being a bit more just by looking at how much I have here in my bowl but I did figure the points for servings on the one cup of dry quinoa so I went ahead and added that directly to my bowl to the quinoa I am going to add a little bit of parsley just right over the top of the quinoa itself and then we will put into little baggies the chickpeas and the green mixture so I have a little sandwich size baggie here to that I'm going to add about a quarter of these roasted chickpeas they're still hot oh and look at these you guys gorge they smell really really good they're nice and crunchy as they should be so this is going to be pretty much the protein of our bootable which chickpeas are an excellent excellent source of protein and then in another little zippy bag here I'm gonna enter add enter add about a quarter of the greens and the carrot so I'm gonna fill this nice and full because I want a lot of carrots and greens once I go to eat my bootable so I'm gonna go ahead and add those and let's get these bags sealed up we'll do our dressing and we'll show you how these bowls come together have a little to-go container here just one of these plastic ones I don't have enough of those reusable ones that we use for the warm berry sauce and I'm gonna go ahead and fill it with the avocado dressing oh my gosh this looks so good pop a lid on that little to-go cup so to assemble the bowl very simple we're gonna go ahead and add our bag of greens just right on top we're gonna add our chickpeas right on top and then we're gonna pop in that little dressing container and there's our bootable so this is how I'm going to store them for the week I will pull out the greens and probably the chickpeas probably everything before I warm it up warm up the quinoa and then add the toppings I may warm up the chickpeas that's to be determined which you will see when I have this for lunch kind of what I did so let's put together the other three bowls so here is my completed bootable so once I put it together I'll probably drizzle a little bit of lemon juice on top you'll see that next here the completed bowl but this looks amazing so by making it into four servings it is seven smart points on the blue plan three on purple because you don't have to count for the chickpeas or the quinoa and nine smart points on green now I know that might seem a little point heavy but this is a very good protein pack you have your grains your greens your protein you have a little healthy fat with the avocado it's a very well-rounded lunch so for me this is seven points because I do follow the blue plan of course this recipe will be linked on my website and I probably will have some sort of dessert or something with this as well but as for now we have a seven smart point bootable so here is what the bootable looks like ready to eat so what I did is warmed up my quinoa kind of pushed it off to the side I decided not to warm up my chickpeas placed my greens my carrots and my chickpeas kind of in a line here I have my avocado dressing I'm going to just spread that on top mix it all together topped it with a little bit of pepper so this is what you're completed bootable is going to look like this looks so good clean and filling for a snack or sweet treat this week I'm making the ultimate healthy apple crumble I can't wait for this I've been craving cobbler some sort of like crumble cobbler I don't know why but I found this recipe and it sounds divine so that's what we're gonna make so let me show you what's in our apple crumble you're going to need some rolled oats and some flour this both of these came from thrive this one is brown rice flour and then organic rolled oats also some arrowroot powder for thickening six or so apples depending on the size you want about six cups of diced apples so I may end up using more but I'm going to start with six some maple syrup some seasoning now I don't have any nutmeg so again Dax is coming to save the day this is the Dax pumpkin spice you guys know this is my favorite pumpkin seasoning ever it's amazing so again check out Dax and the discount code is here on the screen and down in the description box so this is going to sub for a nutmeg and then I'm gonna add a little extra cinnamon as well because I love cinnamon and lastly I'm gonna use some butter and this is the melt plant-based butter so let's make some apple crumble so first thing we're gonna chop these apples I washed them we're gonna leave skin on and we're gonna dice them and toss them into this bowl and then we'll be ready to start putting our crumble together so we're going to make the crumble or the streusel topping for our crumble so I have one cup of rolled oats I also have one quarter cup of flour and again I'm using brown rice flour it's the only flour available anywhere I can't find it in my local store and thrive only had spelt and brown rice so I bought both but I do have the brown rice flour I'm going to add some cinnamon and I want a lot of cinnamon the recipe wants you to put in about a teaspoon I'm gonna double that and do two two teaspoons just because I am a big cinnamon lover oh and just to let you know I did preheat my oven to 350 degrees so there's my cinnamon I'm also going to add in my maple syrup and I just went ahead and measured it out on my food scale we want two tablespoons or 30 mils so I did 30 mils of maple syrup and then I also did my melt plant-based butter 21 grams measured out on my food scale or one and a half tablespoons so we're gonna give this a stir we want this to be a streusel consistency so not totally wet but not totally dry and that's where that maple syrup and butter comes in this is actually looking really good so can you see how it's kind of a streusel oh and let me just tell you how delicious this smells so I'm gonna get this mixed together and then we'll start putting together our filling let's put together the filling so I grabbed out a very large bowl and I have my chopped up apples I did end up cutting up an extra apple so this is seven of those very very very small apples I mean they are very very very small to my apples I'm going to add two tablespoons of my arrowroot powder and this is just a substitution for corn starch I don't use corn starch so arrowroot is a thickening agent as well we're gonna pop in some more cinnamon and you guys know I'm here for the cinnamon we want about one and a half teaspoons for the filling I'm probably going to double that and do about two to three teaspoons of cinnamon and then I'm also going to add in my Dax pumpkin spice in place of the half a teaspoon or so of nutmeg so I'm gonna put in about a teaspoon of Dax pumpkin and then we're gonna give this a mix in my prepared pan I went ahead and sprayed it with some nonstick cooking spray look at this yum we're gonna go ahead and add the filling ingredients so basically our apples that we tossed in the tapioca or the arrow root sorry arrow root and cinnamon and nutmeg so we're gonna go ahead and add those spread those out as even as you can you want to make sure every bite has some apples in it so I went ahead and pressed my apples down with the back of my spoon here is our delicious streusel topping and we are just going to top our apples as even as we can with this yumminess oh my gosh you guys this is going to be so good now that arrow root that we used in place of cornstarch when these apples start to cook and release their liquid it's going to bind with that arrow root and that's what's going to give it a really thick but crumble cobbler apple consistency so the moisture from the apples will make that arrow root just pop into play and I'll make it nice and thick and gelatinous kind of like you want to see in like an apple pie filling so can't wait and then this cinnamon topping with the melted butter and everything it will also melt a bit through the cooking process and make that nice crumble topping so there we have it this looks amazing this is going in our oven for 50 to 60 minutes depending on your oven or until it's cooked through you want to make sure that the apples are tender to the fork so let's toss this in the oven here's the apple crumble I just pulled it out of the oven this looks amazing my house could not smell better seriously it smells so good in here so I'm gonna let this cool just a little bit I'm not actually going to cut this up until we go to eat it but once it's cool try to dig in a little bit to show you the inside and give you the smart points you guys look at this can you see that like ooey gooey oh yum look at that yum it's literally like apple pie filling this is going to be so good so points on this using the melt butter that I use it is going to cost you six points on both the blue and green plant and this is four servings you guys so you cut this into four that's a pretty darn good size serving for six points four points on the purple plan now if you opt for a light butter like I can't believe it's not butterlight it will be five smart points you're gonna save a point on the blue and green and three points instead of four on purple so essentially you save a point if you go with a light butter so whatever your preference is both options will be on my website so I'm gonna let this cool and put this away and this is going to be tonight's dessert it looks so good so here are my snacks for the week so I have been loving these Lucy's cookies these are gluten-free these are incredible I love them they're vegan no peanuts tree nuts milk or eggs they are so good they're two smart points per cookie I'll show you guys the size so this is the size of the cookie it's actually a pretty darn good size so I really like these I have one sometimes two depending on what points I have left as my dessert they are so good you guys I buy these off of the Thrive Market I've also tried the chocolate chip which is my very very favorite and these ginger snaps are really really good as well they have pretty darn good ingredients so great sweet option if you're looking for kind of a sweetie sweet snack and then I've as you know loving my good culture whole milk cottage cheese you can have half of a cup for three points so I will do that and then generally I will have one to two points worth of these Mary's Gong crackers normally two which I think is eight crackers these are the super seed basil and garlic I also bought these off of Thrive and don't forget the link for Thrive is down in the description box as well as the the link will give you $20 worth of free products when you join Thrive so great time to join they're back to their normal turnaround time for shipping too so I will have usually two points of that and dip it in the cottage cheese one of my favorite snacks about five points worth and then of course the built bar so I as you know really like these nut based bars all of the nut based bars from built bar with the exception of the coconut almond are four smart points per bar my opinion it's worth it because for me they keep me a little bit more full a little longer and I think that's just because of the 20 grams of protein seven fiber and seven fat that are generally in these nut based bars so they are 170 calories I I do like the nut based better first for keeping me full but if I want you know a lower point option I'll go with the regular I love the peanut butter love the peanut butter brownie and then this is your traditional bill bar that is three points see how it's 110 calories it does still pack 15 grams of protein six fiber and four fat so just a little bit less but these are three smart points so the rule of thumb I get a lot of questions is if it's not a nut based bar now the coconut almond is three points as well it's three points if it's a nut based bar like the toffee almond the peanut butter the peanut butter brownie it's four points but in my opinion depending on how hungry I am I will either pick a four or three smart point snap I do have 10% off for a built bar that code is here on the screen also if you're new to build bar down in the description box is a special link just for you that will give you $10 off your first order so check out the description box so built bars three to four points of anywhere from four to five point snack with the crackers and the cottage cheese and then dessert is two to four points depending on how many of these yummy cookies I decided to have but those are my snacks for the week thank you for joining me on another weekly my WW meal prep I am on the blue plant and I do follow a clean approach to the WW program which basically means that I try to eat as clean whole real food as possible so you saw some really amazing clean eating delicious recipes all of today's recipes will be on my website the link to my website is down below in the description box also in the description box is the link to head on over and join my Facebook group we'd love to have you be part of the community there 15,000 strong and counting so definitely head over and join us also are the links to all of my favorite things and all of the discounts that I can share with you so definitely check out that description box if you're new I'd like to thank you for stopping by checking out today's video I'd love it if you'd hit that little subscribe button and that bell that way you're notified when new videos are 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