 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 Saturday, so it's another grocery haul day. This week I ended up going to Walmart and Trader Joe's. I didn't need a ton this week, but I did pick up some new fun food finds. We're also going to do a fun taste test. So it's going to be a great grocery haul. So if you're excited for another weekly WW grocery haul, give this video a big huge thumbs up and don't forget if you're new or you're not yet subscribed. I'd love to have you hit the subscribe button and don't forget to ring the bell right next to it. So you never miss a single video. I do grocery hauls every single Saturday down in the description box. You're going to find my nutrition coaching website. I do offer personalized to you macros and calories. Highly recommend taking advantage of this service. It's really important to know what macros you should be eating and how much as well as calories because calories in calories out is how we lose weight, whether we're on WW or not. I also offer one-on-one 30 and 60 minute coaching sessions. So there's a little bit of something for everyone. So definitely check that out. You'll also find links, discount codes to all of my very favorite things, as well as my Facebook group. We'd love to have you head on over and join us there. So without further ado, let's jump into this week's WW grocery haul, meal plan and what you'll see on Monday for meal prep. Oh, and a taste test. So here's this week's grocery haul, not a huge haul this week. I actually received both a butcher box and an imperfect foods this week. So I'm really stocked up on my meats as well as a lot of produce and fruits. But I did need a few things for some recipes and then a few things for Troy. I do have a few new food finds and we're going to do a taste test after the grocery haul. I saw these Korean steamed dumplings chicken and vegetable from Bibigo. As I was walking by the frozen food section, these look absolutely delicious. There are 250 calories for the entire box. I feel like this could be two servings at 125 calories, but I definitely wanted to give them a try and it looks like they come with the sauce as well. They did have a pork and vegetable, but it was about 120 calories more. So I just went ahead and picked up the chicken and vegetable. I saw the cookies and cream bear bell at Trader Joe's. I've actually never tried this. So this is going to be our taste test at the end of the video. We're going to give this a try. See what we think of this. As you guys know, the flavors that I've tried in the past, I've liked them okay, but they sometimes have a pretty sugar substitute after taste and these do not have the best ingredients, but I definitely wanted to try this flavor. So we'll try this at the end and we'll do a first impression taste test. Another big tub of I can't believe it's not butter light for Troy. This is really the only butter that he likes to use. I needed cheese tortellini for a recipe. I needed 20 ounces and the refrigerated ones are only 10 ounces. So it would have been like $7 to buy two of those. This whole bag, which is 19 ounces, close enough to 20 was only $3. So I'll just defrost these before popping them into that recipe. Couldn't pass up a pound of 99% genio ground turkey on sale for 307. I'm just going to pop this into my freezer. I needed turkey sausage for a recipe and I saw this Italian style turkey sausage. This is the same amount of calories and fat as in the Jimmy Dean turkey sausage links, which is all Walmart had. So I decided to go with this just for a little bit, something different. And I think that I can crumble this up and make it go a little bit further as well in the recipe. Of course, the cheese tray for Troy, this one is from Walmart. It has mild cheddar cheese, Colby and Monterey Jack. Monterey Jack and jalapeno pepper and then a Swiss cheese. So a nice pack of different flavors of cheese, fresh mozzarella balls. I needed these for a recipe. And this was a great price at Walmart. It was less than $3 at Trader Joe's. It was over $4 for this same amount. So if you're looking for mozzarella cheese in the little ball form without any added oil, definitely pick it up at Walmart. Troy asked for a tartar sauce because he wanted fish sticks as a lunch this week. Skippers of course is the best tartar sauce out there. So I picked that up. I'm almost out of vanilla extract and you can't beat the price at Trader Joe's. This organic pure bourbon vanilla extract is amazing. It's $10 for this whole bottle, which is such a great deal. I also asked for peanut butter cookies and I just don't have time to make them. So I picked up this pack from the bakery. New Trader Joe's seasoning, Akiya Georgian. I don't know if I pronounced that right. Spicy, garlicy and deeply aromatic and savory. So what's in this is crushed chili pepper, coriander, fenugreek, diced minced garlic, salt and marigold. So apparently this is supposed to be a really good seasoning for steak and it's grilling season. I wanted to pick this up. It was $1.99. Three bottles of kombucha. I have not had the guava goddess in a hot minute. So I picked that up and then the spring addition synergy bloom is out, which is one of my very favorite kombuchas. I did get a few cans in my imperfect foods order, so I just needed about three bottles to make it through the week. Pre-sized hard salami for Troy's meat, cheese and crackers. New food find at Trader Joe's cinnamon roll bread. It says ooey, gooey, sweet, buttery bread with cinnamon, sugar and raisins. Doesn't that sound so good? It's 150 calories per slice and I thought this would be perfect with some eggs and fruit if you wanted a little something decadent for breakfast. Whole cashews, this is for a dinner recipe and then of course whatever is left we will have for snacking. We both absolutely love cashews. Unsweetened organic applesauce. I just needed this for recipes, for baking. This is a great substitution for any oil in a recipe. Another bag of Troy's organic corn chip dippers from Trader Joe's. These are lower fat fish sticks. These are delicious. So I had to pick those up. That way we can have those for dinner or Troy can have them for lunch with tartar sauce. A refill of special K with red berries for Troy. He's been having cereal a lot for breakfast. A couple of bouquets of flowers. I thought these were so pretty and so springy. So I picked that up for $3.99 and then another stem of the daffodils. I'm going to mix those in with these pretty white and yellow flowers and I think that'll make a beautiful spring bouquet. Everything else I have for you guys is produce. Starting with these organic cherry tomatoes. I needed that for recipe. Organic baby spinach, mushrooms, a grapefruit. This is for meal prep. You don't have to buy grapefruit organic because the peel protects the actual fruit from pesticides. Broccoli which also is on the clean 15 does not need to be purchased organic. One lone shallot and one red onion. Fresh basil which is my favorite thing ever. I love basil especially this fresh one from Trader Joe's. Delicious. A couple of green bell peppers, whole carrots and baby carrots. So that is everything that I picked up with the exception of a big case of Diet Coke and a case of beer. So we're going to try the Bear Bells cookies and cream. I've actually never tried this bar before. Like I mentioned I've tried a couple of the others. Some I liked some I didn't. I don't love the ingredients in these so I generally don't pick them up. But I wanted to give this flavor a try. And in fact when I was checking out the employee at Trader Joe's he said that he loves this particular flavor. So let's see what we think. So here's what the bar looks like. It looks really really good. And here we go. Cheers. I would give the bar an eight out of 10. I don't find it to have as much of that artificial sugar flavor as some of the other ones that I've tried. It was really good. Again I don't love the ingredients. I probably won't buy it again. But if you have something you're interested in you're not too concerned about ingredients for the points it had really really good taste and texture. So here is what I have on the menu for this week. This is the week of April 17th through the 23rd. So Saturday we go out to dinner support a local business. It's kind of our high calorie splurge day. Sunday I'm actually making sesame steak stir fry. You guys will see this recipe in Wednesday's what I eat in a day. So stay tuned for that. Monday is chicken parmesan casserole. I just got my order of fiber gourmet. So I'm going to make a casserole with my favorite pasta. Leftover night on Tuesdays. Wednesday I'm going to do a crock pot pot roast with potatoes, carrots, onions. That's going to be delish. And then Thursday is balsamic tortellini caprese salad. So basically what this is is a cold salad and I'll probably pair this with some type of protein probably chicken or something like that. Friday is leftovers and that will give us a chance to eat up everything leftover from earlier in the week. Here's what you'll be seeing in Monday's meal prep video. You're not going to want to miss it. For breakfast I'm making a flatbread breakfast pizza. So it's going to be bacon and cheese and eggs. Who doesn't love pizza for breakfast? Lunch is going to be broccoli cashew crunch salad. So this is a cold salad recipe. I'll pair this with some type of protein. I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do yet. And then for dessert I'm actually making a glazed grapefruit butt cake. So this is why I picked up that grapefruit. This is going to be a very fresh and summer-like. I can't wait for that. So stay tuned on Monday for all three of these recipes. Thank you for joining me for another weekly WW grocery haul. I hope you enjoyed seeing all the good stuff I picked up from both Walmart and Trader Joe's, that taste test, my meal plan, and what you'll be seeing on Monday for meal prep. You're not going to want to miss it. If you enjoyed this grocery haul, give it a big huge thumbs up. 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