 Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and happy, happy Saturday. It is grocery shopping day and I am currently outside of my Fred Meyer or my Kroger store, just waiting for them to open up. They should open up here in the next 10 minutes or so and I'm gonna head in and do my shopping. Now in this week's grocery haul, you're going to see a small haul from Walmart. I did have to pick up a few things at Walmart. I'm heading into Fred Meyer and I may be going to Trader Joe's. It just depends on if Fred Meyer has spaghetti squash because I need that for an upcoming recipe and I know Trader Joe's has it because I picked it up just a couple of weeks ago or they did then. So I'm not sure if you'll see Trader Joe's in this haul or not, but if you wanna see what I picked up this week to stay on track and lose weight on the WW Freestyle program, then just keep watching. So here are the few things that I went ahead and picked up at Walmart, either because they were on sale or they don't carry them at Fred Meyer. So on Felicia Fitness Health, she's been eating this a lot. So I had to grab some to try. This is the bird's eye veggie made mac and cheese. Okay, mac and cheese. She says this is as good as the real stuff. So I'm really excited to try that. So I grabbed that and then I also grabbed their penne with cheddar cheese sauce just to have a couple of options. I wanna try both the macaroni and cheese versions of the bird's eye. So this will be a side dish or maybe even a quick, easy lunch. And then I picked up a bag of the rice veggies with the peas and carrots. They don't have this at Fred Meyer, so I just grabbed it to have on hand in my freezer. Also, fat-free cheese. So after buying both the Walmart and the Kraft fat-free, my consensus is the Kraft is a lot better. And it's about $1.50 a bag more than the Walmart. It melts better. It tastes better. Definitely worth the little bit of extra money. So I grabbed two bags of the fat-free Kraft. Again, this is a product they don't carry at Fred Meyer. Walmart had the bargain of a century on cherries. This entire bag of cherries was only three bucks. So you can't beat that with how big those are. I had a couple, they are delicious. So I grabbed those. Also, I was out of cottage cheese and I've been having this as a snack. I don't know why, but I'm on a cottage cheese kick. So I picked up some Daisy low-fat cottage cheese. And then my new obsession, as you can see, are the O snaps pickles. These are zero smart points. There's no brine, so they're a really easy snack. This is the hot bites. Now I haven't tried the hot bites. I'm normally not a spicy person, so you can see I only grabbed one of those. And then I grabbed eight, which I already ate one as a snack. So good of the actual dilly bites of the O snap. These are only a dollar at Walmart. And I know that they typically have them at the dollar store, but they don't in my area. So I added these to my Walmart order as well. So think I'm stocked up on the O snapped for a while. So that is everything that I picked up at Walmart. Now let's move into the big Fred Meyer slash Kroger grocery haul. So here is the second part of my grocery haul. This is from Fred Meyer or Kroger. I ended up not going to Trader Joe's because Fred Meyer had my spaghetti squash. So let me show you what I picked up for the week at Fred Meyer. So the first thing I grabbed was this Bisquick heart smart pancake and baking mix. This is for an upcoming recipe. As you know, I am doing the challenge on my Facebook group starting next Friday. So these groceries will get me through a portion of the challenge, some of the recipes that were on the challenge recipe list. You can find all that information on my Facebook group. I'll put that here on the screen for you guys. And it is linked down in the description box. So the Bisquick heart smart is for a recipe for the challenge. Also, I grabbed some reduced sugar craisens for an upcoming recipe. This is actually for my husband, but I thought I'd show it to you guys if you were interested. This is just a regular full sugar snap pack putting in tapioca. So I'm not sure the points, but of course they'll be here on the screen for you. I also grabbed some unsweetened applesauce. I find that when I buy the jar, it goes bad before I have the opportunity to use it all. So if I buy these little cups, it's just a lot easier and they don't go bad. And then we can have these as a snack as well. So, Mott unsweetened applesauce. I also picked up a package of Zesty Italian seasoning mix. This is for an upcoming recipe. Also, cream of chicken soup. The healthy request is actually less points than the 98% fat free. And in my opinion, it tastes a lot better. So I grabbed the healthy request, cream of chicken. I needed some Parmesan cheese. So I decided to get the real deal this time instead of what I refer to as the shaky cheese. This is the actual fresh graded Parmesan cheese. So I grabbed that. This lasts forever in the fridge too, you guys. So you don't have to worry about using it up before it goes bad lasts a long time. Also, Fred Meyer had a free Friday download of this Think High Protein Bar. This is five smart points. I'm probably gonna actually end up giving this to my husband. This is the Double Caramel Bliss. So this is a caramel filled protein bar. I think that he would like having that in his lunch. But 20 grams of protein, so not too bad and it was free. So that's even better. So the Think Protein Bar. My favorite eggs, the happy eggs. I'm gonna be making egg salad for my husband for lunches and some hard boiled eggs for snacks for me. And these are by far my favorite eggs and they're still on sale for only $3.99. So that's a great deal. Also for my breakfast recipe for my challenge, we are making a hash brown casserole. So I picked up some diced hash brown potatoes for that casserole recipe. We'll be eating that throughout the week of the challenge. Also for another recipe, it called for Cascadia Farms Puffs. They didn't have that. So I grabbed these Simple Truth Potato Puffs. These are organic and these are actually less points than the Orida or the Fred Meyer brand or any other type of potato puff that I could find. So I picked up the Simple Truth. Jimmy Dean Turkey Sausage Crumbles is for an upcoming recipe. I love these. You can have a ton for super low smart points. I've been loving the Enlightened Ice Cream Bars. So this time I decided to try the cookies and cream. Last week I had the cold brew and chocolate chip. It was delicious. Unfortunately Fred Meyer only carries three flavors. The cold brew, the cookies and cream and then I think a salted caramel. So I'll have to get that next time. I'm hoping to find a store that carries a few more flavors. So the Enlightened Cookies and Cream is gonna be one of my desserts for this week. I also grabbed some more Fairlife Fat Free Milk. This is for several upcoming recipes. Fairlife is really low in points for real milk but it is no lactose. So that's a good thing if you are lactose intolerant or if milk just seems to bother your stomach. Also I grabbed some more Apple Cider Vinegar. Mine is so old. I ended up throwing it out. And this huge jar, this is a huge jar. 32 ounce jar was only 3.99 on sale at Fred Meyer and the small jar was $3. So I thought it lasts a long time. I'll just go ahead and grab the extra large jar. No sugar added, diced peaches. We like these to snack on. We also like to add these to our cottage cheese. It makes a really delicious snack. And as long as you get the no sugar added, they are zero points. My favorite chicken sausage, the Insernios Mild Italian. This is for an upcoming recipe for my challenge. This is the lowest point chicken sausage I've ever had and it is so good. You would never even know that it was such low points. It's that delicious. I also grabbed some Quick Cook Oats. This is for an upcoming recipe. I only have regular oats on hand which is what I normally use. So I just grabbed a small container of the Quick Oats. I thought I would try these tomorrow's premium white wraps. I love the Olay ones but I've heard that these are really good and these are only one smart point as well. So if you're not a fan of the Olay wraps or you just wanna be like me and change it up a little, this is a fantastic option. I also grabbed another pack of my favorite center cut bacon, the Private Selection. You can have two slices of this bacon for only one smart point. So my favorite by far. The rest of what I have is produce. So I have some shredded lettuce. This is for an upcoming recipe. I was a little bummed out. None of the shredded lettuce looked very good there. So this is the best looking lettuce I could find so hopefully it lasts until I make the recipe. So that was a little bit of a bummer. That's a zucchini. This is for a recipe as well as what I'll be making in meal prep. Stay tuned after the grocery haul for what is on my meal plan and meal prep. So you'll see why I bought five things of zucchini. I also grabbed a pineapple for a recipe, some strawberries, also for a recipe and then whatever's left over we can just snack on. Blueberries, two pounds was only $3 at Fred Meyer and I love blueberries. So I went ahead and grabbed just a big pack of that. I needed mushrooms and this was a steel for $2.79. I love mushrooms. I like them fresh, sauteed. So I'll definitely go through this big pack of mushrooms and that's a really good deal for organic. For red potatoes, for a dinner recipe, a red pepper, a red onion, lots of broccoli. I decided to just buy the crowns versus the cut up and they didn't even have the cut up broccoli other than organic. So I just picked up the broccoli crowns and I'll just cut them up myself. And lastly is the spaghetti squash. That was the determining factor of whether or not I went to Trader Joe's. So that is everything that I picked up for Fred Meyer for groceries. I'm gonna show you what I grabbed for drinks and then a few non grocery items. For drinks this week, I just picked up some Diet Coke. They were three for $12. As you know, this is for my husband. So I grabbed him a few 12 packs of Diet Coke and I grabbed a few household items as well. The lifestyle wipes were on sale for $2.50 for the huge package. I've never seen this. This is the brand new day, green apple and aloe and this is the brand new day mango and hibiscus. So I've never seen these scents of the lifestyle wipes and $2.50 is a really good deal for the large container. So I picked up two of those. We also needed lifestyle and while I was on the brand new day kick I grabbed the green apple and aloe. I cannot believe how expensive lifestyle is. I thought Costco was expensive until I went to buy a single can for almost $7. So I'll definitely be getting my lifestyle at Costco moving forward. I think you got three cans this size for 13. So definitely a good deal. I was out of vinegar. I use this on my floors. You can also get hard water off of things like your shower heads, your drip tray on your refrigerator using vinegar. So I always buy this huge one and just leave it in my pantry. I got this cute little pink calculator. I needed a calculator at home and it has a little case as well, which I think is awesome. That way it doesn't get all gross and crumbs and stuff in between the keys if you throw it in your purse. And this was about $6. And then I had a coupon for toothpaste. I got two toothpaste for a whole whopping $2 because they were $2.99 a piece and I had a $4 off coupon. So a dollar, a tube basically for Colgate. So those were the non-food items that I picked up. So stay tuned for the meal plan and what's on the agenda for meal prep. Let's get into the meal plan for the week. This is my absolutely gorgeous Carrie L. Meal Planner. You guys know I love my meal planner so incredibly much. It is so comprehensive. It has several tabs for you to use, resources where you can track your favorite recipes, blogs, recipe sites, inventory. You can inventory your fridge, your freezer, your pantry, kind of know what you have on hand. The meal plan tab, the one I use the most is where you plan your meals, prepare your grocery list, plan your meal prep, just an all-around fantastic tab for meal planning. Gatherings, if you have any type of special event that you're hosting, you can develop a menu and a grocery list in the gatherings tab and then notes is for you to mark any notes of any recipes or things that you wanna remember, even smart point values for things. I use the notes tab quite regularly. So let's go into the meal plan tab which is the one that we're gonna focus on today. So the first thing on the meal plans tab is a monthly calendar where you can track what you are planning on making for the entire month. That way at a glance, you know what's on the menu for the next day. You could pull any meat out of the freezer. You can just make sure that you have what you need on hand so that when you go to prepare your meal, you're not short any ingredients. So I do track all of my meals on the monthly planner. And then each week there is also a weekly menu. This is where you'll track what is on the menu for the entire week. You can list out dates, what you're planning on making and then there is also a detachable grocery list. It's perforated. I use it every week. Once you plan your meal, you can add the ingredients here to your grocery list. So it's all at a fingertip for you. So easy and it's so beautiful. It's very aesthetically pleasing as well. So let's get into this week's meal plan. You can see that the grocery list of course is missing. So this week it is 720 through 726. I do my meal plan from Saturday through Friday. My week starts over on Fridays as that's the day that I weigh in. So today is Saturday and we are going out for dinner. This is the day that I use my weeklies. So you'll see an upcoming video where I'm filming the entire day of everything I eat on a high point day. Tomorrow, Sunday, I'm gonna be making Italian turkey zucchini burgers over spaghetti squash with marinara. This dinner is so delicious and it is so low points, like incredibly low points. On Monday, we're gonna be doing sausage and chicken kebabs on the barbecue with some veggies and maybe some potatoes. Tuesday, I'm gonna be making cream cheese chicken with potatoes and vegetables. And this is an instant pot recipe. Wednesday is cauliflower, rice, arancini. If I completely mispronounced that, let me know. With some vegetables and that will be cooked in the air fryer. Thursday is leftovers and Friday starts my challenge on my Facebook group. So I'm gonna be making the first recipe that I put together for you guys, which is ground beef touches. And hopefully I pronounced that right as well with some vegetables. So that's the start of the challenge. Cannot wait. So that's what's on my meal plan for the week. On the backside of that is where I plan my meal prep. So for breakfast this week, this is part of the challenge. I'm gonna be making hash brown breakfast casserole. I cannot wait for this. We'll be eating on this throughout the week of the challenge. For lunch, also for the entire week, we're gonna be having turkey meatloaf muffins. These are outstanding with some broccoli, bacon, salad, and then you could pair it with a fruit or anything else that you would like to add to the lunch, but those are the two recipes that we'll be making. And then for dessert this week, I'm gonna be making WW friendly zucchini bread. So you're actually gonna get four recipes in meal prep. So stay tuned for that on Meal Prep Monday. So that's what's on my plan for the week. Again, this is my Keriel meal planner. You can purchase this for 10% off using the link down in the description box and my discount code here on the screen. So if you're looking for a way to stay on track, easily plan your meals, I highly recommend the Keriel. There's so many covers to choose from, different sizes. It's just a fantastic meal planner. Thank you for joining me on another weekly WW grocery haul. I hope you enjoyed seeing all of the good stuff that I picked up at both Walmart and Fred Meyer, which is a Kroger store, as well as what is on the plan for the meals for the week and meal prep, which is for the challenge. Again, if you're interested in joining my challenge, I've put together an entire meal plan for you. I've given you all of the recipes, calculated the smart points, all at 23 smart points per day with some added tips and tricks if you have over 23 points a day. I gave you some things that you could eat to up your smart points that are still within the realms of the challenge. Just makes a week on WW easy for you. Everything has been done. So if you're interested, head over to my Facebook group and at the top of the group, you will see an announcement that talks about the challenge. All you have to do is reply to that and say you wanna join and I'm gonna be giving away prizes throughout the challenge. So even more reason to head on over to my Facebook group, join the group and join the challenge. So I hope you enjoyed this video. If you're new, I'd like to extend a huge warm welcome. Make sure that you subscribe, hit the little bell. That way you'll be notified each and every time I upload. I'd love it if you thumbs up this video. Comment down below. Let me know what you thought of this week's grocery haul. Were there any new finds that you didn't know were WW friendly or things that you hadn't seen before? I'd love to your comments and your feedback on that. And I'll see you guys all in the next video. Bye.