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Chipotle Copycat Slow Cooker Barbacoa Recipe

By Wendy

Chipotle restaurant is one of my go-to fast food joints when I need food that is quick, healthy, delicious, and easy on the Weight Watchers Points. And the meat that I almost always get there is the barbacoa, which is essentially “Mexican Barbecue”. It is DELICIOUS!

So after a bit of research, I found the ingredients involved in making barbacoa, and I got to work putting together a Weight Watchers slow cooker recipe that would get me close to the Chipotle version. It took a couple of attempts, but I have to say…I NAILED it!!

This Chipotle Copycat Slow Cooker Barbacoa Recipe delivers such incredible, tender, juicy, amazingly flavored beef, you will want to make it every day. Use it in a burrito, tacos, on top of a salad, or just straight up as it is. It really is amazing. This Chipotle Copycat barbacoa recipe is a must-try!

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Rainbow Carrot Salad Recipe

By Wendy

Lately, I just cannot resist buying those colored carrots at the market. They are so pretty, and my kids think it’s super fun getting colored carrots in their lunch box. So I’m always looking for fun ways to use them in new Weight Watchers Recipes.

Ground Turkey Patties with Tahini Yogurt Sauce

By Wendy

When cooking family meals, I always have to take into consideration my kids’ likes and dislikes. This can be tedious, but it forces me to come up with new and creative foods that not only please my kids but that my husband and I find delicious. A recent hit was this Ground Turkey Patties with Tahini Yogurt Sauce Recipe. The turkey was quite moist and tender, and the creamy yogurt tahini sauce was absolutely delicious.

I’ve never had tahini combined with yogurt before, so this was new to me, and I found it to be fantastic. My husband and I ate our patties over a bed of lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers with a lemon vinaigrette and then topped with the yogurt tahini, my daughter ate her patties dipped straight into the tahini yogurt sauce, and my son enjoyed his stuffed into a pita pocket with the sauce and some of the salad that my husband and I used.

So as you can see, it’s a pretty versatile dish. Each 3-patty serving, with sauce, is just 4 Points, making this a wonderfully light meal choice. Though this recipe states it makes 6 servings, it is a small serving, so you may end up choosing an extra 1 or 1/2 a serving to feel really satisfied. Enjoy!

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Orange Cauliflower Recipe

By Wendy

The dilemma is all too familiar….Orange Chicken…it’s DELICIOUS. But, it’s deep fried and then smothered in an indescribable sweet/sour/spicy/orange-y sauce. Therefore, it’s laden with extra fat, calories, and Weight Watchers Points, and we all try to avoid it. But we can’t. Because it’s sooooooo GOOOOOOOOD.

Oven Roasted Chicken Shawarma Recipe – 5 Points

By Wendy

One of the many things I love about Southern CA is the access to a fantastic selection of international cuisine. And after getting hooked on chicken shawarma from my trips to Israel, it’s pretty easy to get my craving for it satisfied here. However, the restaurant version is not very Weight Watchers friendly.

Cilantro Lime Cucumber Salad Recipe

By Wendy

You know those days when you spent so much time working on the main course, that you completely forgot to prepare a side dish? Well, that happens to me a LOT. More often than I’d like to admit. Sometimes I’m too busy, sometimes I’m too lazy, and sometimes I’m just ill-prepared. But on those days, quick and easy Weight Watchers salad recipes like this Cilantro Lime Cucumber Salad, save me. I almost always have these ingredients on hand, and I can throw this together in just a few minutes.

I highly recommend using a mandolin slicer in order to get nice, evenly thin cucumber slices. But it can absolutely be done with a knife too – it’s just not as easy. The flavors are fresh and amazing, and each serving is just 2 Points. I usually prefer to go a bit heavy on the red pepper flakes as I really like that heat, but this time I made it for my kids, so I didn’t use it as much. This salad also makes a perfect, low-calorie side for summer BBQs, so definitely add it to your “must-make this summer list”. Enjoy!

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Chicken Waldorf Salad – 2 Points

By Wendy

One of my (and my husband’s) favorite Sunday dinners is…

Skinny Peruvian Beef Saltado Recipe – 3 Points

By Wendy

Recently, I had the luxury of eating at a local Peruvian restaurant, and if you’ve never had Peruvian food, you are really missing out! The flavors are bold and fresh, and absolutely divine. I opted for the Lomo Saltado dish, which is basically a sirloin stir fry served over french fries or potato slices. It was sooooooo good!

Roasted Cumin Spiced Cauliflower and Garbanzo Beans – 1 Point

By Wendy

If you’ve been reading LaaLoosh for a while, you’ll probably know that roasting vegetables is one of my favorite ways to eat them. The roasting process adds such a fantastic flavor, and even my kids will eat their veggies this way, so that’s a huge plus.

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Ranch Meatballs Recipe

By Wendy

A good variation to meatloaf are these tasty Ranch Meatballs! Easy to make and always a crowd pleaser, you can enjoy them in a variety of ways: as is, in a sandwich, with pasta and sauce, on top of salads, in soups, in a pita pocket with salad and tahini sauce…I could go on on.

Roasted Butternut Squash with Tahini and Za’atar Recipe

By Wendy

Liven up a standard Roasted Butternut Squash Recipe with the addition of two wonderfully bold flavors – tahini sauce and za’atar herbs. In this Weight Watchers side dish recipe, the sweet, buttery squash is complemented by the roasted sesame flavor of the tahini sauce and the alluring spice mixture of the zaatar.

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