Okay, we're back live here in Orlando for IBM Edge 2012. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE.com. We're out scouring the hallways, the sessions. I'm joined by my co-host, John MacArthur, co-hosting with today. John, we have Keri Johns-Vano. We're from Intel Storage, who recently has a new role at Intel, but you've been on theCUBE many times. We're still in storage. Exciting to see you again. Yeah, you too. So what's new? Tell us about what's going on, your new role, and what's happened with Intel Storage. Well, storage is growing, as you know, right? And so our focus is always changing, it seems, right? We have really focused on scale-out storage. So we're really helping a lot of our partners move to scale-out storage based on the unstructured data growth. But I think one of the things that we're really embracing now is the future of storage and where it's going, based on big data, based on massive data, fast data, and how storage is going to evolve. So we're really looking at enabling the ecosystem to create ubiquitous storage or pervasive storage where storage is going to become a service on standard high-volume servers, right? Well, we had theCUBE at Intel NAB. You guys hosted us there. We were able to do theCUBE there. One of the exciting things at NAB was Thunderbolt. Moving data around really, really fast. So data is no brainer. It's growing like crazy. Machines have thrown off data. Users are throwing off data. Applications are throwing off data. Massive tsunami of data. New types of data. Dealing with unstructured data. So what is the definition of future of storage for the new guys at Intel? So that's the vision. So for us, the vision for storage in the future is that it becomes ubiquitous, right? It becomes pervasive. It becomes the data centers transform to a point where you basically have pools of resources of compute storage and networking that you can dynamically allocate and secure as you move across public and private cloud across service providers and have multi-tenancy type of tiering, right? So all of those things become important and they're very dynamic, right? So I'm interested. So where does Intel, where's the line between Intel and Intel's partners sort of lie? What do you mean, the line? What's Intel's contributions? What's Intel's primary thinking about where are you going to contribute? Because you've had a number of sort of initiatives in the storage space where you've developed solutions for the white box market. You've developed a lot of things. Yeah, I think, you know, I mean, our key role is really to provide the fundamental building block that creates that foundation of intelligence for storage. And there's an awful lot of storage that runs on Intel today. Yeah. I don't know what the percentages are. Is anybody doing numbers on that? Yeah, it's 80% market segment share. We currently have Xeon in two for, you know, shipping storage systems that are shipping today. It's about 80% market segment share. Okay. So, you know, I mean, our focus is really on being that foundation to provide the intelligence in the right. And you know, you mentioned about IO and memory and stuff. And that stuff is really important to storage. And as we saw in the keynote this morning, right? Memory's becoming more and more important as it plays a key role, especially in data analytics, right? Where you've got things real-time, you've got to do real-time compression, you've got to do real-time tweets. There's millions and millions of users accessing at the same time, right? And so, IO, memory, that stuff is really important. So, we're really looking at how do we take our multi-core architecture? How do we optimize that so that you can get quick access to the cache? You can get quick access and high bandwidth through IO and quick access to the memory. That's been one of the themes, obviously, here at IBM. It's been the whole notion that, with all the compute, with all the cores, that's cool. Now, it takes the storage, it takes the storage, enable the storage to be faster and have more diverse storage types. How do you guys look at that? And have more efficiencies, yeah. Well, we've, our E5 processor that we just released, that is the first standard server processor that has integrated storage features in there. And we continue to increase the IO and the memory. And I mean, we have 2X and 3X improvements in IO and memory today in that E5 processor. But those advanced storage features were only found in SOCs prior to the E5 generation. So, you know, our goal is to continue the integration, continue the convergence, so that servers and storage, the line between servers and storage becomes closer, right? That gap is not as far as it is today with some of your traditional purpose-built storage, right? So, you guys like the whole Flash movement? You got to be excited by what's going on with Flash. Yeah, yeah. Well, if you look at the, if you compare, you know, hard drive, you know, performance and how it's evolved over the years, right? And then you compare Moore's law and then you look at how Flash is, is really kind of bridging that gap. It's, you know, it's one of those technologies. It's not going to be, you know, the do-all end-all for everything and the storage workloads are different, right? Well, what do you say to customers that want to know what's going on in storage? Because they're bombarded with a lot of, you know, market data, all this stuff's going on. They have to re-architect their environments. We've talked extensively yesterday and today around how Flash has changed its server, you got Flash everywhere, it's kind of a theme here. When you talk to customers and they say, Kevin, just tell me the bottom line, what's going on in storage? From our customer base, I mean, take Intel IT as an example, right? Diane talked about that in her keynote this morning. But, you know, the customers that are, the IT customers out there, the end-users out there that are looking for storage efficiencies, they're really looking across their data center and how do I transform my IT to optimize my workloads? And usually that's not just one solution, usually it's a combination of various solutions, including Flash, including strategically placing SSDs, right? Including how many tiers of storage do I need so that I can optimize that storage real estate, right? And so it's, you know, that's the exciting thing to me, I think, but also the complexity about it is that it's not a one-size-fits-all, right? We don't have these standard, like in the server world, right, where you've got this big ecosystem, things are highly virtualized. But I think as storage continues to get converged with server and closer to server, we could see that in the future, right? If storage becomes a service, it could be a lot more standardized. What do you think about the IBM show here this week? It's great, it's really been good. I mean, we are a diamond sponsor and we've had a lot of great collaboration with them. I think the format's been awesome. The keynotes have been great and, of course, they've... This message of portfolio is interesting, right? They're bringing in more solutions to bear. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think the messaging was really, was really good, right? I think that they're trying to really converge or rally around a few key things, like agile cloud, et cetera, they're integrated solutions. And then there was the third pillar, I can't remember, but it's good to see that cohesiveness across all of their sessions and across the whole show. I thought that that was... Intel's customers obviously have people like IBM buying stuff from you guys. What are their number one concerns on the roadmap when they buy future products? What is the direction for you guys? The direction? Well, the direction for us from a roadmap perspective is really how do we continue to help the solution providers break the bottlenecks that they face in IT, right? For storage, a lot of it's around IO, memory. How do we optimize, when we add multiple cords, how do we optimize the cash and the capability of everybody accessing that simultaneously, right? So we're looking, and we work with a lot of our partners three, five years in advance. We have these two days architectural summits where we lock them all in a room with our partners one at a time, right? And we get their direct input to what they'd like to see in storage systems. I guess if the story is flash everywhere that IBM's promoting, your message is processors everywhere, right, cores? Because you could put cores now on everything. Absolutely, yeah, yeah. The compute power, compute is more and more important as the storage workloads become more complex. Why was that changing with some of the backup and recovery paradigms? Are you seeing any trends you can share with folks around adding more cores and more flash and more storage technology? How's it changing the backup and recovery? Absolutely, people are offloading things to, I mean, Tate's not going to go away, but they can add automated storage tiering, they can offload things to other types of media depending on the usage of the data, right? Is it really archived or is it, and the recovery time is a lot quicker. So server has been on a fairly fast refresh cycle. Storage tends to have a longer refresh cycle. Yes. Right? Yes. But the process of refresh cycle is pretty consistent, right? It's correct. Yeah, yeah. How does that impact sort of? Well, I think that's a result of the evolution of storage, right? And how storage evolved from a very purpose-built, vertically-scaled system to now scale out storage, which is, according to Atlas, it's going to be about 80% of the market segment share by 2015. So it's evolving, right? And as we look at the future, where storage becomes an application or a service, then you get closer to these refresh cycles. You think we'll get on a similar refresh cycle on storage as we've been on? I think if we can realize the future vision. Yeah. Yeah. As long as we don't have to move the data on the back end too much. We're getting closer. That's the problem. You can move a workload faster than you can move the data. Right, right. And there's improvements. You've seen at IBM Edge here today that they're implementing capabilities, storage capabilities that approve that, moving the data. Because anytime you retire or something, you have to move the data and it's... So I think one of the things that's sort of interesting with this sand volume controller technology that they're implementing in some of their solutions, that's been out there for a while, but it is the ability to maybe add new levels of services to without having to necessarily move the data right away. Yeah, yeah. And then when you add the solid state disk up at that layer, then you can improve the performance of the back end. Right, yeah. If you look at today's, the latest greatest today's storage systems out there, there's significant improvements that they've made. They're making them fast. Things are moving fast in storage. So, and many of our vendors are really striving to be more time to market. They see the benefits. It's just a matter of things moving fast enough and then moving fast enough to get there, right? And it's also going to take a little bit, storage systems have mission critical requirements, have certification requirements. So they've got to get a design cycle that works with that as well.  Yeah, we're working with, well, China's got the smart city, right? Right. Going on and we're working with many of the vendors over there to build out these data centers by due and other folks, UIT to build out these big data centers that are pretty, kind of like a, you know, cloud model, scalable like Amazon type of model. Yeah, in those cases that you've got a lot of, maybe not too bright storage, but then above that you've got a level of sort of data management capabilities and intelligence. It also probably runs on Intel, but it's not part of the storage controller. Exactly, right, right. They're really kind of a leap ahead, right? In that standardization vision that I talked about, right? And that's their vision. They want to be able to, you know, provide this capability to, with huge amount of capacity and performance, right? But they want that management layer over it so that it's simple, right? Because they want to be able to refresh on the latest, greatest hardware. And they're using mostly standard hardware today. Right.  Yeah, with very tight budgets. Yeah. Right. Lots and lots of capacity, but really tight budget. Right, right. So that's kind of standard architecture. And I think, you know, I mean, if we look at IT across the board, I think that, you know, some of the IT transformation analysis that people are doing are looking at that model as well, right? When you look internationally, because I mean, you're, as a global company, you get exposure to everybody.  They may sell globally, but where do you see some of the, you've got, you've mentioned China. Are there other areas where you're seeing sort of advanced innovation that is going to try to change? Yeah, yeah. Actually, another emerging geo is Brazil. Yeah. You know, Brazil is growing like crazy. And they're looking- As both a consumer and a developer of technology. Yeah, absolutely. Can you talk a little bit more about that? I'm interested in. Well, they're, you know, they're looking at, I wouldn't say funding, they're looking at bringing companies into Brazil to do research on technologies in conjunction with some of their local partners. Right. Okay, so there's some initiative steps that are going on with respect to that. And that's really meant to, you know, for innovation from their local companies. Right, and some of the local companies invest in creating their own schools and to educate the workforce. Right. So we'll see how it all plays out, right? But, you know, that's definitely a growing geo. Brazil, I was just down there a month or so ago and it's amazing how fast they're growing. And they're- Yeah, prepping for the Olympics will be a big deal already. For the Olympics and the World Cup and that was some of their, you know- Now talk about your new role, that's why your new role. My new role? Yeah. In storage? Yeah. That's the same role. You had to travel to more, you said you were- Well, it's, we've been growing so much in the storage group at Intel that we've basically taken the marketing role and we've split it up into marketing alliances and marketing products. So enabling the vendors on one side versus creating marketing alliances with not only our partners but with emerging markets and so that's kind of an expansion. Okay, so it's not changing, it's more expansion. Yeah, it's more of an expansion because we've grown so fast. So we've been hearing a lot of conversations around tiering, obviously. Even tiering is a great concept. You guys talk a lot about tiering. What do people need to know about the tierings, the different tiers of performance improvements?  So if you have data at rest or data at motion, there's two tiers there, right? If you have data that you're working on, like for instance, when we do tape outs, well, there's a lot of parallel processing, right? And so, you know, you could treat that as a different tier. So the tiering that, like we implemented it Intel IT, we had one or two tiers and now we have five. And it's based on business process needs that we have and how we can optimize all of our resources across the board depending on what the data's doing. And I think when you talk about big data analytics, that's where it gets really exciting because the way we do things today versus having big data being in fast data and massive data being prevalent in our data centers is totally different in how we're gonna treat that data, right? The value of the data and the processing of the data and where it resides is gonna become even more important because you're not gonna need it all. You might need bursts of like DNA sequencing, right? Burst of huge data, but at the end of the day, you only need a little piece of that data to identify you from me, from him, right? So it's, you know- Keep pairs all the way until they talk about big data. Yeah, like Mayo Clinic and ASU, we were talking to them a bit ago about their DNA sequencing and genomics and what they're doing with that. And you know, at the end of the day, they're like, you know what would be really cool is if we could have like a pay-as-you-go model in storage so that when we need those bursts and we need that big analytics, we can utilize it, know that it's safe. You know, they're highly regulated environment, right? But not have to hold that overhead all the time because we only need to store this little piece of data here. So, you know, people are thinking about things totally different. What are the top three trends that you're seeing in storage? Because obviously, IBM's recognized with this event that stores at the center of the conversation, they're spanning around it. But you guys are Intel, you guys are super geeks building out the cores and all the performance moors, locks, et cetera. What are the trends, the top three trends from Intel's seed? From a technology perspective, I think the top three are really, you know, continued focus on compute. Obviously, I mean, the core is and the core optimizations are important. But because of the way things are changing, I think I owe and memory are the other two, you know, key technology things that we're really focusing on and how do we, you know, innovate and, you know, get a leap ahead in those spaces because there's a lot of new. Yeah, because you can enable a lot of stuff from the data, app data, for example, the big data tsunami. Right, right. So we've got some things in research there that can't really disclose, but. Come on, tell us. But faster, smaller, less expensive, typical Moore's law. Yeah, we can say that.  So Intel, too, sales is going faster in storage or servers. You can run a Kenya, so that either. You let it go. Okay, we've got. You can read in that in the animal. We're getting the break from Mark and the team here. So, Cary, John's van, I know you got to catch a plane heading out again to be discovered. We'll see you there. Yeah. We've got the cube there as well. Great. So on our summer tour. Yeah. We're going to be at the desk, the orange forum after. Also the cloud forum with Intel. We're going to do some cube action there, kind of a mini cube, kind of hallway cube. And then Hadoop Summit. Oh yeah, great, great. So next week, another busy week. Yeah, we're working on optimizing IA on Hadoop. So that's, so that it works best on IA. Can you share any details or just do work on it? That's all you can share. That's what we're optimizing it for. Hadoop is great. I mean, Hadoop is getting better and faster and stronger. The availability is coming out, which seems to be a big analysis of cloud era. Hortonworks has got some big analysis coming out as well. So that ecosystem, that community is growing very, very fast. It's good to see what the industry's doing with that. They're going to go from batch to real time very fast. So very disruptive price points. The economics will be pretty interesting to watch. All of course, work from filers all the way to dinner. Absolutely. Hadoop warehousing. Okay, Kerry Johns-Vano from Intel here inside the cube. SiliconANGLE.tv, John MacArthur and John Furrier here. We'll be right back after this break.


Welcome back to my channel and welcome to another 20 favorite foods on WW there was an overwhelming response in my last top 20 foods for 2020 video I'll link that down below if you have not seen that asking for another video in this series like I mentioned in that video I literally could have come up with a hundred of my favorite things that are must-haves in my WW journey so I am back today to bring you another 20 foods that I feel are essential in any type of WW journey or healthy eating or weight loss journey they're just good foods to have on hand they're delicious and they're point-friendly so let's jump right into the next 20 foods that are must-haves on WW number one is light butter I love butter like I really love butter but it's four to five smart points for one tablespoon of traditional butter so when you're following a healthy eating journey or a weight loss journey you make substitutions you find good dupes for some of your favorite foods my very favorite light butter is I can't believe it's not butter light I like both the spread and the spray both of those are my favorite substitutions for regular love of my life butter they taste really good they're very low points you can have one tablespoon for one point or you can have quite a few numbers of spray of the I can't believe it's not butter spray for zero smart points so just great alternatives if you love butter I put these on my vegetables I use these in baking and in cooking I'll just use these in place of real butter or sometimes in place of oil in certain recipes I love the spray butter on popcorn so good you can add your salt or your popcorn seasoning and that spray butter gives it that rich buttery flavor for zero smart points so definitely invest in some sort of light butter or butter substitution is pasta I love pasta I think I have some Italian in me I feel like I have or should have some Italian in me because I love pasta but pasta unless you are following the purple plant and you are eating the purple approved pastas on the green and blue plant plan pasta is high and I still want to be able to have pasta in my life I want pasta so I found a fabulous replacement for traditional pasta and that is fiber gourmet it is amazing you guys it is packed full of fiber so it keeps you full it tastes great it holds in shape it does not become gummy like some of those other pasta substitutions do it does not become goopy and stick together and have a weird aftertaste it literally tastes better than regular pasta I will tell you from my very picky husband he has asked that we only use fiber gourmet pasta in our house it's the only pasta that he loves it comes in several shapes they're spaghetti elbows rotini and penny so any type of pasta that you would need for any type of pasta dish fiber gourmet is a great substitute not only does it taste great but the points are stellar so regular pasta is anywhere from five to six smart points for two ounces fiber gourmet is only three smart points for two ounces which is a serving of pasta an entire serving of pasta for three smart points you can't beat it and for the taste and the fact that it has some nutritional value and keeps you full fiber gourmet is a thumbs up top-notch alternative to traditional pasta I buy mine off of the nettrition website I find it to be the least expensive there there are some other foods that I'm going to share with you that you can buy off of the nettrition website as well there's a link down below for that it is not an affiliate link it is just a link that will take you to the website bring you to the WW friendly foods search around there's hundreds on that website but add fiber gourmet to your cart and trust me you're gonna want to stop next is center cut bacon most of us love bacon and if you don't like bacon I feel like you're someone in the minority bacon is delicious it's great for cooking for recipes great for breakfast makes great meat or protein substitute on breakfast sandwiches hello BLT's but traditional bacon is generally pretty high in points it has a higher fat content so the points are going to be elevated so I find that if you stick with a center cut bacon it's a great choice you can also have turkey bacon but if you want that real authentic bacon center cut is the way to go I know that there are several brands of center cut bacon out there I know that the alfresco brand of bacon is low in points my favorite is private selection that is a Fred Meyer or a Kroger brand so if you don't have one of those stores or one of those affiliated stores in your area unfortunately you're not going to be able to find this but you can have two slices of private selection center cut bacon for one smart point so in my opinion that's the bacon that I think is the best bang for your points buck but there are several center cut bacon options out there and they are traditionally about half the points of regular bacon and of course there's turkey bacon as an alternative to center cut as well the points on turkey bacon and center cut are pretty comparable so you just have to pick the one that you like better do you want turkey bacon or do you want bacon next is another item you can find on the nettrition website and is one of my favorites I'm a sweets eater and I try to find substitutions for some of my favorite sweets which one of those is Reese's peanut butter cups I know that they do have a sugar-free Reese's which is a great alternative as well you can have one of those little sugar-free Reese's cups for one smart point but if you want more peanut butter cup for your points check out choco right again these are purchased off of the nettrition website it is the least expensive that I have found I cannot find these in my area I can find the hundred or hundred and ten calorie packs but those are going to be three to four smart points so be really careful when selecting choco right products that you're picking the 35 calorie a piece chocolates so my favorite is the peanut butter cup they're delicious they are very very close to a Reese's and they're quite a bit larger than the sugar-free Reese's cups so I generally gravitate towards those I also think that the flavor is a little bit better you can have one piece of the peanut butter cups for one smart point or you can have the entire package which contains two of the peanut butter cups for two smart points they're delicious absolutely delicious and you can't be two good size peanut butter cups for two smart points and again those are purchased off of nettrition so while you're picking up fiber gourmet pasta pick up some choco right peanut butter cups they also have turtles they have crispy caramel all sorts of choco right products but my very favorite is the peanut butter cup so make sure you add those to your cart over on nettrition's website next is diet juice or five calorie or light juice I love juice my very very favorite is orange juice but orange juice is extremely high in points and sometimes I just want a glass of juice can a girl just get a glass of juice so I found that ocean spray has come out with a lot of diet juices they are generally cranberry based but they are so incredibly good my very favorite is the pink cranberry and it's zero points you can have 16 I think up to 32 ounces of this juice I'll put it here on the screen for you for zero smart points so that's a lot of juice I generally will just pour about an eight ounce glass eight to ten ounce glass of juice with my breakfast for zero points so you're not missing out on juice if you are a juice drinker they taste really really delicious there's cranapple cran grape cranberry cran everything you name it ocean spray has you covered in diet juices so definitely a great dupe or substitution if you are a juice lover next is another product in my final product that i'm going to share with you that I purchased off of nettrition's website and that is the finnables these are a dupe for cheeses these crackers are so delicious my favorite is the italian sweet cheese second to that is the sharp cheddar if you love crackers if you love cheeses you're going to love finnables you can have 30 crackers for two smart points two cheeses you can have less than that for five smart points so it's a great alternative not only does it taste like a cheese it but it's packed full of fiber and it's packed full of protein so you're getting a protein and fiber kick for two smart points for 30 crackers and they are delicious they are just as good if not better than cheeses i like to have these sometimes as a snack i'll pair it with the string cheese or maybe some cottage cheese or sometimes i just want a little bit of a crunch factor with my lunch so i'll throw a serving of finnables on the side of my wrap or my sandwich they're just a great alternative to a traditional cheese it or to a high point cracker so again while you're buying your fiber gourmet and your chocolate right products you can add finnables to your cart on netrition's website while we're talking cheesy let's talk about fat-free cheese i like fat-free cheese some people like it some people don't but on all three plans whether you're following green blue or purple you can have a quarter cup of fat-free cheese for zero smart points it's nice to add with regular cheese or light cheese to bulk up the cheesiness of your dishes i don't notice much difference i think it melts pretty good especially the fat-free mozzarella it melts really good i generally will not only have that free cheese i will pair it with a light cheese so for example i might take a light mexican blend and fat-free cheese and have it and put half that free half light cheese mix that together and then i still feel like i'm getting that ooey creamy goodness of regular cheese but i'm saving a ton of points by substituting half of the cheese with fat-free it tastes good you can find it at any of your local grocery stores speaking of that kind of cheese i also really like the velvita slices these are only one smart point apiece for me this is my favorite thing to put on a breakfast sandwich so if i'm making say a bacon egg and cheese sandwich and also on a hamburger it's also delicious melted over eggs and for one smart point a slice you can't beat it so you can still have cheese on w w just substitute a portion for fat-free shredded cheese or make a choice of the velvita slices instead of those other high point cheese slices you're not going to notice a difference and you're going to save yourself a lot of smart points another thing that we're always looking for on any type of healthy eating or weight loss journey is a sweetener substitute there are a ton out there some of them are good some of them are bad some of them are good for you some of them are not so good for you in my opinion my very favorite sweetener alternative is monk fruit monk fruit sweetener is an all-natural substitute it is nothing like splenda or sucralose it is a all natural sugar alternative monk fruit my favorite brand is locanto you can purchase this at your local grocery store you can also buy this off of net triton's website you can also find the monk fruit sweetener at cosco or sam's club they also make a powdered sugar version and they also make a brown sugar or a golden version it's just a fabulous sugar alternative it tastes like the real thing it is zero smart points no matter how much you have and it's good for you all that is in there is the monk fruit which is a naturally derived sweetener so it's just a great alternative to regular sugar zero smart points you can use it in your coffee and baking pretty much in anything that you would use regular sugar in you can substitute monk fruit sweetener again you can find these a lot of times at your local grocery store cosco i know carries the big bag of the granular sweetener which is what i have and also over on net triton they do carry the granular the powdered and the golden so definitely add this to your arsenal if you're someone who likes to bake or sweeten things with sugar definitely use monk fruit in place of sugar you're not going to know the difference and zero smart points next is a zero point marinara you can use this for everything from pasta to making pizzas you can make two ingredient dough and use this marinara as your pizza sauce and there is a great recipe out there that is made in your crock pot it is from the skinnyish dish it is her crock pot marinara i make it all the time it is zero smart points no matter how much you have and it is absolutely delicious i am going to link her recipe down in the description box below what i do is i make an entire crock pot full of the marinara i put it into mason jars make sure you shallow up your mason jar a little bit and i throw it into my freezer that allows it to expand during the freezing process and not make a big mess and it is really truly better than any store-bought marinara sauce and it is zero smart points no matter how much you have i use this whenever i make spaghetti lasagna or any type of pasta dish that calls for a red sauce and i use it all the time in chicken parm and pizza it really is so versatile it's zero smart points so you can save your points for the other things the pasta the cheese the meat the olives the other things that are part of the dishes that would use a marinara sauce and i'm telling you guys it's delicious it's another thing that my husband always requests we never buy regular red marinara sauce in the store because it ranges from two to five smart points for a half of a cup when you can make quickly in your crock pot a zero point marinara so definitely check it out i know that there are some other zero point marinara out there but this one is the only one that i've ever tried and i absolutely love it i will give you another little pro tip or little hint if possible try to use hunts products i have made this marinara with several alternative tomatoes some of the generic ones like walmart or fredmeyer or safeway and it just never turns out as good as if you actually use hunts hunts tomatoes for some reason make this marinara a lot better so if you can invest a little bit of extra money that it costs to buy a name brand or hunts tomatoes highly recommended but check out the recipe down below and add this to your next meal prep or when you're getting your food ready for the week you will not be sorry next are cleobars now a lot of you have probably never heard of these but i found these at my local walmart i scanned them they were five smart points and i thought that's a lot for this little greek yogurt bar but i bought one and i thought you know what on a day that i have some extra points i'm going to give it a try oh my gosh let me just tell you how delicious these are they literally taste like you are eating chocolate covered cream cheese no exaggeration they are so good and they are so good for you their ingredients are on point there is nothing artificial in these they are such a clean food and they are so incredibly delicious my very very favorite flavor is vanilla but they also make a strawberry blueberry espresso honey peanut butter and i think there's one more i'm just not coconut i think it is but i can never find that locally now you can purchase these at walmart that is the only place that i've been able to find them or you can buy them off of the cleo bar website they range anywhere from five to eight smart points most of them are five points the one that i have found that is eight smart points is the peanut butter and to be honest it's not my favorite i really truly love the vanilla and i love the espresso if you are a coffee lover my friends you're going to love this and again i know five smart points eight smart points sounds a lot for dessert but they are so good and if you are looking for something that is not only good for you but tastes amazing cleobars are the way to go you can find them in the yogurt section at walmart and they are something that you need to keep in your refrigerator they have this delicious chocolate coating and they do have a bit of a tang of the greek yogurt so if you absolutely hate any part of greek yogurt i'm not sure that you will like these but i don't notice much of a tang to me it literally tastes like cream cheese or cheesecake especially the vanilla it's so good and it is worth every five smart points in my opinion so if you're looking for a good wholesome sweet treat check out the cleobars speaking of yogurt let's talk a little bit about non-fat plain greek yogurt plain jane non-fat greek yogurt if you are following the blue or purple plan this is zero smart points which is amazing if you're following the green plan you do have to count points for your non-fat greek yogurt but this just isn't your mama's yogurt you guys can use this in so many things you can add sugar-free pudding mix to it to make a decadent cheesecake-like dessert and it can be anywhere from zero to one smart point all you have to count for is the pudding mix and again this is on blue or purple if you're following green make sure you measure out and count the points for your greek yogurt you can also add things like chocolate chips to this you could add a little bit of that monk fruit sweetener and the one thing that people use the greek yogurt for a lot is to make two ingredient dough that is equal parts non-fat greek yogurt and self-rising flour you mix that together and it forms a dough and people use this for anything from pretzels to breadsticks to pretzel bites and most importantly for pizza crust and it is so low point it is a complete dupe for regular pizza crust you can still have pizza my friends on w w and stay within your points you can load it with toppings especially if you're using that zero point marinara save your points for your toppings your cheeses your olives pineapple sausage pepperoni whatever it is that you want to put on your pizza if you make the two ingredient dough you can just bulk it up with toppings and save your smart points for that but non-fat greek yogurt is a great thing to have on hand also i use non-fat greek yogurt a lot as a sour cream substitution because i can put a couple tablespoons on my dish for zero smart points even on the green plan and for me it doesn't taste much different than regular sour cream and it's zero smart points so definitely add non-fat greek yogurt to your list my favorite brand is the fa a i find that that one is the best it is thick and creamy and it doesn't have a lot of leftover liquid so it's great for two ingredient dough and in my opinion it just has the best overall taste and texture but there are a ton of non-fat greek yogurt out there just find the one that works for you but definitely put this on your grocery list next is almond milk almond milk cashew milk coconut milk any kind of milk alternative this is not only going to save you a ton of smart points but you can use this in everything you can literally drink it by the glass put it in your coffee cook with it bake with it you name it it is a great alternative to regular milk now if you do not like almond milk coconut cashew milk oat milk whatever other kind of milk alternatives there are out there there are a couple of regular milks that are very low in points one of them is fair life and the other one is a kroger or fred meyer brand and it is called carb master they make both a white milk and a chocolate milk and they are the same amount of points as almond milk one smart point for one entire cup so if you don't like the milk alternatives you can always look for fair life or carb master milk in your local grocery store i use these a lot when i make smoothies because sometimes i just don't want that almond milk taste same with coffee sometimes i just really want to use milk in my smoothie or in my coffee and the carb master and the fair life are great for that they are all the same smart points whether you choose a nut milk or milk alternative or one of these regular milks one smart point for one cup you can't beat it i always always have some sort of milk or milk alternative in my refrigerator let's talk bagels i cannot tell you how many people have told me when they started w w or any type of healthy eating journey that bagels are out they're loaded with carbs there are a million smart points i can't have bagels anymore yes my friends you can you can if you purchase western bagel alternative bagels they are amazing they taste like a regular bagel but let's talk about the smart points so there are options from western bagel the key takeaway or the thing to remember is make sure that you are ordering the alternative bagel not their regular western bagels but the alternative this is the one that is going to be lower in smart points so there are three different smart point values in the alternative bagels number one are the bagel let's these are the small bagels they're about a two and a half inch by two and a half inch bagel similar to what you would find in like a bagel bite or something like that they're just a smaller bagel but they are only one smart point but with crazy weight watch your math if you have two of them it is three smart points but you can have one of these big lets for one smart point they're great to pair with some eggs and bacon for breakfast you can put a little light cream cheese or spray butter on them and for one point you can't beat it there are several kinds of the bagelettes i really like the wheat and the onion i think they're absolutely delicious now for two smart points you can have the western bagel healthy grain which is a perfect 10 bagel this one is only two smart points for a full size bagel yes full size bagel two smart points no more bagel things my friends and no more eight or nine or ten smart big smart point big bagels stick with the western bagel so the perfect 10 healthy grain is two smart points any of the other alternative bagels are three smart points my favorites are blueberry cinnamon and everything they are so good every single bagel is absolutely amazing from western bagel you do not have to give up bagels you can stay within your points three smart points for a full size bagel is amazing two and one is even better so head over to westernbagel.com i will put my code here on the screen it'll give you 10 off they often have a build your own box where you can pick and choose what bagels you want to add to a box usually four bags or six bags of your choice of bagels and that is free shipping so you can double dip discounts get the free shipping from the build your own box and use my code here on the screen to get an extra 10 off as well so double bonus but if you love bagels and you don't want a thin crunchy icky bagel and you don't want to spend eight nine or ten smart points definitely check out western bagel you will not be sorry because they are amazing next is another staple in my opinion is sugar-free syrup i know that sounds weird but sugar free maple syrup not only can you use this on your pancakes your waffles whatever you want as far as your traditional breakfast food but syrup is used in so many other ways you can use it as a replacement for sweetener and baking you can also mix maple syrup with pb2 peanut butter and a little bit of almond milk or milk alternative and it makes an absolutely delicious peanut butter a legit dupe to regular peanut butter for one to two smart points this recipe comes courtesy of amanda lewis here on youtube so definitely check her channel out as well she has a great ww weight watchers channel and she comes up with some great recipes one of which is this peanut butter using pb2 and sugar-free syrup so don't pass by the sugar-free syrup in your grocery store not only can you use it for pancakes and waffles again it's great as a sweetener in baking and it is amazing in making peanut butter i will type up amanda's peanut butter recipe down in the description box for you guys so you can check that out and make that but it's super super delicious and it tastes like real peanut butter for one to two smart points so definitely pick up sugar-free maple syrup next is a cracker if you have a trader joes near you there are a lot of great ww friendly foods at trader joes i've done quite a few trader joes halls and i've also done two five nights of dinners out of the trader joes freezer section and from trader joes in general so definitely check out those videos if you love trader joes and you're looking for some great ww friendly items but one thing i love at trader joes are their roasted gorgonzola crackers you guys these are so good they are cheesy and crunchy and absolutely delicious they are a cracker that you don't necessarily have to pair with a dip now you can you can dip them in whatever you like maybe that spinach and artichoke greek yogurt dip i think that's what it's called i'll put it here on the screen for you guys but the trader joes light spinach dip is so good with these but they have so much flavor that you don't even have to put them in a dip i like to just count them out and eat them with my sandwich you can have a ton of crackers for the smart points i mean a ton and they are absolutely delicious you feel like you're indulging in this cheesy deliciousness but they are still extremely low in smart points you can find these with all of the other crackers at trader joes they are not a seasonal item so you should be able to find them at your local store but i love them as a cracker between those and the thinnables i'm set next up is another thing that i recently just kind of discovered on a whim i added it to a walmart grocery pickup and i've never looked back and that is no sugar added pie filling i know it sounds weird you guys but it is so good i make an amazing dessert out of this and it is so incredibly low smart points you take one to two servings you can have i think three ounces of the no sugar added pie filling for one smart point and that is a lot they have cherry apple i think there's a blueberry or a berry as well my very very favorite is the cherry and i do take one to two servings of that i top it with a little bit of fat free ready whip and some chocolate chips and it makes an amazing dessert like so good and it's three smart points max like you can have this huge delicious indulgent cherry chocolate goodness for three smart points so good so next time you're in the baking aisle just pick up a can you can use it in the little mini pie crust they have these little mini graham cracker pie crust you can put a little bit of your no sugar added pie filling in that top it with a dollop of fat free ready whip and again you have a super low smart point dessert it's very versatile it's great by itself it's great to mix in with non-fat Greek yogurt you can also mix it in with whipped topping so you could take some light or low fat sugar free whipped topping and mix in a little bit of the pie filling and you have a really good dessert so it's super versatile very very low points i mean you can eat the whole can for less than 10 smart points which i don't recommend but you can do that if you really want to and it works into your day but it's just a very versatile option for a sweet treat and a dessert so pick up some sugar free or no sugar added pie filling and check check it out you guys it's super good speaking of no sugar added pie filling lilies chocolate chips that is normally what i will use as my little pie filling dessert but lilies chocolate chips are extremely versatile as well i love making homemade chocolate chip pancakes i use these for toppings on desserts sometimes i will mix mini marshmallows and lilies chocolate chips together and take a marshmallow and a chip and pop it in my mouth and it's this marshmallow with chocolatey goodness they are extremely extremely low smart points you can have nine grams of lilies chocolate chips for one smart point you can have 60 chips for two smart points 60 that's a lot of chocolate chips i very rarely have that many i'll usually just throw zero to one smart point worth of chips on a dessert you can even have i believe it's 12 chips for zero smart points so you can add lilies chocolate chips to so many things i use them a lot is for desserts and again another thing i love to do with them is bake and make chocolate chip pancakes oh i love chocolate chip pancakes speaking of pancakes and waffles along with your lilies chocolate chips pick up some ww friendly pancake mix my two favorites are birch benders paleo and any type of kodiak cake favorite is buttermilk these are pancake mixes that taste just like regular pancake mix but they are loaded with protein and they are made from good ingredients and they are delicious so not only do you get your waffle or your pancake fill you also can make it healthy and full of protein and it actually will keep you full you can add a little bit of that sugar-free syrup some lilies chocolate chips you could even put a couple spoonfuls of that no sugar added pie filling on your waffle or pancake yum i'm so trying that that would be so delicious as well one of the other things i really like to do with the pancake mix is make mini waffles using my dash mini waffle maker i love mine you'll see on my channel i have several videos where i've used it i've made waffles i've made waffle breakfast sandwiches so check out my meal preps here on my youtube channel and i do have the dash waffle maker in my amazon store so i'll link that down below for you guys but add some sort of good for you low point pancake or waffle mix to your pantry because you can use it for so many things pancakes waffles muffins to bake with it's just a great alternative to the non-nutritional value added pancake mixes and you still get the indulgence of pancakes and waffles we are on number 19 already i cannot even believe it number 19 is reduced sugar cranberries you guys these are another thing that is just great to have on hand they are super versatile as well i love them in salads they're so good they add that chewy sweetness to any type of salad you could pair that with some gorgonzola cheese or feta some crouton some wonton strips so many things and it just adds that nice kick of sweetness to a salad i use these a lot when i make homemade granola you can also use these in muffins and cookies i mean there's so many things and you can have one tablespoon of these reduced sugar cranberries for one smart point you can't beat it i mean really truly you can add it just about to anything it's great to add to desserts i mean seriously it's a must have in your pantry there are so many things that you can do with them you can just even pop a tablespoon in a little baggie with maybe some lilies and some nuts and kind of make an on-the-go trail mix to take with you for super low smart points so definitely pick up the reduced sugar cranberries and number 20 the end of the road is light alfredo sauce so we talked about marinara or red sauce and i recommend the zero point marinara but if you have to have that light creamy deliciousness of an alfredo sauce the clasico light alfredo is amazing it tastes just like the regular alfredo sauce it is extremely low smart points it's great to add to of course pasta so you can make a chicken alfredo chicken is zero smart points on blue and purple and extremely low on green pair that with some fiber gourmet pasta and a little alfredo sauce and you can have a dinner that is less than six smart points pasta alfredo less than six smart points bulk it up with some broccoli and you have a well rounded dinner it's great to have on hand you can use it as a dip you can make two ingredient dough breadsticks and dip them in the alfredo sauce i also like to just put a quarter of a cup on top of a breast of chicken with a little bit of parmesan cheese and it just really makes you feel like you're indulging in this creamy alfredo but it is so good and so low smart point i always have a jar in my pantry if you end up not using the entire jar in a recipe just throw it in the fridge and it lasts a few weeks in your refrigerator it's just another good staple thing to have on hand so that's it another top 20 w w foods w w staples healthy eating foods i hope you enjoyed giving another 20 ideas of things that you can add to your fridge your pantry your freezer your arsenal for your w w journey everything that i shared with you that is not found in your traditional grocery store will be linked down in the description box below as well as the recipe for the skinnyish dish marinara and amanda louis's peanut butter recipe everything will be down below also all of the links to my favorite things as well as all of the discounts that i can share with you are down in the description box below so definitely check that out if you're new to my channel or you're 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