WW Friendly Meals...help and inspiration needed!

MelodyFerg · January 2010

I have two new year's resolutions. To get back on WW and to cook at least one new meal a week. So I signed up for WW online today and now I need your ladies help for #2

Post your favorite WW/low cal recipes for meals here! (Hopefully this will be helpful for anyone else who will be doing Operation FU fat)

kaskade · January 2010

I really liked the WW cookbooks, and I used their recipe builder online a ton. I punched in my favorite recipes and got the points results, and tinkered a little to make them fit with how many points I needed [replacing lower fat meats, cutting out the high calorie stuff].

My go to meals were a giant pot of minestrone soup, pizza made on those flat wraps, peanut butter and jelly [just for lunch], and lean steaks with lots of salad and veggies on the side [I found if I trimmed the steaks ahead of time it was easier to eat the serving size]. Turkey burgers with low cal buns topped with f/f mayo mixed with chipotle and a little avocado were super filling as well.

Good luck!

kaskade · January 2010

Oh, and DH would even eat homemade chicken nuggets and fries. I would just cut up chicken breasts and coat with a shake'n'bake type coating, then roast in the oven. For fries I would slice up a sweet potato, potato and also do broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus and carrots. I toss them in olive oil, sprinkle kosher salt and garlic pepper on them, and broil for 10 - 15 minutes. Sooo good, the veggies are very filling, and the points were super low.

lulumialu · January 2010

I've been making a lot of stir fries - whatever meat I have plus a combo of zucchini, julienned carrots, asparagus, broccolini, cabbage (either napa or green)... whatever I have in the crisper.

To make the sauce, I add soy sauce, some rice wine or sherry or whatever I have, some fresh ginger (I keep a jar of it in the fridge so it's really easy), garlic, toasted sesame oil and maybe some honey. I add these when the food is nearly cooked. Then, add a tsp of cornstarch to the liquid (tilt the pan) and the sauce thickens up nicely.

We serve it with short grain brown rice, which I make in bulk and store in the fridge. Makes dinner that much easier.

So I've fallen in love with plain chevre and tangerine slices. They are heavenly, like a creamsicle only better! And you can eat a lot of chevre without reaching 100 calories. It's an amazing way to cure a creamy craving.

Also I recently tried this Miso Caesar dressing. https://www.galeoscafe.com/caesar.html (I order it from amazon fresh)

It only has 14 calories per tbsp, 1 gram of fat. It tastes like a mustardy caesar. Pairs well with some grilled chicken, chevre, toasted pine nuts, baby spinach and butter lettuce.

mishquiche · January 2010

I love this blog:

https://weight-watchers-points-recipes.blogspot.com

KNemo · January 2010

mishquiche:

I love this blog:

https://weight-watchers-points-recipes.blogspot.com

Just added it to my favorites. Thanks Misha.

FutureFung · January 2010

That's my goal, too - cook one recipe a week to mix up my old standbys.

I love the blog that Misha posted - I look at it all the time.

Some of my favorites:

-baked potatoes: amazingly a small potato is not that many points. I steam broccoli, add cottage cheese instead of sour cream (sounds gross but actually tastes good), and add Amy's Black Bean chili. If I'm really hungry, I'll add a couple ounces of ground turkey.

-fajita "scramble": sautee lots of bell peppers, onion, and sweet potato w/ cooking spray, sprinkle some garlic, chili powder & cayenne spice, cook until they're "blackened". I add ground turkey or chicken, too. I usually just eat it as is, with some salsa on top, but I also have put it in a low carb/high fiber tortilla, too.

Some things I always buy/prepare every week:

-low carb tortillas (Trader Joes has a great one, Sonoma something or other, that's really good) - 1 pt

-peppers, sweet potatoes (TJ's has pre-peeled, pre sliced bags for cheap - and they're cut in spears, look like fries, you could roast or bake them!), cherry tomatoes - I use them in dinners or put them in a tupperware raw w/ a wedge of Laughing Cow Light for a lunch side (only 1 pt!)

-extra lean ground turkey - I brown a batch at the start of every week and keep it in the fridge. If you get the 97% fat free kind, it's only 2 pts for 4 oz, which is a lot!! I put it in recipes and add it to frozen meals to make them more hearty.