WW Snacks and Recipes?

[kam0424]

Does anyone have any good weight watchers snacks, tips or recipes?

[Emme]

Tons...

Grill eggplant and mushrooms with garlic salt, then stirfry with shirataki noodles, tomatoes, a little balsamic and soy or Bragg's, lemon juice, and mustard.

Boil miso broth with chopped garlic cubes. Add bok choy, mustard greens, kale, collards, asparagus, wild mushrooms (portabellos, shiitake, oysters, creminis) all chopped and let sofften. Beat egg whites with garlic salt or seasoning of choice, then pour into rolling boil soup to make "Miso Egg Drop."

Mix one serving of oats with egg whites; make egg white pancakes and serve w/ low sugar/cal maple syrup or sugar free jam.

Fat free cottage cheese + cooked barley or brown rice + cinnamon +splenda + vanilla => microwave til gooey and rice pudding-y

La Tortilla factory tortilla sprinkled with water then splenda/cinnamon mixture, and baked or microwaved til crisp and bunuelo-y.

Broccoli Souffle... mix cooked broccoli, lipton's onion soup mix, fat free ricotta, fat free sour cream, and egg whites, and bake in a Pam sprayed dish or microwave.

Total 0% Yogurt mixed w/ splenda and cinnamon, and a little high fiber/high protein cereal.

Broccoli Soup a la Gordon Ramsay consists of boiling broccoli with salt and pepper, then blending into a puree using the cooking water as liquid.

Dixie Diner brand Maple Smaps... love 'em. 1/2 cup = 71 calories, 7g fiber, and 16g
protein

Baked apple with splenda and cinnamon

I could go on and on... If you're interested, I will...

[kam0424]

these are fantastic!!! I'm always looking for quick bites like this that are low in points.

[jan]

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO GO ON AND ON!!! I love these ideas, just what I need to get back on track!!

[chocolate]

Emme, Your list is great..thanks for sharing! One question for you though. What are Maple Smaps and where do you buy them or look for them in the supermarket? The fiber and protein and calorie count are great...I like them already. Thanks again.

[Emme]

I get them at a local healthy mart in LA... but they can be found online... http://www.dixiediner.com/product_inf...
FWIW, I also love this company's Nutlettes cereal. There are many other items I'd love to try too, but have yet to order.

[chocolate]

Thanks again Emme. I'm going to try and call Dixie Diner Club tomorrow and see if they sell any of their products on the East Coast. If not, I'll order on line. I think it will be a nice change for me over my daily bowl of oatmeal and protein shake each morning. I'm also going to try many of your other suggestions..they sound great and easy which is always a plus.

[Emme]

I hope they do sell them. I eat the Smaps dry, so I can't attest to how they are in milk, but if their crispness dry is any sign, they'll hold up quite well. Do let me know if you try any of the other products! Given how I like the Smaps and Nutlettes, I think I just might love the other stuff as well... then again, sometimes companies can be one-hit wonders!

[Emme]

Quesadillas... La Tortilla Factory 80 cal 12g fiber (1 pt) w/ Lifetime cheeses which I love http://www.lifetimefatfree.com/produc...

Potato Skins... bake and scoop... make mashed pots for love ones, then toast the skins for yourself. Fill w/ Lifetime cheese and salsa or a little fat free cottage cheese and salsa

Kelp Noodles (Whole Foods sells 'em) stirfried with veggies and whatever sauce concoctions you like... I have favorites if you're interested

Tomato and Red Onion chopped and tossed with TJ's Fat Free Balsamic vinegarette and let to marinate

Key Lime Tartlets... Place All-Bran Extra Fiber in a coffee grinder or food processor and turn into crumbs (1/4 cup cereal to grind up per tartlet), then combine with a little water and Molly McButter or Butter Buds, press into Pam-sprayed tartlet shells. Bake shells five minutes then cool in fridge. Mix sugar free fat free vanilla pudding with skim milk required minus a few tablespoons, then add key lime juice to taste. Fill cooled shells and refrigerate. When ready to serve, beat egg whites til stiff with a little splenda, then top shells and brown meringue topping.

Egg white faux crepes... Beat up egg whites, then spread a thin layer in a Pam pan to make a "crepe." Mix a little splenda into fat free cottage cheese and nuke in micro til just warm. Fill crepes and secure with a toothpick. Return to pan to reheat and brown, then serve with sugar free preserves or maple syrup or topping of choice.

Butternut squash mashed with salt, cinnamon, vanilla and little splenda

Spaghetti squash with a little salt, cinnamon, vanilla, and splenda; or, top with chopped tomatoes, onions and basil

Sliced peach sprinkled with splenda and cinnamon and microwaved til gooey

Spray pan w/ Pam. Add chopped white onion (and garlic if desired), and cook til translucent. Add mixed wild mushroom medley (frozen bag from TJ's), and white balsamic vinegar and low sodium soy sauce. Cook through. (Can also add parsley if you like it.. I don't

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Take a head of garlic, cut off top, place on piece of aluminum foil and drizzle with chicken broth or veggie broth. Wrap in foil, then bake/roast til soft and mushy. Serve with veggies (raw or cooked)

Pumpkin smoothie... pumpkin, ice, little skim milk, salt and pumpkin pie spice.

Mix pumpkin or butternut squash with egg whites, cinnamon, vanilla, splenda, then bake/microwave til cooked through.

Ratatouille (make a massive pot to snack on)... eggplant, zucchini, onions, tomatoes, mushrooms (any other veggies you like), water, a bay leaf or two, garlic if desired, let it stew.

Uncle? I can keep going :-)

[Sharuf]

Emme: Do any of your dessert-type things NOT include an artificial chemical sweetener? Splenda and the like are not an option for many of us.

[Emme]

Stevia and xylitol are another option, that are plant-based and all natural. ZSweet was a new one suggested to me by a friend but I have yet to find or try it.

If it doesn't work for you, you can always try things without an added sweetener, or simply avoid... Fruit doesn't need sweeteners generally, so perhaps look to those recipes. Sorry, I just cook what works for me!

[dietfoodie]

The big problem I have with Splenda and other sweeteners -- even real ones -- is that if you're constantly searching for the next sweet fix, it's really hard to adapt to not eating many sweets. If I make Splenda part of my diet now, I'll be eating Splenda for the rest of my life. Far better to learn to eat real foods and real desserts in moderation. Think of it like a financial budget. Is it better to spend $1 several times a day on cheap plastic trinkets that you'll have to replace practically daily, or to save that money and buy a nice $5 item every so often that'll last you awhile?

Tip wise, I'd say buy a scale, practice obsessive portion control, and eat tons of fiber! I am not kidding; you can't eat too much fiber, especially for breakfast. Ignore people who look at you funny when you're comparing cereals and putting back the ones with less than 10 grams of fiber. Unlike them, you won't be craving a snack mid-morning because your blood sugar will be still be stable. ;)

Foodwise, the Cabot reduced fat cheddar is pretty decent tasting (the higher fat version, not the ridiculously reduced, which I found bland and gummy). And, of course, the Laughing Cow light wedges are a lifesaver... I love them with Old London melba toast rounds, or smeared on a tortilla. Look for 'low carb' versions of things like tortillas and bagels and check the numbers; a lot of times, for some reason, they're very high in fiber.

If you're looking for a good breakfast cereal, I've been really digging the Kashi Go Lean Crunch and Kashi Vive lately. They don't taste like 'diet' food; they taste like healthy food, and in a good way. And I like that, unlike All-Bran, the first five ingredients aren't corn syrup or some variant.

For a quick, easy snack with just a little prep, buy one of every fruit you see when grocery shopping, wash and chop into bite-sized pieces when you get home, and squeeze half a cut lemon over them. I like to store my fruit salad in glass jars instead of plastic, because I think it keeps longer.

Also, I like Kraft's "Light Done Right" ranch dressing. It's fluid, unlike a lot of low-fat ranch dressings ("glorp" is not the sound of good ranch, especially if it has the texture of cream of mushroom soup) and I like the taste. Might be a weird northerner thing, but I like it on potatoes, tortillas, and sandwiches.

Oh, and be careful with the "0 Point" foods that can't possibly really be, like tortillas -- if you eat too many a day, even though they're supposedly "0", you will not have the results you're expecting at weigh-in.

[kam0424]

i love ranch on potatoes! good tips, thanks.

[kam0424]

These are fantastic!!!

[Romanmk]

My favorite snack is an extra-large piece of fruit and a tablespoon of natural peanut butter from the fridge. The natural stuff is just boring enough to keep me from over doing it.