budget weight watchers recipes

curlywurlygirly

Garlic, herb and smoked ham tagliatelle
recipe 11 points, per serving 51/2 (serves 2!)

125g tagliatelle
2 crushed cloves of garlic
1 med leek, chopped
250 g mushrooms
1 tblsp dried herbs
125ml veg stock
125g low fat soft cheese
125g wafer thin smoked ham
2 tblsp skimmed milk
salt and pepper

cook the pasta
put garlic, leek, mushrooms and herbs in saucepan with the stock and bring to boil. turn down the heat and simmer for 10 min til leeks are soft.
add cheese, ham, milk and seasoning to the veg and mix together.
drain pasta and add to sause, tossing everything well together.

consultant31

There is a Losing Weight thread on the I wanna board (sticky at the top. They have a recipe section which has loads of low-fat, low-sugar recipes from WW, Slimming World and various other diets/healthy eating regimes.

These recipes would go down well on there and you will also get some new ones, so why not go across and have a browse?

moneypanicker

Thank you all so much for your replys, some of those recipes look lovely and I will definately try them. I was a member of WW 6 years ago lost almost 3 stone (but put it back on post kids!!) So I do have some recipe books the problem is mainly my children one of them is fussy and likes plain things. A lot of the recipes in my old books DD would not eat. My life is so stressful and hectic that I don't really want to have to cook 2 things. Anyone had any experience with fussy children and WW recipes that they will eat.
Thank you all again.

rockie4

Both these links are to people from weight watchers who've set up their own recipe sites - lots of good, healthy and cheap recipes!!https://www.oldchem.piczo.com http://groups.msn.com/CoastiesRecipeSwap/You can also get ideas from the weight watchers community message boards, they're free, you don't have to be a subscriber.

lynzpower

moneypanicker wrote: »

Thank you all so much for your replys, some of those recipes look lovely and I will definately try them. I was a member of WW 6 years ago lost almost 3 stone (but put it back on post kids!!) So I do have some recipe books the problem is mainly my children one of them is fussy and likes plain things. A lot of the recipes in my old books DD would not eat. My life is so stressful and hectic that I don't really want to have to cook 2 things. Anyone had any experience with fussy children and WW recipes that they will eat.
Thank you all again.

How old are the children?

You do need to be careful as children of course need quite a lot of fat, whereas us porkier adults simply do not.

I would be tending towards cooking 2 meals to be honest , it shouldnt be too much grief if you batch cook for them ( the spag bols et al) and then sort yourself out, as many of the ww recipes are pretty quick to do.

milkydrink

curleywurleygirly
Can I be a real pain & ask you to put titles to a few of them yummy sounding recipes you wrote about?
I will then store them for future use, they sound fab.

Thank you

Mrs_A_4

Stop paying £5.50 and get the Monthly Pass!
Much cheaper plus you get free esource which has an online tracker plus loads of recipes where you can jut search by key ingredient, or input your own recipes and it works out the Points for you!

moneypanicker

I am tempted by the monthly pass but as i am a shift worker i can't go every week and my leader says that she won't charge for missed week so I don't know if its worth it.

One of the most important things I value as part of a family is for all of us to sit down together and have a meal together. i'm not sure how my children 3 year old especially would take it if i eat something different, although i guess i can just add extras to theirs. I'm not sure my stress levels could cope with more cooking i'm only just coping now!!

lindadykes

E source is normally £5 for the first 3 months if you pay upfront in advance then £6.95 per month after that. The weekly meetings ore £5.50. The monthly pass is £17.95, so paying weekly in class with added e source would cost you £5.50 plus an average weekly cost over the year of £1.60 per week for e source = £7.10 per week. Weekly pass averages over the year at £4.14 per week, so even missing a few meetings might make it worthwhile.

I signed up for the pass last week and have to say the recipe builder on e source is great, you input the ingredients and it gives the points, but then you can use the Edit button to tweak the ingredients and so try out different versions and lower points.

lynzpower

moneypanicker wrote: »

I am tempted by the monthly pass but as i am a shift worker i can't go every week and my leader says that she won't charge for missed week so I don't know if its worth it.

One of the most important things I value as part of a family is for all of us to sit down together and have a meal together. i'm not sure how my children 3 year old especially would take it if i eat something different, although i guess i can just add extras to theirs. I'm not sure my stress levels could cope with more cooking i'm only just coping now!!

Well , in some cases it might not be too big a deal, for example the pasta, you could simply make it, split the pan into "yours " and a nother pan for "thiers" add a bit more ham for example, and maybe add some sliced sasauge or a bit of chiken.

Just be careful that they are recieving all the nutrients fats and calories they need, thats all!