New Favorite Snacks

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Okay, no matter how good we’re being about our eating, we need snacks, right? Over the past few months I’ve found a few new, low WW point snacks, that get me through the evenings watching TV. Of course, there’s popcorn. At zero pts for air popped it’s hard to beat, but I need variety. My two new favorites are:

Snacklins: 

The company describes these delicious devils  as impossibly crunchy, remarkably airy crisps. And that’s true! They are plant-based and 90 cal per snack size bag. I buy the larger bags at Sprouts, so I can’t eat the whole bag, but for a serving of 25 chips they’re 3 points for me, which is great! And, It’s not like there are 25 little puny chips sitting at the bottom of a bowl either, which is often the case with other bagged snacks (say pretzel sticks). These are big chips and I always feel very happy when I look at that full bowl that I get to eat. They come in barbecue and nacho at Sprouts, but it looks like you can get others online, such as teriyaki, Chesapeake Bay, sea salt and vinegar, and Cinnamon churro.  My favorite is Nacho right now but I haven’t had all of them.  I love these crunchy nibbles! I just wish my grocery store would stock them.

Arrowhead Mills Cereal Puffed Corn: 

I guess it might seem weird to just eat cereal like a snack, but I’ve done this all my life, with no regard to calories or points.  I love Arrowhead’s puffed rice as a snack now too, but their puffed corn has become my newest favorite.  I can only find them in my area at Sprouts.  This cereal is 1 point for 1 cup and I always fill my bowl with two servings. It’s addictive though, so beware…..always measure  and don’t eat out of the bag (which you would never do, right?) 🙂

I firmly believe it’s important to keep my snacks around so I won’t go off the rails when I get the nibbles, so I do. A trip to Sprouts is a weekly event for me.  

Well, have a good WW week….it’s Snack time!  

Weight Watchers: Beware of Red Robin and Plan Ahead!

 
My youngest granddaughter is spending a week with me while my daughter and her husband celebrate their anniversary on an Alaskan cruise.  It seemed appropriate to eat out tonight as a treat to her, so we chose Red Robin, where  my older granddaughter works.

I forgot to check the nutritional info before I left (my bad), so I chose their "Simply Grilled Chicken Sandwich and switched the bun for the cibatta bun. I added a little ranch, catsup and mustard. Instead of fries, I chose the fruit bowl (they call it freckled fruit salad) and ate 5 Steak fries off Kenzie's meal.   I calculated total points for my meal at 10.  After looking at some of the other meal choices I considered, I think I deserve an A for selection! (However, the cibatta bun added fat grams, so I guess I should have stuck with their menu bun!)

Other meals I considered:

Whiskey River Wrap: Leaving off the fries, it would have been 1064 calories, 64 grams of fat, 71 grams of carbs, 48 grams protein and 3 grams of fiber. Grand total =  28 Pts!

Baja Turkey Club: Fully loaded per the menu it would have been 734 calories, 47 grams of fat, 29 grams of carbs, 46 grams of protein and 1 gram of fiber. Grand total = 19 Pts!

California Chicken Sandwich: Leaving off the guacamole and mayo, it has 597 calories, 22 grams of fat, 51 grams of carbs, 48 grams of protein, and 2 grams of fiber. Grand total = 15 Pts! (This wouldn't have been too bad of a second choice)


Yikes! Thank goodness I chose the Simply Grilled Chicken Sandwich!

If you like to visit Red Robin with your family, be sure to plan your meal ahead of time or you may be in for an unpleasant surprise when you calculate the points afterward.  A link to The Red Robin nutritional calculator is below


Red Robin Meal Customizer

Food Discovery: Sara Lee 45 Calories and Delightful Bread

Even though I don't eat a lot of bread, I made a terrific discovery on my last grocery shopping trip:  Sara Lee has a bread that tastes great and is only 2 points for 2 slices of bread!

Sara Lee offers their "45 Calories and Delightful" brand in white, wheat, whole wheat and multi-grain.  Be sure to run the calculations because I found that a serving of whole wheat came out to 2 points (2 slices) while the multi-grain was 3 points.  Either way, it is quite the point bargain for 2 slices of bread!

Now I can make my big fat turkey sandwich (2 slices of bread, 3 ounces of turkey breast, low-fat mayo, low fat cheese, green pepper slices, tomato and lettuce for 5 points!

Sara Lee's 45 Calories and Delightful bread is very light and fluffy in texture, and tastes great too. Score!

Sara Lee Pita Pockets

If you haven't figured it out yet, Pita Pockets are a great sandwich option for Weight Watchers.

I buy Sara Lee's Mr. Pita Bread which has 12 pita pockets (1/2 of each "Loaf" in the bag).  Each pocket is only 2 pts, and can be filled with tuna salad, chicken salad, grilled chicken or skirt steak, ground beef.  Top each pocket off with lettuce, cucumbers, shredded radish or jicima. I just ate a fat, yummy tuna salad pita pocket that had a total of only 4 points!

I've also stuffed a pocket with 1/4 cup of low fat cheese (such as Sargento's 4 cheese Mexican blend) and grilled it......  It tasted somewhere between a grilled cheese and cheese crisp. (4 pts)

I'm sure there are other options for Pita Pockets....like as a pizza crust...what are your ideas? Do you have any recipes to share?