Showing posts with label weight watchers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weight watchers. Show all posts

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Creamy bacon and mushroom pasta.

A few of you said you would like to see the recipe for the pasta featured in my week in photos so here goes! 
Ingredients: (Serves 2)
150g pasta
1 tsp oil
2 rashers of back bacon
100g mushrooms
50g frozen peas
60g Philadelphia light with garlic and herbs
3 tbsp milk
Method:
1. Chop the mushrooms and bacon, fry them in the oil then add the frozen peas
2. Whilst they're frying, cook the pasta.
3. Mix together the philadelphia and milk and add to the frying pan, cook on a low heat until it forms a creamy sauce.
4. Drain the pasta, add the other ingredients on top et voilĂ ! 

Its such a simple recipe and so tasty! There's 414 calories per serving and 11 pro points if anyone is interested! 
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Pour myself a cup of coffee full of sober nights.

Today I received a free graze box in the post! Its actually my second free one (playing the system, oh yeah) but sadly, I wasn't very impressed! For those of you who don't know graze is a healthy food company which sends weekly/fortnightly box's full of treats that you can rate on their website! Since I've recently joined weight watchers I thought it would be nice to get some tasty snacks that are healthy too! So upon opening my box, the first thing I did was work out how many points were in each snack and to my surprise I didn't find good results!  

Firstly the 'Strawberry Milkshake' consists of dried banana, strawberries and white chocolate buttons. This works out as 4 ww points, which really is quite a lot for what it is and this wasn't very filling at all! 
Secondly the 'Rustic Marble Bread' which is tomato, herb and provolone cheese bread. This is 3 points which isn't that great however, it did fill me right up!
These orange and ginger flapjacks look and taste amazing, however after working the points value to be 7 for this little container full, I knew I couldn't eat them and gave them straight away to my dad. The fact that they contain over 13g of fat and are classed as a 'healthy snack' is ridiculous in my opinion! 
Last but not least, 'Salsa Mexicanos' which is basically little crackers with salsa did, this is only 1 point and I am yet to try them but these do look very nice! 

Overall I'm not overly impressed with what I got, I don't like nuts which is a bit of a problem as most of the products do contain nuts but still I feel these aren't really that healthy at all! Have any of you tried a graze box before? If you haven't and would like to I have a promo code, just enter MWDLD54C and you'll get a free one!
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