So last night I decided I'd make a stir-fry for dinner. That would seem like a simple, healthy, diet-friendly sort of meal, right? Well...sort of. The WW online tracker includes a recipe builder, so I entered all my ingredients and then stared at the total in shock. 18 points per serving! I managed to reduce it to 16 points by cutting out some of the cooking oil, but it still seemed awfully high. I'd already thawed the meat, though, so since I had enough points available, I decided to go ahead and make it. At that point I discovered one reason the total was so high. A pound of meat and two pounds of vegetables makes a lot of stir-fry. A lot. Suddenly my two servings of stir-fry turned into four servings...with 8 points each. As a result, I was quite a bit short on my points total for yesterday, but I suppose things like that are going to happen as I learn this new program.
Breakfast: Scrambled egg, 3 pieces bacon - 11 points
Lunch: Salad - 16 points
Snack: Plain Greek yogurt with blueberries and honey - 3 points
Dinner: Beef and vegetable stir-fry, milk - 10 points
Dessert: Sugar-free Jello pudding, Cool Whip - 5 points
Total: 45 points
One thing I noticed as I was using the WW recipe builder yesterday I thought was interesting - although they say that vegetables are worth zero points for the most part, and the vegetable line items showed zero, they were adding a few points to the bottom line. I haven't altered the recipe yet to a more reasonable size, and for the total points for two servings, it's showing 33 points. If I add up the individual line items, though, I get 25 points. That's a pretty significant difference! I'm guessing that if an item is worth less than one full point, it shows as zero, but when the software totals the points, it's adding in those fractions. I'd really rather it told me if an item is worth .7 points and so on, but so be it.
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