Food List Frustration

Well, yesterday's attempt at adding recipes to my list was an exercise in complete frustration. I spent about two hours working on it, and in the end I had added exactly zero items.

I started with my own recipe book, but everything I tried to enter ended up being way over on points, mainly because most of them are pasta recipes, and apparently pasta of any sort is going to be completely out of the question. So since pasta seemed to be a problem, I switched to one of my Atkins cookbooks. No pasta there, right? Well, no, there's no pasta...but there is rather a lot of fat. Also a problem. So much for the Atkins cookbook. Ok, surely the recipes on the Weight Watchers website itself should work for the WW program, so I decided to look there. Aside from some ridiculous numbers of servings per recipe (6 servings? Really? Why on earth would I want to make enough food for 6 people?) some of their entrees sounded pretty good - until I started reading the reviews. "This is the best meal I've ever eaten!"..."This was pretty good, after I made some changes to it."..."This is horrible! I ate one bite and threw the rest out!" All for the same recipe. On every single recipe I looked at. I gave up. I'll give it another try today with some of my other cookbooks, and hope I have a little more success.

Yesterday's intake:

Breakfast: Oatmeal, banana - 10 points
Lunch: Salad - 14 points
Snack: Apple - 0 points
Dinner: Chicken with Szechuan sauce, Rice-a-Roni, green beans, milk - 21 points
Dessert: Pudding with Cool Whip - 4 points
Total: 49 points

Six points short yesterday, not terrible but not great either. Hopefully I can hold it together today, all signs so far this morning indicate it's going to be one of my bad days. So far so good...