WTF is up with Weight Watchers recipes!?
emmalzthompson
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A friend of mine on FB posted she was making tomato soup ... I 'liked' this .... then she went on to post photos. I was some what flummoxed by what I saw, never have I seen the process of homemade tomato soup look the way her photos looked!
A tin of beans, a tin of carrots, a tin of chopped Tomatoes, a pickled onion and stock!
How ODD! Is it just me or is this odd!??
Why not roast tomatoes with herbs, red onions and garlic, then blend with stock?! add lentils/split peas or butter beans for protein .... What is with all the tinned food and the pickled onion?! just makes no sense to me! It doesnt seem healthy.
A tin of beans, a tin of carrots, a tin of chopped Tomatoes, a pickled onion and stock!
How ODD! Is it just me or is this odd!??
Why not roast tomatoes with herbs, red onions and garlic, then blend with stock?! add lentils/split peas or butter beans for protein .... What is with all the tinned food and the pickled onion?! just makes no sense to me! It doesnt seem healthy.
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Define healthy.A friend of mine on FB posted she was making tomato soup ... I 'liked' this .... then she went on to post photos. I was some what flummoxed by what I saw, never have I seen the process of homemade tomato soup look the way her photos looked!
A tin of beans, a tin of carrots, a tin of chopped Tomatoes, a pickled onion and stock!
How ODD! Is it just me or is this odd!??
Why not roast tomatoes with herbs, red onions and garlic, then blend with stock?! add lentils/split peas or butter beans for protein .... What is with all the tinned food and the pickled onion?! just makes no sense to me! It doesnt seem healthy.0 -
Well, Weight Watchers is not about eating "healthy" per se, its more about portion control.0
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It is quicker than roasting the tomatoes and this time of year, I tend to get canned tomatoes anyway because the "fresh" ones are not so good. The biggest thing that wouldn't be so healthy about this recipe is if you were watching your sodium intake, because all of the canned foods do have a bunch of salt.
It doesn't sound like my type of recipe, but it doesn't seem horribly unhealthy either.0 -
Plain tinned vegetables aren't unhealthy in the slightest. Obviously fresh tends to be a little more nutritious, but there's certainly nothing unhealthy about most tinned ones in my experience. You can always check the label to make sure.0
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I don't know if it's unhealthy, but it sure sounds nasty. :sick:0
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Not so super healthy if you consider all the BPA in the tin lining. But very quick to make and still better than buying a powdered soup...
Define healthy.A friend of mine on FB posted she was making tomato soup ... I 'liked' this .... then she went on to post photos. I was some what flummoxed by what I saw, never have I seen the process of homemade tomato soup look the way her photos looked!
A tin of beans, a tin of carrots, a tin of chopped Tomatoes, a pickled onion and stock!
How ODD! Is it just me or is this odd!??
Why not roast tomatoes with herbs, red onions and garlic, then blend with stock?! add lentils/split peas or butter beans for protein .... What is with all the tinned food and the pickled onion?! just makes no sense to me! It doesnt seem healthy.0 -
The vast majority of our cans here are BPA free now. Same with our plastics.
Also, our canned food tends to have a higher nutritional value(this is based on my location, remember; I'm in Canada where it's winter half the time) because we're not having fresh food flown/trucked in from places having been harvested long before and losing benefits every day. Canned/frozen food here is canned or frozen the day pretty much immediately after it's harvested and I always buy no-salt varieties. No complaints about canned vegetables here. Often our fresh veggies look pretty sickly anyway... especially our organic veggies, oddly enough. I know they haven't been sprayed with anything to keep them looking fresh, which is why they look sickly, but, you know... our "fresh" vegetables look really unappetizing here most of the year.0 -
And, you can get no salt added versions of all of that to keep sodium down.
Nothing wrong with canned vegetables. Sometimes, that is what you have on hand.0 -
I should also mention that it's our tomatoes that look the worst of all vegetables and really don't taste that great for most of the year. They're this weird patchy orange color. They really do not look like my mother's greenhouse-fresh tomatoes. Blech.0
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Would not use fresh tomato this time of year...tomatoes are seasonal. I was not aware that carrots come in a can.0
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I don't know if it's unhealthy, but it sure sounds nasty. :sick:
I'm right there with ya....it doesn't sound very appetizing :blushing: as far as 'healthy', well...it doesn't sound inherently UNHEALTHY, just kind of convenience-y which seems to have become taboo these days. Meh. I think it has it's place & while my kids were small & we were working 50 & 60 hours a week each respectively, it was well, convenient to cook that way. :blushing: :laugh:
Now that I can take the time & effort, I've found my tastes have changed.
OP: Hand pats for you dear, :blushing: your friend will be ok, we all will :drinker:0 -
Well, Weight Watchers is not about eating "healthy" per se, its more about portion control.
I had to reread this a couple times to make sure I read it right. You are so wrong. WW is where I lost all my weight. The only reason I am not doing WW any more is I didn't want to have to keep paying for it and I didn't see how points could work long term. I needed to learn how to use what the manufacturers provide us, CALORIES. However, to say it is not about eating healthy is bull***t. I learned a lot from Weight Watchers on what foods are healthy and what are not.0 -
I never met a can of tinned green beans that was unhealthy.0
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Maybe it tastes good.0
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it doesn't sound all than unhealthy.
it also doesn't sound like it tastes good, either.0 -
Because maybe she likes it? Please don't freak out that people like different things than you.
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The beans make it creamy, assuming they're cannellini beans, with less fat and fewer calories than cream.
The carrots make it sweet.
The tomatoes make it... tomato...
The onions make it briny.
The stock makes it soup.0 -
It doesn't sound unhealthy, even if the vegetables are in cans, they're still vegetables.
Like everyone else said, it just sounds like it would taste gross. :sick:0 -
Well, Weight Watchers is not about eating "healthy" per se, its more about portion control.
I had to reread this a couple times to make sure I read it right. You are so wrong. WW is where I lost all my weight. The only reason I am not doing WW any more is I didn't want to have to keep paying for it and I didn't see how points could work long term. I needed to learn how to use what the manufacturers provide us, CALORIES. However, to say it is not about eating healthy is bull***t. I learned a lot from Weight Watchers on what foods are healthy and what are not.
I mean that you can still do Weight Watchers and eat "unhealthy" foods by counting points if you wanted to. I did not say that all people on Weight Watchers do not care about the quality of their food. Counting points is the Weight Watcher equivalent to portion control. That's all I meant, so please take a deep breath and tame your language.0 -
WW recipes do tend to be odd, in my experience. That one sounds like one someone shared at a meeting. It's probably filling and very low points, which excites the masses.
I haven't done WW officially in many years but I still use the 'taco soup' recipe that circulated, and it's like 95% canned food. Nothing wrong with canned beans, tomatoes, chilis and corn!
The actual WW cookbooks never work for me, either. Too bland. I guess I like my food ethnic and spicy.0 -
WW recipes do tend to be odd, in my experience. That one sounds like one someone shared at a meeting. It's probably filling and very low points, which excites the masses.
I haven't done WW officially in many years but I still use the 'taco soup' recipe that circulated, and it's like 95% canned food. Nothing wrong with canned beans, tomatoes, chilis and corn!
The actual WW cookbooks never work for me, either. Too bland. I guess I like my food ethnic and spicy.
Exactly!! :drinker:0 -
You really want odd WW recipes, you should find a WW's cookbook from the 70's.
Mutant weird food, like jello with shredded cabbage.0 -
Most cans have BPA in the lining ... Eden Organic brand cans do not ... Just sayin'0
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It's winter. Canned tomatoes are infinitely healthier than "fresh" tomatoes, seeing as tomatoes are highly seasonal SUMMER fruit. Any tomatoes you can buy fresh would be shipped from the Southern Hemisphere; produce tends to become much less nutritious the longer it has to travel. Canning avoids that problem.A friend of mine on FB posted she was making tomato soup ... I 'liked' this .... then she went on to post photos. I was some what flummoxed by what I saw, never have I seen the process of homemade tomato soup look the way her photos looked!
A tin of beans, a tin of carrots, a tin of chopped Tomatoes, a pickled onion and stock!
How ODD! Is it just me or is this odd!??
Why not roast tomatoes with herbs, red onions and garlic, then blend with stock?! add lentils/split peas or butter beans for protein .... What is with all the tinned food and the pickled onion?! just makes no sense to me! It doesnt seem healthy.0
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