The 64 point recipe

I should have guessed things were on a downhill slide when I calculated that my tin of ‘coconut milk light’ had 16 points in it.
I should explain, that today I began my Weight Watchers points counting program again, and I was trying to work out how many points were in Nigella’s ‘mellow meatballs’ recipe. Things got even worse when I worked out the points in the beef meatballs…..wait for it…..36!!
So anyway, the whole recipe is worth 64 points. If you divide that by 4 and add on a (healthy) portion of basmati rice….you soon realise that by eating what you’ve just eaten, you have gone over your points for the day, and have none left for anything else…Gawd, I hope I don’t get hungry before bedtime.
Things need to get serious around here. I don’t think I’m going to be making many Nigella recipes for a while.

8 comments on “The 64 point recipe”

Oh, Anna, it’s not funny but it is!!!Good grief!

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Did they at least taste like they were worth it? Counting points seems very mathematical to me.

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They were quite nice…..but not worth a whole day’s food! LOL

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Did you make it to bedtime? Thanks for calc-ing that out loud. I needed a reality check, lol. Good luck with your program. I know you’ll be successful.Lea x

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64 points!!! Well, they do look very good anyway 🙂 These are on my list, I’m not even sure if I can get bought meatballs, will have to look…

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I almost made it to bed time Lea…I had a Weight Watchers mint chocolate bar which only had 1.5 points, so not that bad!KJ – I bought the meatballs from Waitrose.xx

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