Survival Foods

I don't care who you are, there exists some food item for which you have a weakness.  The key to following the Weight Watchers plan successfully, in addition to learning things like portion control, is learning about alternatives that are both healthy AND satisfy you.  I'm beginning to really understand why people who do Weight Watchers don't refer to it as a diet, and instead view it as a lifestyle.

Any lifestyle change can be scary.  It's a lot LESS scarier than that dreaded "diet" word though.  The truth is, I don't feel like I'm on a diet.  I do feel as though I am learning about myself, and about the various foods in the world - and very importantly, about my relationship to those foods.  I know myself... if I had to completely give up every food I love, I would quickly fall off the proverbial wagon and retreat back into bad habits.  Fortunately, Weight Watchers leaves plenty of room for indulging when you need to... and we've had little trouble finding better alternatives to the things we love.

This page will be used for keeping track of some of the "survival foods" which allow us to engage in this total lifestyle change without feeling like we're missing out.  I'm hoping that some of these suggestions might be useful to someone down the road.  Where possible I will try to include the nutritional information (NI) of the foods - calories/fat/fiber - so you can double-check the Point calculations for yourself... and ALSO so that when you buy these foods, you can compare the NI.  Sometimes they change, and it's important to notice that.

Snacks & Desserts (because this is ALWAYS the thing people think they have to give up!!):

Skinny Cow White Mint Truffle Bars 100/2/3  2pts
 - most Skinny Cow products are just 2 pts, a few are 3pts.  They're all fantastically yummy.