Weight watchers on a budget

[Mishuckliza]

Hi everyone, I’ve just started weight watchers and I’m on the green plan. I’m on a very low budget so was wondering if anyone had any ideas for low points, cheap but filling meal ideas? Why is healthy food so bloody expensive?!? I’ve got 3 stone to loose x

I'm currently making lots of recipes from the "slimming eats" blog. The author follows slimming world but the recipes also have WW points on them.

Brilliant thankyou I shall have a look 👍x

Been a long time since I did weight watchers and no idea how the points, syns or whatever work now but the main gist when I did it was to top up meals with as much veg as possible.

I'd go for frozen and tinned to reduce cost where it's possible without compromising taste too much, so tinned tomatoes and then the big bags from farm foods or Iceland of

• broccoli
• cauliflower
• green beans
• sliced peppers
• onions

Lots of veg soups, casseroles and stir fries.

Mushrooms I think need to be fresh not frozen or tinned but they do a great job of bulking out meals and replacing meat in things like tacos or fajitas, or the huge field mushrooms stuffed and oven baked or fried and used in a burger.

Thankyou so much I’ll add those to my shopping list. It’s just so hard isn’t it because the only really filling things are potatoes and pasta which I really love lol oh and cheese 🤣x

I made a big batch of potato and leek soup the other day, 191 calories a portion so would imagine low points too and cheap as chips to make. I think it came in at less than £1 for the veg and I had stock cubes and milk already. This made 4 bowls of soup.

2 big leeks
2 baking potatoes as all the shop had loose and didn't want a big bag
1 onion
1 veg stock cube
500 ml water
100 ml milk

Chop leek and onion and fry till transparent and soft, make up and add stock, add chopped up potato. Cook for about 30 mins til potatoes soft and then blend with milk.

When I was doing WW in the dark ages I used to have a lot of zero point soup, never liked cabbage though so used tinned tomatoes and more of other veg instead. The trick was to use as many zero point vegetables as possible so it ended up being really chunky and filling.

www.slenderkitchen.com/recipe/zero-point-weight-watchers-vegetable-soup

I used to make pasta bake on ww and would have it for lunch and dinner. Wholewheat pasta - free on ww (for me - can't remember plan I'm on) and cheap. Would add courgettes, tinned tomatoes and stock and onions with some low fat cheese on top.

It is hard to move away from the carbs when you are on a budget. I was on and off with SW for years too, so I'm trying to get away from that 'pasta and rice are free!' mentality.

I'm doing Aldi shops and making sure I stock up on lots of veg, lentils and eggs. Omlettes with mushroom and tomatoes are nice for breakfast or lunch, and you can still have cheap things like a jacket potato as long as you count the points.

Batch cooking is good too if you can spare an afternoon. You can make big batches of things like chilli and curry, padded out with veg, or lentil soups for lunch.

Thankyou so much everyone you’ve all given me some great meal ideas. Now it’s just sticking to it that’s the hard part! Xx