hI! can someone help me I recently purchased weight watchers egg mcmuffins whole wheat.. the package states 2 points but how are they figured for la for starch? I have been saying they are one starch would this be correct?
Thanks
Stacie
Stacie.. Unless they are "lite" english muffins, they would count at 2 starches, whole wheat or not..
A long time ago, it was discussed around here that 100 calorie "Thomas" english muffins counted as 1 starch.. You might call WW customer service and see if they can hip you to the calorie count of the muffins by themselves...
If it helps, the counsellor at LAWL told me that a starch was 80-100 calories.
Ditto w/ Betty and that's how I always count them. If it's over 100, I'll count it as 1.5 or 2.
I might count it like I would a frozen meal... 1 starch and 1 protein for the egg mcmuffin.... It is probably over on the starch and under on the protein, but this is one of my "coping" mechanism for living with limited starch. Of course you are limited to 5 times a week max for using the frozen meals and once a day... and the sodium is often not a good thing (and believe it or not a lot of weight watchers stuff is loaded with sodium???) Like today I had a Healthy Choice Panini thing for lunch, and I counted as a frozen meal... 1 protein and 1 starch.. They may have come up with more restrictive frozen meal guidelines than when I was on the program though...
My personal guide line is that if it is under 350 calories then I can count it as one starch and one protein. If it is over that, then I add additional exchanges in the area that I think it is over on. I've sometimes added a fat to certain things that were like 400 calories. Of course that is just "Barbara's rules" and not anything to do with actual plan guidelines...
Good idea to count it as a frozen meal Barbara.......here are the frozen meal guidelines.
Calories 200-300
Carbs Less than 40 grams
Protein At least 14 grams
Fat Less than 10 grams
Sodium Less than 750 mg
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