[LorettaV]

I have been eating turkey sandwiches the past 2 weeks for my lunch. I made wheat buns for the bread (DH eats white and I hate buying 2 loaves of bread for 2 people). I don't remember how many it made. I think around 36 rolls. If someone could just figure how many points the whole recipe makes then I could divide it by how many rolls I get the next time I make them.

Here's the recipe.

Homemade Bread
2 ½ c. warm water
2 T. (2 pkg) yeast
¾ c. white sugar
2 eggs
2 ½ tsp. salt
¾ c. margarine
8 ½ cups flour (I used 4 c. white and 4 1/2 stone ground whole wheat)

Mix water and yeast together and let sit 5 minutes. Add sugar, eggs, salt and margarine. Mix well. Add 4 cups of the flour with above mixture. Mix well. Then add 4 ½ c. flour and knead. Let rise until double. Flour surface. Roll out ½ inch. Cut circles for buns. Let rise double again. Bake in 350 oven.

[Kofarq]

Okay, here it is.
12 points for the sugar.
4 points for the eggs.
30 points for the margarine.
16 points for the flours.
That's 62 points for the whole recipe. Divide by total number of buns you made.
Ta-Da!!

[LorettaV]

Kofarq - Thanks so much for the point information! I have 1 more bun from the last batch I made. (I made them and put in freezer in gallon size ziplocks.) I am due to make more. i will print this and then figure out how many rolls per recipe.

[leela0730]

I found a great site for helping with points values for recipes that don't include their own nutrition info...http://www.healthylivingonline.com. After you sign up for a free account (which has lots of neat features), there's a tab called "Meals & Nutrition" (or something similar), and there you'll find a link for analyzing recipes. This will allow you to input ingredient and serving info, and it will calculate the nutrition info for you. It even has brand name ingredients in the catalog of ingredients. Then you can save the analyzed recipe for future reference. I have used this resource to calculate points for a lot of homemade recipes that otherwise I would be just guessing on. I highly recommend it!

[luvmyfam]

I signed up, because while most recipes I use have come from books and magazines that have the nutrition info listed, there are a few that don't. There are some yummy recipes over in the South Beach section here, but they don't have the nutrition info, so this will be helpful.

Thanks!

[JennyG]

Thats a super website, thanks!! I actually just joined weight watchers today, I am pumped!!

[luvmyfam]

It's terrific that you decided to join Weight Watchers! Congrats!