[LKBAngel]

Hi all,

I tried out a new recipe last night, its Grilled Vegetable and Cheese Quesadillas, but I wanted to be sure I calculated the points right.

1/2 Small Red Onion -- 1pts
1 tbsp Olive Oil -- 3pts
2 Yellow Summer Squash -- 0pts
2 cups frozen chopped Brocolli -- 0pts
1 lg plum tomatoe -- 0pts
2 cups shredded Cheddar and Montery Jack cheese -- 12pts (3pts per 1/4 cup)
8 10" Fat Free flour tortillas (Mission brand) -- 16pts (2pts per tortilla)

TOTAL: 32pts divided by 4 (servings) = 8 pts per serving

Please let me know if I did that right. I wanted to use FF cheese but they do not carry it at out local grocery store. I figured the recipe if I had and came up with 24pts total or 6pts per serving (1pt per 1/4 cup Kraft FF cheddar) which is really better.

It was really good and I would like to fix it again as long as I have the points right.

By the way does anyone else have the problem of not being able to find Fat Free foods at your local grocery store? Ours carries very few of those products and it really irratates me. I'm going to complain to the manager next time I go in there.

thanks for your help,
Angel

[Kelly_S]

Personally I wouldn't count teh 1 oint for the onion (it takes a full cup of cooked onions for 1 point) and technically the tablespoon of oil is 4 points (total cal/fat/fiber) so those 2 wash each other out.

Do you need that much oil? You can usually stirfry/cook up about a pound of veggies in just a tsp or 2!?!?!!?

When it comes to cheese there isn't a good fat-free or reduced fat so I use real cheese always. LOL!

Sometimes depending on what I am looking for and what store I am out they are hard to find.

Where do you live and what stores are near you?

I prefer real cheese, too There is just something about nonfat cheese, and even some reduced fat cheeses, that reminds me of plastic. If I can't enjoy it, I don't want to eat it, lol.

Angel, you listed 12 pts for the cheese, at 3 pts per 1/4 cup, but that would just cover 1 cup. Your recipe calls for 2 cups. Maybe you really can use just 1 cup, it might be enough.

Also, are you sure about the pt value for the tortillas? I have a package of the 10 inch Mission fat free (well the most they have here is 98% fat free) and it has 180 calories, 1.5 grams fat, and 1 gram of fiber per tortilla, which just barely makes it to 4pts. If you use the 8 inch tortillas, you can save some calories and points. They have one 8 inch variety that has 2 pts, and one variety that has 3 pts.

So you could potentially have up to 5 more points per serving than you thought.

[LKBAngel]

Hi,

I went through the recipe again and my companion book and slider and came up with this. Highlighted the changes with blue

1 tbsp Olive Oil -- 4pts
1/2 small red onion -- 0pts
2 Yellow Summer Squash -- 0pts
2 cups frozen chopped Brocolli -- 0pts
1 lg plum tomatoe -- 0pts
2 cups shredded Kraft Cheddar and Montery Jack cheese -- 24 pts (3pts per 1/4 cup)
8 8" 98% Fat Free flour tortillas (Mission brand 2g fiber, 120 calories, 0.5g total fat) -- 16pts (2pts per tortilla)
TOTAL: 44pts divided by 4 (servings) = 11 pts per serving

Not to bad I guess, but like I said with the fat free or lower fat cheese it would be better. I can't believe I didn't catch that last night, I missed 12pts on the cheese . I don't mind the fat free cheeses and in this recipe I think it could work since you taste the vegetable mostly anyway. Not to mention the point value would be lower (2cups = 8pts = 1pt per 1/4 cup Kraft Fat Free cheddar) That would make a big difference. That would bring the total down to 7pts per serving.

On the tortillas I put 10" but there not its a 10 count package , I think there actually the 8".

I had looked the olive oil up under the core plan (didn't use slider) and it was 1pt per tsp so I just figured 3tsp = 1tbsp = 3pts. I used my slider this time and got 4pts, thanks for pointing (hah, now pun intended) that out.

Boy I must have been tired when I was calculating the points on this.

I live in Caldwell, Texas and the only big grocery store we have here is Brookshire Brothers, we have two very small ones but I don't generally shop in them because they don't carry much. I guess I'll just have to start driving (about 20 miles) to Bryan or College Station to shop at Krogers or HEB.

Thanks for your help and please let me know if you see anymore miscalculations.

Angela

[Kelly_S]

Krogers should carry lowfat and fatfree cheeses. We have a division of theirs here in Tucson called Fry's that carries it. Make it a trip about once a week to get those lower fat/fatfree products you want/love.

Personally there isn't a lot of fatfree products I use.

BTW you can always ask your grocery manager to special order stuff for you as most will do it with no problem. They want to keep the customer happy.

[LKBAngel]

I might try asking the manager to special order the stuff, but will more than likely just try Krogers. I'm really hoping that they go ahead and turn our local wal-mart into a supercenter. They are talking about it and everyone in town wants it.

Thanks for your help everyone,
Angel

[Prodigalskydiver]

That looks like a great recipe. I actually found some tortillas today which, according the points tracker, are 0 points--likely due to the high fiber content. They're La Tortilla Factory, whole wheat, low carb, low fat, green onion flavor. They look positively disgusting, but they're actually good. One serving= one tortilla. 50 calories, 2g fat, 8g fiber. Good stuff!

[Kelly_S]

La Tortilla has actually several flavors of high fiber tortillas. They are 0 for 1 only but if you have 2 they are 2 points I believe.

[lilnessy]

I Put It In The Ww Recipe Builder And It Says It Is 7 Points Per Serving.

I Just Love That Recipe Builder You Put In Any Recipe And It Tells You The Points.

[Kelly_S]

It is a good tool at times but if it is a high fiber recipe it tends to not be as accurate.