ideas on counting points for recipes?
 

New to WW and wanting to know any good short cuts to calculate points in the recipes I am using. any help, tips?

Thanks
Nic:)

If you have WW online or WW Etools you can put it in recipe builder. I love recipe builder..its very helpful for counting pts..especially if you like to make things from scratch like I do. You can then put the number of servings etc. and it will tell you the pts. per serving.

There are 3 ways to do points for recipes:

1) total the calories/fat/fiber for each ingredient and divide by the number of servings then figure the points

2) total the points per ingredient and divide by the number of servings

3) get a program like MasterCook or the RecipeBuilder at W/W Online/E-tools and let the program figure the values (***Mastercook with give nutritional info and you still figure the points from that).

I use master cook. The recipe builder on e-tools is often wrong. Or it was when I used it. It capped fiber at 4 grams per RECIPE not per SERVING.

Mastercook is like $15 on ebay. So it's also WAY cheaper than e-tools or WW online.

Misty, I agree 150%. BTW you can usually get the previous version of Mastercook on 5dollarsoftware.com (I think that is the website).

Thanks for the info. I'll try ww tools free for two weeks while I am waiting
for mastercook from ebay. Thxz
nic