[nicmama]

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

[gremlina]

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.

[Kelly_S]

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).

[MistySeptember]

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.

[Kelly_S]

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

[nicmama]

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