CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Lori Pratt with Weight Watchers visited WBTV News Sunday Morning to share some advice for lightening up our favorite gameday foods. Her advice follows, along with the recipes she featured:
Beef Nachos: Nachos are a great game day snack. But with all the cheese, full fat beef, and fried chips, they can be high in calories
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- To lighten things up, we swapped the regular tortilla chips for baked, reducing the calories and fat.
- We used 93% lean ground beef in place of regular beef, which again shaves off calories and fat. Lean ground beef is a Power Food…a Power Food on the WW program is a food that is filling and ranks high on its positive impact on our health
- Traded regular cheese for low-fat cheddar cheese.
- Added lots of flavor with spicy canned tomatoes, jalapeno peppers for a little kick, and refried black beans, which add lots of filling fiber too. All Power foods!!
- A serving of regular beef and cheese nachos can run around 375 calories, or up to 10 PP.
- For the same amount of our Weight Watchers Beef Nachos it is only around 110 calories or 3 PP.
- Recipe Link here
Baked Potato Skins with Creamy Spinach and Turkey Bacon: Potatoes are a great source of fiber and vitamin C. But when we load them up with lots of cheese and bacon, we add lots of calories.
- Our Weight Watchers version keeps the potato but adds spinach, which is another great source of fiber and also of vitamin A.
- To make it creamy and indulgent we add low-fat cream cheese.
- And who doesn't love bacon?! We add turkey bacon for lots of flavor.
- One regular potato skin can run over 200 calories and can be 6 PP. The WW version runs around 130 calories and 4 PP.
- Recipe Link here
Buffalo Wings with Blue Cheese Dip: It's not a Super Bowl party without wings. But Buffalo wings are full of fat and calories.
- So we took the skin off the wings, cutting a lot of fat and calories.
- We also used reduced sodium taco seasoning instead of a buttery calorie-filled sauce. We keep the blue cheese dip, but lighten it up with fat–free sour cream and add lots of flavor with the blue cheese.
- Three regular wings with blue cheese dressing can run almost 450 calories and up to 15 PP. Our version is only around 127 calories and 3 PP for the same amount.
- Recipe Link here
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