Weight Watchers Chips & Salsa – A PYP Best Blog!
Yesterday I shared with you my favorite Weight Watchers taco soup recipe. Today I wanted to share with you a couple of other great Weight Watchers recipes that you may have missed the 1st time we posted them.
My favorite WW swap is making this yummy chips & salsa recipe that Whit shared with us. She said, “I’ve had Mexican food on the brain lately. I grew up in AZ and sometimes I just crave chips & salsa. Not exactly a healthy option on Weight Watchers. UNLESS you bake your own chips.
What I do: Take 2-3 delicious corn tortillas (I prefer white corn) and use a pizza cutter to cut them into strips. You can cut them into triangles like the photo, I just think it’s easier to cut them into strips and I also prefer dipping/eating them that way. Put your tortilla strips into a bowl and drizzle your healthy oil on top of them. Rub the oil into the strips and put onto a baking sheet. You can also use cooking spray for this step. Bake at 450* for about 5-7 minutes on each side. Flip them when the top side has browned. They are done when the second side has browned and they are crisp.
For my hot sauce, I take some Pace Salsa (or whatever I bought on sale) & blend it (just in my blender) with some El Pato Jalapeño Salsa (you can usually find this in the Mexican food section of your local grocery store and it’s worth looking for). The more El Pato you use, the hotter your sauce, so pour it to taste. This makes for some yummy hot sauce!
Then I have a bowl of black beans (maybe a little lime juice on top) with my chips and salsa and I’ve eaten a nice low point Mexican food meal! Points Plus values depend on the tortillas that you purchase. You can find tortillas that are 1-1.5 points/each. The hot sauce is FREE and the black beans are also free if you’re doing the Simply Filling Technique. Black beans are 2 PP for 1/2 C if you’re not doing SFT.”
What goes great with chips & salsa? Ice cream. Here is a great way to enjoy ice cream while doing Weight Watchers:
Simply take frozen fruit (I prefer either sliced up ripe bananas or peaches) and put it into your favorite blending appliance. This appliance needs to be able to really chop through frozen fruit. For one portion of fruit (i.e., 1 banana or peach frozen) you will add about 1-2 Tablespoons of skim milk or coconut milk or almond milk or whatever you prefer (you can add chocolate almond milk to the bananas – delicious!) and a dash of vanilla. Blend all of this until it is the consistency of soft serve ice cream. Add more liquid as needed.
You can add whatever you you want to count points for (or 0 points items like cocoa powder!) into your ice cream or on top of your ice cream. I just purchased peanut butter powder to add in with my banana ice cream. Mmmmmmm!
Leave a comment and let me know what combination is your favorite.
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Weight Watchers Taco Soup
Fall is in the air here in Northern Utah. For me that means it’s time to be making soup. I love rich hearty creamy soups, but since I do Weight Watchers it’s not the best choice for me. My go to soup for fall is a super simple taco soup. In fact it’s just 2 points plus on Weight Watchers. It’s hot, delicious, and extremely filling. Everyone that I have shared this taco soup recipe with absolutely loves it! One of the best parts of this taco soup is that it is also extremely easy to make and it’s very easy on the budget. I make this probably every 10 days or so and it feeds my family of 4, plus gives me 4-5 more servings for lunches.
Ready to take a look and get started? Take a look at the ingredients below!
- 2 Cans of Cut Corn
- 1 Cans of Black Beans
- 1 Can of Kidney Beans
- 1 Can of Great Northern Beans
- 1 Can of Fat Free Re-fried Beans
- 2 Cans of Diced Tomatoes
- 2 Cans of Broth of your choice
- 1 Can of Diced Chiles
- 1 Onion
- 1 Garlic Clove
- 1 Packet of Taco Seasoning
Simple right? Good! These are the only ingredients that will need unless you like to top your soup with crackers, sour cream, cheese, tortilla chips, or whatever you like. Of course adding things to the top will increase the points plus per serving. I use fat free cheese and sour cream.
Not only are the ingredients easy, it’s super easy to make! Just dice the onion and sautee it up in your stock pot. Add the crushed garlic. Then just start opening cans and dumping everything in. I always end with the re-fried beans. They really thicken it all up.
Bring it all to a boil and then reduce the heat and allow it to simmer for about 30 minutes.
Just another tip – buy reduced sodium beans & broth. You don’t need all the sodium!
Get to the grocery store or wherever it is that you shop so you can get your hands on everything needed to make this affordable taco soup. Anyways, we hope you like this recipe!
If you a doing the Simply Filing program on Weight watchers you won’t need to count any points for this taco soup. Enjoy!