Weight Watchers Chicken Korma Ready Meal

Weight Watchers Chicken Korma Ready Meal

Everyone's heard of Weight Watchers, which this year rebranded to WW and brought you WW Flex.

But what is it?

Simply put, their newest healthy eating programme from the people that helped Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Hudson and Kate Hudson lose over 40 pounds each.

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However, before you roll your eyes and write off WW Flex as another celebrity diet, give us a second. Right now, there are more than 3.5 million people signed up to WW. To put it into perspective, that's the equivalent of the population of Uruguay–quite a large slice of the food plan market.

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Why is Weight Watchers so popular?

It's only natural then, to question how Weight Watchers (WW) has become the global healthy food school?

Research suggests WW is one of the only fat loss programmes that actually lasts. One study found almost 80% of WW members were below their initial weight five years later, and a 2013 study found that those who used WW were more likely to lose fat than with treatment from a specialised weight loss clinic.

Why? For one simple reason: no food is off limits. As with any WW plan, you can eat what you want, as long as it fits your SmartPoints (check out these point free WW snacks). It's the only weight loss system that doesn't eliminate food groups—making it flexible and adaptable to your normal, everyday life.

The basic premise is simple. You have a daily SmartPoint 'budget', as it were, which all food and drink counts toward. Nutrient dense food means lower SmartPoints, and less nutritionally dense foods mean higher.

Weight Watchers counts SmartPoints, not calories, as eating 200 calories of Dairy Milk is never going to benefit you like eating 200 calories of chicken breast would. Instead, SmartPoints focus on the saturated fat, sugar and protein content of a food (aka it's macronutrients) alongside its calorie count. Saving SmartPoints in the week means you indulge with red wine on date night, or enjoy pizza with the girls at book club.

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What is the Weight Watchers Flex?

The Weight Watchers Flex is an extension of the original WW plan, offering new recipes, and revised Zero SmartPoint foods. On the old plan, only fruit and vegetables were zero SmartPoint foods. Now, there are now over 200 to base your meals around, including eggs, fresh fish, yoghurt, sweetcorn, lentils and tofu.

It took two years to make and was tested on over 1,200 people around the world. In a six-month clinical trial, Weight Watchers Flex (£14.95) produced better weight loss results among participants than in clinical trials of previous Weight Watchers programmes.

Zoe Griffiths, Registered Dietitian and Head of Programme and Public Health WW, says the response to the WW Flex programme has been phenomenal, adding: 'It's one of the few weight loss programmes specifically named as effective for the long term in accordance with NICE guidelines (our nations' recommendations for health and public health services).'

'The results from WW Flex are the best we've ever seen for a WW programme in a clinical trial. Over 90% of people felt that WW Flex helps them feel healthier.'

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How does the Weight Watchers Flex work?

It's 90% the same as WW, but with more recipes, more food freedom and loads more zero point SmartPoint foods. Whilst the way you count up your SmartPoints remains unchanged, the foods you can enjoy regularly have not.

The WW Flex's wider range of nourishing food choices helps you to make healthier decisions long term, says Griffiths. She says: 'All the evidence shows that the results you'll get from WW lasts. People make hundreds of food decisions a day and when people are finding food labels a challenge to interpret, making healthier choices can be difficult. This is where the programme can help'

How? By offering a tailored SmartPoints budget based on factors like your age and height, a WW app which counts your points for you and group meetings to offer support. Essentially, WW Flex does the hard work for you. No doubt your fat loss journey will be easier with an expert nutrition team outlining which foods will fuel your healthy lifestyle and nourish your body.

Keen to get started? Keep scrolling for Griffiths' top picks of the new WW Flex recipes—the ultimate one day meal plan to kick start healthy eating habits.

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Weight Watchers Flex:
Your one day meal plan

Breakfast: Eggs Benedict Brunch | 4 smart points

Serves 4 | Prep time 5 minutes | Cook time 15 minutes

Ingredients:

• 8 bacon medallions
• 6 plum tomatoes, halved
• 1 teaspoon dried parsley, plus an extra pinch, to serve
• 2 teaspoons white wine vinegar
• 3 tablespoons reduced-fat mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
• Juice of 1⁄2 lemon
• 4 large eggs
• 2 English muffins, halved and toasted
• Pinch of paprika, to serve

Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 200°C, fan 180°C, gas mark 6 and line a baking sheet with baking paper. Put the bacon and tomato halves on the prepared baking sheet, then season the tomatoes to taste and scatter over the dried parsley. Bake for 10 minutes, then turn the bacon medallions over and cook for another 2-3 minutes until they are golden and the tomatoes are tender.

2. Meanwhile, bring a large pan of water to a gentle simmer and add 1 teaspoon of the vinegar. In a small bowl, whisk the remaining vinegar into the mayonnaise with the mustard and lemon juice, then season to taste. If you need to, add a splash of water to make the hollandaise thin enough to drizzle.

3. Poach the eggs, one at a time, in the simmering water for 3 minutes until set, then remove from the water with a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper. When all the eggs are cooked, remove the pan from the heat and return all 4 eggs to the water for 15 seconds to warm through.

4. Top each muffin half with 2 bacon medallions and a poached egg. Drizzle with the hollandaise, scatter over the extra parsley and the paprika, then serve with the roasted tomatoes.

Lunch: Turkish Style Pizzas and Skinny Coleslaw | 3 SmartPoints and 0 SmartPoints

For the Pizzas:
Serves 4 | Prep time 15 minutes | Cook time 20 minutes

Ingredients:

• Calorie controlled cooking spray
• 400g 2% fat turkey breast mince 4
• spring onions, sliced
• 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
• 1⁄2 red or orange pepper, deseeded and diced
• 2 tomatoes, roughly chopped
• 1⁄2 teaspoon each paprika, ground cumin and ground coriander
• 2 tablespoon chopped fresh mint
• 4 small folded flatbreads
• 75g 0% fat natural yogurt
• 1 teaspoon tahini
• 1⁄2 teaspoon sumac (optional) 4
• 0g pomegranate seeds

Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 200°C, fan 180°C, gas mark 6. Mist a pan with cooking spray, put over a high heat and cook the turkey for 5 minutes. Add the spring onions, garlic, pepper, tomatoes and spices and cook for a further 5 minutes. Stir in half the mint and season to taste.

2. Gently unfold the flatbreads and put onto a baking sheet. Top with the mince mixture and bake for 10 minutes.

3. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix together the yogurt, tahini, sumac (if using) and half the remaining mint. Serve the pizzas topped with the pomegranate seeds, tahini sauce and remaining mint.

For the Coleslaw:
Serves 4 | Prep time 15 minutes

Method:
1. Whisk together 125g 0% fat natural yogurt, the grated zest and juice of 1 lemon, 2 tablespoons cider vinegar and 2 tablespoons chopped fresh coriander. Season 
to taste.
2. Shred half a white cabbage and put it into a serving bowl, along with 2 large grated carrots and 
6 shredded spring onions. Drizzle over the dressing and mix well.
3. Core 1 green eating apple, then
cut into matchsticks. Stir through the salad just before serving.

Weight Watchers

Dinner: Chicken Enchiladas and Mixed Salad | 7 SmartPoints and 0 SmartPoints

Serves 4 | Prep time 20 minutes | Cook time 25 minutes

Ingredients:

• Calorie controlled cooking spray
• 300g skinless chicken breast fillets, sliced
• 1 small onion, sliced
• 1 red pepper, deseeded and sliced
• 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cumin
• 198g tin sweetcorn, drained
• 215g tin kidney beans, drained and gently crushed
• 300g passata
• 2 tablespoons fresh coriander, chopped, plus extra for garnish
• 4 large wholemeal wraps
• 100g reduced-fat soured cream
• 25g grated mozzarella cheese

Method:
1. Mist a large frying pan with the cooking spray and cook the chicken slices over a high heat for 5 minutes, turning, until golden.

2. Add the onion and pepper. Cook for 5 minutes, adding the garlic and cumin for the last minute. Stir in the sweetcorn, crushed beans and 200g of the passata and bring to a gentle simmer. Cook for 1 minute, then stir in the chopped coriander.

3. Preheat the oven to 200°C, fan 180°C, gas mark 6. Divide the chicken mixture between the wraps and roll up tightly. Place them seam side down into a rectangular baking dish, misted with cooking spray. Mix the remaining passata with the soured cream and pour over the top. Scatter over the cheese and bake for 15-20 minutes, until golden. Serve topped with the extra coriander.

Dessert: Raspberry Ripple Mini Cheesecake | 3 SmartPoints

Serves 12 | Prep time 30 minutes, plus chilling | Cook time 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• 6 ginger nut biscuits
• 1 tablespoon coconut oil 2
• 200g low-fat soft cheese
• 250g quark
• 50g raspberries, plus extra berries to decorate
• 4 teaspoons icing sugar
• 1⁄4 teaspoons vanilla extract
• Grated zest of 1⁄2 lemon

Method:
1. Put the ginger nuts and coconut oil in a food processor and whizz to crumbs. Divide between 12 small glasses, then press down to make a firm base. Chill the bases while you make the cheesecake fillings.

2. In a mixing bowl, beat together the soft cheese and quark until smooth, then divide the mixture equally between 3 smaller bowls.

3. Crush the50g raspberries lightly with a fork. Mix 1⁄3 of the crushed raspberries into one of the soft cheese portions, along with the icing sugar, vanilla and lemon zest, then swirl the rest of the crushed raspberries through the mixture and divide between 4 of the glasses. Top each with a whole raspberry.

4. Put all the glasses on a small tray and chill for at least 2 hours to set, then serve.

Snacks: 1/4 pint skimmed milk in tea, spiced roast chickpeas, one banana and two satsumas: 2 SmartPoints, 1 SmartPoint, 0 SmartPoint.

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TOTAL: 20 SmartPoints, 3 SmartPoints spare

Griffiths says: 'That totals 20 SmartPoints, with 3 to roll over for your weekly budget meaning more flexibility for my weekend!'. Why not give it a go yourself?

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Weight Watchers Chicken Korma Ready Meal

Source: https://www.womenshealthmag.com/uk/food/healthy-eating/a707797/weight-watchers-flex/