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Weight Watchers Family Meals: 250 Recipes for Bringing Family, Friends, and Food Together
WeightWatchers provides a simple plan for enjoying food—from weekday meals to special occasions—that makes eating together fun and healthy. Want to create healthy, mouthwatering meals for your family, but starved for time? Family Meals makes cooking together a snap—and ensures that what you eat is nutritious, delicious, and enticing for everyone (even picky eaters). This isn’t diet Enjoy Baked Beef Ziti, Meat Loaf with Chive Mashed Potatoes, or Spaghetti Squash with Cherry Tomatoes, Parsley, and Parmesan. And for dessert—Gooey Rocky Road Bars! Food should be a celebration, so we include menus for entertaining and theme nights, along with easy-to-cook recipes that let kids take part in the fun. You’ll also get tips on how to pack healthy lunches for school and the office, creating a game plan for eating around the holidays, and stocking the pantry for quick dinners. No matter how busy you are, Family Meals is your new go-to source for cooking inspiration.
421 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 5, 2016
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October 16, 2021
3-1/2 stars!
As the title suggests, this cookbook is family friendly with quick/easy weeknight dinner recipes, larger recipes for entertaining and a section meant to include kids in the kitchen. There is a fun section called "Theme Night" where you can select from menus with titles like "Superbowl Party," "Mexican Fiesta Time," and "Oscar Night Celebration," to name a few.
Onto the recipes:
Variety: Large variety of about 250 recipes.
Pictures: Gorgeous pictures but only about half or so of the recipes have an accompanying photo.
Difficulty/Time preparation: Generally easy to prepare. Some are time consuming but most seem fairly quick.
Ingredients: Mostly easy to find ingredients.
Nutrition: Yes, nutrition facts are included with the recipes.
BEST recipe — Gooey Rocky Road Bars!
As the title suggests, this cookbook is family friendly with quick/easy weeknight dinner recipes, larger recipes for entertaining and a section meant to include kids in the kitchen. There is a fun section called "Theme Night" where you can select from menus with titles like "Superbowl Party," "Mexican Fiesta Time," and "Oscar Night Celebration," to name a few.
Onto the recipes:
Variety: Large variety of about 250 recipes.
Pictures: Gorgeous pictures but only about half or so of the recipes have an accompanying photo.
Difficulty/Time preparation: Generally easy to prepare. Some are time consuming but most seem fairly quick.
Ingredients: Mostly easy to find ingredients.
Nutrition: Yes, nutrition facts are included with the recipes.
BEST recipe — Gooey Rocky Road Bars!
October 14, 2016
A lot of good basic recipes (nothing too exotic or hard to produce) for regular eating. How will the recipes taste? I don't know. I haven't tried any yet, but I will be putting some aside to see how they go. The librarian told me she had used the book and enjoyed it as "seeking healthy food and not having to cook it separately for one person, but rather all the family."
May 19, 2024
Has family friendly recipes with hints about what is age-appropriate for children to be attempting in cooking & preparing these dishes. Not a bad beginner's cookbook, it's a hardback bound book with some weight, heft & size to it.
Probably not an ideal cookbook for people with exotic tastes in food & it would be cool to see these scaled down for singles & couples as well as recommendations as to which recipes can be batch cooked & frozen.
It's from the Smart Points era in case someone is following one of the myriad of Weight Watchers plans (this book was 1st published in 2016).
Probably not an ideal cookbook for people with exotic tastes in food & it would be cool to see these scaled down for singles & couples as well as recommendations as to which recipes can be batch cooked & frozen.
It's from the Smart Points era in case someone is following one of the myriad of Weight Watchers plans (this book was 1st published in 2016).
March 28, 2018
I borrowed this from the library and made a few recipes that were really good! I extended my rental at the library so I could make more from this book! Good variety of food/sides for all palettes. I also ordered it online so I will have a copy when I have to return it :-)
September 22, 2019
I checked out this cookbook from the library and have renewed it twice! I guess I need to just buy it. My family has loved all the recipes made so far and I have some picky eaters.
August 27, 2020
We are testing different recipes and color coding markers.
June 8, 2023
What a great book! Lots of recipes and pictures! Recipes are easy to follow and include points! I'll definitely be trying some of these recipes!
April 18, 2016
Nothing special...
October 12, 2016
a ton of great, quick and easy recipes. I've tried almost all of them and not one bad one yet. Full of flavor and easy to follow.
May 17, 2016
Lots of yummy recipes.
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August 3, 2017Got three veggie recipes that look promising out of it.
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