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Weight Watchers provides a simple plan to enjoy meals with friends and family; from weekday meals to special occasions, the recipes make eating together fun and healthy

Want to create healthy, mouthwatering meals for your family, but starved for time? Weight Watchers 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 food: 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, Weight Watchers Family Meals is your new go-to source for cooking inspiration.
 

From the Publisher

Southwestern Green Chile Cheeseburgers from Weight Watchers Family Meals

Serves 4 | 20 Minutes or Less Directions

1. Mix together beef, salsa, chili powder, and salt in large bowl just until combined well. With damp hands, shape mixture into 4 (½-inch-thick) patties.

2. Spray grill pan with nonstick spray and set over medium heat. Put patties in grill pan and grill until browned. Turn burgers; top with Swiss cheese and grill until cheese is melted and instant-read thermometer inserted into side of burger registers 160°F, about 5 minutes longer.

3. Place lettuce and burgers on bottoms of English muffins. Top each with 2 tomato slices, 2 onion slices, and tops of muffins.

Cook's Tip: For a touch of smokiness, use chipotle chile powder instead of regular chili powder. Chipotles are jalapeños that have been dried and smoked over a fire.

Nutrition Information

Per serving (1 garnished burger): 318 Cal, 7 g Total Fat, 3 g Sat Fat, 775 mg Sod, 29 g Total Carb, 7 g Sugar, 6 g Fib, 35 g Prot. SmartPoints value: 6.

Ingredients 1 pound ground lean beef (7% fat or less) 1/4 cup fat-free salsa verde 1-1/2 teaspoons chili powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 4 (1/2-ounce) slices reduced-fat Swiss cheese 4 small green leaf lettuce leaves 4 light whole wheat English muffins, split and toasted 8 thin tomato slices 8 thin slices sweet onion, such as Vidalia

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvest; 1st edition (April 5, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0544715292
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0544715295
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.94 x 1.2 x 9.5 inches
Reviewer: Assunta Sciarretta
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Modern, Healthy Meals!
Review: When I saw the two previous, kind of negative reviews for this book, I felt compelled to comment. This book is terrific! I read a lot of cookbooks, and this is well-done. On the basic level: it is well-illustrated, has thick pages, opens easily and stays on the cookbook stand. Each recipe also lists the nutritional values as well as the new Smart Points for each dish. The recipes have a very manageable amount of ingredients and instructions in easy-to-understand language. I have four children - teenagers and college students. Even my picky-meat-and-potatoes guy would eat most of these recipes. The division of the book into sections is great; they're entitled: Cooking with Staples from Your Pantry, Super-Easy No-Cook Recipes, Make It Ahead, Shortcut Dishes, Slow-Cooker Chilies/Stews/Roasts/and More, Have Breakfast for Dinner. There are main dishes and side dishes. I am not a gourmet cook and regularly avail myself of meal-kit services (e.g. Plated), precooked grocery meals and carryout. This is a welcome addition to anyone who is trying to adhere to the Weight Watchers food plan but also for everyone who wants to serve their family healthy dinners.

Reviewer: Kristina
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice colorful book with lots of photos but now that ...
Review: Nice colorful book with lots of photos but now that I have the new Hungry Girl Clean and Hungry cookbook that just came out with every*** recipe having an accompanying color photo, I am spoiled. I hadn't realized the psychology of the photo and how I didn't often use the recipe in a cookbook without the photo to entice me? Will be interesting experiment to see which recipes I use in this Weight Watcher's book. The photos are very generous in the cookbook, however, but we don't need a full page color photo of every third recipe when a perfectly little photo next to each page's title of the recipe would suffice so we could actually see what we will be creating? Really nice book though with lots of variety and different themes to choose from and all healthy!

Reviewer: Alexi Darling
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: but most of the recipes are easy enough to adjust portions accordingly
Review: I've been on WW since January, and I've been frustrated by how few recipes are available for the new SmartPoints program. I wouldn't make all of these recipes on a daily basis, but I appreciate the variety. I am cooking for one, but most of the recipes are easy enough to adjust portions accordingly. I appreciate that book is large and beautifully presented. The photographs are great and the recipes are easy to follow. Would highly recommend to anyone looking for SmartPoints inspiration.

Reviewer: Mnexolorer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not typical recipes
Review: I am kind of disappointed in some of the recipes in this book. I feel they don’t have the everyday type meals that people would expect to see. I realize it is a book meant for weight loss. Although, they do list the points value for servings. It’s just not ingredients that I am use to seeing.

Reviewer: Kathy Pearson
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Plenty of Good Smart Point Recipes
Review: I have made several recipes from the book and they all turned out well, and taste good. Most of these recipes are labor intensive, with several ingriedents. If you don't mind cooking or baking and you want good results this book is for you. If you want quick and easy and like to substitute instead of buying the correct ingredients it is not. Having gone through all the recipes twice, I easily selected 15 I wanted to make right off. Most of the ingredients are not difficult to find, but some you will have left overs you will have to find a use for because of the small quantities used. Over all I think I made a good purchase. The German Choclate Cake muffins are awesome!

Reviewer: J-Rob
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good For Us
Review: The recipes are great tasting and healthy so I'm all for trying nearly all of them! I would recommend this to any one that wants to lose a little weight and enjoy their food doing it.

Reviewer: SandFam
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Way to kick off my WW plan!
Review: This was a great book! It had some simple recipes that I would expect like turkey tacos but it also had a section for "adventurous eaters" with uncommon ingredients which I loved. I run a food blog and I love trying new ingredients, not to mention I have a husband that is always the first to order the wackiest thing he can find on any given menu!

Reviewer: Tricia Ebert
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: So many great recipes in this cookbook!
Review: There are so many great recipes in this cookbook, we don't know what to make first! The biggest problem with Weight Watchers is planning meals every week, and this book really helps. Excellent recipes for a family of four or to make for two people and then have leftovers for another meal. We are really looking forward to making many of these meals!

Reviewer: Drew Bergman
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Meals are great and shows you the amount of points you will be consuming obviously. Many different categories for whether you need a quick meal or if you're having friends over and want to make something out of the ordinary.

Reviewer: Dode
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: The book is exactly what the cover states, however, it uses Americanisms for some of the ingredients. This means that you have to google manythings to determine our eqiuvalent.

Reviewer: Munchkin the Reviewer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 👍 Easy to follow recipes for a regular at home cook.👍 Simple ingredients so no special trips to the grocery store👍 Easy to count points so you can stay on the diet

Reviewer: Adrien Rochereau
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: interesting but usual WW, not many pictures.for the price I was expecting a bit more.Still recipes are correct and usually not too long to prepare and do not require too many ingredients

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: not very many pictures, which is a big deciding factor on making a meal or not for me ;)has some great recipes in here, but they're not catagorized very well. have main meals, apps, and desserts all in the same section. will have to search meals by index. has great tips and hints for the WW plan, and smart point values for each meal. I would not have purchased this from a store in person, but will not return it