***Update 2018***
I have gone back and amended the SmartPoint Values for the new Flex update. A lot of the recipes will stay the same, some have minimal change and some more drastic. No Count values have remained the same so are unedited.
Just a few things to note on this post and the posts of the other books!
- I am in Ireland and do not have access to the same e-tools those in the UK and else where have, so these values have been calculated using the food guides given in classes and the shopping guide. So cannot guarantee 100% accuracy.
- For some of the recipes, when working out ProPoints values I did use the calories given in the book as a guide to estimate but have NOT done this for any of the SmartPoint Values.
- For the ProPoint values for this first book, I also replaced all oil with low cal Spray oil. I did not do that for Smart Point values or any of the other books unless the recipe specifies 'oil for spraying' . If you wish to use low cal Spray oil instead you will need to adjust the calculations.
- For the recipes that involve blending fruit and veg, I used the MyFitnessPal recipe builder to get the full nutritional info and then used the calculator to work out the SmartPoints. I did this as the guides tell you that blended fruit needs to be counted but I couldn't find anywhere to show how it should be calculated.
- Apart from the note about oil above, all recipes have ProPoints & SmartPoints calculated as they are in the book. No substitutions made, if it says full fat cheese thats what I pointed, semi skimmed was pointed as such etc.
- However, when working out values for No Count I made a few substitutions
- Milk changed to skimmed instead of semi skimmed.
- Rice changed to brown rice (with the exception of Aboria and Paella)
- Pasta/Spaghetti changed to brown pasta
- Cous Cous changed to wholemeal cous cous
- Rindless Back Bacon changed with bacon medallions
- Pitta's & Wraps changed to the WW branded versions which are free.
- Finally, please let me know if any of these are incorrect and I will check and update them ASAP.
This is great, I love this, would you mind if I mentioned this blog tomorrow on my blog because it's so useful for people Ccseli
ReplyDeleteNo I don't mind at all!! Thanks :-)
DeleteThank you so much for spending the time to pp the recipes. Love this cook book and now I can really start trying them out. Got link to this from Niptuck. Have you done any other cook books?
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your weightless :-)
Thank you for all your hard work pro pointing the entire book. Makes life very easy now. Much appreciated.
ReplyDeletehi i just want to check this is perportion?
ReplyDeleteIt is per portion. Some of the recipes gave options for how many it served and I worked out the points for both. Hope that makes sense.
DeleteYou are absolutely right - I have no idea how I completely missed the parsnip in there!! Will update now - thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteHi! Which hairy dieters book is it? I was going to order from amazon but there seems to be a few different books? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThis is their first one. The Hairy Dieters: How to love food and lose weight. Their second one, Eat for Life only came out this month and as soon as I get it I will be doing another post with that one too!
DeleteI have just ordered the new one so should get it this week!
Deletethank you again have now pro pointed both books,i need all the help I can with my dieting.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever decorated a cake stand with party favors before?It’s such a fun way to thank.
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Just ordered two of their books on amazon! Very excited!!!
ReplyDeleteJust came across this. Thank you. Xx
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the PP for these books. You are wonderful hun. I hope you dont mind but I have saved your blog page on my Weight Watchers group that I am admin on which belongs to my friend Tracy. I am addicted to these books and most days I am doing a HD recipe. xxx
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your time and effort on posting all these!!
ReplyDeleteJust heard about your pp values at my ww meeting. Thanks for the help. I had pp'd a favourite few but not all so this is much appreciated!
ReplyDeleteIve just been passed this link on from a weight watchers group on FB... expect a huge influx in your stats.... these are great and just what I need. Thank you. I am 5 weeks into my journey, (I also blog about my journey) and think this will help my journey even more. :-)
ReplyDeleteHow do we now turn all these into smart points?! Help!
ReplyDeleteI'm in Ireland and the new smart points hasn't been released yet. There are rumours it will be out here in January. As soon as I know and have the info, I'll start recalculating to add smart points!
DeleteWe've just started smartpoints now and would love these to be converted too
ReplyDeleteThis is SO helpful .... Hairy Bikers recipes are Definitely the best ... But is such s pain to convert ... So Thankyou!!! I will use them a LIT more now.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! Saved me a lot of time. Thank you so much.
ReplyDeleteReally useful, thanks so much.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this! Have just ordered the book! ��
ReplyDeleteThank you for this, have now ordered the book! 😃
ReplyDeleteI'm confused how paprika chicken has 11 smart points - how come so high if it's mainly chicken and veg
ReplyDeleteIts because it is made with chicken thighs which are very high in smartpoints (i think 4 each). If you replaced these with chicken breast you would drastically reduce the smartpoints.
DeleteThank you so much for taking the time to do this, I was struggling a bit for the last two weeks and this will really help especially as we head into Easter Week!! Very best of luck with your journey Jennifer (Dublin) xx
ReplyDeleteHi reading with great interest and am making notes in my books but the prawn and chive omlette ive worked out as 1 point - on smart points. Can I check it with you please.
ReplyDeleteHi Cookiekegs. When Smartpoints was originally introduced in ireland Eggs and other proteins had to be pointed. Last year the plan was updated and renamed 'Flex' over here which saw the increase of 0 smartpoint foods. So I have a column added named Flex which shows the omelette is just 1sp. They have since rebranded and renamed this program Freestyle here, again using smartpoints but the same as Flex. Its a bit confusing but the column named Flex shows the values from the current program. I left all the old programs in as I updated this as I know a lot of my followers still use this in their own time. Hope that clarifies.
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