Almost A Snicker

The thing I love most about Weight Watchers members is our resourcefulness and creativity. When we want to eat something, and it is not "diet-friendly", we will ALWAYS find a way to reinvent it in a lighter way. With a very MacGyver-like approach, we will find a solution to almost any eating dilemma using practical and inventive ingredients.

Take, for example, the Retro WW Recipes I recently acquired from an elderly friend at my Weight Watchers meeting. Right away, I could tell that these "rogue" recipes are not officially sanctioned by WW. Rather, they were surreptitiously created and then hand-typed on some sort of carbon paper by a few brave ladies trying to buck the system. I don't know what year these recipes came from, so I can't be certain if they are 1972 "Legal", but I still had to try one.

And I knew which one it had to be: The "Almost A Snicker" Bar.

Here are the exact ingredients & instructions as they appear on the recipe:

1/2 medium banana
3/4 ounce nugget-like cereal
1 pkg. chocolate flavored Alba
1 Tbsp. peanut butter
1 tsp. vanilla

Mix. Shape. Wrap in wax paper. Eat and enjoy!!

Due to the ambiguous nature of this recipe, I admit that I had to take some liberties, and I also made a few assumptions:

1. I used Kix cereal, because that was the closest thing I had to "nugget-like";
2. I used a WW Smoothie Mix, because I would've had to drive 20 miles to the closest grocery store that still sells Alba. Yea-I'm not ashamed to admit that I used the Alba locator on their company website;
3. I assumed that all of the ingredients were supposed to go in the blender, since the instructions didn't specify. I also assumed I was supposed to put this thing in the freezer to harden it. I think I assumed correctly?

I expected this recipe to be a total flop. I really did. But can I tell you something? It was YUMMY! And filling, too. I double dare you to try it!


So this was what those brilliant, old school WW ladies came up with - because they didn't have a healthy alternative to candy bars back in the day. This was obviously long before the birth of the high-fiber/high protein cereal bar - the likes of Kashi, Special K and Fiber One.

Almost a Snicker? If it didn't look like something I scooped out of my cat's litterbox this morning, it would be almost perfect, baby!