Since nuts are strictly forbidden - or illegal as we Retro WW gals like to say - the alternative is to make these tasty little "Roast Peanuts" from the 1966 Weight Watchers Cookbook.
Now, if you have followed this blog for a while, you know exactly what those quotation marks around the title of today's recipe mean, don't you? For a quick review of the significance of quotation marks on Retro WW, please click here.
So now you know: These "Roast Peanuts" are not peanuts at all. They are canned button mushrooms, drained, salted and roasted at a low heat for one hour until they are brown and dry and withered and crunchy. Yum?
Try them if you dare! Jean Nidetch proclaims they are "just like peanuts."
I beg to differ. But in a pinch? They'll do. (And they're ZERO PointsPlus for all of you modern day WW gals out there!)
Many thanks to the fabulous Ms. Bitchcakes for the recent mention and a very big Retro WW Welcome to all of the new readers who have stumbled upon my crazy blog. Enjoy your weekend, everyone! Grab a beer, a handful of "roast peanuts", and paint the town red! Cheers!
10 comments:
Huh? What? Just like Peanuts? I think they were dining on a different kind of shroom when they wrote that book!
As I read this I am roasting broccoli & cauliflower (from the Celebrating WW cookbook - New Year's Eve Cocktail party) to snack on during a movie. I guess somethings don't change that much, but at least it's better than mushrooms!
even helen keller would know these aren't peanuts. c'mon jean! wth?
I love your nails! So retro!
Urgh. Looks worse than those dried packets of food you take camping. About as similar to peanuts as my toes are!! :-)
I remember these, it was the 60's and my Mom was an original WW....we didn't call them peanuts, but we ate them :)
I happen to like mushrooms a lot (I do a portobello mushroom "burger" that is fit for a Roman emperor!) and think these would be pretty yummy. Not like peanuts but a tasty snack in their own right. Maybe if one called them Munchrooms or Munchable Mushrooms or something
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