How many Weight Watchers Smart Points in your favourite take-away foods?

Whether it’s burgers, bakes or milkshakes, we find out how much you’ll have to budget

How many SmartPoints are there in some of these tasty treats? Now we’re in 2017, the chances are that we’re all thinking of trying to shed a few excess pounds. But the good news is that doesn’t mean going without all our favourite foods completely – whether that’s a burger, bake or a delicious milkshake. If you’re a member of Weight Watchers, you will know that it allocates every food a SmartPoints value based on calories, saturated fat, sugar and protein. Calories set the baseline for how many SmartPoints a food is worth, while sugar and saturated fat increase SmartPoints and protein lowers the number of SmartPoints that something “costs.” Each member receives a SmartPoints budget based on their gender, age, height and weight, and which is split into a daily allowance and a weekly allowance, and you can ‘spend’ it on whatever you like. The minimum daily allowance is 30, and the maximum is 93. Whatever you don’t use, you lose. The weekly allowance starts at 14 and goes up to 42, and is ideal if you want to add a treat or two to your regular diet. But what can you actually afford on your budget? Here are how many SmartPoints there are in some of those favourite treats.

McDonalds

How many SmartPoints are in a McDonald’s Big Mac? Big Mac – 17SP Double Cheeseburger – 15SP Chicken Caesar Salad with and without dressing – we only have the grilled chicken salad with no dressing for 2SP Grilled Chicken Salad (no dressing) 2SP Crispy Chicken Salad (no dressing) 7SP Fajita Style Dressing (30g) 1SP Balsamic Dressing (30g) 1SP Chocolate Milkshake – Small 9SP, Medium 18SP, Large 23SP

Greggs

Sausage roll – 13SP Cheese and onion pasty – 17SP Steak bake – 14SP Cheese and tomato pasta – 13SP Caramel custard doughnut – 13SP

Burger King

Bacon double cheeseburger – 12SP Big King sandwich – 19SP Whopper sandwich – 20SP

Nandos

1/2 chicken – 12SP Veggie burger – 13SP Caesar salad with and without dressing – 9SP with dressing Grilled chicken burger – 9SP

Pizza Hut

Meat Feast Sharing Stuffed Crust Pizza (14in) per Slice – 10SP The Virtuous Veg Feel Good Flatbread is 2SP per slice Mac and Cheese pasta – 28SP Salted Caramel Milkshake – 30SP

KFC

The Fillet Burger – 12SP Bargain bucket: 14 piece bucket per person – 30SP 6 piece bucket per person – 18SP BBQ Wrap -7SP Maltesers Krushems – 16SP

Costa

Primo flat white – 6SP full fat, 3SP skimmed Primo Americano, Skimmed Milk – 0SP Primo Americano, Soya Milk – 0SP Primo Americano, Whole Milk – 1SP Primo, Cappuccino, Whole Milk, 5SP Primo, Hot Chocolate, Skimmed Milk, 7SP Primo, Hot Chocolate, Whole Milk, 10SP

Starbucks

Regular flat white – Full fat 5SP Regular Americano – 0SP Tall cappuccino – full fat 5SP, skimmed 3SP

Tall hot chocolate (no cream) – full fat 9SP, skimmed 7SP Classic Hot Chocolate with Whipped Cream, Tall, Skimmed Milk, 10SP Classic Hot Chocolate with Whipped Cream, Tall, Whole Milk 12SP Source: liverpoolecho

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