- Weight Watchers snacks are meant to curb cravings between meals. Not only does Weight Watchers recommend smart snacks for in between meals, such as popcorn or guacamole in the properly portioned amounts, but it also provides its own line of snack packs that taking a lot of the guess work, pre-planning and stress out of snacking. Though Weight Watchers provides many different kinds of snacks, the Weight Watchers program emphasizes that any snacks an individual eats, whether it be their snack packs or another snack, be nutritious and filling. Weight Watchers believes that if you eat filling snacks that are full of protein, good fats, fiber and nutrients, you will feel fuller, staving off the urge to continue snacking.
- Most Weight Watchers snacks come in small, single-portion servings. They may be sold individually, or in a six- or 12-pack, though the servings will usually, be divided into portioned packages. Weight Watchers also utilizes the Points system, which allows an individual to eat a certain amount of food--or points--a day. Snacks also have a point value, which helps individuals to calculate how many points that snack will use of their daily budget. Most Weight Watchers snacks contain one to three points, depending upon the serving size and type of food.
- Most of the Weight Watchers snacks are purchased at the actual Weight Watchers facilities, usually during group meetings or weigh-ins. You don't have to be a member or signed up for any meetings to purchase the snacks from the facilities. There are a select amount of snacks that are available at most major grocery store chains, however. These usually consists of small cookie or cracker packs, as well as single-portion ice cream bars and desserts.
- Many of the Weight Watchers snacks focus on dieters' two main cravings: sugar and salt. They provide different cracker packs that range from salty to cheesy tasting, and many snack cake packs that come in a variety of flavors, such as brownie, carrot cake, lemon, oatmeal raisin and angel food cake.
- Because Weight Watchers knows that most of its dieters will not subsist on Weight Watchers brand food alone, there are websites that allow participants to determine how many points everyday foods are worth. This even applies to many popular restaurants. For example, at HealthDiscovery.net (see Resources below) an individual who wants to snack on some Ben & Jerry's ice cream can look up one serving of Cherry Garcia ice cream and find out that it will cost her three points.
