typo in this recipe's nutri info?? I am so bummed!

[adrianna!!]

Ok...are ya familiar with this one? It is mighty tasty...

Chicken Thighs with Tomatoes, Olives and Capers

CLAug 2003

8 skinless, boneless chicken thighs
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1 tsp veg oil
1 Tbsp bottled minced garlic
1 cup chopped parsley
1/4 cup chopped pitted kalamata olives
1 (14.5 oz) can no salt added diced tomatoes, undrained

Sprinkle chicken w/salt and pepper. Heat oil in large skillet over med hi heat. Add chicken and cook 4 minutes each side. Remove to a plate and keep warm.
Add garlic to pan, saute 30 seconds. Add remaining ingredients and scrape pan to loosen browned bits. Return chicken and accumulated juices to pan and simmer ( I covered the pan) about 5 minutes til chicken is cooked thru. Yield: 4 servings. 2 Thighs and 1/4 cup tomato mixture.

Ok, supposedly this comes out to 174 calories, 5,5 grams fat and 2.5 grams fiber. This equals 3 points on the Weight Watchers points system. I ate this for dinner last night and had leftovers tonight. I served the 2 thighs and sauce over a cup of brown rice. Then I got to thinking....how can this be 3 points? One thigh alone is 3 points! I had someone on the WW site put it through the recipe builder (paying memebers of WW can access a tool that calculates points from ingredients) and it came out to a whopping 9 points per serving!

Ok, sorry to babble on and on about this, but I really count on CL to provide accurate nutritional info. Any thoughts on this?

[Kayaksoup]

Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 234 Calories; 11g Fat (41.9% calories from fat); 28g Protein; 5g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 115mg Cholesterol; 634mg Sodium. Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 4 Lean Meat; 1 Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 1 Fat.
This is what I got. It is bizarre to me that CL would do this.

[Catew]

Cooking Light's chicken thighs are always teeny tiny (does this recipe give a weight?). I love the vinegar chicken thighs with polenta, and have the same problem. I generally figure that one of my grocery store's boneless skinless thighs is equivalent to the two that CL often calls for.

[mbeth]

9 points seems high to me. If you take the nutritional values posted by Kayaksoup, and put them into the points calculator (I'm using a very old one, from "1-2-3 Success," you get 6 points. That seems reasonable to me.

Also, when I recently bought a bag of frozen chicken thighs at Costco, it said that their thighs are specially trimmed to be the leanest. I like that. And I do think they are 3 points.

[Molli526]

I think it all depends on the size(weight) of the thighs. Maybe it is time for an e-mail to CL to ask them to *always* put the weight of the meat as well as how many.

[adrianna!!]

Thanks for the responses. I just feel a little "shaken" by this...like how I felt as a child when I found out there is no Santa! LOL! Ok, I am being dramatic, but I guess I just had 100% confidence in CL to be accurate, and now I am gonna wonder! I do plan on contacting CL just to ask.

Mbeth...yeah, I think I am going to consider it 6 points, although a thigh is 3 points EACH, and then there is a tsp of oil (granted, that is on the WHOLE recipe) and kalamata olives. Honestly...I was pretty darn satisfied after eating the two thighs so I guess that should be my clue it is higher in points...I usually leave the table feeling hungry!

Oh well, I am still a CL fanatic!

[Gracie]

Adrianna, you must have missed my rant in this thread

There's something to be said for figuring out the points independently for every single thing you make. Different brands of the same item will oftentimes have different nutritional information. It's really too bad. I bought MasterCook so I wouldn't have to manually figure everything out but that's not always as accurate as I'd like either.

Loren

[adrianna!!]

Hi Loren!

Yes...I missed that one! I see I am not alone with my frustration and I guess now we know we must take it upon ourselves to figure this stuff out!

[RebeccaT]

I ran this through my WW Recipe Builder, and got 7 points per serving. I used for the chicken thighs, entering 24 oz. instead of just specifying 8 thighs. I wonder how your friend got 9 points?

Either way, it's alarming that the nutritional values were off by so much!