No-Noodle Vegetable Lasagna. Sauteed Bananas with Praline Sauce. Community - Message Board Threads. Snack Well, Spend Less. Blue Cheese Chicken Burgers. Weight Watchers recipe cards, circa 1974. Coming in May 2006! NEW BOOK! Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974 I found them while helping my parents clean out their basement a few years ago. They were neatly arranged in their own plastic file box. I fell over. These cards mystify me. Dehydrated onion flakes are in almost everything here. They also had a prop department that was clearly out of control. As far as I know, I was never served any of these dishes as a child. This feature owes a great spiritual debt to sites like Cate's Garage Sale Finds and especially James Lilek'sGallery of Regrettable Food.
Click HERE to start the tour, or else click on whatever thumbnail image disturbs you the most. James) Gallery of Regrettable Food. Hat were they thinking? How did they eat this bilge? Good questions, but you won't find them answered here. This is a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes. It's a wonder anyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s gained any weight; it's a miracle that people didn't put down their issue of Life magazine with a slight queasy list to their gut, and decide to sup on a nice bowl of shredded wheat and nothing else. It wasn't that the food was inedible; it was merely dull. Everything was geared for a timid palate fearful of spice.
It wasn't non- nutritious - no, between the limp boiled vegetables, fat-choked meat cylinders and pink-whipped-jello dessert, you were bound to find a few calories that would drag you into the next day. Here have all these images slumbered, lo these many decades? A collector item. But why? Perhaps the main reason people buy these books is the Mom factor. They're not really recipe books. Enjoy. --J. Food points/restaurants/recipes & more (USA) Build a Better Breakfast. Eggplant Rollatini with Tomato Basil Sauce. WW points in American franchises.