The bottom line. Granola is a nutritious, filling cereal. However, many varieties are high in calories and packed with excess sugar, which can harm your health. Be sure to carefully read labels, choosing products with whole ingredients — like raisins, seeds, and nuts — that are high in protein and fiber.
One cup of granola can easily provide 500 calories. For a person trying to lose weight on a 1500 calorie diet, this provides one third of the calories needed for the day.
Jordan's Super Berry GranolaBy no means a healthy breakfast option, this granola comes in second because the fat has been kept down to 8.7g. It has 3.6g of fibre per serving.
Jordans | Crunchy Oat GranolaThis granola is made from British oats and ingredients are limited so you know exactly what you're eating. As with quite a lot of the cheaper granolas, though, the sugar levels are very high, and the addition of 1% honey means it's unfortunately not suitable for vegans.
Are Jordans products Gluten free? No - We do not recommend any of our products as being suitable for those avoiding Gluten. This is due to a protein called Avenin which is chemically very similar to gluten and can cause the same adverse reaction if you are intolerant to oats & wheat.
Slimming World is also changing how it labels some foods' nutritional information. Free Foods including baked beans, broad beans and mung beans will no longer be marked with 'P' meaning protein-rich. However, they will still be considered Free – so dieters won't have to worry about weighing or measuring beforehand.
this time, it's that Bananas are not a Free Food at Slimming World, and even worse, that you've got to count them as Syns! Fruits like bananas are slighter higher in energy than say strawberries or melon, and are therefore slighter higher in calories gram for gram – so they're Free Foods, but not Speed.
If you are going to be cooking with things like bacon, pork loin steaks or lamb chops, then you are going to need to make sure that all traces of fat are removed, especially the rinds. As long as you remove all visible fat then you can count your lean meat as a free food.
At Slimming World, we don't believe in cutting out food groups. In fact, potatoes and dried plain pasta, rice, noodles and couscous are all Free Foods, which means that you can eat as much of them as you like!
Bread (general):Wholemeal bread large loaf (1 thick slice) Wholemeal bread small loaf (2 x medium slices (60g)) Seeded wholemeal bread any loaf (1 slice)
Cereals marked with * have the lowest sugar content.
- 45g bran flakes. 45g fruit-filled wheat biscuits, blueberry / raisin.
- 1 Alpen Light Cereal Bar. 2 Hi-fi Bars.
- 300g cooking apples. 250g eating apples.
- 6 Finn Crisp Original Sourdough Rye Thins / Multigrain Thin Crispbreads.
- 20 almonds or 25g flaked.
- 300g apple slices.
Weetabix fall into the HE category so you'll only have to syn anything over the normal 2 biscuits.
Boiled eggs are really filling, and they're nice and quick to cook too. Cook yourself two boiled eggs (0 syns) and have with either two slices of wholemeal bread (Healthy Extra B), asparagus spears (0 syns), or hard boil them and eat them on the run if you're in a hurry!
The current Slimming World allowance is 40g for the healthy extra b choice of any plain oats. Aside from the obvious of flapjacks and porridge you can make with oats.
WEIGHT loss diets including porridge for breakfast have been shown to help dieters lose the pounds and keep them off in studies, as well as reduce stomach bloating thanks to high fibre levels.
* An Extra Easy SP day will allow two Healthy Extra 'a' choices and only one Healthy Extra 'b' choice but the daily syn allowance will be capped at 10.
How many spoons are in 40 grams of rolled oats? 40 grams of rolled oats = 7 tablespoons of rolled oats.
5 pre-prepared Slimming World breakfast ideas
- Overnight oats.
- Baked oats.
- Ham and egg muffins.
- Weetabix cake.
- Scotch eggs.
- Cinnamon French toast.
Dieters following the company's healthy eating plan are allowed a maximum of 15 Syns per day, minor transgressions into the realm of the calorific that can be consumed as part of a balanced regime primarily based around “Free Foods” like fruit and vegetables, eggs, grains and low-fat dairy products.
Milk Allowances:Whole Milk (200ml) Skimmed Milk (350ml) Mozzarella cows milk (50g)
Slimming World Sauces and Syns
| Sauce | Syns | Calories |
|---|
| Tomato Ketchup | 0.25 | 5 |
| Brown Sauce | 0.5 | 10 |
| Chilli Sauce | 0.25 | 5 |
| Garlic Chilli Sauce | 0.25 | 5 |
DIETERS following the Slimming World weight-loss programme will no longer be able to count Mug Shots and Batchelors Pasta 'n' Sauce as "Syn" free. The popular low calorie snacks have been removed from the Syn-free list after they were found to be no longer as "filling or satisfying" as they first thought.
However if you grab, say the Southen Fried Chicken Super Noodles – that one pack is TWELVE SYNS. Any of the “normal” Super Noodles are a similar story. Don't get me started on Pot Noodles either. The normal ones come in at around 9 syns per pot… the bigger ones, obviously more.
butter is 2syns per level teaspoon,5.5 syns per level tablespoon.
