Slimming World Support thread

Skint_Catt

robpw2 wrote: »

weird question . me being facetious
if some thing is 45kcal , 0.8g protein , 10g carb, 0.3g fat and you have a 10g portion its free... on ee but
if you were to have 100g it would be 2.5 syns so could i have 10 * 10g portions and it be free or would it be 2.5 syns

its apricot jam so to be honest one would be very sick if i ate that much but i just thinks its odd

Apricot jam isn't free on EE - no jam is. What tells you it would be free?

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Basic/Non Branded Foods Jam 1 level tsp
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT] Original ½ Syn [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT] Green ½ Syn[/FONT]

Skint_Catt

blackberry-rum wrote: »

Hi Rob, there are a few things I think are odd, though I haven't a clue to the answer to your question.

Mine are:
why does cooked fruit have a syn value but cooked tomatoes and peppers don't - they are also fruit
why is pitta bread a syn when regular bread is ahealthy extra? I much prefer a warm pitta with fresh salad in , but hey ho.

There isn't enough fibre in pitta to make it a HEb as per most white breads - its a flat bread with not much in it - just flour pretty much.

Tomato's and peppers maybe fruits but they're also used in 'normal' cooking - apples, banana's and grapes aren't used in daily cooking.

Skint_Catt

Liz3yy wrote: »

Is it something to do with fibre? in that pitta doesnt have the fibre that wholemeal bread does? christ knows about the fruit thing, I think its crap that tinned fruit in its own juice has to be synned when it has no more calories than fresh fruit. I cant always afford fresh fruit.

Yes it is. And I agree on the fruit in its own juice - syrup I can understand because of the sugar element, but own juice? What happens if i make my own fruit salad and there's juice in the bottom - do I have to syn this???

robpw2

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Apricot jam isn't free on EE - no jam is. What tells you it would be free?

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Basic/Non Branded Foods Jam 1 level tsp[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT] Original ½ Syn [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT] Green ½ Syn[/FONT]

the syns calculator its 100% fruit , streamline apricot no added suar

Liz3yy

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Yes it is. And I agree on the fruit in its own juice - syrup I can understand because of the sugar element, but own juice? What happens if i make my own fruit salad and there's juice in the bottom - do I have to syn this???

I'm half tempted to do a little experiment and eat loads of tinned fruit and see if I still lose weight? it has to be better than eating chocolate for gods sake!

Skint_Catt

robpw2 wrote: »

the syns calculator its 100% fruit , streamline apricot no added suar

Yes, but its been processed - its not a 'whole from the bowl' piece of fruit. Any pureed, cooked, mushed fruit has syns!

JemmaBe

Is cooked fruit smaller? The pears are anyway, so perhaps you could eat more pears which are tinned, which is more calories.

Think about mandarin segments. If you got a mandarin you have to peel it etc, but in a tin you could probably eat the whole lot without thinking too much.

Skint_Catt

Liz3yy wrote: »

I'm half tempted to do a little experiment and eat loads of tinned fruit and see if I still lose weight? it has to be better than eating chocolate for gods sake!

Well if I eat loads of fruit salad I've made I can't see what difference it would make if its been in a tin or not - there's no 'processing' involved that I know of (probably wrong though). Worth a try for a week?

Skint_Catt

JemmaBe wrote: »

Is cooked fruit smaller? The pears are anyway, so perhaps you could eat more pears for the calories of tinned fruit than fresh.

Cooked/pureed/smoothied fruit is consumed a lot quicker and is less filling that the equivalent 'unadulterated' fruit so SW make it 'synned' as SW is about satiety(sp) not just calories or what you eat.

JemmaBe

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Cooked/pureed/smoothied fruit is consumed a lot quicker and is less filling that the equivalent 'unadulterated' fruit so SW make it 'synned' as SW is about satiety(sp) not just calories or what you eat.

As I said...they are smaller, so you can eat more

Apparently 3lbs of pears = 1 'quart' when cooked/canned