Uncle Ben's Express Rice

Hi ladies, hope everyone is having a good morning.

I'm a wee bit confused... I joined sw last week and have been using boiled rice with alot of my meals but to be honest I find it very bland so have been looking for an alternative. I went on the sw website to check the syn values for Uncle Ben's flavoured express rice pouches when i manually enter the nutritional info in the syns calculator it comes up as 10 syns?? I thought this was a bit much so i checked it in syns online and the syn value varies between 2+4 depending on the flavour... so I've no idea which value to go by, any ideas??

Thanks in advance for any replies

You need to enter rice as a Free Food when you enter the calculator.

hi Angela,

I always search by manufacturer/brand when looking for syn values. If you key in Uncle Ben's and then "express" it gives you 3 pages of syn values.

If you are entering the nutritional values, if the first item is a free food eg: rice, then you can give it a "free food allowance" when calculating the values. Just make sure you read the instructions online as the free food allowance doesn't apply to everything eg: sweets/crisps/pasta sauces etc.

Hope that helps,

On EE/Green:

Express Pilau Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 3½
Express Basmati Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 1½
Express Mushroom Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 2½
Express Tandoori Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 3½
Express Egg Fried Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 4
Express Long Grain Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 1
Express Thai Curry Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 3
Express Wholegrain Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 3½
Express Mixed Pepper Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 2½
Express Chinese Style Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 3
Express Mexican Style Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 2½
Express Special Fried Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 4
Express Basmati & Thai Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 4
Express Tomato & Basil Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 4
Express Savoury Chicken Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 2½
Express Vegetable Pilau Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 3½
Express Golden Vegetable Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 2
Express Lemon & Rosemary Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 2½
Express Long Grain & Wild Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 1½
Express Thai Sweet Chilli Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 2
Express Spicy Mexican Style Rice, ambient, 250g pouch 4
Express Wholegrain Rice with Mediterranean Vegetables, ambient, 250g pouch 6½

Great advice, thanks so much

Thanks! Was about to trawl through syns online one by one. I actually cannot believe the whole grain rice varietys have the most syns!

This is useful to know, thinking about using these for work as they are easy to heat up!

If you want to cook, but still add flavour, throw in a flavoured stock cube whilst cooking, or some herbs/spices when drained and still warm - last night I had some noodles, and added a sprinkle of Chinese 5spice for some oomph
Not as quick, but free & flavoursome

Could anyone check what syns the "Mexican rice with lime" and "Peshwari rice" are please?

Thank you very much xx

Could anyone check what syns the "Mexican rice with lime" and "Peshwari rice" are please?

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Mexican Rice with Lime 250g pouch 2.5syns on EE
Special Peshwari 250g Pouch 3.5 syns on EE

Excellent, thank you!! Much lower than I'd thought

Especially excited about the Peshwari one! xx