Healthy Extras

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El Presidente

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I'm only a few days into SW but am finding it hard to work in healthy extra A choices.

I'm not much for dairy, I use a dash of semi-skimmed in my tea each morning (the morning's I find time to have a cuppa that is) and that's about my intake.

I'm not a fan of cheese, I can eat mozzarella or feta but would find it tricky to work them into my diet every day.

I was pretty surprised to find butter (or low fat spread) wasn't considered a HEXA choice if taken in lieu of cheese.
 
Butter wouldn't be considered a healthy extra because it doesn't contain the same levels of calcium that cheese does. The reason they're measured 'healthy extras' is because they provide nutrition and sadly, butter doesn't!
 
El Presidente said:
I'm only a few days into SW but am finding it hard to work in healthy extra A choices.

I'm not much for dairy, I use a dash of semi-skimmed in my tea each morning (the morning's I find time to have a cuppa that is) and that's about my intake.

I'm not a fan of cheese, I can eat mozzarella or feta but would find it tricky to work them into my diet every day.

I was pretty surprised to find butter (or low fat spread) wasn't considered a HEXA choice if taken in lieu of cheese.
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I hardly ever have my HEXA's and it hasn't affected my losses. Calcium is important tho but you cant get it from other sources like Mullerlights and some veggies. x
 
Jennyonaplate said:
Butter wouldn't be considered a healthy extra because it doesn't contain the same levels of calcium that cheese does. The reason they're measured 'healthy extras' is because they provide nutrition and sadly, butter doesn't!
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I'm just clutching at straws I guess, I haven't had bread in any form for almost 3 weeks and I'm almost over my cravings for it. I'm gonna reintroduce bread as a healthy option at some point and find a different way to moisten it up :)
 
I use some extra light mayo on my bread if I am making a sandwich. You can also buy butter buds from Lakeland which are just like butter but on 0.5 syns.
 
Your welcome. I live of the stuff. Tesco do a really cheap one and its only 0.5 syn per tbsp.
 
Definately picking some up next time I'm near a supermarket. Thanks for the tip :)
 
extra low laughin cow, don't taste much like cheese.. and it would make ya bread easy to eat and it would be a heathly A choice.......it works well as a spread......
 
I normally grate some low fat cheese over my pasta dishes and have my other a choice as milk for tea. I measure it out in a jug and if i have lots left by the end of the night i make an options with the milk instead of water.
 
how abot on a green day using ur milk allowance to make a gorgeous syn free rice pudding, thats what i do...altho i love my hexa cheeses too xxx
 
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