My Favourite Slimming World syns list of treats under 5 syns

Here are my favourite treats on Slimming World under 5 syns. Of course whilst not an official Slimming World syns list it should still be helpful if you are looking for ideas too.

Sometimes, however healthy you are trying to be, you just want snacks. When is your snacking time? I find that I am worse when I am bored in the evenings or if I am feeling emotional like after a counselling session.

Disclaimer: Just Average Jen is not connected with any weight loss plan. Please check nutritional values and/or syns yourself.

There are so many healthy syn free snacks you can enjoy on the Slimming World plan I have written a full post of my favourite syn-free snack ideas. We don’t always want speed foods though do we, and that is why we have a daily syn allowance!

Other good things to snack on are your healthy extra A choice of cheese or a perhaps a cereal bar, bowl of cereal or some toast from your healthy extra B choice. How many syns you use is entirely up to you. Whether you use all your allowance on snacks or just a few, the choice is yours!

Can you enjoy these snacks on other weight loss plans?

If you follow Weight Watchers (WW), Noom or any other weight loss plan you can usually count these in another way, such as points or calories, and all the following are under 100 calories, of course, always check your plan for advice.

Chocolate

Of course, there are many things you can break or cut a piece off to fall within five syns or less but these are actual bars/packs I believe you can get for this allowance and their syns.

• Cadbury buttons a 14.4g bag – 4
• Chomp, a standard 12g bar – 3
• Freddo – 5
• Mini eggs – 1 each
• One Ferrero Rocher – 4
• One Lindt Lindor ball – 4
• Fun size bars: Maltesers and Twix – 5, Mars bars – 4, Milky Way – 3.5, Snickers – 4.5
• Milkybar (12g bar) – 3.5
• Skinny bars: crunch – 3, Dreams – 4.5

Sweets

These are better calculated as individual sweets, so here are some sweets for under 5 syns. Of course, not all you could have but a few we like in our house so you might like too.

• Aniseed ball – 1.5
• Bonbon – 1.5
• Flying saucer – 0.5
• Jelly baby – 1
• Cola Bottle – 0.5
• Werther’s original sugar-free – 1

Cakes

There are not many cakes that you can enjoy for under 5 syns guilt-free, but here are a few we love and you may enjoy!

There are a lot of cakes you can have 25g of for approximately 5 syns including Battenberg, angel cake, Carrot cake (though my healthier version is better!), Bakewell tart and chocolate fudge cake. Here are some other approximate choices, of course all brands are slightly different.

• Mini chocolate brownie – 3
• Chocolate cornflake cake – 3
• Chocolate crispy cake like the kids make – 3.5
• Bitesize flapjack – 4
• Mini ring doughnut – 3
• Jam and cream mini roll – 5

Jelly

Jelly is a popular snack on Slimming World because it is generally quite low-syn and also sweet. Here are a few choices for under 5 syns.

• Jelly cubes, 25g of cubes as sold – 3.5
• Ready-to-eat pot – 4
• No added sugar ready-to-eat jelly pot – 0.5
• Hartley’s sugar-free jelly crystals – 1.5 syns (11.5g sachet)

Ice-cream

Ice-cream is generally hard to get under 5 syns but here are some choices that may help!

Skinny Cow Lollies

• Skinny Cow ice cream sandwich with chocolate biscuits – 6 each
• Skinny Cow Mini caramel bite lollies – 3.5 each
• Skinny Cow Caramel shortcake ice cream lollies from triple pack – 4.5 each

Halo Top Ice cream syns

As you can see below there is a huge variety of flavours and you can enjoy 100ml for the following syns

• Halo top Cinnamon roll, Vanilla Bean, Red velvet, Candy bar and Strawberry cheesecake flavours – 4
• Halo top chocolate, oatmeal cookie, cookies and cream, sea salted caramel peanut butter cup, toasted coconut (dairy free) and sea salt (dairy free) – 3.5
• Halo Top Birthday cake flavour and Chocolate (dairy free) – 3

The Halo Top ice cream is amazing and doesn’t taste low-fat at all so I would definitely recommend trying it for a nice treat.

Yoghurts and chocolate desserts

• Muller light yoghurts’ most varieties – 0.5 each.
• Danone Light & Free yoghurts – 0.5-1 each
• Muller light chocolate fix layers – 3.5-5 each

Meringues

Meringues are a great way to add sweetness and crunch to yoghurt or to make a bowl of berries seem so much more special. Large meringue nests are usually around 2.5 each but can depend a little on brands. Mini meringues are around 1 each.

If you want to add a bit of flavour, try some fat-free yoghurt, fromage frais, or quark. Don’t forget too that you can still enjoy cream – try light squirty cream, which only costs about 0.5 for three tablespoons.

My favourite biscuits under 5 syns

Each of these are the syn values for individual biscuits! I am a big biscuit fan so this is helpful to others who like me easily snack on a biscuit or two!

• Mikado sticks – 0.5
• McVities digestive thins and chocolate fingers – 1.5
• Arrowroot and coconut rings – 2
• Oreo (standard not double stuff etc!) and Jaffa cakes – 2.5
• Custard creams, chocolate chip cookies (small biscuit ones not big bakery ones!) and Belvita – 3
• Crunch cream, fig roll or a plain digestive – 3.5
• Chocolate digestive – 4

Gullon sugar-free are a popular brand of low sugar biscuits but some are better than others! Here are the ones I have tried.

• Shortbread -1.5
• Cookies and Maria – 1
• Fibre biscuits and vanilla/chocolate wafers – 2
• Plain digestives – 2.5
• Dark chocolate digestives – 3
• Wholegrain breakfast biscuits – 3.5

Spreads for toast

If you have your healthy extra b choice available still then you might consider having something on toast, there are lots of choices under 5 syns you could try. I love peanut butter on wholemeal toast personally!

Here are a few ideas and their approximate syn values per tablespoon. Pop them on your meal plan!

• Chocolate spread including Nutella – 4
• Jam – 2
• Reduced sugar jam – 1
• Marmalade – 2, reduced sugar – 1.5
• Peanut butter – 4.5, reduced fat – 4
• Marmite – free
• Honey or Golden syrup – 2.5

Savoury snacks for five syns or less

Crackers and crispbreads

Each of these approximate syn values is for one cracker or crispbread.

• Crackerbread – 1
• Melba toast – 0.5
• Large rice cakes – 1.5-2
• Breadsticks, plain – 1, mini – 0.5 and flavoured – 1.5
• Butter puffs – 2.5
• Cream Crackers – 2
• Oatcakes, cheese/seeded – 3, plain – 2.5
• Snack a Jacks jumbo – 2-3
• Snack a Jacks bags – 4-6.

Crisps under 5 syns

There are so many crisps you could have a few from a larger bag of for your syns, but there are some that you can eat the whole bag, even if it is just a small bag! I don’t know about you but I can’t open a bag and just eat a few so I find it easier knowing I can eat the whole bag once I open it! Remember these syns are to the best of my knowledge and you should always check yourself if unsure.

• 3.5 – Snaps spicy tomato (13g) or Pom Bears (13g)
• 4 – Cheetos (15g), French Fries (18g), Pom Bears (15g)
• 4.5 – Twiglets (24g), Skips (17g), French fries (21g), Quavers (16g), Frazzles (18g), Popchips (23g) and Snaps (18g).
• 5.5 syns Quavers (20g) or Snaps (21g)

Popcorn

If popcorn is more your thing here are my favourites.

• Lightly sea salted Propercorn, 20g bag – 4
• Metcalfe’s Skinny popcorn cinema sweet 11g pack – 2.5
• Metcalfe’s Skinny popcorn cinnamon sweet 25g pack – 5.5
• Metcalfe’s Skinny popcorn Sweet and salty 17g pack – 4

Drinks under 5 syns

Beers, Lagers, Ciders and Ales

All these syns are approximate and different brands can vary a little. That said, as you can see there are a selection available under 5 syns for half a pint.

• Ale and beer under 3.5% vol – 3.5
• Ale and beer 3.5%-4.2% vol – 4.5
• Ale and beer 4.2%-4.7% vol – 5
• Cider, reduced alcohol or alcohol-free – 5
• Lager, Reduced alcohol/light – 3.5
• Lager, alcohol-free – 3

Wines

I have a full post about choosing a wine that you may find helpful but these approximate syn values should help. Do check the glass sizes though, these are all for 125ml!

• Bucks Fizz – 3.5
• Red wine, 10-12% vol – 5
• Rose wine, 8-10% vol – 4.5
• Rose wine, 10.5-12.5% vol, – 5
• White wine, 8-10% vol – 4.5
• White wine, 10.5-12.5% vol – 5
• Reduced alcohol wine, 5.5% vol – 3
• Low Alcohol or Alcohol-free wine with 1.2% or less vol – 1.5
• Sparkling wine, champagne/prosecco/cava etc 11-12% vol – 5

Spirits and gin syns

If you find a pre-mixed spirit can which is marked as low calorie or diet it generally will be around 3.5 syns for a 250ml can. Of course, individual ones can be checked on the Slimming World app or website as these are approximate.

If you enjoy spirits with a low-calorie or diet mixer then usually you only count the spirit. Most low-calorie mixers eg diet lemonade, diet Coke etc are free. This means there are so many you can have for five syns or less, these are all for 25ml unless stated otherwise.

• Brandy, Gin, Tequila, Vodka, Whisky, Archers (or other 21% vol schnapps) and Amaretto – 3
• Rum (35-40% vol), Gin liqueurs and Malibu – 2.5
• Martini, dry 50ml – 2.5, sweet 50ml – 4
• Cointreau and Baileys – 4
• Tia Maria – 3.5 and one of my favourites with Diet Coke!

Alcopops

Very rarely are these under 5 syns, check the Slimming World app or website for the syns. A general rule though is, expect them to generally be high!

I want to remind you to drink responsibly and know your limits. For support visit DrinkAware.

Coffees

If you make coffee yourself and use your healthy extra A choice for milk you can have it within your free and A choice allowance, if not here are some approximate syns you may find helpful.

• Cappuccino (skimmed) – 3-5
• Cappuccino (semi-skimmed) – 4-6
• Cappuccino (whole milk) – 5-7.5
• Latte (skimmed) – 3.5-5.5
• Latte (whole milk) – 7-10.5
• Mocha (whole milk) – 10.5-15.5
• Mocha (skimmed) – 9-13.5

So, as you can see it is so much better to make it yourself and you are more likely to get it under 5 syns!

Hot chocolate

There are a number of hot chocolates you can have under 5 syns.

• Highlights hot chocolate (11g) – 2
• Options hot chocolate sachet – 1.5-2
• Options indulgence – 2.5

Milkshake

• Crusha milkshake syrup, no added sugar 25ml – 0.5 syns
• Crusha milkshake syrup 25ml – 2
• Nesquik milkshake powder – 1 per level tsp of all flavours.

How to calculate your syns?

Check how to calculate your syns with my syns calculator.

Slimming World members of course have use of the app but if you are having to budget and let your membership lapse you can keep trying to reach your weight loss goals with a little help.

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