If you are always looking for healthier or Slimming World low syn snacks then here is an ultimate list to help you. Of course, it is not all the snacks you could possibly have, but a pretty good list!
All are favourites of mine and my friends so I know you will love them too. There are lots to help with that sugar fix or craving but also some great savoury ideas too.
Perfect for car journeys or when you like a low syn snack to nibble whilst watching the TV.
Disclaimer: Just Average Jen is not connected with any weight loss plan. Please check nutritional values and/or syns yourself as these are approximate to the best of my knowledge.
Low syn popcorns
You could make your own popcorn with 25g of unpopped kernels being approx 4.5 syns and making quite a lot!
If you buy it at the Odeon it could be 61 syns for a large sweet box! Alternatively, here are some easy supermarket buys you could consider.
Metcalfe’s Skinny popcorn syns – all approximate
- Metcalfe’s Skinny popcorn cinema sweet 11g pack – 2.5 syns
- Metcalfe’s Skinny popcorn cinnamon sweet 25g pack – 5.5 syns
- Metcalfe’s Skinny popcorn Sweet and salty 17g pack – 4 syns.
Low syn biscuits
These are just some of the lovely biscuits and such you can enjoy on Slimming World easily within your daily syn allowance. Here are some tasty choices.
Approx syns of Gullon sugar-free products
These are available in a variety of places including B&M bargains and all syn values are approximate.
- Chocolate chip cookies – 2 syns each
- Maria – 1 syn each
- Shortbread biscuits 1.5 syns each
- Cookies 1 syn each
- Fibre biscuits – 2 syns each
- Plain digestives – 2.5 syns each
- Vanilla wafers 2 syns each
- Dark chocolate digestives – 3 syns each
- Chocolate wafers – 2 syns each
- Wholegrain breakfast biscuits – 3.5 syns each.
Approx syns of Mikado sticks
- Mikado sticks 0.5 syns each
- Mikado king double choco 1 syn each
Syns of Pink and Whites (approximate)
- Caxton Pink and Whites less than 2% fat from 6 pack – 2.5 syns
- Caxton Pink and Whites Jammies – 3 syns.
My favourite Cereal bars syns
- Alpen light cereal bars, all flavours, usually around 3 syns each.
- Aldi Harvest Morn Benefit cereal bars, usually around 3 syns each.
My favourite Rice cakes syns
- Snack a jacks jumbo varying from 2-3 syns each.
- Snack a jacks bags varying syns from 4-6 syns a bag.
- Morrisons Sweet and Salty rice cakes, 1.5 syns each approx.
Don’t dismiss these as savoury snacks as well as sweet snacks!
Approx syns for Rainbow drops
These delicious multi-coloured yummy snacks are only around 4.5 syns for 25g and as they are so light that is quite a few!
Low syn dessert recipes
Flavoured Quark syns, fat-free fromage frais or fat-free yoghurt.
Using flavourings to give these syn-free staples a nice flavour is a perfect way to make a delicious dessert whilst using minimal syns.
If you would like to know more about Quark, then check out my Quark guide.
- Flavour Quark with vanilla essence and other similar flavourings from the baking section are usually syn-free.
- Flavour with a hot chocolate sachet from 2 syns.
Slimming World desserts to buy
Approx syns for Muller lights, yoghurts and similar desserts
I love yoghurt in the morning with fruit or as a dessert if I want a sweet treat after the main meal. Why not try freezing them for a different flavour?
- Muller light yoghurts most varieties 0.5 syns each.
- Danone Light & Free Greek-style yoghurts, Blueberry/Vanilla/Lemon flavours 0.5 syns each.
- Danone Light & Free Greek style yoghurts, Strawberry/ Raspberry/ Cherry/ Coconut/ Lavish Lemon/ Blueberry Burst/ Strawberry Sensation/ Peach Passion Fruit flavours 1 syn each.
- Danone Light & Free Icelandic style yoghurt, playfully plain syn free per pot. Raspberry & Blueberry flavours 0.5 syns each.
- Rolo Dessert, 70g pot – 8.5 syns.
- Muller light chocolate fix layers, chocolate and caramel flavour – 3.5 syns, mint chocolate – 4.5 syns, milk chocolate 5 syns.
Approximate Jelly syns
Jelly is a great sweet snack but the syns can vary significantly. A 135g block of jelly cubes is generally around 20 syns, ready to eat jelly in a 125g pot is around 4.5 syns. There are much better choices you could make and here are some popular ones.
- No added sugar ready to eat jelly pot, 175g, usually about half a syn each.
- Hartley’s jelly pots, no added sugar, 125g pots are usually half a syn each in every flavour.
- Hartley’s sugar-free jelly crystals are just 1.5 syns for an 11.5g sachet approx so perfect to make your own jelly.
Approximate meringue syns
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 around 2.5 syns each but can depend a little on brands.
- Mini meringues are around 1 syn each.
For extra flavour add a yoghurt, fat-free fromage frais or quark. If you fancy cream it isn’t off-limits just because you are dieting.
Light squirty cream is usually half a syn for 3 tablespoons
For a few syns, it means you can have lots of squirty cream with strawberries in a meringue nest. What a tasty dessert.
Approx Fibre One bar syns
These are some of our go-to snacks, my favourites are the popcorn ones which are around 4 syns each or you can even have them as your healthy extra b choice!
Low syn Chocolate
The approximate syns for Skinny Bakery low syn chocolate snacks
- Chocolate Pearls 85g pot – 9.5 syns.
- Sweet potato brownies 85g pot – 9.5 syns.
- Chocolate chip cookies 50g pack – 9.5 syns.
Chocolate bars
The following are all approximate as recipes and syns can change.
- Freddo 18g or Caramel 19.5g – 5 syns each. Sprinkles/popping candy 18g, 4.5 syns each, Freddo faces are 1 syn for each face.
- Twirl 34g (from multipack) – 9 syns, treat-size 14g – 3.5 syns
- Flake 25.6g – 6.5 syns.
- Cadbury Buttons 14.4g treat size pack – 4 syns, 24g bag – 6.5 syns, 2 giant buttons for 1.5 syns.
- Crunchie 32g bar – 7.5 syns, 40g bar – 9.5 syns, treat size 17.5g – 4 syns.
- Creme egg standard size 40g – 9 syns.
- Mini Eggs 25g – 6 syns, or around 1 syn per egg.
- Cadbury fudge 25.5g bar – 5.5 syns
- Chomp 23.5g bar – 5.5 syns.
- Nutella B Ready crispy wafer 22g – 5.5 syns.
- Skinny crunch 20g bar – 3 syns or 2 bars for healthy extra b choice
Other low syn chocolate sweet treats
Again these are approximate as recipes vary!
- Chocolate spread including Nutella 4 syns for 1 tbsp, or 1.5 syns for 1 tsp.
- Milk or Dark Chocolate digestive biscuits 4 syns each.
- Chocolate fingers 1.5 syns each.
- Dark Chocolate 25g – 7 syns.
- Chocolate with fruit and nuts (milk or dark) 25g – 6.5 syns.
Low syn Ice Cream and lollies
As recipes can change please take these as approximate and if in doubt check the latest syns yourself.
Skinny Cow Syns
- Mint double chocolate ice cream lollies or vanilla ice cream sandwich with chocolate biscuits, 100ml each – 6 syns.
- Mini caramel bite lollies 3.5 syns each
- Caramel shortcake ice cream lollies from a triple pack 4.5 syns each
Syns of Halo Top ice cream tubs per 100ml
These are my favourite low-calorie ice creams. I am yet to try all flavours but they sound great. My favourite so far is definitely the sea-salted caramel. Remember recipes change so always double check if you are unsure on syns or not losing weight as you would like.
- Cinnamon roll – 4 syns
- Vanilla bean – 4 syns
- chocolate – 3.5 syns
- Birthday cake – 3 syns
- Red velvet – 4 syns
- Oatmeal cookie 3.5 syns
- Cookies and Cream – 3.5 syns
- Candy bar – 4 syns
- Strawberry cheesecake 4 syns
- Sea salted caramel 3.5 syns
- Peanut butter cup – 3.5 syns
- Chocolate dairy free – 3 syns
- Toasted coconut dairy-free 3.5 syns
- Sea salt dairy-free – 3.5 syns
Low syn drinks
If you choose a sugar-free fizzy drink it will almost always be syn-free.
Other syn free drinks for a sugar fix could be tea or coffee with sweetener if you don’t have milk they are often syn free.
Hot chocolate syns
As always, take these as approximate syns!
- Highlights hot chocolate 11g serving – 2 syns.
- Options hot chocolate 11g sachet – 1.5 – 2 syns depending on the flavour
- Options indulgence varieties 2.5 syns.
Milkshake syns
Crusha milkshake syrup, no added sugar version 25ml serving for around 0.5 syns and if using healthy extra a milk it makes a low syn drink.
If you can only get the standard version that is around 2 syns per 25ml. All flavours including cookies and cream have the same syns.
Nesquik milkshake powder, 1 syn per level tsp of all flavours.
Remember you can enjoy your milk as part of your healthy extra A allowance so only need to syn the syrup/powder. Read all the healthy extra A allowances.
Low syn crisps
If you love crisps one of the key things to do is to avoid buying family bags unless you have the willpower to weigh the individual portions out.
Here are some great low-syn crisp choices. Be mindful of the size of the bags you use and that these syns can change so take them as approximations!
- French fries – 4 syns for an 18g bag,4.5 syns for a 21g bag.
- Quavers – 4.5 syns for a 16g bag and 5.5 syns for a 20g bag.
- Snaps spicy tomato crisps (my favourite!) – 3.5 syns for a 13g bag, 4.5 for an 18g bag and 5.5 for a 21g bag.
- Pom bear crisps – 3.5 syns for a 13g bag, 4 syns for a 15g bag and 5 syns for a 19g bag.
Other low syn savoury Slimming World snack ideas
If you want someone a bit more substantial and are tempted for a takeaway then maybe these ideas could help.
- Homemade chips
- Crustless Quiche
- Easy Curry loaf
- Boiled eggs
- Pasta or pasta salad
- Leftovers from the previous meal
- Cooked breakfast using low syn sausages
- Dips and vegetable sticks (easy dip recipes)
- Omelette
- Pickled vegetables
- Savoury rice
- Cottage cheese
- Crab sticks
- Cooked meats
- Chunky vegetable soup or other soups
- Mushy peas
- Couscous a vegetable couscous or a mango couscous is perfect.
- Caribbean rice
- Pizza made with lo dough or bread from your healthy extra allowance for the lowest syn choice.
Remember if you read my unofficial Slimming World guide nothing is off-limits in moderation, just check how the syns of it fit in with your allowance and what you have already eaten that day!
How to calculate approximate syns for Slimming World snacks
If you are looking to eat something which has no free food component then use a simple rule of every 20 calories is one syn.
Additionally, 10 calories is 0.5 syn. So a chocolate bar which is 99 calories is 5 syns as this is so close to 100 calories the difference is negligible. If something is 110 calories then count it as 5.5 syns.
Using this trick makes shopping for snacks really easy as a quick glance gives you an idea of the syns. What are your favourite Slimming World low syn snacks?
If you enjoy baking then you need to add up the syns in each individual ingredient and then divide by the number of portions you make.
Home cooking is so much nicer, isn’t it? How about trying this three-ingredient shortbread? Easy to make and easy to work out the syns for, not only that but delicious too!
Unofficial Slimming World snack tips for low syn snacks 2024 tips
Here are a few tips to help your syns go further.
- Only have 5 syns left? Check out my snacks for around 5 syns or less guide!
- Run out of syns? Check out my favourite syn-free snacks.
- Use fruit to make chocolate go further and cover strawberries etc.
- Adding hot chocolate powder to yoghurt or quark makes a quick, low-syn dessert.
- Using your healthy extra b choice for a syn free sweet fix is great if you have a sweet tooth!
- Cut portions small and put them in the fridge or freezer to make them last longer.
- If you enjoy using syns for nuts, seeds etc then be sure to weigh them out before tucking in. It may help to try things like the Graze boxes as they are conveniently portioned.
- Buy portioned cheese as you can have a cheese fix in a convenient easy way.
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Thanks for all this information. I lost 4 stone but during lockdown have put it all back in plus more. This has really inspired me to start again!!! Thank you!!
Now the kids are going back to school, I really need advice in relation to losing weight so this is great.
Great ideas, I often want something sweet in the evening. Although now at target through Slimming World, I’m at the upper end and do still have to be careful with what I snack on.
Some great ideas, I’m at slimming world and have reached my target weight but sometimes struggle maintaining it as I have a sweet tooth so love your low syn ideas…. brilliant thanks
Dawn