Where the bargains are at and anything else thats useful.

1 Shredded Wheat and 1 Ryvita Breaks
Nestle - 28g Shredded Wheat Bitesize / Organic
Nestle - 28g Shredded Wheat Fruitful and 1 Ryvita Crispbread
Nestle - 28g Shredded Wheat Honey Nut
Nestle - Lidl - 2 Bixies, Whole Wheat Biscuits
Lidl - 25g sachet Sirius Sugar free Muesli with Nuts & Almonds and 1 Ryvita
Lidl - 3 Grafschafter Sesame Crispbreads
Lidl - 4 Grafschafter Milky Crispbreads
Mornflake - 27g sachet Organic Oats to Go
Mornflake - 28g Extra Luxury Raisin, Almond and Cranberry Cereal & 1 Ryvita Original / Dark Rye / Sesame
Mornflake - 28g Extra Special High Fibre Cereal & 1 Ryvita Crispbread
Mornflake - 28g Oatbran Flakes / Apple & Sultana Oatbran Flakes
Nature's Path - 28g Heritage Bites
Nature's Path - 28g Heritage Flakes
Nature's Path - 28g Heritage Spelt, Quinoa & Kamut Multigrain Cereal
Nature's Path - 28g Oaty Bites and 1 Oat/Scan Bran
Nestle - 28g Shreddies (Honey or Plain) and 1 Ryvita High Fibre Crackerbread ** New **
Nestle - 28g Wholegrain Clusters and 1 Ryvita High Fibre Crackerbread
Nestle - 28g Weetos Multigrain Stars Cereal and 1 Ryvita Original/Dark Rye/Sesame
Orgran - 3 Thick Slice Corn Cakes
Pertwood - 28g Muesli with Fruit and Seeds, Organic, Wheat Free
Pertwood - 28g Organic Maple Flakes, Wheat Free
Pertwood - 28g Organic Wheat Free Muesli with Fruit
Pertwood - 28g Original Organic Barley Flakes, Wheat Free
Pogen - 3 Wholegrain Krisprolls
Quaker - 27g sachet Original Oatso Simple and 1 Oat/Scan Bran
Quaker - 27g sachet Original Oatso Simple and 1 Ryvita High Fibre Crackerbread
Quaker - 28g Fruit and Nut Muesli Cereal and 1 Ryvita Hugh Fibre Crackerbread ** New **
Quaker - 28g Oat Crisp
Quaker - 28g Oat Crunch and 1 Oat/Scan Bran
Quaker - 28g Oat Krunchies and 1 Ryvita High Fibre Crackerbread
Quaker - 28g Puffed Wheat and 2 Oat/Scan Bran
Quaker - 32g sachet Original Take Heart and 1 Oat/Scan Bran
Ready Brek - 28g Original and 1 Ryvita High Fibre Crackerbread
Ready Brek - 30g sachet Original and 1 Ryvita Original/Dark Rye/Sesame
Real Foods - 5 Corn Thins, Cracked Pepper & Lemon
Real Foods - 5 Thins, Original
Real Foods - 5 Corn Thins, Sesame
Ryvita - 2 Breaks
Ryvita - 2 Muesli Crunch
Ryvita - 2 Original / Dark Rye / Sesame
Ryvita - 2 Pumpkin Seed and Oats Crispbreads
Ryvita - 3 Multigrain
Ryvita - 3 Sunflower Seeds Crispbreads
Ryvita - 30g bag mini Ryvitas, all varieties
Ryvita - 4 Original / Dark Rye / Sesame
Ryvita - 7 High Fibre Crackerbread
Sainsbury - 28g Freefrom, Fruit & Nut Muesli & 1 Oat/Scan Bran
Sainsbury - 28g Fruit & Nut Muesli and 1 Oat/Scan Bran
Sainsbury - 28g Kids Caramel Stars with Prebiotic & 1 Ryvita High Fibre Crackerbread
Sainsbury - 28g So Organic, Swiss Style Muesli & 1 Oat/Scan Bran
Sainsbury - 28g Swiss Style Muesli & 1 Oat/Scan Bran
Sainsbury - 28g Wheat Flakes with Oat Bran, Be Good To Yourself
Sainsbury - 28g Wholegrain Blueberry Wheats and 1 Ryvita Original/Dark Rye/Sesame
Scott's - 30g sachet Original Flavour So Easy and 1 Oat/Scan Bran
Somerfield - 28g A C E Balance
Somerfield - 28g Good Intentions Cranberry and Apple Granola
Somerfield - 28g Healthy Choice Sultans Bran & 1 Ryvita Crispbread
Somerfield - 28g Healthy Choice, Bran Flakes
Somerfield - 3 Healthy Choice Dark Rye Crispbread
SunnyBisk - 2 Wheat Biscuits

 
HxB cereal bars for either day:

Alpen - 2 Alpen Light Cereal Bars (21g bars, any variety)
Gillian McKeith - 1 Gillian McKeith's You Are What You Eat Cranberry Cereal Bar (25g bar)
Kellogg's - 1 Kellogg's All-Bran Honey & Oat Bar (27g bar)
Ryvita - 1 Ryvita Luxury Goodness Bar (35g bar, any variety)
Ryvita - 2 Ryvita Goodness Bars (23g bars, any variety)
Sainsbury - 1 Sainsbury BGtY Apple and Blackcurrant Multigrain + Prebiotic Cereal Bar (25g)
Sainsbury - 1 Sainsbury BGtY Apricot and Peach Multigrain + Prebiotic Cereal Bar (25g)
Sainsbury - 1 Sainsbury BGtY Honey, Nut and Seed Cereal bar (32g bar)
Sainsbury - 1 Sainsbury BGtY Maple Multigrain + Prebiotic Cereal Bar (25g)
Sainsbury - 1 Sainsbury BGtY Pink Grapefruit Multigrain + Prebiotic Cereal Bar (25g)
Slimming World - HiFi bar (any variety)
Something Xtra - 1 Something Xtra Cranberry & Chocolate Cereal Bar (32g bar)
 
HXA MILK choices for either day:

130ml Sheep's milk
175ml Whole Milk
200ml Goat's Milk
250ml Calcium-enriched rice milk
250ml Calcium-enriched soya milk, sweetened
250ml Semi-Skimmed Goat's Milk
250ml Semi-Skimmed Milk
350ml Calcium-enriched soya milk, unsweetened
350ml Skimmed Milk
Cravendale - 200ml Hint of Vanilla Purfiltre Milk
Cravendale - 200ml Hint of Wild Strawberry Purfiltre Milk
Flora - 250ml Pro Activ Semi Skimmed Milk Drink
Flora - 350ml Pro Activ Skimmed Milk
Grano Vita - 250ml No Added Sugar, Calcium Enriched Soya Milk Drink
Lactofree - 250ml Semi-Skimmed Milk
Rice Dream - 250ml Non-Dairy Alternative to Milk, Original with added calcium
So Good - 250ml Low fat Soya Milk
So Good - 350ml Fat Free Soya Milk
The One - 250ml 1% Fat Soya Milk

 
HXA CHEESE choices for either day:

28g Cheddar
28g Double Gloucester
28g Edam
28g Emmental
28g Gouda
28g Gruyere
28g Parmesan
42g Feta
42g Mozzarella
42g Reduced Fat Cheddar
42g Reduced Fat Cheshire
Aldi - 28g Specially Selected Parmigiano Reggiano Cheese
Aldi - 3 slices Westacre Light Cheese Singles, 10 pack
Aldi/Westacre - 4 x 14g Cheesy Triangles, Reduced fat (12 pack)
Babybel - 2 Mini Cheddar Cheeses
Babybel - 2 Mini Cheeses
Babybel - 2 Mini Emmental Cheese Portions
Babybel - 3 Mini Light Cheeses
Cathedral City - 42g Lighter Mature Yet Mellow Cheddar
Dairylea - 2 Rippers
Dairylea - 2 x 25g Light Cheese Slices
Dairylea - 3 x 14g Original Triangles
Dairylea - 2 Tribites
Dairylea Dairylea - 3 x 22.5g Light Triangles
 
Galaxy Foods - 3 Slices Cheddar Style Vegetarian Rice Slices (8 pack)
Galaxy Foods - 3 Slices Cheddar Style Vegetarian Veggie Slices (8 pack)
Galaxy Foods - 3 Slices Mozzarella Style Vegetarian Rice Slices (8 pack)
Galaxy Foods - 4 slices Cheddar Style Vegan Soya Slices (8 pack)
Galaxy Foods - 4 slices Mozzarella Style Vegan Soya Slices (8 pack)
Galbani Grana - 28g Padano Cheese
Golden Vale - 2 x 21g sticks Light Original Cheesestrings
Heartfelt - 42g Full Flavoured Cheese, 5% Fat
Laughing Cow - 5 x 17.5g Light Triangles
Laughing Cow - 6 x 17.5g Extra Light Triangles (from 8 big portions box)
Leerdammer - 42g Lightlife Cheese
LesKol - 42g l Half Fat Cheese Alternative
President - 2 Emmental Cheese Slices, Light
President - 2 Light Cheese slices
President - 8 Light Mini Mozzarella Balls
Primula - 85g Cheese Spread, Light, Only 6% Fat
Sainsbury - 2 x 24g slices Be Good to Yourself Cheddar Cheese Slices (10 pack) all varieties
Sainsbury - 28g Italian Grated Parmigiano Reggiano Cheese
Sainsbury - 4 x Cheese Triangles (8/16 pack)
Somerfield - 28g Applewood Cheddar
The Cheese Company - 71g Cheese, Less Than 3% Fat
Weight Watchers - 4 x Cheese Triangles (8 Pack)
 
Working out your Club 10 target.
To find out what 10% means for you, convert your stones into pounds and divide by 10.

IE...

If you weigh 12st 10lb Multiply the 12 st by 14 = 168lbs plus the 10lbs = 178
Divide by 10 = 17.8 lbs
  • Round it up to 18 lbs
So you'd need to lose 18lbs to get to your club 10 target, and your new weight would be 11st 6lbs.
 
I know this is more like a book than a post but I thought it was interesting.

Why The Scale Lies-by Renee Cloe, ACE Certified Personal Trainer

We’ve been told over an over again that daily weighing is unnecessary, yet many of us can’t resist peeking at that number every morning. If you just can’t bring yourself to toss the scale in the trash, you should definitely familiarize yourself with the factors that influence it’s readings.

From water retention to glycogen storage and changes in lean body mass, daily weight fluctuations are normal. They are not indicators of your success or failure. Once you understand how these mechanisms work, you can free yourself from the daily battle with the bathroom scale.

Water makes up about 60% of total body mass. Normal fluctuations in the body’s water content can send scale-watchers into a tailspin if they don’t understand what’s happening. Two factors influencing water retention are water consumption and salt intake. Strange as it sounds, the less water you drink, the more of it your body retains. If you are even slightly dehydrated your body will hang onto its water supplies with a vengeance, possibly causing the number on the scale to inch upward. The solution is to drink plenty of water.

Excess salt (sodium) can also play a big role in water retention. A single teaspoon of salt contains over 2,000 mg of sodium. Generally, we should only eat between 1,000 and 3,000 mg of sodium a day, so it’s easy to go overboard.
Sodium is a sneaky substance. You would expect it to be most highly concentrated in salty chips, nuts, and crackers. However, a food doesn’t have to taste salty to be loaded with sodium.
A half-cup of instant pudding actually contains nearly four times as much sodium as an ounce of salted nuts, 460 mg in the pudding versus 123 mg in the nuts.

The more highly processed a food is, the more likely it is to have a high sodium content. That’s why, when it comes to eating, it’s wise to stick mainly to the basics: fruits, vegetables, lean meat, beans, and whole grains. Be sure to read the labels on canned foods, boxed mixes, and frozen dinners.

Women may also retain several pounds of water prior to menstruation. This is very common and the weight will likely disappear as quickly as it arrives. Pre-menstrual water-weight gain can be minimized by drinking plenty of water, maintaining an exercise program, and keeping high-sodium processed foods to a minimum.

Another factor that can influence the scale is glycogen. Think of glycogen as a fuel tank full of stored carbohydrate. Some glycogen is stored in the liver and some is stored the muscles themselves. This energy reserve weighs more than a pound and it’s packaged with 3-4 pounds of water when it’s stored. Your glycogen supply will shrink during the day if you fail to take in enough carbohydrates. As the glycogen supply shrinks you will experience a small imperceptible increase in appetite and your body will restore this fuel reserve along with it’s associated water. It’s normal to experience glycogen and water weight shifts of up to 2 pounds per day even with no changes in your calorie intake or activity level. These fluctuations have nothing to do with fat loss, although they can make for some unnecessarily dramatic weigh-ins if you’re prone to obsessing over the number on the scale.

Otherwise rational people also tend to forget about the actual weight of the food they eat. For this reason, it’s wise to weigh yourself first thing in the morning before you’ve had anything to eat or drink. Swallowing a bunch of food before you step on the scale is no different than putting a bunch of rocks in your pocket. The 5 pounds that you gain right after a huge dinner is not fat. It’s the actual weight of everything you’ve had to eat and drink. The added weight of the meal will be gone several hours later when you’ve finished digesting it.

Exercise physiologists tell us that in order to store one pound of fat, you need to eat 3,500 calories more than your body is able to burn. In other words, to actually store the above dinner as 5 pounds of fat, it would have to contain a whopping 17,500 calories. This is not likely, in fact it’s not humanly possible. So when the scale goes up 3 or 4 pounds overnight, rest easy, it’s likely to be water, glycogen, and the weight of your dinner. Keep in mind that the 3,500 calorie rule works in reverse also. In order to lose one pound of fat you need to burn 3,500 calories more than you take in. Generally, it’s only possible to lose 1-2 pounds of fat per week. When you follow a very low calorie diet that causes your weight to drop 10 pounds in 7 days, it’s physically impossible for all of that to be fat. What you’re really losing is water, glycogen, and muscle.

This brings us to the scale’s sneakiest attribute. It doesn’t just weigh fat. It weighs muscle, bone, water, internal organs and all. When you lose "weight," that doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ve lost fat. In fact, the scale has no way of telling you what you’ve lost (or gained).
Losing muscle is nothing to celebrate. Muscle is a metabolically active tissue. The more muscle you have the more calories your body burns, even when you’re just sitting around. That’s one reason why a fit, active person is able to eat considerably more food than the dieter who is unwittingly destroying muscle tissue.

Robin Landis, author of "Body Fuelling," compares fat and muscles to feathers and gold. One pound of fat is like a big fluffy, lumpy bunch of feathers, and one pound of muscle is small and valuable like a piece of gold. Obviously, you want to lose the dumpy, bulky feathers and keep the sleek beautiful gold. The problem with the scale is that it doesn’t differentiate between the two. It can’t tell you how much of your total body weight is lean tissue and how much is fat. There are several other measuring techniques that can accomplish this, although they vary in convenience, accuracy, and cost. Skin-fold callipers pinch and measure fat folds at various locations on the body, hydrostatic (or underwater) weighing involves exhaling all of the air from your lungs before being lowered into a tank of water, and bioelectrical impedance measures the degree to which your body fat impedes a mild electrical current.

If the thought of being pinched, dunked, or gently zapped just doesn’t appeal to you, don’t worry. The best measurement tool of all turns out to be your very own eyes. How do you look? How do you feel? How do your clothes fit? Are your rings looser? Do your muscles feel firmer? These are the true measurements of success. If you are exercising and eating right, don’t be discouraged by a small gain on the scale. Fluctuations are perfectly normal.
 
Jax those are brilliant posts. Thank you xx
 
Jax your a fountain of knowledge.
Ruthy xxx
 
Where have I been the last 4 weeks. Why have I not been on this thread. I am such a dolly honest I just made my self a brew then lost it. I found it in the fridge:rolleyes:. Anyway this thread is amazing thanks nanny and everyone who has posted on here. Just looking through has made me feel there is so much more to eat that is low syn stuff that I eat. I tend to eat the same stuff over and over again I think thats why I got a bit bored. Now I cant wait to get back to it after my holiday I am going to go through this thread again and plan the weeks from it. Finally I am looking forward to starting the diet again.Thanks again for starting the thread Nanny your fab xxx:flowers:
 
So much amazing info here - Thanks
 
:flowers:We wuv u Nanny. xxx Loobylou
 
Awww, Looby thats so sweet, I wub you too! Sonia I am so happy that you like the thread, and it might be a help to you, be sure to post any new ideas, bargains etc that you know of too, wont you? I hope you have a really fab holiday, what am I saying, of course you will your coming to Wales lol. There's nothing wrong with iced tea either son, ha ha.
 
Hey - Ive never really looked through this post properly........ until now! I've just read it and copied and pasted lots of the posts and am going to comprise a shopping list from it. Thanks Nanny - you really are a star xxx
 
Thanks for the asda tip i visited today and stocked up I plan to have 2 each morning for breakfast as i am not a breakfast kinda gal but could manage those as i am used to a CD bar for brekki xxxxx
 
Muller Lights....

Anyone seen these on offer anywhere? I refuse to buy them at full price (50p each!!), but all the offers seem to have ended on them now....... :cry:
 
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