Diet bars

[Megan23]

Has anyone tried skinny diet bars

[BridgeGirl Administrator 2 stone]

I haven't heard of them so I just looked up their ingredients (this is for their meringue bar)

Strawberry Meringue 55% (Caster Sugar, Pasteurised Free-Range Egg White, Natural Flavouring, Colour [Radish Extract], Acidifier [Citric Acid]), Cream Chocolate 41% (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Whole Milk Powder, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Natural Vanilla Flavouring, Cream Powder (Milk), Natural Flavouring), Strawberry Chocolate Drizzle 4% (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Whole Milk Powder, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Natural Vanilla Flavouring, Strawberry Powder).

Hmmm. I try to avoid eating anything if I don't know what it is, and there's an awful lot of sugar in there. I'm not sure how they justify the halo on their advertising.

If you find you're needing to eat between meals, I suggest you try making your meals more filling with protein and healthy fats from natural ingredients. See what others are doing on the Daily Diary: it's a great place to chat about food choices.

This is a good, straightforward, guide phcuk.org/wp-content/upload...

[Lytham 3 stone in reply to BridgeGirl]

How much sugar???? Corr, we're sabotaged even when we try to make the right choices ! How do they sleep at night?x

[TheAwfulToad Visitor in reply to Lytham]

I imagine they sleep very soundly indeed, in very big comfortable beds inside big comfortable houses. There's a lot of money to be made from candy bars with "healthy eating" labels on them...

[Lytham 3 stone in reply to TheAwfulToad]

There should be a law against it, that's exploitation, I hope what goes around comes around! X

[Megan23 in reply to Lytham]

Not sure how much sugar I’ll have a look later I only paid 99p from homebargins for them

[Lytham 3 stone in reply to Megan23]

I used to eat Fibre one bars thinking they were a good option but moreless was saying how much sugar they have in too? I think they mislead us just to sell their products x

[Megan23 in reply to Lytham]

I got some of them real nice and tasty too I think it’s slowly losing the weight my jeans don’t feel tight around the waist and feel comfortable now so I’m looking at that as a positive x

[Lytham 3 stone in reply to Megan23]

Ah that's great news on the jeans front, keep up the good work! x

[Subtle_badger in reply to Megan23]

Only? How many do you get for that? It's nutritionally equivalent to 3 teaspoons of sugar, which is somewhat less than 3p worth, if you buy a kg from Tesco.

[SofaJockey]

Wow, the nutrition charts I looked up cite 40g sugar / 100g. They call these 'diet' bars? Why? Because you need to go on a diet after eating one? I avoid food with more than 5g/100g. These are sugar bombs. 😄

[Megan23 in reply to SofaJockey]

Ok thanks

[PandQs Maintainer 3st 7lbs in reply to Megan23]

Hi Megan,

Best tip I can give you after years of diets, replacement meals, low fat options, is go back to proper unprocessed food. Avoid anything with sugar, flour, rice, pasta, potatoes and believe that healthy fats butter, cream, full fat milk, fat on meat will help you feel full between meals so you don't snack. Eat meat and vegetables, salads, berries, eggs, avocados, cheese, nuts, fish, and enjoy them

[Subtle_badger]

I would stay far away from that company. The dishonesty in calling that junk "skinny" means that you should trust nothing they sell.

Maybe they can be taken to advertising standards?

[TheAwfulToad Visitor in reply to Subtle_badger]

I've tried contacting advertising standards a couple of times about blatant lying in advertisements. They always write back with a bunch of convoluted reasons why lying isn't a big deal.

In any case, the ASA are basically powerless to do anything - the represent a voluntary code of conduct, not The Law.