Hi,
I was buying some treats today and I picked up a Hartley's jelly pot. The whole thing is 10 calories with no sugar and no fat. But its not free. Muller light, which is 95 calories for a pot, and contains 7g of sugar and 0.5 g fat is free? I was really annoyed to find that something with better values than a muller light is not free. If I ate 10 muller lights in a day I would have consumed nearly 1000 calories (half the daily recommended allowance for a woman) I would need to eat 100 jelly pots to achieve the same amount of calories.
What is the logic behind this??? Or is it simply an advertising contract going on here between ML and SW? Calories are still calories at the end of the day. Your body doesn't care whether its a yogurt or a jelly pot, its still going to process the calories the same, so to me personally - it doesn't make sense.
Its not just Muller light to be fair. Other things (like fat free french dressings that are free) when I compare them to other 'lighter' dressings, the 'other' would have lower values, so really - it should be free too? It had less sugar, less fat, less salt - all round better product - so why was it not free!!
HE bug me too. Why are so many cereals, which have the 'wholegrain' tick on them, sinned when cereals like fruit N Fibre counts as a HE? What is it based on? Sugar or fat? There are cereals with less fat than HE ones and yet they don't count as a HE
Anyone know? I am an SW online so don't have a group leader to ask these things to.
x
I was buying some treats today and I picked up a Hartley's jelly pot. The whole thing is 10 calories with no sugar and no fat. But its not free. Muller light, which is 95 calories for a pot, and contains 7g of sugar and 0.5 g fat is free? I was really annoyed to find that something with better values than a muller light is not free. If I ate 10 muller lights in a day I would have consumed nearly 1000 calories (half the daily recommended allowance for a woman) I would need to eat 100 jelly pots to achieve the same amount of calories.
What is the logic behind this??? Or is it simply an advertising contract going on here between ML and SW? Calories are still calories at the end of the day. Your body doesn't care whether its a yogurt or a jelly pot, its still going to process the calories the same, so to me personally - it doesn't make sense.
Its not just Muller light to be fair. Other things (like fat free french dressings that are free) when I compare them to other 'lighter' dressings, the 'other' would have lower values, so really - it should be free too? It had less sugar, less fat, less salt - all round better product - so why was it not free!!
HE bug me too. Why are so many cereals, which have the 'wholegrain' tick on them, sinned when cereals like fruit N Fibre counts as a HE? What is it based on? Sugar or fat? There are cereals with less fat than HE ones and yet they don't count as a HE
Anyone know? I am an SW online so don't have a group leader to ask these things to.
x