Hi, does anyone know of an alternative I can have instead of alpen light bars? I like to have one at breakfast time and one later in the day, when I am at work and in a rush. Sometimes I will have another as well as a Syn (think I am a bit addicted) but they are never on offer and I get through so many in a week. Thanks
Alternative to alpen light bars
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alwayssunshine
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As the PP has said, you can have 2 Aldi Harvest Moon 70 cal bars or 2 Nutrigrain breakfast biscuits as a HEB. The only other bars you can have 2 of are Hi-Fi light bars. You can have other cereal bars - e.g., Weetabix Oaty bars, Special K Chewy bars and I think some of The Food Doctor Wholesome Bars count as a HE too. BUT you can only have one of these as a HEB.
Panda_Pig
Slimming Bride to Be
I know what i'm buying in future instead then haha
SlimmingKitchen
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I love the Weetabix oaty bars and the Special K chewy delight bars. Each one is a healthy extra b choice x
WelshJojo
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Oooh! When did the regular alpen bars become a heb??
WelshJojo
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That's what I thought, and it's not in the new book
WelshJojo
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They always used to be a HEB, have they been taken off the list?? Gutted
Really? I've dabbled with SW for many years, and have never known the regular ones to be a heb, only the alpen lites
MissNix
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Am sure they used to be, am going to have a hunt through the old books - or maybe I dreamt it! I've used them and they've never affected my weight loss, but maybe I've just been lucky!!
WelshJojo
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To be honest, even if you've been using one instead of 2 lites, it's still less calories, the main issue will be the extra sugar, and less fibre!
alwayssunshine
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I agree - the Aldi bars are YUM! I love the chocolate and orange ones. And at £1.30 (I think?) for a box of 6, they are cheaper than Alpen Lights too. Although they look smaller, each bar is 21g so 2g bigger than Alpen Lights. They also have 6g of fibre per bar (as opposed to 4g per AL) so I do think the're more filling too.
donna88
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That makes sense, they're smaller but packed full of stuff where as I always find alpen lights a little airy if you know what I mean.
I thought the chocolate orange would be my favourite and I really like them, but the apple and sultana ones are gorgeous! Lucky for me actually as my aldi appear to have stopped stocking the chocolate ones
alwayssunshine
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That makes sense, they're smaller but packed full of stuff where as I always find alpen lights a little airy if you know what I mean.
I thought the chocolate orange would be my favourite and I really like them, but the apple and sultana ones are gorgeous! Lucky for me actually as my aldi appear to have stopped stocking the chocolate ones
I've not tried the apple ones - might give them a go next time I'm there. They don't always have the chocolate ones at my Aldi either. So I tend to buy up their entire stock of them on the rare ocassions they have any in!
