BritMumInCanada
Gold Member
I thought I would do a post because I have seen a few errors being made in various places online when calculating syns for foods.
When using the syns calculator for items with a free food allowance or the 20 calories = 1 syn rule of thumb for items with no free food allowance watch your weights.
The nutritional Information given is not always for the whole thing sometimes it is just given for a certain portion or weight.
For instance say an item gives nutritional info for 90g and the syns are 4.5 syns, but the whole box weighs 180g then the total syns for that box is 9 syns.
I have seen many mistakes being made where someone has say had the whole thing and counted it by the nutritional info only for a percentage of the whole thing. When in the example given above would be an extra 4.5 syns they have not counted.
Of course it could even be a whole load more extra syns and all those little mistakes could soon put you hugely over your syn allowance.
So this post is just a little reminder really. I would hate to see anyone making this mistake when trying to give 100% to the plan.
Hope that all makes sense. (am typing this on iPhone, and it is hard work doing long posts)
When using the syns calculator for items with a free food allowance or the 20 calories = 1 syn rule of thumb for items with no free food allowance watch your weights.
The nutritional Information given is not always for the whole thing sometimes it is just given for a certain portion or weight.
For instance say an item gives nutritional info for 90g and the syns are 4.5 syns, but the whole box weighs 180g then the total syns for that box is 9 syns.
I have seen many mistakes being made where someone has say had the whole thing and counted it by the nutritional info only for a percentage of the whole thing. When in the example given above would be an extra 4.5 syns they have not counted.
Of course it could even be a whole load more extra syns and all those little mistakes could soon put you hugely over your syn allowance.
So this post is just a little reminder really. I would hate to see anyone making this mistake when trying to give 100% to the plan.
Hope that all makes sense. (am typing this on iPhone, and it is hard work doing long posts)
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