Crumpet help needed please!

[AugustBride]

Hi there,

I am one week into my sf diet, although with no counting points or stress you could hardly call it a diet! I am down 2 1/2 pounds so delighted with that and I am really enjoying eating well!

I have a question though, I am in Ireland so crumpets would not be very popular, in fact I have struggled to find them at all. Anyhow, the only ones I have found are lovely but I just pointed one.... 5 points!!! I nearly fell over! I am eating two a day! Could someone point their crumpets and give me a comparison please. I know points don't count and sf works differently but I am just worried that the 'crumpets' that I am buying here are not what ww intends them to be iykwim?

Thanks in advance guys!

 

[Atomic pink]

Hi Augustbride. Firstly well done on your loss so far - 2.5 lbs in your first week is great. The crumpets I have been eating are between 80 and 90 calories on the whole, if I am going a PP day I count them as 2 PP each so it seems your crumpets might be slightly different. How many calories are yours out of interest? I guess the bottom line is if you are eating them and still losing well it probably doesn't matter.
I find a crumpet is a great way of resisting other naughties when I have a snack attack.

 

[AugustBride]

Hi Atomic,

Thanks for that, I just checked mine... 188kcals and 75g! Maybe they are just big though?

You are so right, they really help me avoid chocolate so that has to be good!

 

[thedemonpigs]

As I am doing my shop online I just had a look, the average crumpets over here weighs about 45g so I think your are just large but then I will sometime have 2 as a snack

 

[AugustBride]

Yeah, maybe you are right. Maybe I can only get MONSTER crumpets in Ireland!

 

[Becktoria79]

Wow those are some huge crumpets! X

 

[Purpled]

I have just looked in my app ( attached part of the list) thy all seem to be 2 or 3 pp

The green are SF and most are 2pp

Can't you just have one crumpet and count it as SF. Rather than 2

 

[Atomic pink]

Something occurred to me about your monster crumpets and has since been bugging me - how do they fit in your toaster??? I know that our normal size crumpets are almost exactly the same width as my toaster so I can't imagine how ones that were any bigger wouldn't get stuck... I clearly need to get out more...

 

[AugustBride]

Ha! You see this is the problem, I don't think they really are crumpets as they don't need to be toasted! They are more pancake-y iykwim!

 

[Purpled]

That is a crumpet

 

[Atomic pink]

Hmmm. I can't imagine an untoasted crumpet being very nice. Maybe they are different... Hmmm.

 

[icklerockchick]

Up here in Scotland we get normal crumpets like that picture the small thick round ones with holes but we also get scotch crumpets which are more like a big thin pancake. From what I could see on the app both kinds were free on simply filling! :-D I try not to go too crazy especially with the scotch ones as the other ones are more filling but I could easily eat loads of the pancake type scotch crumpets! X

 

[icklerockchick]

Oh and yeh I would always toast a crumpet but never toast a scotch crumpet so maybe it's same thing! X

 

[AugustBride]

Icklerockchick, that founds exactly like the crumpets I am getting! Flat and pancake-y!

 

[Atomic pink]

I am glad this mystery is solved! I was thinking about it far too much for my own good!

 

[Purpled]

I am glad this mystery is solved! I was thinking about it far too much for my own good!

I am also intrigued!
I googled scotch crumpets and this was the image.....

 

[sarah88]

That just looks like a pancake

 

[Purpled]

A pancake with crumpet air holes!

 

[sarah88]

A pancake with crumpet air holes!

Yeah, I just googled and couldn't find anything else so it must be that

 

[Purpled]

Yeah, I just googled and couldn't find anything else so it must be that

I will try one next time I'm I'm Scotland