Interestingly, following an earlier thread somewhere about using cous cous as 'porridge' for breakfast, which we thought was a brilliant idea for when we're away in November, with only a kettle (you know what I mean!), we thought we'd take it further - sweet cous cous as a dessert.
So, for the Ruby Anniversary Party, one of the things we made was what we called a 'Jewelled Couscous Strawberry Dessert' which consisted of:- Made up CC + 2 Activia strawberry yogs + strawberry flavouring + red food colour (in honour of the Ruby theme - a big mistake this, it turned it a rather gory pink!) + chopped strawberries and sweetener, all mixed together, spread out in a flan dish (to make it easier to cut up), and decorated with half strawberries and pomegranate seeds. (Sorry, TMI, but I need to make my point!).
We labelled it as Zero syns (which should have been qualified with 'on green or EE'), but were immediately told that, as we were using it in a different way, ie sweet not savoury, it would have to be synned!
Have had a chance to discuss it with our Consultant since, telling her that we were intending to use it as porridge whilst we're away, 'cos we can't find anything else that we can have HOT without a microwave. She said fine if it didn't affect our weight loss, but using ANYTHING in a way that was not intended meant that you did have to syn it, because you COULD eat a lot more than was advised.
We did syn the polenta muffins that we took, but afterwards wondered about the 'Smash pizza base'. It IS all very confusing, and I totally understand Wishfairies disappointment over the couscous cake. We felt just the same, although I don't think we'd have eaten too much of the dessert, it was a bit 'rubbery' having been left to set solid in the flan dish - and we'd been worried about it falling to pieces!!!
Anymore info gratefully received! (You deserve a medal if you've read all this!!!)