lellykins88
Bear-nana
Does anyone know of any good - low synned - smoothie recipes that they use?
tia x
tia x
Smoothies?
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lickthelid
Lives here....
Most smoothies, even home made attract a lot of syns because of blending fruit. If you want to make them I'd suggest using almond milk instead of normal milk. You get a lot more for your hex. A whole litre for unsweetened!!
soshbfly
Silver Member
I'm confused about this one lickthelid.
I love my nutri-bullet & make green (spinach & kale mostly) juices using water only & all speed veg. Have also made an all-berry smoothie with my unsweetened almond milk allowance. Should I be counting these as syns? I haven't done as all ingredients speed or free.
Thanks!
I love my nutri-bullet & make green (spinach & kale mostly) juices using water only & all speed veg. Have also made an all-berry smoothie with my unsweetened almond milk allowance. Should I be counting these as syns? I haven't done as all ingredients speed or free.
Thanks!
lickthelid
Lives here....
It's a contentious one this @soshbfly
Blended veg, so your spinach and kale, will still be free.
Any fruit added should technically be synned. That's because of the high sugar content of fruit and how blending (and in fact cooking or pureeing) reduces the volume so it's less satisfying. It is much easier to blend and eat lots of fruit than eat it in its raw state so it's easy to over eat. Veg doesn't have the same problem which is why home made soup is also free but cooked fruit isn't.
However as I said its contentious. Personally i think, as long as you don't blend more than you would actually eat then it's a tweak and you can monitor your losses however if you are chucking in loads of extra fruit thinking its a good way to get it All in then that's a problem.
I know people who would disagree with me but I say each to their own!!
Blended veg, so your spinach and kale, will still be free.
Any fruit added should technically be synned. That's because of the high sugar content of fruit and how blending (and in fact cooking or pureeing) reduces the volume so it's less satisfying. It is much easier to blend and eat lots of fruit than eat it in its raw state so it's easy to over eat. Veg doesn't have the same problem which is why home made soup is also free but cooked fruit isn't.
However as I said its contentious. Personally i think, as long as you don't blend more than you would actually eat then it's a tweak and you can monitor your losses however if you are chucking in loads of extra fruit thinking its a good way to get it All in then that's a problem.
I know people who would disagree with me but I say each to their own!!
soshbfly
Silver Member
Very helpful - thanks!! I did search after reading this post & ur right... Many differing views on this. I only had 1cup of berries so not thinking this warrants a syn. That said, the most syns I've had per day is 3 so far.
Will check in with consultant on Monday & follow her lead. Want to do this as well as I can so plan to follow all the rules (regardless of whether they make sense or not )
Will check in with consultant on Monday & follow her lead. Want to do this as well as I can so plan to follow all the rules (regardless of whether they make sense or not )
lellykins88
Bear-nana
I don't have tips on green smoothies but in regards of fruit ones I wrote down all syn values of frozen fruit and just worked out a smoothie that was no more than 3/4 syns so I can have 1 a day.
