Anyone do SP days? Meal ideas needed. | Mumsnet (2024)

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What to eat on an SP day? ›

On an SP Day, the focus shifts towards boosting weight loss by prioritizing Speed Foods and Protein Foods. Speed Foods are fruits, vegetables, and certain other ingredients that are low in energy density and high in nutrients. Find out more about Speed Food here.

You could have the occasional free food e.g. A banana, but if you have white carbs they must be syned, e.g. Spuds, pasta, couscous and on an sp day the Syns are high. It needs planning, you need to think ahead for alternatives if you like mullers or mug shots.

It's quite straightforward really and is centred around the principle that you fill your plate only with S and P foods (speed and protein). So that means no potatoes, rice, pasta, Muller Lights, or other regular free foods that you might have at meal times.

You can have ff yogurt but it will need to be a high protein 'P' version which is usually Greek Yogurt - I get mine from lidl but suggest you use the app and check as not all are (could t find a single P yogurt in Aldi).

As above, Slimming World members can choose from a long list of Speed Foods in the Free Food category. Go big on lean meat, fish, fruit, veg, eggs, rice and potatoes. Here's a handy guide for you to keep close.

You can have baked beans though as they are a p food.

* An Extra Easy SP day will allow two Healthy Extra 'a' choices and only one Healthy Extra 'b' choice but the daily syn allowance will be capped at 10.

You can have mushy peas on SP days, as they are Protein.

“Every year SW receive updated nutrition information about basic foods – from apples to yams – which SW check all our Free Food products against. And, based on this new information, we delighted to let you know that blueberries qualify as a Speed Free Food.”

Slimming World Free Foods include:

rice. pasta. potatoes. beans and lentils.

Are baked beans free on Slimming World? ›

The long list of Slimming World Free Foods includes fruit and veg, lean meat and fish, eggs and poultry, beans and lentils – and even pasta and rice!

On the Slimming World website they state you may enjoy ONE Healthy Extra B portions per day. So for example if you enjoy 2 weetabix for breakfast, any other fibre products such as bread, cereal, nuts etc. must be included in your Syn allowance.

Just make sure that 50% of your plate truly is protein source or you'll get hungry! just remembered why re yoghurts - they aren't speed or protein. Thats why they need synning. Arla protein pots are quark based though so they are ok to use, as is quark itself, with something to sweeten it.

Yoghurt is known for having a lot of probiotic calcium. It has a significant impact on both your teeth and your body as a whole. However, when you eat it on an empty stomach, your stomach acid destroys the beneficial bacteria, rendering them useless.

Complex carbs and lighter proteins will give you energy throughout the concert such as yogurt or bananas. And have a healthy snack waiting for you afterwards as well because orchestra performers have been known to eat each other after performances!

Go with foods like oatmeal with banana slices, bread/toast, a white bagel with peanut butter, white rice and a sports drink or a pulp-free fruit juice. And be sure to drink 500 to 700 ml of fluids at least three hours before your race to stay hydrated.