How do you use your Healthy Extras? Let's share ideas.

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I am not very good at using HEA wisely. I really only use it for skimmed milk. If I have cheese I think I could syn the milk and it might mix it up a bit for me......

HEB I have Grape Nuts, All Bran, Crunchy Bran or a Kingsmill Wholemeal Thin......

Any other ideas?

I use hifi light bars as my HEB and milk as HEA.

If I've managed on free foods for meals all day I'll have a baked apple HEB with fat free yogurt in the evening. Sometimes have Covent Gdn wild mushroom soup HEB if no time to make my own soup. I also like ryvita HEB with laughing cow triangles HEA with a salad or free soup .

If having spag bol I'll have half a HEA for 15 g parmesan.

I'm quite repetitive with mine. I have Bran Flakes for my HeB and half the semi-skimmed HeA allowance with that at breakfast. I then have a Babybel Original with my lunch (the other half of my HeA allowance).

I had Lidl Raisin Wheats for breakfast. 35g was a HEB.

Don't get loads but with fruit and yoghurt it was quite a good breakfast.

Overnight oats are yummy - basically your heb oats, a muller or yog of your choice and chopped fruit, covered and refrigerated overnight. It means you save your hea too so you can have it later. Or I like muesli - sugar free alpen light is a b - with grated apple, defrosted mixed berries and either milk or a yoghurt.

The hifi bars are yummy for a b, or two of the alpen lights.

I quite often use 5 or 6 of my daily syns for an 'extra' hex - usually cheese on my spag bol, or similar! 3 babybel lights are good for a lunchbox too.

Great ideas Dream.....

Love overnight oats.

I have 30g cheese (a) with 4 ryvita (b) most days as a mid afternoon snack.

If I'm having a hungry day I'll make a big batch of rice pudding with 1 litre of almond milk (a) to snack on and have a peanut hifi bar (b) in the evening

Overnight oats pancakes.

Soak 35g oats in the yogurt overnight then mix in an egg in the morning. Cook spoonfulls in a hot frying pan. Very like Scotish pancakes. We have them with berries and more yogurt, or sometimes a drizle of honey and chopped banana.

This makes six decent sized pancakes so i have three then have a hifi light at night.

Sometimes i make a layered desert using a muller light yogurt, fruit and a chopped up hifi light bar. Take a large glass dish sprinkle a little chopped choc n orange hifi bar on the bottom, spoon over a heaped spoon of choc n orange yogurt, then layer chopped orange slices, more yogurt, more fruit and finally sprinkle the rest of the hi fi bar.

There's a variation of banoffee using a choc hi fi light bar, toffee muller light yogurt, chopped banana.

I'll sometimes use my HEA for feta in my main meals. Or mozzarella for a pasta bake or homemade pizza.

HEB i've found myself eating weetAbix choc chip minis with a cup of tea as a treat.

I have melon, fat free greek yogurt and my HeB of nutty muesli sprinkled on top for breakfast. I often don't have my HeA apart from a splash of milk in my morning coffee, or some cheese in whatever I'm cooking for tea.

Some great ideas.

If you use your HEA for cheese, do you just syn milk in tea/coffee? What would you count?

I break the rules and split the HEA into half skimmed milk and half low fat cheese. 20g grated low fat mature cheddar finely grated gives quite a nice sprinkle on a spag bol or over a chilli bean casserole.

It's completely fine to split your healthy extras.

I'm pretty boring and tend to use them for toast and milk in coffee.

I have overnight oats or Weetabix muffins as my hexb. I usually have 3 mini babybels lights for my hexa.

I didn't know a kingsmill thin was a b choice so that is worth thinking about. Makes my breakfast choice a bit harder if I don't use my b for that though. I like fruit and fat free yoghurt but it doesn't sit right and can make me feel a bit sick about an hour later.

Forgot, about Grape-nuts cereal, you can have 35g as HEB and its nice as a breakfast cereal or to add crunch in a layered dessert of either fat free yogurt/quark/fromage frais with fruit and sweetener.
I got the Kingsmill Thins but found them too small!!
Have used Bfree foods multigrain wraps too. 1 is a HEB, I only like them if I can warm them up though, otherwise they are weird and papery

Overnight oats for my hexb (or usually 2 hifi bars on a Sunday if we've had a cooked breakfast).
Milk in tea for my hexa almost every day. I sometimes split it and have half as cheese if we've got spag Bol or something.

I split my HEA into 150ml 1% fat lactose free milk, then half the amount of goats cheese, feta or haloumi. My HEB is usually 35g porridge oats, sometimes a slice of rye bread. I have wheat & dairy sensitivities.