✅ Smart Swaps for Slimming:
- Use lean bacon medallions (no fat = syn-free on Extra Easy!)
- Choose wholemeal bread from your Healthy Extra B (HEB) allowance
- Use lighter than light mayo (very low syns)
- Load up on Speed foods like tomatoes and lettuce
🍽️ Ingredients (for 1 sandwich):
- 2 slices wholemeal bread (from 400g loaf) – HEB choice
- 2–3 slices lean back bacon medallions – Syn-free
- 1 medium tomato, sliced – Speed food
- Lettuce leaves – Speed food
- 1 tsp lighter than light mayonnaise – 0.5 syns
- Salt & pepper to taste
- Low-calorie cooking spray (like Frylight)
👩🍳 Instructions:
- Grill or pan-fry the bacon medallions using low-calorie spray until crisp.
- Toast or leave bread untoasted – your preference.
- Spread 1 tsp of lighter than light mayo on one (or both) slices of bread.
- Layer with lettuce, tomato slices, and cooked bacon.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Put it all together and serve!
🔁 Optional Add-ons (Still Slimming Friendly):
- Add sliced red onion, cucumber, or pickles for more speed
- Swap mayo for fat-free plain yogurt with a squeeze of lemon (for a syn-free spread)
💡 Slimming World Syn Estimate:
- Bread: Healthy Extra B (HEB)
- Bacon medallions: 0 syns
- Lighter than light mayo (1 tsp): ~0.5 syns
- Tomato & lettuce: Speed = 0 syns
➡️ Total: 0.5 syns + 1 HEB