Slimming World announced changes to Healthy Extra A’s back in November 2018. The key changes they noted were:
- An additional Healthy Extra ‘a’ choice each day on the Extra Easy plan for even more calcium and choice (Healthy Extra choices are those foods that, alongside our famous Free Food, support an overall healthy balanced diet by providing calcium, fibre, other essential minerals and healthy oils)
- To boost calcium intake, there’s an increase in the amount of whole cow’s milk, to 200ml per day within the Healthy Extra ‘a’ allowance
- As more products are now available in the market, the overall average nutrition profile of rice and almond milk has changed, so Healthy Extra ‘a’ portions of these have decreased to 225ml and 400ml respectively
- Some products, including sweetened dairy-free milk, reduced-fat/light soft cheese and soft goat's cheese, are no longer classed as Healthy Extras.
Source: Slimming World website.
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Milk Allowances:
- Cows milk - full fat whole milk (200ml)
- Cows milk - semi-skimmed (often called low fat) (250ml)
- Cows milk - skimmed (350ml)
- Mozzarella cows milk (50g)
- Goats milk – whole (200ml)
- Goats milk – skimmed (400ml)
- Goats milk – semi skimmed (275ml)
Non-Dairy Milk Allowances:
- Almond milk unsweetened (400ml)
- Coconut milk with calcium unsweetened (400ml)
- Oat milk - whole (200ml)
- Oat milk - semi skimmed (275ml)
- Oat milk - skinny (350ml)
- Rice milk (225ml)
- Soya milk (400ml)
Cheese (Dairy)
- Cheddar (30g)
- Cheddar reduced fat/light (40g)
- Easy singles - light x 3
- Edam cheese (35g)
- Feta/Greek - style salad cheese reduced fat/light (65g)
- Goats cheese hard (30g)
- Gouda (30g)
- Halloumi - standard (35g)
- Halloumi reduced fat (45g)
- Manchego (25g)
- Mozzarella (50g)
- Mozzarella reduced fat (70g)
- Paneer (40g)
- Parmesan cheese / Parmigiano Reggiano (30g)
- Ricotta (90g)
Branded Cheeses
Dairylea brand:
- Dairylea Cheese Slices - original (2 x 25g)
- Dairylea Cheese Spread - original (50g)
- Dairylea Cheese Spread - light (80g)
- Dairylea Cheese Triangles - light (4 x 15.6g)
- Dairylea Cheese Triangles - original (3 x 15.6g)
Cheestrings brand:
- Kerry Cheestrings Original (2 x 20g)
- Kerry Cheestrings Spaghetti (2 x 17g)
- Kerry Cheestrings Strong (2 x 20g)
- Kerry Cheestrings Twisted (2 x 20g)
- Kerry Cheestring Minis, Original (4 x 10g)
- Kerry Cheestring Minis, Emmental (4 x 10g)
Laughing Cow brand:
- The Laughing Cow Cheese Triangles - original (2 x 17.5g)
- The Laughing Cow Cheese Triangles - light (5 x 17.5g)
- The Laughing Cow Cheese Triangles with Emmental - light (5 x 16g)
- The Laughing Cow Cheese Triangles - extra light (6 x 17.5g)
- The Laughing Cow Cheese Triangles with mature cheddar - light (5 x 16g)
- The Laughing Cow Cheese Triangles with blue cheese - light (5 x 16g)
- The Laughing Cow Light Creamy Cheese Spread (75g)
