Can I Eat Breakaway Chocolate Bars On The Slimming World?

One of the great advantages to going to the slimming world diet is that it doesn't restrict any food groups, allowing you to eat your favourite chocolate bars like a Breakaway without any guilt, but you do need to track it syns.

Breakway chocolate bars have 5 syns a biscuit bar, making them quite high in syns for a small chocolate bar, you could have up to three Breakway bars before using up all your 15 daily syn allowance.

To find out more about why Breakaway bars are so high in syns, other syn values of Nestle chocolate bars and some low syn chocolate biscuit alternatives, we've put together a guide with everything you need to know below.

Why Are Breakway Chocolate Bars So High In Syns?

At 5 syns a biscuit bar, Breakaway chocolate bars are very high in syns, just three would take up all of your syn allowance.

These biscuit bars get their high syn value from the biscuit and chocolate inside which is made from oats and wheat, this gives the bar a high-fat content of 5g a bar.

This doesn't mean you can't enjoy the occasional breakaway chocolate bar, but you should be mindful of how many you are consuming on the SW plan.

Nestle Chocolate Bar Syn Values

Breakway only has their single variation of their biscuit chocolate bar, but Nestle who own Breakway have a large range of chocolate bars, we've listed some below with their syn values to help you compare.

• Aero Bubbly Peppermint Mint Chocolate Bar Multipack 4 Pack (4 x 27g) - 7 syns.
• Toffee Crisp Milk Chocolate Biscuit Bar Multipack 7 Pack - 5 syns.
• Milkybar White Chocolate Medium Bar 25g - 7 syns.
• Caramac Caramel Chocolate Bar 30g - 8.5 syns.
• Animal Bar Milk Chocolate Bar 19g - 5 syns.
• Nestle Lion Bar Caramel & Chocolate Cereal 250g - 6 syns.
• Nesquik Breakfast Cereal Bars 6 × 25g (150g) - 5 syns.
• Smarties Milk Chocolate Sharing Bar 100g - 4.5 syns.
• Crunch Milk Chocolate Sharing Bar 100g PMP £1 - 4 syns for three pieces.
• Yorkie Milk Chocolate Bar 46g - 12.5 syns.

Low Syn Alternatives To Breakaway Chocolate Bars

If you find Breakaway chocolate bars to be too high in syns, we've listed some low syn alternatives for you to check out below which will help fix your chocolate bar craving.

• Kit Kat 2 Finger Milk Chocolate Biscuit Bar 20.7g - 5 syns.
• Blue Riband Milk Chocolate Wafer Biscuit Bar Multipack 8 Pack - 4.5 syns.
• McVitie's Hobnobs Milk Chocolate 262g - 5 syns.
• OREO Original Vanilla Sandwich Biscuits 154g - 2.5 syns.
• Tunnock's Real Milk Chocolate Caramel Wafer Biscuits 8 x 30g - 12 syns.
• Cadbury Mini Fingers Biscuits Bag 115.8g (6x19.3g) - 5 syns.
• McVitie's Club Orange Chocolate Biscuit Bars 8pk - 6 syns.
• Kit Kat 2 Finger Orange Chocolate Biscuit Bar Multipack 9 Pack - 5 syns.
• Twix Chocolate Biscuit Fingers Multipack 9 x 23g - 6 syns.
• Cadbury Snack Shortcake Chocolate Biscuit 6 Pack 120g - 5 syns.
• Wagon Wheels 6 Jammie - 8 syns.
• Bahlsen Choco Leibniz Milk Chocolate Biscuit 125g - 7 syns for two.
• McVitie's Club Mint Chocolate Biscuit Bars 8pk - 5.5 syns.
• Kellogg's Special K Chocolate Biscuit Moments Snack Bar, 25g (Pack of 5) - 5 syns.
• Kinder Happy Hippo Chocolate Biscuit Single Bar 20.7g - 6 syns.
• Aldi Belmont Biscuits 9 Milk Chocolate Wafer Bars 173g - 5 syns.
• Cadbury Sandwich Snack 22g - 5 syns.
• Aldi Belmont Biscuits 6 Chunky Biscuit Bars Covered In Milk Chocolate - 6.5 syns.

Final Words

Overall, Breakaway chocolate bars are high in syns, having 5 syns a biscuit bar allowing you to have up to three before using up all your daily syn allowance, they are also high in fat so we recommend eating them in moderation.

To save syns we suggest checking out our low syn alternative chocolate biscuit bars above which start as low as 2.5 syns.