Is Carbonara Sauce Slimming World Friendly? - Our Unofficial Syn Guide!

Carbonara is a popular pasta dish to order when eating out or for an easy homemade dinner, but many people avoid Carbonara when losing weight, due to the sauce often having ingredients such as cheese, and bacon which makes it high in fat.

Carbonara sauce can have varying syns according to how it is made and its ingredients, on average you can expect 100g of this pasta sauce to have around 5 syns, making it fairly high in syns.

To help you out with your weight loss, we've composed a syn guide below taking you through why carbonara sauce is so high in syns, syn values and low syn alternatives, we've also thrown in an SW recipe!

Why Is Carbonara Sauce So High In Syns?

At around 5 syns for 100g, Carbonara sauce is high in syns, allowing you to have up to 300g of the sauce before using all your 15 daily syns on the plan.

Carbonara sauce get's its high syn value from the cheese, butter, cream and other ingredients like bacon, for example, Tesco carbonara sauce has 8g of fat for just a 100g serving!

To keep syns low we recommend making your carbonara sauce at home, choosing a low-fat version or having a smaller portion of the sauce. You can also use bacon medallions which are more SW-friendly.

Syn Values Of Carbonara Sauces

Carbonara sauces can have varying syn values according to the type you choose and their ingredients, we've listed some syn values below of different brands to help you out.

• Dolmio Stir-In Carbonara Pasta Sauce 150g - 5 syns.
•  Tesco Carbonara Sauce 340g - 5 syns.
•  Dolmio Pasta Bake Carbonara Pasta Sauce 480g - 6 syns.
•  Dolmio Pasta Sauce Carbonara 150g - 5 syns.
•  Sainsbury's Carbonara Sauce 350g - 5 syns.
•  Aldi Cucina Carbonara Pasta Sauce 340g - 5 syns.
•  Morrisons Carbonara Pasta Sauce 350g - 6 syns.
•  Sainsbury's Creamy Carbonara Pasta Sauce 430g - 6 syns.
•  Tesco Finest Carbonara Sauce 340g - 5.5 syns.
•  Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Carbonara Sauce 350g - 5.5 syns.
•  Co Op Carbonara Pasta Sauce 300g - 7 syns.
•  Lidl Chef Select Carbonara Pasta Sauce 350g - 11 syns.
•  Co-op Italian Inspired Carbonara Sauce 430g - 6 syns.
•  Sacla' Vegan Carbonara Sauce 350g - 5.5 syns.

Low Syn Alternatives To Carbonara Sauce

If your find Carbonara sauce to be too high in syns, there are lots of other creamy pasta sauces to check out for an easy yummy dinner, we've got some alternatives below.

• Homepride Pasta Bake Sauce Creamy Tomato and Herb 485g - 6.5 syns.
•  Dolmio Pasta Bake Creamy Tomato Pasta Sauce 500g - 4.5 syns.
•  Tesco Creamy Tomato & Herb Pasta Bake Sauce 500g - 4 syns.
•  Aldi Cucina Pasta Bake Sauce Creamy Tomato & Herb 500g - 6.5 syns.
•  Lidl Baresa Creamy Tomato Pasta Bake Sauce 500g - 4.5 syns.
•  Sainsbury's Creamy Tomato Sauce for Pasta Bake 480g - 5.5 syns.
•  Sainsbury's Italian Chicken Alfredo Sauce 226g - 6 syns.
•  GLORIOUS! Pasta Sauce New York Alfredo Sauce 300g - 8.5 syns.
•  Tesco Tomato Mascarpone Pasta Sauce 500G - 5.5 syns.

Our SW Recipe For Carbonara Sauce

If you find store-bought Carbonara pasta sauce to be too high in syns, we recommend making your own carbonara sauce at home which is lower in syns.

This recipe below has no syns too and serves 4.

Ingredients

• Six lean bacon slices or medallions.
•  Three egg yolks.
•  120g of parmesan (healthy extra A)
•  One egg.

Method

1. To begin, dry fry your bacon on medium heat then whisk the egg yolks, egg and cheese in a bowl.
2.  Add the sauce mixture to hot pasta and add in pasta water to loosen it up.
3.  Serve and enjoy!

Final Words

Overall, Carbonara sauce is high in syns, having on average 5 syns for a 100g serving, you could have up to three portions before using all your 15 syns.

To make this pasta sauce lighter we recommend making your own at home, making healthy swaps and taking out the cream to reduce the fat content. The parmesan in carbonara can count as your healthy extra A which can free up syns.