Quorn Picnic eggs make a great snack and are an easy addition to lunches for vegetarians, but on the slimming world plan, you have to make sure you are accounting for the syns these eggs have for them not to affect your weight loss.
Quorn picnic eggs have 1.5 syns per egg, making them an excellent low syn snack to have one or two of when you are feeling peckish.
In our guide below, we will discuss how many Quorn picnic eggs you can have on the slimming world plan, the other syn values of Quorn products and some low syn scotch egg alternatives. We will also throw in our special syn free SW scotch egg recipe.
How Many Quorn Picnic Eggs Can I Eat On The Slimming World Plan?
Since Quorn picnic eggs are 1.5 syns each you could happily have up to 10 of them a day before going over your 15 syn a day allowance. These picnic eggs are a great source of protein and low in fat too, making them generally healthy food as a snack, especially for vegetarians.
Are Meat Or No Meat Scotch Eggs Lower In Syns?
You might be wondering if Quorn scotch picnic eggs are lower in syns than scotch eggs with meat, well, this depends on the size of the egg, for example, most mini scotch eggs have around 1.5-3 syns in which is similar to Quorn picnic eggs, but for a full-sized one, you could be looking at up to 13 syns.
Quorn Food Syn Values
Quorn has a huge range of food and snacks which are a great alternative to meat and often very low in syns, we've listed the rest of the syn values from their range below.
Sainsbury's Egg Bites x12 216g - 2.5 syns per egg.
Sainsbury's Egg Bites, Mini x18 216g - 2 syns per egg.
Sainsbury's On the Go Scotch Egg 113g - 14 syns per egg.
M&S 2 Pork Scotch Eggs - 12 syns per egg.
M&S Mini Snack Eggs - 15 syns for 100g.
M&S Coronation Chicken Scotch Egg - 10.5 syns per egg.
SamosaCo Onion Bhaji Scotch Egg - 8 syns per egg.
Our SW Friendly Scotch Eggs Recipe
If you want to save even more syns you can try making your own slimming world scotch eggs at home, we've listed the recipe details below which has 1.5 syns per serving and serves up to 4 people.
First of all boil your eggs for around 6 minutes then place them into cold water and allow them to cool, peel then set aside for later use.
Blend your bread into breadcrumbs and take the skin off the sausages.
Then blend the sausage, herbs and curry powder until combined, you can also season the mixture at this stage.
Heat your oven to gas mark 4 then flatten your mixture in your hand and wrap it around an egg, repeat this with the other three eggs.
Dip your eggs with the meat case into the whisked eggs then coat in breadcrumbs.
Grease your baking tray with parchment and low cal cooking spray, place the eggs on top and bake for around 20 minutes.
Final Words
Overall, Quorn picnic eggs are great for veggie people on the slimming world diet and aren't too high in syns at only 1.5 syns per egg. We would suggest picking Quorn eggs over meat eggs as they are lower in syns or you could try making your scotch eggs at home which are also only 1.5 syns each.
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