Slim Fast Bar

Advantages: It was free
Disadvantages: it was still too expensive

...writing a review about a slim fast bar? Well I'm afraid I can't answer that. But I can tell you why a fat git like me is writing a review about it. I scored one of these from a freebie site. Why would I do that? because it was free (duh). Yep, I like it when the price is right, and at zilcho spondulas, the price can't get any righter. But even so, was it worth it? Oh the excitement. No sooner had Mr Postie dropped one through my letterbox than ...
...boots and scooped that (hopefully) delicious little bar of dietary goodness into my grubby little mitts. Right... What we have here, is a low-cal, low-carb bar having just 3.5g carbs and 92 kcals in it's 27g entirety. What's the deal with low carbs anyway? When did carbohydrates become a bad thing? Piece of bloody nonsense if you ask me...oh, you didn't ask. Fair enough. I ordered the strawberry flavour one which comes in a lime green wrapper...obviously. ... Read review

Advantages: quick and easy, tasty
Disadvantages: jaw ache! ( see below), price, are you really saving on fat/calories??

...health' and you will see Slim fast club or go straight to the site - slimfast.co.uk. Fill in your details and you will receive it in the next few days. To sum up I guess it depends on how much you want to loose weight and what you want to loose. There may be lower options out there that are also cheaper and don't cause a jaw ache! but if like me you just want a quick alternative to get you through til lunchtime without having lots of calories or ... Read review

Advantages: Made me not want to eat...
Disadvantages: Expensive!

I'm writing this op entirely on the SlimFast meal replacement bars - I'm found all the other things quite nice! I bought all the SLimFast bits and pieces - the shakes, the meal replacement bars, the snack bars, the pastas and the soups, and I set out to try them all. SlimFast sets everything out so that is very easy to follow: you need to use 500 calories a day more than you eat: a woman should be eating 1200-1400 cals, and a man should be eating ...
...calories, and has all the nutrients etc. that you need. You are supposed to swap two of your meals in a day with meal replacements, and then have a low-fat 600 calorie meal for the other meal. They also recommend having 2 or 3 snacks of around 100 cals a time to keep your energy up - fruit, veg or snack bars are good. So, thats the basics - you can buy all the bits from any supermarket, and also from health stores like Boots and Superdrug. I found ... Read review

Advantages: The 3 second sweetness of the creamy yoghurt
Disadvantages: Tough, chewy, dry, bland and a stale after-taste are a few...

“Post!!” My bloke calls from the stairs. He goes to the porch and collects the scattered envelopes and leaflets from amongst the untidy shoes and dried mud. He slings a padded envelope at me. Excitement kicks in. My free sample of the Slim-Fast Yoghurt Muesli bar had arrived! Big grin – new review… Foil wrapped in a white packet, red sealed ends and Slim-Fast written in red above the top left corner, the words ‘Yoghurt ...
...across the centre, a photo of the edible bar, waiting inside the packet, is printed on the right hand side…. my mouth waters. The bar, in its packet, felt heavy in my hands, bulky if you like, and I imagined this was a good sized bar to fill in for a meal but surprised at its stated weight of a mere 60g (2 grams heavier than a standard Mars bar) The packet was easy-ish to open – well I suppose it was just very well sealed to keep in ... Read review

Advantages: it was free
Disadvantages: probably won't make you thin

I’m going to be honest with you. This is a product I would never ever have tried in a million years. The only reason I ended up trying it was because it was sent to me free. On Sunday when I had nothing better to do I was indulging in my Ciao addiction (hurrah for the internet). The “free slim-fast bar” ad kept on coming up and I kept on clicking it shut. But then as it kept on coming I could only focus on two things: Number one: it was food. Number ...
...food? Who? Not me. So I merrily signed up for some free food and then went off to see if I could get any more free food sent my way. A few days ago my free bar arrived in the post. But first a little history. Slim-fast has been around for some time. The program promises that you will lose weight by going on its meal replacement program. Time was when this program consisted of two milkshakes a day and a balanced meal at dinner. However that was back ... Read review

Advantages: Losing Weight
Disadvantages: The taste!

...Slim Fast is an effective way to lose weight, but the major downside is its taste. It reminds me of cough medicine. Since trying Slim Fast I have discovered Tesco’s own equivalent to the Slim Fast range. Tesco’s Ultra Slim milkshakes are far nicer, tasting like regular milkshake. The calories per serving are also just as good as slim fast. There is also a range of Ultra Slim bars, which are also very nice in taste. I cannot compare them with the Slim Fast bars, because after trying the milkshake I refuse to try anything else in the range. I have combined Tesco’s Ultra Slim milkshakes with Tesco’s healthy eating meal solutions, and have found this extremely effective, losing up to 6 lbs. a week. This range is also cheaper than Slim Fast. I would definitely recommend this range to anyone who is after an effective weight loss solution... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: May be only good for losing a few lbs.
Disadvantages: If You have low blood sugar or high , leave this stuff alone!

...My opinion of slim fast is its a qwick easy diet to lose weight. I took slim fast once and used it the way it was recomended A shake in the morning, one for lunch and then ate a healthy sensible dinner. In between meals I ate all the slim fast bars and other things that were available to eat. Now within a few mos. I lost 35 lbs! Sounds great right well my blood sugar droped too low, I had trouble with headaches, and being light headed alot! I was told to just add even icecream to the shakes and it would fill me up? I did this for allmost 4 mos. lost 45 total lbs. I know all this sounds great but now I have low blood sugar and when I qwite dieting with slim fast and just went back to my way of eating I put on so much weight! It was awful and scince... Read review

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Advantages: Lower fat and calorie alternative to a Mars Bar
Disadvantages: Very sweet, relatively high sugar level

...I bought this bar on impulse whilst doing a small shop at Tesco. I'm currently on a 'healthy eating' kick, so thought I would give this a go as a 'choccie treat'. The texture is quite 'squidgy', and consists of a layer of soft nougat-y substance, a layer of caramel, and then covered in chocolate. Basically, like a small Mars Bar. The taste is also similar to a Mars Bar, and very sweet. A little bit too sweet for me, but delicious all the same. A much better taste than the 'cardboard chocolate' alternatives I have come across before! Nutritionally, it sells itself on having just 99 calories, and the fat levels are low at 3.2g (compared to a Kitkat which is 107 cals and 5.7g of fat). However, the sugar levels seem quite high (14g compared to 11g in a Kitkat), as are the Carbohydrates (18.1g compared to 13.3g in a Kitkat). Overall... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful