INTRODUCTION
If you asked me what my weaknesses are when dieting, I would most likely say either cheese or sauces! The cheese we will save for another time. However, today we are going to talk about sauces. I love lots of different sauces on my foods, but as well know, a lot of sauces contains high sugar and calories. This in itself is t bad, but when dieting this can be a poor choice of calories. So what’s the solution? Skinny Food Sauces! Sugar-free and calorie-free sauces.
I recently purchased some sauces from a company called “The Skinny Food Co”. They sell a huge range of sauces and syrups all of which are calorie and sugar-free. Today I am going to be reviewing them. So let us start with the first one.
SKINNY FOOD: PERI PERI SAUCE
I am a huge fan of Nando’s. So when I saw this on the Skinny Food Sauces webpage I had to get a bottle. Upon first open, I gave it a quick smell and it smelt sweet. Didn’t smell like peri-peri “ that I used to anyway”. However, I stuck with it and put some on a basic chicken and rice meal. The flavour? The flavour was like ketchup but with a bit of spice. Was very nice! What hit me was the after taste! Got a huge kick of spice for an aftertaste! The Peri-Peri had kicked in.
I do enjoy this sauce and will be using it on a lot of my meals. It is sweeter than your usual Peri-Peri but it is nice. I wouldn’t say it is too spicy, but it does have a kick to it. If you are looking to add a bit of a kick to your meals. Give this sauce a go!
SKINNY FOOD: BBQ SAUCE
Hands down BBQ is my favourite sauce. I love a BBQ sauce, So when I saw that Skinny Food Sauces had a calorie and sugar-free version of BBQ sauce, I had to try it. Upon first open, I have it the usual smell and it smelt like a sweet, Smokey bbq sauce. All good so far.
Again, I cooked a basic turkey mince and rice and applied some on. The first thing I learnt is that a little goes a long way! You don’t need a lot of sauce. After mixing it in, I gave it a taste test and was blown away. It’s bbq sauce. It’s got a Smokey flavour but also that distinct bbq flavour we all love.
If you are a fan of Bbq sauces, I highly recommend you check this out. Zero sugar, effectively zero calories! It is a lifesaver when dieting! Taste incredible too!
SKINNY FOOD: CHOCOLATE SYRUP
I had huge hopes for this one! So many plans! I was praying this was going to be amazing so that I could use it on everything! For my tester I used it on my cookie dough overnight oats. (We need to make a recipe for those). How did it taste? Ok!
Now, this isn’t your full sugar, full fat chocolate sauce, and you can tell! As with the golden syrup it is thinner in consistency and a lot runnier. Taste wise, it is ok. Not amazing but still editable. There is a weird taste there, you do get a chocolate flavour but it also has this strange after taste. I don’t think I will be putting this on my Anabolic French Toast anytime soon.
Using it on my oats was good as I could mix it in and I did get more of a chocolate flavour from using it. Will I be rushing back to purchase this one again? Probably not, does that mean you shouldn’t try it? No! You might try it and love it!
SKINNY FOOD: MAPLE SYRUP
The Skinny Food Co golden syrup. If you have seen our review on Anabolic French Toast (Click here if not), I have been looking for a syrup to put on top of this. All I can say is that this is perfect! The best way I can sum it up is why would you choose this over standard Maple syrup? Less calories, same flavour and around the same price! It taste amazing! Lovely and sweet. You could fool anyone into thinking that this has a ton of sugar in.
The only negative I would say about it is that it isn’t as thick as normal Maple syrup. Maple Syrup is famous for being thick and almost hard to deal with. But this has more of a consistency of a sauce or “Watered down” maple syrup. Not a huge negative. Just something I have noticed!
I will definitely be ordering more of these and keeping them stocked up in my cupboard! Perfect on oats, French toast. I am even going to try to make some low calories flapjack’s with it.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, I would highly recommend these sauces! Bot the BBQ and the Peri Peri will be a staple in my daily use now! I have to be honest and say that the BBQ has topped it as my favourite.
What we do have to mention is that we have been calling these “Calorie Free”. While I’m theory these aren’t calorie-free. Per serving there are only 2 calories. So if you are being strict on your diet you will still need to count your servings. However, for the average person, I wouldn’t worry about counting these sauces (I don’t weight or count the servings).
I can’t wait to get more of the sauces in and also try the syrups and coffee syrups. Which, of course, we will also do reviews. As we get more flavours and type in we will be updating this blog with the review and taste test!
Do you use Skinny Food sauces and syrups? Or maybe other brands? Let us know over on our Instagram what you use!
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Written by Kieran Blacker
Kieran is the CEO and Founder of Sets & Reps. He decided to make an application that helped people get a gym workout when not at the gym. He designed, Coded and built the application himself.
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