South Beach Diet and Meal Replacement Bars
After a couple of weeks of being on the South Beach Diet we can reduce the restricted eating. Many of us are so busy with work and keep up with our children’s activities that we don’t have the time to stick to the restrictive diet and not feel hungry. Many companies have jumped on this bandwagon by offering meal replacement bars. These are completely different than energy or protein bars. Choosing the wrong bar can mess up all of that hard work you have done for weeks on the South Beach Diet.
Meal replacement bars are basically diet bars that are for people who are very busy and the bar replaces small portions of meal that are usually consumed at regular times throughout the day. This is healthy as well as controlling the cravings to have unhealthy snacks. Meal replacement bars are very popular to dieters as well as bodybuilders.
Meal replacement bars are referred to according to the ratio of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. For example the Balance Bar is rated at 40:30:30 which is a ratio of 40% arbohydrates, 30% Proteins and 30% Fats. Don’t worry the fats are the healthy fats that we try to strive for on the South Beach Diet.
Kraft foods has made an alliance with the South Beach Diet Plan and has created the South Beach Diet Replacement Bars. One of the great things about these bar is that the print all of the information of carbohydrates, proteins and fats (no trans fats in this bar) very clearly on the front of the package.
Most bars will hide this information in that back of the packaging. The South Beach Diet Replacement Bar is 3 gm of carbohydrates and 18 gm of protein. This is a very low calorie bar with just 210 calories and no artificial ingredients.
I personally like the Chocolate Peanut Butter bar. Don’t expect it to taste like a candy bar because it doesn’t. Because of the low fat content the bar is a bit dry. I like to have it with a cup of coffee as the two seem to equal each other out.
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