Welcome to Food Optimising

lose weight eating the food you love

Slimming World’s liberating, healthy eating plan, Food Optimising, makes losing weight easy and enjoyable. There’s no calorie counting or deprivation – just delicious everyday foods.

Food Optimising sets you free...

  • cut calories without counting them!
  • personalise meals to suit your tastes, dietary needs and budget
  • eat in or dine out with your family and friends. There’s no need to make separate meals or miss out

Find out more about the science behind Food Optimising

Food Optimising

essentials

Fill up on Free Food

Free Food is your new best friend and the hero of every great Food Optimising plate. Slimming World’s Free Food includes hundreds of everyday foods you can eat without counting, without weighing or measuring and without a shred of guilt. They’ll fill you up, slim you down and help you build those important new healthy eating habits that will last a lifetime. Free Foods include lean meat, eggs, fish, pasta, potatoes, plant-based proteins, fruit and vegetables. They’re filling and low in calories for their weight – so you can eat as much Free Food as you like!

Add measured Healthy Extras

Designed to help to provide a good balance of nutrients, alongside your Free Food, Healthy Extras include milk and cheese for calcium, wholemeal bread and breakfast cereals for fibre and other essential minerals, and nuts, seeds, avocado, olives and oils for healthy fats.

Enjoy carefully counted Swips

The foods that are least filling and are higher in calories, like biscuits, sweets and alcohol, count as Swips at Slimming World. Enjoying a little of what you fancy, guilt-free – like a piece of chocolate or a glass of wine – means you’ll find it easier to stay on track. You might be familiar with Slimming World Syns, which are now called Swips. That stands for Slimming World’s Individual Picks – because they’re just that – individual to you, your preferences and your weight loss journey.

breakfast

Poached eggs and tomatoes on toast

How do you like your eggs in the morning? This flavoursome plateful will power you through ’til lunch!

This recipe will take you 20 minutes

lunch

Tuna and sweetcorn jacket potato

For a simple, filling midday meal, you can’t beat a fluffy baked spud. Especially with the tastiest tuna-mayo topping... 

This recipe will take you 35 minutes

dinner

Slimming World spaghetti bolognese

Rich, saucy, satisfying – no wonder spag bol’s a menu must-have for so many of us. And it’s just as good made the Food Optimising way... 

This recipe will take you 55 minutes