Former actress Elizabeth Hurley launched her new organic snack line for Harrod’s department store in London yesterday. Her product line consists of fruit bars, oat bars and beef jerky, all just under 100 calories each.

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Elizabeth – who resigned from acting after she had her son – admits that she now weighs about seven pounds more than she did in her acting days.

[...] As someone who has had to spend most of her adult life watching her weight (she looks enviably svelte in her trademark white jeans, although she claims she is seven pounds heavier than when she was a working actress), she is something of an expert on careful snacking.

Her first organic products – oat and fruit snack bars and beef jerky (sourced in part from her own cattle) – are all approved by the Soil Association and are just under 100 calories each.

‘I have never eaten six raisins a day with a child’s knife and fork, or any of the other ridiculous things I have read about myself, but I am heavier than in my movie years. There is a huge change in your metabolism after 40 and for the first time ever I am having to watch what I eat because I’m quite greedy by nature,’ she says with a long, low self-deprecating laugh.

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