Walden Farms- Good or Bad?
 

I am looking for opinions on Walden Farms. Is it causing stalls? Is it knocking you out of ketosis? Just curious. Thanks for the feedback.

What is it?

They make sugar free products like BBQ sauce, catsup, salad dressings, fruit spreads and syrup. And considering, they are all pretty good. They also get good reviews on Netrition.com (which is where I buy most of my LC products). I use the Walden Farms faux maple syrup sometimes on sausage links or patties. It tastes good, but I cannot advise if it effects weight loss for me.

So far after eating it mixed with peanut butter, I remain in ketosis. It seems to good to be true!

Have you read the ingredient lists on that stuff? It's as fake as engineered food gets. I'd be concerned about the long term health consequences. Nobody knows what the ramifications of eating that stuff is. And because there is such a long list of synthetic ingredients, you increase your risk that much more.

We did not evolve eating those things and our bodies are not adapted for it. Putting it differently, God didn't make that stuff and he didn't design your body to consume it.

Most of us are here because we've developed insulin resistance. I don't want to add to my list of problems.

Just my opinion. :)

Only thing from them I like is the syrup - no sugar alcohols. Everything else tastes bland or just gross. Their products never stalled me.

I thought the syrup was ok but only from the standpoint of 'I can't eat maple syrup so anything is better than nothing'. But nowdays grocery stores have sugarfree syrups from regular syrup makers that I think taste better. This is a suuuuuuuuper rare food in our house because it's pure crap. I never stalled while rarely eating it. I've stalled while not eating it. So I guess I've no feedback on that point.

PJ

takes some getting use to. I will say that the flavor is offputting. For it to taste that bad there can not be too many bad things in it.

I have to tell ya, the spicy bbq sauce is not bad on pork or used as a dip for steak, It doesnt stall me but I dont use it that much...

I've tried their raspberry vinegrette salad dressing, 0 carbs. It's no bad, but I prefer the Maple Groves Farms rasp vin. better. Yes, it has 1 gram of carbs, but I'm willing to sacrifice 1 for the better flavor.

foul stuff.... :p

I've used their chocolate syrup and peanut butter spread. First of all the stuff taste foul by themselves. I mixed the chocolate syrup in my carbquick when making 1 min microwave cake made it moist and I mix the peanutbutter spread in my hc with splenda. That's the only way I can eat them but never noticed any kind of stall. I do not plan on buying them again though.

I also like the syrup and the chocolate dip or sauce mixed with some whipped cream (no funny aftertase when it's mixed) and splenda. Sometimes I find I get a bottle of syrup that has a plastic-y taste to it though...the only reason I like it is no SA which in other products, DISTROY my body.

Here here!! All A/S give me insulin spikes..which cause carb cravings and bad B/G readings. Eating the foods that we were intended to eat just leads to good health. I don't eat any processed foods.

The ketchup is pretty foul. The ingredient list shows apple cider vinegar, which I don't think I'm supposed to have in Induction, and you can really taste it! I put it on my meatloaf, as a shortcut instead of making the ketchup recipe I found in Dr. Atkins' cookbook, and really regretted it. It didn't cause a stall for me though.

To fix the BBQ sauce: Add half a cup minced dried onion, quarter cup of dried french Tarragon and some dried hot chillies to taste.

Vince

I tried the Marshmallow Cream/Fluff stuff and boy, I won't make that mistake again. I think it could've cleaned out my car's engine. The worst taste I think I've ever had!! :o :o

I love the pancake syrup.....
Kristen

I've heard good things about the syrups - but the BBQ sauce, ketchup, and alfredo sauce are GROSS beyond imagining. I have tried all 3, and they were positively foul. So these days I stick to the real stuff and just eat it in moderation (if you're going for ketchup though, go for the 1-carb stuff from Heinz, it's DELICIOUS!)

Pass on the alfredo sauce. I was so excited to see it in the store I bought three. Tried one, and the other two went in the trash.

send them to the food bank!!!

Being the southern girl that I am, and how much we like our BBQ ~ especially in the summer I LOVE the BBQ sauce. I dont' use a ton, and don't eat it daily ~ but maybe once or twice a month. NO issues.

I didn't like the syrup because it was just tooo runny to be worth it!

Sorry to bump such an old thread but I couldn't find anything more recent using advanced search.

Can anyone advise if the taste of these products have improved over the years (particularly the chocolate or other sweet syrups)?

I remember trying their products years back and really hated the taste (very chemical like) but that was when it was all touted at zero calories, zero carbs, zero everything. I see that it now has some calories/nutrition so assume that the formulation has changed?

Dusty one for sure!

I have no answer for this. I tried their products years ago, probably back when this thread was an infant, but never warmed to the taste of any of their stuff. I haven’t tried it in years.

About 5 or 6 years ago I was given some samples of their stuff - I would NEVER pay money for it - horrible. I can't imagine it has improved any - I've not seen it in the "health" section of my grocery.

The only product I like on walden farms are the syrup too, though I can't really say it helps on my diet.

I really liked the taste of the dressings but was worried the nutrition info was inaccurate so only tried a little.

I keep trying Walden Farms products, but am usually disappointed in the taste. I do like the pancake syrup though.

I currently have the bacon ranch dressing and thousand island dressing in my fridge. I have to doctor them up a lot to use them as they taste pretty artificial. I only bought them to have on hand when I don't feel like making my own. Mostly, I don't feel like using the Walden Farms!

The BBQ sauce and ketchup were both too thin and too sweet. I prefer G. Hughes BBQ sauce (add a shot of Tobasco!) and Heinz unsweetened ketchup.

I'm with you! Have you tried his Sweet & Spicy? It's good, but a bit too spicy for me. I like the Hickory. It doesn't take much to be perfectly satisfying, so a bottle lasts me a long time.