Sausage & brats? Bad for Atkins diet
 

Hello, just starting the diet and was going to add Italian Sausage and or breakfast sausage and bratwursts into my menu. Is there anything wrong with these that would not be good? I hope not! Oh also like little smokie sausages also? Please let me know if these are ok on the Atkins diet. I hope so I just bought a bunch! :D


Thanks for everyone's help!
Corey

Hi Corey:

All I can say is, check the ingredients. There are so many differences from brand to brand. Make sure there is no wheat or sugar in them. I can only find wheat-free and sugar-free sausages at my health food store. My grocery store looked at me like I was nuts when I asked for them.

wcollier is right in that no matter what you eat you have to really look at the labels on all prepared foods.

I have Bob Evans sausage every other morning and it has no sugar or wheat listed. Not sure if its available in Canada. Its a little more expensive than other brands. The only mystery ingredient on the label is spices. On fitday the generic fresh pork sausage has only .13 grams of carb per ounce. You have to be careful of sausages with flavors, especially maple. They have enough carbs to really make a dent in your daily allowance.

I also use a pork bacon made by Gwaltney, which is very good and contains no sugar in its curing, although I believe it has nitrates.

For brats, hotdogs and other specialty sausages, you have to be really careful and look at that label. I have seen some of them bad boys have as much as 5 carbs in a small hotdog.

On fitday.com, smoked sausages have about a half a carb per ounce. Which is okay if you do overdo it. But before you cook it, go back to the store and look at the label, just to make sure.

Happy eating :)

slowday