Okay.. I have read this word on the boards for a couple of days..
What is it and am I missing out on??
LOL I am Southern.... I don't like missing out...!

Saliena

Hot dogs, deli meats, sausages, fake bacon, things like that that aren't real food you know.

Stick with real meats nothing that is cured and has alot of sodium.

I consider frankenfoods to also be the LC snacks, bars, ice creams, candies etc.

Frankenfoods are anything that does not exist in nature - something man has altered. Stick with whole foods that are healthy.

The definition seems to vary by the personal convictions of each poster.

Personally, I like things like low-carb bread, low-carb ice cream, low-carb cereals and I use them. Even Dr. Atkins was exclaiming over the low carb products on Larry King's show and how wonderful it is that there are substitute foods now.

There's lots of things that folks eat that you wouldn't find in nature, like beef jerkey, ground flax-seeds, soy flour, bran, that people wouldn't classify as frankenfood.

There are some ingredients I stay away from, because I think they're unhealthy, like trans fats. Other ingredients I stay away from because they're too high carb, like certain sugar alcohols. But the bulk of my eating is not processed low-carb foods, shakes, bars, protein isolates and the like. Generally its stuff like meat, veggies, eggs, cheeses and low-carb cereals. That's mostly because I think those foods taste better and have more nutritional value. Not because I have made some sort of blanket judgement about commercial food produced to appeal to low-carb dieters.