This Does Not Sound Good

[Brian Thomas]

Truthfully, I haven't ate much bacon of late. I do, however, eat my fair share of grilled Jimmy Dean sausage patties (at least one ounce per day at breakfast). My biggest concern is too much sodium. The software I linked to early in the thread helps me to keep tabs on salt.

Is fresh sausage considered a processed product?

I like fresh sausages much better than the fully-cooked variety.

Good question.

I would say no since fresh sausages (Johnsonville Brats, etc.) DO NEED to be cooked before consumption whereas the processed ones can be eaten right out of the package.

 

[Rusty James]

For what it's worth, I drink a lot of green tea (fresh brewed). I like coffee, but it upsets my stomach.

Can't remember the specifics, but fresh-brewed tea is supposed to counteract the supposedly-cancerous-effects of grilling meat, and green tea is supposed to be the best.

And as for portion sizes, there is free nutrition software (less than 4 MB in size) available to track your calorie intake with. We stared using it in July to aid in weight loss, and the three of us have lost 40 pounds (as a group) so far. That's a big plus for someone fighting diabetes, hypertension, etc.

http://www.dietorganizer.com/


With that said, we do eat meat, but we don't eat quite as much as we used to.

Make that 70 pounds.