Doctor Kracker Flatbread Crackers are now available in Klassic 3 Seed flavor. These crispy flatbreads are low in carbs, free of nuts, and perfect for toppings. From Doctor Kracker, “In Germany, flax, sunflower, and sesame seeds are a classic mix for crusty breakfast rolls. Our cracker version of this old-world staple, with its distinct, nutty flax flavor, is an excellent base for nut butters, cheeses, avocado, and deli meats.”
The Beanitos Black Bean Chips have been so popular we have now decided to add the Beanitos Pinto Bean & Flax Chips. Just like the original black bean chips these pinto bean chips are certified low glycemic, corn free, gluten free, high fiber, low carb, and high in omega 3s.
If you have been searching for something to eat with your salsa that won’t ruin your diet, these are definitely worth a try.
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Even after all these years, the Atkins brand makes the best low carb chocolate bars out there. Read a review of the Atkins Advantage Bar that tastes better than a Baby Ruth!
Making low carb food taste good is tricky.
Sure, it’s easy enough for low carb food manufacturers to lower the net carbohydrates of bread, sweets, and other carbalicious foods: simply stack it with fiber, use sugar alcohols, or one of the newfangled zero-carb sweeteners. But to actually make low carb food taste good – that takes a level of low carb mastery that few food manufacturers have achieved.
The Atkins brand, however, has managed over the years to refine and perfect their low carb products to a level where you’ll be hard-pressed to tell that it’s actually good for you.
The best example of this is the wide-ranging line of Atkins Advantage Bars, all of which boast incredibly low net carbs as well as a multitude of different choices – 14 in all. Among the ingredients, you’ll find a vast array of flavors that are more reminiscent of an ice cream parlor than a diet food store: dark chocolate, fudge, peanut butter, almonds, coconut, marshmallow, and nougat to name a few.
The problem with low carb sweets has always been the use of artificial sweeteners and the ensuring aftertaste that leads many people to ask while chewing, is eating this thing really worth it? In the case of the Atkins Advantage Bars, the answer is resoundingly yes.
The Secret to Making a Great Low Carb Chocolate Bar
Atkins was making low carb food long before anyone else, so they have the longest track record of producing low carb foods that are both effective and enjoyable. The secret to the success of the Atkins Advantage Bars lies in the use of sugar alcohols, fiber, and artificial sweeteners, all of which lower the carb count of the bars and counterbalance what carbohydrates remain for a net carb effect on your blood sugar that never goes above 5 grams.
Rather than relying heavily on the use of low carb sweeteners, the Atkins Advantage Bars leverage sugar alcohols and fiber to lower the net carb effect, resulting in a great tasting bar. While there is some conjecture about the use of sugar alcohols in low carb food and whether or not it is truly effective in neutralizing carbohydrates, the Atkins Advantage Bars clearly manage to walk the fine line between taste and low net carbs, which most people reporting no major shift in their ketosis when eating them daily.
Can the Atkins Advantage Bar Beat the Baby Ruth in a Taste Test?
While some of the Atkins Advantage Bars may hint at a slight aftertaste, I’ve always found Atkins’ Caramel Chocolate Nut Roll to be every bit as enjoyable as any of the decadent candy bars you’d buy in a convenience store. For years, it has been my mainstay for a low carb treat that won’t spike my blood sugar levels and get me on the path to weight gain.
Recently, however, I decided to splurge at the supermarket and pick up a stand candy bar in order to see what I had been missing for all these years. Since the Caramel Chocolate Nut Roll has long since been my favorite low carb chocolate bar of choice, I thought I’d try its carby cousin – the Baby Ruth – to see how the Atkins Advantage Bar stands up to the competition. After the first bite, I was amazed to find that the Baby Ruth seemed to have more of an aftertaste than the Atkins Advantage Bar!
Atkins Advantage Bars: A long-term low carb solution for the Chocoholic in you.
Truth be told, you’re not going to find many low carb sweets on the market that are as decadent and passable as their carb-packed competitors. After all, it’s the use of refined sugar, dextrose, and high fructose corn syrup that makes sugary sweets so tasy . . . and fattening. But if the prospect of never eating sweets again seems too much to ask of you, then the line of Atkins Advantage Bars might be your secret weapon for staying on your low carb diet for the long haul.
Thanks for reading our article! Are you craving something sweet, but don’t want to ruin your low carb diet? Linda’s Diet Delites carries the full line of Atkins Advantage Bars – even the hard-to-find varieties like Dark Chocolate Decadence, Dark Chocolate Almond Coconut Crunch Bar, Marshmallow Mudslide Bar, and the new Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bar.
Michael Nace is a low carb blogger for Linda’s Diet Delites, a leading online diet food store, specializing in a wide range of low carb food products.
Dixie Diner Low Carb Mousse Mix is now available.
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Dixie Diner Low Carb Frosting Mix is now available.
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Dixie Diner Low Carb Pudding Mix is now available.
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In spite of decades of negative and misleading press, the low carb diet continues to be the most effective weight loss diet out there and the best way to keep to your New Year’s resolution. But don’t expect to find low carb food options in your local supermarket.
Is weight loss your New Year’s Resolution?
If you answered “yes,” then you’re not alone: losing weight has long since been a top five New Year’s resolution for Americans. And because a resolution is all about making a long-term change, then a low carb diet is the perfect solution. As Atkins argued in his own Diet Revolution books, cutting carbs in your diet is not a temporary solution for losing weight; it is a lifestyle change that you have to commit to for the rest of your life.
While it is true that adopting a low carb diet will quickly allow you to lose weight (some people lose as many as 5 pounds a week in the early stages of the diet), it is equally true that reintroducing carbs back into your diet once you’ve lost all the weight you’re looking to lose will send you back up the scale just as quickly as you dropped it.
Why?
The answer is simple: the vast majority of people in this world are carb sensitive. This means that our bodies cannot handle the level of sugar and carbohydrates that the average American consumes from day to day. Just to give you an idea: Atkins recommends that most people should not consume more than 40 grabs of carbohydrates a day. However, the typical plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce will easily run you above 50 grams of net carbs – and that doesn’t include the big hunk of Italian bread and glass of red wine you have with it!
Very quickly it becomes clear why nearly two-thirds of Americans are overweight; typically, we consume three to four times the amount of carbs in a day that we should.
It is for this reason that the low carb diet makes so much sense as a viable New Year’s weight loss resolution.
Craving Carbs: How a Low Carb Store Can Put Carbohydrates Back in Your Diet
There is now a wide range of low carb diets that you can follow, all of which offer different programs for cutting carbohydrates. If you’re planning on a New Year’s weight loss resolution that involves the Atkins approach, then say goodbye to bread, sweets, fruit, and most milk-based daily products. Even though Atkins lets you gorge on protein and fat, his Phase One encourages no more than 12 grams of net carbs per day.
Once you begin to progress on your new low carb lifestyle, however, you’ll be able to add more carbs back into your diet, gram by gram. If you’re planning on poking around your local supermarket for low carb food, don’t get your hopes up: low carb food products are few and far between in a standard grocery store.
The best place to source low carb food is online through a low carb store. Thanks to e-commerce and fast, automated order fulfilment, an online low carb store can easily supplement your trip to the supermarket with low carb bread, desserts, baking mix, and other products that are hard to find in traditional grocery stores.
The foods you buy in a low carb store online are essential, not just for the weight loss portion of your low carb diet, but also for your long-term commitment to cutting carbs for good.
Thanks for reading our article! If you’re ready to start your New Year’s resolution with great low carb food products, be sure to check out our online low carb store. We offer hundreds of low carb food options that will make your diet last.
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Michael Nace is a low carb blogger for Linda’s Diet Delites, a leading online diet food store, specializing in a wide range of low carb food products.
A long-time low carb dieter prepares you for the difficulties and results you’ll experience in week one of a low carb diet.
If you’re about to embark on a low carb diet, be ready to experience a new level of eating, living, and losing that you’ve never experienced with fad diets and the hungry torture known as “the low calorie diet.” The fact is, low carb dieting flies in the face of everything that the traditional weight loss and medical community will tell you: you have to cut out calories and fat and add in tons of exercise in order to lose any weight.
If this traditional system of weight loss is so effective, then why are two-thirds of the U.S. population overweight? The answer is simple: while cutting calories will help you lose weight, it’ll also leave you starving and much more likely to fall off the weight loss wagon before you reach your goals.
The low carb diet turns these traditional dieting rules on their head. And even though the medical community has tried to disparage Dr. Robert Atkins’ groundbreaking popularization of his famed low carb Diet Revolution, the fact remains that you can indeed eat as much fat and protein as you want on a low carb diet and still lose weight!
Millions of Americans have done it successfully, and so can you.
How Will I live Without Carbs?
Atkins’ books describe refined sugar as being tantamount to illegal drugs: it is highly addictive and highly destructive to the body. Because of this, the first phase of Atkins’ original low carb Diet Revolution plan reads more like a detox from heroin than the first week of a healthy diet. In a nutshell, he calls for a cold-turkey drop of no more than a few carbs a day.
Newer low carb diet models are more liberal in the first week of carb counting, allowing for as many as 12 grams of net carbs a day. But even a low carb diet such as this one will be a radical departure from what you are normally used to eating: most Americans eat between 250 and 750 grams of carbohydrates a day, many of which take the form of simple carbs and refined sugars. Even dropping down to 12 grams of complex carbs a day will be a radical departure from what you’re used to.
How will you feel?
From my own experiences (and I am not a licensed physician nor am I giving you medical advice here), within the first 24 to 48 hours, you will indeed experience a kind of detox from eating carbohydrates. This is particularly true if you use Atkins’ method of cutting out almost all carbs in the first week of your low carb diet.
Because your body is used to pumping out so much insulin to maintain a blood sugar for a high carb diet, the sudden drop may make you feel lethargic, hungry, and craving sweets. This is the true “danger zone” of a low carb diet, and the time that many people give up. Little do they know that holding out for the first day or two leads to a steady decrease in hunger and increase in weight loss!
What To Expect After Week One of Your Low Carb Diet
Provided you have stuck to your low carb diet and maintained a high level of ketosis, you’ll be amazed at the weight you’ve dropped. I tried the Atkins diet three separate times in my life, and all three times I averaged a loss of seven pounds in the first week! If you’re eating closer to 12 carbs a day in the first week, then you’ll probably lose less, but all in all, you’re bound to see a higher weight loss than you’ve even gotten from a low calorie diet.
Also, you’ll begin to notice that you aren’t nearly as hungry as you were on day one of the diet – or for your entire life before starting the diet! Hunger has everything to do with blood sugar, and because eating high protein and low carbohydrates puts your blood sugar into perfect balance, your body simply will not need as much food in order to satisfy your hunger.
Over time, you’ll find that the allure of sweets, sugar, and high carbohydrate foods will leave you; as you put more and more distance between yourself and the high carb eating lifestyle you left behind, you’ll look forward to meals that are more savory than sweet, and are helping you to reach your long-term weight goals.
Thanks for reading our article! Are you thinking about starting a low carb diet? If so, Linda’s Diet Delites is a leading online retailer of low carb foods. You’ll find hundreds of low carb products that are nowhere to be found in your local supermarket!
Bell Plantation PB2 Single Serving Packets are now available. These are perfect for on the go spreadin’ or for those of you who needs a taste test before committing to a full jar.
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Maple Grove Farms Sugar Free Pancake Mix is now available in 8.5 oz. box size. This mix is not only sugar free, but also high in protein.
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