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Low Carb Snack: Beef & Meat Sticks

There is something inescapingly funny about the term “meat stick.” Lewd notions aside, there is something primal about the idea of “meat on a stick,” as it conjures up early man gnawing a fire-charred leg ‘o beast. Interestingly enough, primal diets — which are essentially Atkins-esque — are becoming evermore popular, and as a result, these new “primal dieters” are in search of new, tasty ways to get their meat on.

While the classic Slim Jim has led the way in terms of meat snacks for decades, healthy dieters are looking for a meat-based low carb snack that is a bit more dialed in to their “primal” sensitivities. Enter these new meat sticks:

First up is the Sci-Fit Fat Free Beef Stix, which essentially offers a higher-quality alternative to the Slim Jim. The Sci-Fit Fat Free Beef Stix come in both Teriyaki and Black Pepper varieties, are truly fat free and low carb — each stick is just 1 gram of carbs. In addition, the ingredients list thankfully doesn’t include any MSG, a common ingredient in Slim Jims and other mass produced meat sticks.

Ostrim also makes a nice Natural Beef Snack as well. Theirs is a high-protein meat stick that are very low in fat and USDA inspected, guaranteeing a true and correct nutritional profile of quality and wholesomeness. Their ingredients are very readable, including just Beef, Water, Sea Salt, Corn Starch, Natural Spices, Turbinado Sugar, Dehydrated Garlic, Natural Flavorings (Celery Powder), and Lactic Acid Starter Culture. Ostrim offers several great flavors, such as its original flavor, spicy pepper, and teriyaki.

If you want to take a walk on the wild side and try a meat stick that is not beef, then how about ostrich? Ostrim Meat Sticks are incredible great-tasting ostrich meat sticks, and offer the same level of nutrition and low carb snacking goodness. The Ostrim MEat Sticks comes in a variety of great flavors as well, such as barbeque, natural, pepper, and teriyaki.

Ready to order some of these tasty beef and meat sticks for a low carb snack? Linda’s Diet Delites carry all of them! Take a look at the Sci-Fit Fat Free Beef Stix, Ostrim Natural Beef Snack, and Ostrim Meat Sticks today!

That’s a Lot of High Protein P’s: Power Pak Pudding & Pure Protein Gelatin Protein Snack

Power Pak Pudding & Pure Protein Gelatin Protein Snack — heavy of taste, protein, and the letter “P.”

If you peek around the pudding and Jello section of your supermarket, you’re bound to notice that a vast majority of pudding and Jello snacks on the market today are sugar free. That being said, none of them are really tailored for low carb or gluten free dieters — they are really designed for low calories dieters. If you are looking for pudding or gelatin that is custom-tailored for low carb or gluten free diets, then you’ve come to the right place.

We recently added two new dessert products at Linda’s Diet Delites: MHP Power Pak Pudding and Pure Protein Gelatin Protein Snack. Once you get past all of the Ps in those two product names, you begin to recognize how these two desserts make perfect snacks for even the strictest dieter.

MHP Power Pak Pudding is a really interesting product, in that it offers a truly high-protein, low carb, low cal option. It has a whopping 30 grams of protein, only 190 calories and zero sugar. And because it tastes so good, Power Pak Pudding really is one of the most satisfying low carb healthy snacks that we’ve come across in a long while.

It also has no sugar alcohols, which is nice.

If you’re looking for a zanier low carb snack, we have the low carb solution to Jello. Pure Protein Gelatin Protein Snack is as fun and tasty as Jello, but with much better nutritionals for the low carb dieter. Pure Protein is unique is that it offers a lot of protein in a snack that you don’t usually associate with protein: 23 grams to be exact, plus only 1% DV of carbs for low carb lifestyles. The best part is that, in spite of having NO added sugar and NO aspartame, it still tastes great!

Pure Protein Gelatin Protein Snacks come in three packs, and are offered in two flavors: tropical punch and cherry.

Pudding and Jello are two desserts that low carb dieters often assume have to be left off of the menu. But these two new products allow you to enjoy a satisfying snack without the guilt of breaking your low carb diet.

Interested in purchasing these products? Linda’s Diet Delites carry them both! Be sure to check out Power Pak Pudding & Pure Protein Gelatin Protein Snack on our website now!

Oreos? Meringues? Sugar Free Cookies That Will Surprise You

Think that because you’re on a low carb or sugar free diet that your most favorite cookies are off limits? Think again! Take a look at these two new sugar free cookie varieties that are really familiar and tasty.

When I was a kid I remember my first foray into tasting a diet cookie. Because my Mother suffered from hypoglycemia, she was basically on a sugar free diet back when the mainstream population knew about Atkins and low carb dieting. The cookies that she bought were devoid of taste and goodness — it was like eating a piece of particle board.

In spite of the fact that low carb and sugar free foods have made tremendous strides over the past thirty years, many low carb and sugar free cookies on the market today still fail to deliver on anything that even approximates the taste and texture of a real cookie. Often times, what you get in its place is dense, brittle, and lacking in sweetness.

Fortunately for the low carb dieter, some new sugar free cookies have come onto the market that have really revolutionized the sugar free cookie scene, and is bound to grab peoples’ attention.

First up are the new sugar free Oreos. Yes, you are reading that correctly: Nabisco has jumped into the sugar free cookie scene with a sugar free version of perhaps the most iconic cookie in America. These Oreos are surprisingly close to the original, and they give you that same combination of dark chocolate cookie with cream filling — a perfect balance of “wet” and “dry” textures with an amazing taste. This is comfort dessert snacking at it best, and at just 6 grams of net carbs for two cookies, it can be a really satisfying treat after a meal.

Plenty of low carb and sugar free food manufacturers have sought to replicate the Oreo, but none have done it as successfully as Nabisco itself. You really gotta try these!

Of course, if you want to go in a completely opposite direction to the Oreo, there is also a new sugar free cookie brand to check out — Miss Meringue Sugar Free Mini Meringues. Meringue cookies have always been a good low carb and sugar free option for dieters, since they are essentially made mostly out of egg whites and air. Because of their airy texture, the sugar used is more suspended, meaning that the aftertaste effect is lessened when using articifical sweeteners.

Miss Meringue Sugar Free Mini Meringues benefit from these facts, and these cookies offer a great sugar free cookie option. They come in both chocolate and vanilla, and a serving of 25 mini cookies are zero carbs!

If you’re ready to get your cookie on, these two new sugar free cookies are the perfect choice.

Thank you for reading our article! Ready to pick up some sugar free Oreos or Miss Meringue Sugar Free Mini Meringues? We’ve got ’em both at Linda’s Diet Delites. Take a look!

Easy To Make CarLO CARBiano Low Carb Pizzas — Perfect For Lunch!

Lunch can be a tricky meal n a low carb diet. Fortunately, CarLO CARBiano Low Carb Pizzas are a tasty, satisfying, easy, low carb solution for a quick lunch anytime!

Last week, we outlined a solution for assembling an incredibly tasty low carb pizza in another blog article. If you love coming up with low carb solutions to typically high carb dishes, then you should find it reassuring to know that all of the ingredients needed to make a tasty low carb pizza are available on the market today.

But what if you cannot be bothered to prepare a low carb pizza from scratch?

That’s where CarLO CARBiano Low Carb Pizzas come in. While CarLO CARBiano makes a variety of tasty Low Carb Pizza crusts, they also make ready-to-eat low carb frozen pizzas as well. And like their crusts, they offer three wonderful varieties: four cheese, pepperoni, and Mexican style.

In spite of the fact that CarLO CARBiano Low Carb Pizzas are packed with flavor, they are also ideal for the low carb dieter as well. At 4g of net carbs per serving, you really can’t beat it as a quick, tasty lunch option. CarLO CARBiano accomplishes this by way of packing its low carb pizzas with plenty of fiber to offset the carb count.

It’s a perfect combination of taste and net carbs!

Thanks for reading our article! Did you know that Linda’s Diet Delites now carries CarLO CARBiano low carb pizzas? Take a look!

Healthy Delites Raspberry Rugelah now available

The Healthy Delites Low Carb Rugelah in Chocolate and Cinnamon have been quite popular so now we have added the Raspberry Rugelah to the flavor options.

Low Carb Diet Tip: Recreating the Pizza

Crafting a low carb pizza may seem like an impossible task for the staunch low carb dieter. But thanks to a wide array of innovative low carb food products, it is now quite possible.

When you think about the ingredients that go into making a great pizza, none of them are too forgiving: pizza crust and tomato sauce are no-no no-brainers for low carb dieters, while even mozzarella cheese is often seen as too soft and carby for diet consumption. To be sure, some of the meat toppings are safe, but they factor in very little to the overall nutritional make-up of a pizza.

Considering that the three main ingredients of a pizza are high-carb, it would seem next to impossible to come up with a low carb pizza that would serve as a legitimate alternative to the original.

However, there are now several ingredients in the low carb food industry that make crafting a low carb pizza entirely possible.

We recently highlighted a great new product here on our blog: the CarLO CARBiano Pizza Crust. At just 3 to 4 net grams of carbs for each 7″ pizza crust serving, making a personal sized low carb pizza is totally doable. And the great news is that CarLO CARBiano offers their pizza crusts in a variety of different flavors for adding some zest to all of your pizza creations. They are currently available in plain, chive garlic, garlic basil, Parmesan oregano, and spicy Baja red pepper.

The next problem, of course, is pizza sauce. Most pizza sauces contain sugar — but even the ones that are made without sugar tend to be too high in carbs for the low carb dieter. Dixie Diner Pasta Sauce Mixes, however, offers a great low carb solution for pizza sauce that is extremely tasty and easy to prepare. A service of the sauce is only 2 grams of net carbs per serving, and you prepare it simply by adding water. All reviews of the Dixie Diner Pasta Sauce Mixes suggest that it really passes as real tomato sauce — especially when used in conjunction with pizza crust and cheese.

On the subject of cheese, mozzarella is of course the way to go on a standard pizza, but what about on a low carb pizza? The bottom line is, if you address the carb issues in pizza sauce and crust, you are well positioned to get away with the slightly higher carb count in mozzarella cheese. As a rule, mozzarella has less than 1 gram of carbs per ounce, so it is still quite low.

My advice is to heap on a generous amount of mozzarella and not worry about the few extra carbs it may add. Considering that the above-mentioned low carb food products should only add up to 5 or 6 grams of carbs, you can add heaps of mozzarella and approach 8 grams of net carbs for your personal sized low carb pizza.

Finally, be generous with your toppings as well, but be smart: obviously, avoiding fresh tomato, pineapple, and any other exotic toppings that are a carb no-no. The best is to go with the proteins: pepperoni, bacon bits, sausage, anchovies, and other meat toppings are always welcome. You can also go with “unmeats” as well, such as peppers, mushrooms, black olives, and a slight bit of onion as well.

As you can see, there is now a perfectly low carb solution to enjoying pizza on your low carb diet.

Thanks for reading our article! Be sure to check out Linda’s Diet Delites for our wide range of low carb pizza ingredients!

Low Carb Pizza Crust: CarLO CARBiano Pizza Crust

Craving pizza in a big way, but don’t want to break up your low carb diet? Check out this great, new Low Carb Pizza Crust from CarLO CARBiano!

Add the satisfying goodness of pizza back into your low carb diet with CarLO CARBiano Low Carb Pizza Crust. It is an excellent alternative to regular pizza crust, and a must have low carb product if you are currently on a long-term low carb diet.

Each 7″ personal size whole grain, thin crust is only 3-4g of net carbs and 3-4 diet count. These low carb pizza crusts have a hearty taste, are packed with protein, and contain no preservatives.

Best of all, CarLO CARBiano Pizza Crust comes in a variety of different flavors for adding some zest to all of your pizza creations. They are currently available in plain, chive garlic, garlic basil, Parmesan oregano, and spicy Baja red pepper.

Add pizza back into your diet today with CarLO CARBiano Pizza Crust!

If you’re looking for CarLO CARBiano Pizza Crust, then you’re in luck — Linda’s Diet Delites carries the full range of flavors! Take a look here!

Thanksgiving on a Low Carb Budget

While the protein of the traditional roast turkey may be at the center of the Thanksgiving feast, it is a total, massive carb blitz otherwise. Get some tips on how to keep the carbs to a minimum.

For as much as the carb-starved dieter may want to believe that the traditional Thanksgiving dinner in America is dominated by the protein of the roast turkey, frankly-speaking, that’s just the tryptophan talking: in the end, all of the trimmings to the turkey are enough to put your carb-o-meter into the red. Let’s relish the obvious carbiness: bread stuffing, mashed potatoes, dinner rolls, cranberry sauce, turkey gravy, pumpkin pie — heck, even peas, a common veg for Thanksgiving, is a low carb no-no.

Face it: on Thanksgiving, your low carb diet doesn’t have a chance.

But if carbing it out on Turkey Day isn’t an option, there are some great alternatives that low carb food manufacturers have to offer that can defray the carb level of your Thanksgiving Day meal. Using some of these great products, you can actually keep all of the high-carb trimmings on the dinner plate.

Stumped On Stuffing? Go With Low Carb Bread!

There is a love/hate affair over low carb bread. Yeah, we know: low carb bread loaves don’t often stand up to a standard loaf of white bread. But that’s because your standard loaf of Wonder is a virtual carb brick. The thing that makes bread taste so good are the simple carbohydrates and natural sugars that need to be left out in low carb breads.

But when it comes to making stuffing — particularly if you are planning on cooking it inside of the turkey — low carb bread works as a perfect stand-in. all of the natural juices from the turkey conspire to season even low carb bread.

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Zero Carb Sweetener Round-up

thanks to the popularity of the low carb diet, there are now a wide range of low carb and zero carb sweeteners on the market today that give dieters a second chance at sweets. Here are some of the best-tasting and most reliable zero carb sweeteners on the market today.

Messing with the sugar molecule to coax out carbohydrates and its glycemic isn’t easy: whenever scientists try to take out the “bad stuff” that makes sugar fattening, the result is something that doesn’t taste all that great — and sometimes can even have adverse side effects. Fortunately for diabetics and low carb dieters, science and technology have moved quickly to change all that. Now there are a wide range of zero carb sweeteners on the market today that deliver taste and healthiness while still keeping their net carb count and zero. Here some of the best we’ve found.

Dixie Diner Sugar Not Spoonful Sugar Replacement
Dixie Diner has long since been regarded as a leader in developing low carb and zero carb diet foods. Their unique Not Spoonful Sugar Replacement offers zero net cab effect on blood sugar and a great taste without a low of funky ingredients, such as malitol. Dixie Diner explains: “All natural and zero net carbs, this wonderful sugar replacer sweetens and measures just like sugar. Use in all your recipes where sugar is called for. Great for baking, Spoonful has no sugar alcohols or artificial sweeteners. Spoonful is fiber rich and prebiotic as well as gluten free. More than 180 servings per 1lb bag.”

You can check out more information about Not Spoonful Sugar Replacement here.

Organic Zero Sweetener
If you’re looking for an organic solution to a zero carb sweetener, then Organic Zero is a great choice. It is a very simple, pure articifical sweetener, made only from Organic erythritol — that’s it. It is produced from Organic Sugar Cane Juice which is naturally fermented to create Organic Erythritol, a naturally occurring sugar found in fruits and fermented foods, such as soy sauce.

You can use Organic Zero Sweetener wherever you would use regular sugar or artificial sweeteners and enjoy without worrying about calories or artificial “nasties!” And best of all, Organic Zero is clean tasting with no “intensive-sweetener” after taste, no digestive side effects, and it is even “tooth-friendly” == all while offering zero net carbs.

To learn more about Organic Zero Sweetener, click here.

Only Sweet Stevia Sweetener
You’ve probably heard plenty about Stevia by now, but in spite of the fact that many claim Stevia to be one of the best-tasting low carb sweeteners, not everyone loves it. Only Sweet Stevia Sweetener, however, has made tremendous strides in creating a Stevia blend that is simply amazing in taste. Only Sweet is a zero-calorie, all-natural sweetener extracted from the leaves of the stevia plant and used around the world as a naturally sweet alternative to sugar.

There are three ingredients in Only sweet’s Stevia blend: Stevia, maltodextrin, and natural flavor. It is the final two ingredients which enhance the taste of Stevia and make it have much less of an aftertaste than other zero carb sweeteners.

To learn more about Only Sweet Stevia Sweetener, click here.

Truvia Natural Sweetener
Truvia offers another Erythritol-based zero carb sweetener that tastes great. Along with ingredients rebiana and some other natural flavors, Truvia is good enough to even be sprinkled on food — not just for baking use: “Truvia natural sweetener is refreshingly uncomplicated. Sprinkle it on your grapefruit. Spoon it in your coffee. It won’t end up on your conscience or your thighs.One packet of Truvia natural sweetener provides the same sweetness as two teaspoons of sugar.Truvia natural sweetener is a great alternative for people with diabetes. It is also kosher certified.”

Click here to learn more about Truvia.

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Sugar Free Cookies: Chatila’s Bakery Biscotti

Unsweetened coffee is a mainstay of a low carb diet. Now, you can add a wonderful sugar free cookie into the mix with Chatila’s Bakery Biscotti!

When you start out on a low carb or sugar free diet, you often have to leave behind a lot of foods that you hold dear. Luckily, coffee is usually not one of them. Although low carb and diabetic diets call for a moderation of coffee and caffeine consumption, coffe is still completely legal — so long as you don’t douse it with sugar or sweetener, and change out milk with heavy cream.

Chatila’s Bakery Biscotti is a perfect pairing with your favorite cup of coffee. Chatila’s Bakery makes this freshly baked, sugar-free biscotti cookie at 80 calories per serving, and only 10 grams of net carbs.

If you feel like you’re ready to add low carb cookies to your diet, then Chatila’s Bakery Biscotti are a great option!

Check out Chatila’s Bakery Biscotti at Linda’s Diet Delites!