low carb sausages, England.

[jaqui]

I have recently started the Atkins diet and was looking forward to having sausages for breakfast. (Still feel guilty saying that).

When I have looked around supermarkets I have found they are full of carbs and with me being on induction obviously I can't touch them.

Does anyone know of any carb free sausages that can be bought in the UK?

I would be really grateful if anyone out there could help me.

thanks . :help:

[RCFletcher]

Try Lidl. They do frozen German style sausages that are only 0.5g per 100. Waitrose also do gluten free and other sausages which are low carb and Tesco have some Hungarian Paprika sausages which are low carb.

[tholian8]

I was just at Biggles (www.ebiggles.co.uk) sausage shop in London. None of their sausages have any bread whatsoever. I'm making spaghetti sauce tonight using their Italian Sweet and Hot sausages. (We're using a spaghetti squash, of course, instead of the noodles!) :yum:

Not sure if they do mail order, but I hope so. The sausages are delicious.

Emily

[jaqui]

excellent thanks for that.

I am so fed up with bacon!!!!!!!

[lburnikell]

Morrisons have some great sausages called Harrogates favourite sausages they come on packs of 6 and cost about 1.69 and they are 0.8 carb grams per 100grms and they are really meaty andd tastey!! Sainsburys and Safeway also do a good range of low carb sausages, they are more expensive than your average banager, but I think its because the consist of more meat, instead of the crap the cheeper sausages are filled with.

[jaqui]

I must be going blind, i have been looking everywhere fot these so today Im off to my local Lidl and morrisons and stock up on my sausages.

thanks everyone

[lburnikell]

the sausages I mentioned are down the fresh meat isle!!!

[jaqui]

got them thanks. now looking forward to breakfast tommorow

thanks again

[lburnikell]

I love them I cook my in the oven!! When I try to shallow fry mine they are alweays raw in the middle!! I love dipping them in my egg yolk!! Enjoy

[jaqui]

im sure i will, trouble is i now have a fridge and freezer full of sausage and no room for anything else.

[Woking]

My fav' are the Waitrose Premium range chipolata's 0.9 per sausage

Tesco's also do some about 1.5 carbs each

[jaqui]

There is no waitrose near me but my gran lives just round the corner from one so over to grans I go. I can then say I will have tried every lc sausage out there. I can't believe I couldn't find any and you lot know of so many. Maybe I need new contact lenses.

My husband is now getting slightly worried about my obssession with sausages but I couldn't do this diet without them.

Oh my God I am reading this back to myself and I sound like some sad sausage addict. Im not honest!!!!!!!!!!!!! before Atkins i would never have craved one. OK im going to stop now, this is just getting shameful. :blush:

[lburnikell]

it weird Jaqui because when I started the diet all I wanted was sausages!! I searched high and low for low carb ones and now I have a freezer full I hardly
touch them!!

[ATD]

M&S do some good diabetic sausages - they are "only" 8g for the whole packet. Alternativelt Tesco does good Toulouse sausages with only a trace of carbs - although they take years to cook!
xx

[pepsi max]

are the diabetic sausages on medication!:lol:

[pepsi max]

i think i must be the only person on this forum that doesn,t really like sausage.i don,t like the "bouncy bits" thats in them.yuk!

[RCFletcher]

When it comes to sausages, it's best not to think what's in them!!!

[rustpot]

Safeway "the Best" range. Toulouse sausages. 1.2carbs per 100g
0.9 per sausage

[lburnikell]

I usaully call them funny bits in a sausage gristle I have never heard them called bouncy bits before lol

[pepsi max]

i,ve always been a bit "odd" about it.could never eat meat pies and never ever a pork pie.just too many bouncy bits.i can only eat sausage if its well done and i don,t look at it.i know,weird!

[jaqui]

Urrrggghhhh!!!! I won't be eating my newly aquired sausages either if I think of Gristle, that word goes right through me. I have never heard of bouncy bits but have to say its better than the g word. :p

[pepsi max]

can,t stand the sight of veins,tuby bits or anything like that either.my hubby hates watching me eat meat.he says i "dissect" it.

[lburnikell]

you and my dh will get on so well he is a complet mare when it comes to food he wont eat salad tomatoes have seeds onions crunch and have veins, cuecumber is blarccck and the only veg he will touch is carrots and sprouts he say broccli tastes tiny ( I thought sprouts did??)
God he is such a fussy eater and it is so hard with this diet to be honest I dont think he will be on it much longer, hes tried but he can vary things with being so fussy so i rekon this time next week its back to low fat high carb for him!!

[pepsi max]

well,i can empathise with him.if i eat a piece of fish i have to check every part and dissect it and if theres any skin on it, i,ll be sick!!!!!

[lburnikell]

Now I am the same there if I get one little bone thats it I wanna hurl and cant eat it, hte cats love it!!

[jaqui]

The only thing I can't do is eat chicken off the bone, there are veins and things that appear!!! no no no, it shouldn't be allowed

[lburnikell]

and how anybody can eat a steak whilst the pulse is still beating and it says moo when you try to cut it!!!! YUK

[pepsi max]

right, i feel sick now.i,m gonna go back to being a veggie. :stop:
the thought of meat with blood coming out when you cut it.yukky.

[jaqui]

my husband had a blue steak once, cooked for 5 seconds on each side. It wasn't even warm. Being male and big and tough he said it was nice but hes never had it since i'll tell you.

[lburnikell]

my mate loves it like that and he dips his chips in the bood god I fell very quesy now!!

[jaqui]

oh my god!!!!!!!!!! That is sick!!!!!!!!!!

[lburnikell]

you dont even wanna know what he does with his peas!!

[pepsi max]

:Puke: :Puke:

[jaqui]

no really stop, I have sausages to eat in the morning, and you know how much I have been looking forward to them

[jaqui]

we will def all be veggie at this rate, mark my words!!!!!!!!!!!

[lburnikell]

just make sure thay are cooked!!! Tomato sauce any body? Its BLOOD red ahahahahahahhhahhahaha

[pepsi max]

have eggs instead but make sure they,re done properly,no "snotty"bits

[jaqui]

Thats just as bad, snotty eggs just make me throw there and then

[lburnikell]

:Puke: :Puke: :Puke: I never ever wanna eat steak again!!
Infact I think the little food symbols should have a veggie theme as well and dont want steak I want a mushroom!! :Puke: :Puke: :Puke:

[jaqui]

As for ketchup, what are you both doing to me....At least my cheese is safe you can't touch me there. ha ha

[lburnikell]

God now snotty eggs what are you trying to do starve me till I lose weight

[lburnikell]

As for ketchup, what are you both doing to me....At least my cheese is safe you can't touch me there. ha ha
have you seen the mould that goes into that blue cheese under a micro scope god you would never eat it again if you had!!

[pepsi max]

i,ll be getting up for brekkie in the morning to a lettuce leaf.its the only thing safe to eat.

[lburnikell]

not if it has a git slimy slug trail on it and the slug!!

[jaqui]

OK so do we resort to no carb spirits and go for a drop of VODKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pepsi max]

i just knew that was coming as soon as i,d sent the thing.

[lburnikell]

christ NO!! I had that a few weeks back Im still terrified to drink it!! with me l-carb and alcohol do not mix, Im scared for life now!! God thats it I am doomed, never to eat or drink again!!

[lburnikell]

i just knew that was coming as soon as i,d sent the thing.

What the slug and slimy trail or the post!!!?

[pepsi max]

the POST.lynda try barcardi,its better than vodka.doesn,t give you a headache.

[jaqui]

well Im going to love and leave you ladies off to bed for me to dream about NICE food to eat tommorow.

good night both

[lburnikell]

I might when I pluck the courage to drink again!
When do you fancy a night in the pub again, after wed I am a free woman!!

[lburnikell]

well Im going to love and leave you ladies off to bed for me to dream about NICE food to eat tommorow.

good night both

good night enjoy your sausages in the morning!!

[pepsi max]

as long as you,re not a "loose woman" :lol:

[lburnikell]

nay chance of that!! I have a macadamia nut in my head somewhere that represents my brain!! lol

[ATD]

They are on "no rusk" pills!
xx

[Ebbie.B]

It's funny i'm not really a meat eater either, but i love my steak rare nicey and juicy:yum:

Talking of tomato ketchup has given me a craving!
Not that i like artificial sweetners but do you think it could be made with Splenda instead of sugar?

I was also thinking the same about jam, but then if it could be done i would have thought we'd be able to buy it:(

[pepsi max]

ebbie,have you not tried the "atkins"tomato sauce or the walden farms.tom sauce was something i really missed till i got these substitutes.alright, they,re not Heinz but they,re great with bacon.

[lburnikell]

which is the nicer of the 2 I miss tommy sauce with my bacon

[pepsi max]

the atkins one is the best,its thicker and resembles heinz more.the other ones still nice though.

[jaqui]

just wanted to let you know that my sausages this morning were awful. They didn't taste awful II just couldn't stop thinking of the G word and it was really putting me off. Don't think I can face a sausage for a while yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pepsi max]

sorry jaquie but the G word and bouncy bits just had to be said.
my omlette was double checked for snotty bits as well.

[RCFletcher]

Ebbie - about the jam. It can be done. You can buy diabetic jam. It's made with sorbitol so don't eat too much at once or you'll be forever rushing to the loo.

With regards to ketchup, Safeways do a reduced sugar and salt one which has 14g per 100. a 5g blob on the side of your plate is less than a gram therefore.

I still love sausages.

[pepsi max]

i bet thats a lot cheaper than the £3.45 that i paid for my l-c tom sauce rob.

[RCFletcher]

Yes, less than a pound I think. You can't use tons of it - not at 14g per 100, but I weighed a good squirt and it came out at 5g - enough to dip my sausages in at breakfast!

It tastes good too.

[pepsi max]

think i,ll be paying a visit to safeways now.thanks rob.

[lburnikell]

U want a casburys caramel have you seen the new advert!! help

[Mamielou]

I was just at Biggles (www.ebiggles.co.uk) sausage shop in London. None of their sausages have any bread whatsoever. I'm making spaghetti sauce tonight using their Italian Sweet and Hot sausages.

Hello everyone! :wave:
Im new to the forum. I am from the US and have been living in the UK for over 2yrs now. I have searched for Italian sausage but cannot locate it here (Doncaster). Needless to say I was excited to see the message about Biggles store. I have already emailed them with questions on shipping. Are there any other stores that you know of that sells this item? Many thanks!

Mamie
200/192/150

[UrbanGypsy]

Hi Mamie

Welcome to the forum... hope the UKs been treating you kindly?! ;)

Your best bet in finding Italian sausage is probably to find out where the nearest good delicatessen is; it tends to be standard stock there.

[Mamielou]

I love it here thanks. Met my fella over the net 3 years ago. Moved here and got married. I do miss some foods from the US but have adjusted ok.
I have checked the shops in town on market day, but no luck. Hopefully Biggles does mail order.