Turkey Bacon
We're trying to watch Porgy's fat intake but he's got a great craving for his favorite sandwich: the BLT. Any brands you like?
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12 Comments:
Depending on where you live, there's this great brand called Ed Hipps that I LOVE. I've been sans pork for about 10 years, and that is the only turkey bacon I can eat that doesn't look strange to me. I say depending where you live because I haven't been able to find it in areas that don't have a big Jewish or Muslim population.
Nomiom at 3:11PM on 07/26/09
Be very, very careful with turkey bacon. People are so afraid of fat these days that they forget about everything else. Turkey bacon varies wildly in amounts of sodium with some brands having as much as 10 times the amount of sodium found in real bacon. Read your labels carefully.
tapioca at 3:22PM on 07/26/09
It's never the same as real bacon, but I always look for the "South Beach" turquoise emblem on the package and get that one. It was Louis Rich for a while, now it's something else I think. That's how I pick.
orangemiles at 3:37PM on 07/26/09
I read that quite often Turkey Bacon has more fat than the regular pork bacon. I guess reading the labels is your best bet as @tapioca wrote.
janaatwg at 4:15PM on 07/26/09
To me, turkey bacon tastes more like ham product than like bacon. If someone's craving bacon, it might not satisfy.
If it was me, I'd fry it crispy so that you render more of the fat, use fewer slices and spread them out a little better, and pile on the lettuce and tomato. A whole grain bread is also good for swooshing the fat out of your system.
Another idea would be to buy the bacon from a place that will slice it for you from the slab, and have them slice it extra thin. That way you can put on more slices but it will be less bacon.
dbcurrie at 4:22PM on 07/26/09
I'm going to second dbcurrie's thoughts. Go for the real stuff, just watch your portions and drain the fat - or better yet, bake it on a wire rack so the fat drips off. Turkey bacon is a strange product usually filled tons of preservatives and whatnots, plus its nowhere near as tasty! Indulge wisely and kill the craving.
thinkingincrayons at 6:13PM on 07/26/09
I have tried for years to like that stuff to no avail. I'll eat it, I've got some in the freezer, but really prefer just a good run on name brand center cut hickory smoked real pig! So I'm also on South Beach and have happily given up my simple carbs with the right to indulge occasionally in some crispy fried bacon.
Although the SB folks tend to want to push you to Turkey bacon, I've found I'm still losing weight, blood pressure is down, blood work is excellent, even though about three times a month I'll go for the omelet with a rasher of bacon.
The real stuff can't be replicated!
Ribster at 8:17PM on 07/26/09
Turkey bacon....say it out loud and think about it for a minute. Do you still really want to eat this stuff?
dmcavanagh at 9:29PM on 07/26/09
I used to eat turkey bacon (louis Rich), but in truth real bacon isn't that bad. Get a very good brand (McKensie's, for me) and cook it crisp. The pkg lists 2 slices as 75 calories, That's all it takes for a BLT, and it's only the same calories as 3 saltines. Once a week, why not - and it's probably better for you than the turkey stuff.
I've been reading Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food," and one of the things he says is not to eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognize (the list of ingredients being part of this). You grandmother (or great-grand, depending) would recognize bacon. Turkey bacon not so much.
lemonfair at 8:27AM on 07/27/09
Try Applegate Farms Natural Turkey Bacon if you can find it. It's so much better than Louis Rich or Jennie O. The texture and flavor are outstanding.
dhorst at 8:40AM on 07/27/09
eat less of the regular bacon.
turkey bacon is full of all kinds of junk to get it to look like bacon. less fat or more chemicals -- your choice.
anysuchname at 4:32PM on 07/27/09
I'd pick Canadian Bacon over Turkey Bacon any day.
tiffanyh283 at 2:14PM on 08/06/09