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[bikipatra]

I know we can have a soy burger or "veggie burger" for the lean portion of our L&G. I was wondering about soy dogs. They have zero grams of fat, 2 grams of carbs, 9 grams of protein and are 45 calories each. Are these allowed?

[hulagirlfromhawaii]

I would eat it. It sounds compliant to me!

[Mike]

Feel free, but watch the sodium. I know I did fat free dogs (Hebrew National) and they were way salty
Let me know how the soy ones are.

[bikipatra]

Feel free, but watch the sodium. I know I did fat free dogs (Hebrew National) and they were way salty
Let me know how the soy ones are.

Yeah when they take out the fat it seems they always add sugar or salt to make up for it. I will try one for dinner tonight and report back. I had one a few years ago and it tasted fine but I know my delicate taste buds are more sensitive now that I am MF'ing.

[Karli]

Hi, Biki, I used to eat these when I was vegan and I liked them pretty well. The sodium is something to watch for I guess (need to look that up-- but, I bet it's comparable to tofu), but aside from that, I would think you would want to eat at least two of them since they have such a low calorie-content. You can do the math but having two of them would still put you below calorie-wise than a bocca burger, and lower than most of the other things that are recommended for a proper L/G serving. The carbs are low enough not to be a problem with a couple of them together, either (even if you had three of them, you are somewhere calorie-wise around a serving of chicken with only 6 carbs total, which is lower carb-wise than a single bocca burger and lower than 2 eggs... etc.).

You just want to make sure you are getting enough so you don't send your body into starvation mode, and just one alone is not even equivelent in calories to another MF supplement. Just some unofficial thoughts on the matter. I am interested to know how this will turn out, though, because I would like to have them on occasion, too .


Karli

[bikipatra]

Each dog has 320 mg of sodium which is roughly the equivalent of MF Chicken Noodle Soup but I don't have 2 or 3 of those at a time. I think tofu has a lot less, approximately 30mg per 3 oz serving.

[bikipatra]

Feel free, but watch the sodium. I know I did fat free dogs (Hebrew National) and they were way salty
Let me know how the soy ones are.

Yeah when they take out the fat it seems they always add sugar or salt to make up for it. I will try one for dinner tonight and report back. I had one a few years ago and it tasted fine but I know my delicate taste buds are more sensitive now that I am MF'ing.

I guess I will wait to eat the soydogs til the final verdict comes in....

[Serendipity]

I think you'd want to compare that amount of sodium with the amount of sodium in a portion of lean beef or pork because that is what you're replacing with the soy dog. lol, that sounds funny.....like to tofurkey my niece had on Thanksgiving. Anyway, it sounds like too much sodium, but then again, if you drink lots of water the effect is temporary.

just my 2 cents.