last week I started falling into the trap of "just a couple" potato chips or frito's with my lunch. This is a waste of carbs when I'm trying to keep carbs under 30 grams a day. But I needed something crunchy.

Enter stage left: PORK RINDS .... Extremely crunchy..satisfies that mouth feel and need to crunch some food, 0 carbs (incredible), 5 g fat, (I never reach my fats goal, always under the number allowed). 8g PROTIEN

in a serving of one ounce...I never can eat a whole portion, I end up sharing it with my dogs.

tonight I put five of them on a cookie sheet in my toaster oven and toasted them a bit, then sprinkled them very lightly with grated parmesan cheese. Yummy!

Tiff, why do you prefer Prilosec over Nexium?

Tiff, why do you prefer Prilosec over Nexium?

I've never taken Nexium so I don't truly have a preference for Prilosec over Nexium.

Nexium is extremely expensive even with RX coverage. Some insurance companies will not pay for Nexium because there is not a generic available. Prilosec and Protonix are both available by RX in generic form, and most insurance companies won't balk about having to cover these 2 drugs.

This thread is making me chuckle a bit because over the last couple of weeks, I've been trying to transition into my low carb pre-op diet so that it's not a shock to my system next month. Well, for some reason, I've been salivating over the pork rinds lately at the gas station/CS I go to, but I didn't get them because I always thought of them as a guilty pleasure and useless calories. Now I find out that I can have them without feeling like a bad girl. My daughter is going to be so excited when we get to stop by "snack central" at the gas station tomorrow afternoon so I can get me some pork rinds. :wink0:

I have to say, mushy pork rinds do not sound very good. LOL!

Has anyone ever tried microwave pork rinds?

Mary, that's too funny! Seems like we have to relearn everything LOL.

Catyroses, after you asked, I seemed to remember my mom used to like the microwave ones. So, I called her this afternoon and she said they are great. I found some on Amazon and ordered them.:biggrin0: