Salvation Through Label Reading

Finding something to snack on is one of the most difficult things about a diet. For the last thirty years with everybody falling for the BIG LIE about low fat diets, people just wolfed down fat free chips, and baked not fried stuff, and watched themselves fail in the diet wars. But now, with the resurgence of Dr. John Salerno's High Protein, High Fat regimen, you can snack on delicious, nutritious foods and I'll tell you just what I found in the grocery store today. I looked at a lot of labels today and put back a lot of tempting things because they had carb counts in the stratosphere. I mean you have to think, people. This is your life here. Don't pour a bunch of poison down your throat.
Take a long, loving look at the spinach dip in the photo (courtesy of TimeInc) and ask yourself, what is wrong with this picture? The chips. That's what's wrong. If you choose a spinach dip for a snack and put it onto a piece of celery or eat it with a bit of carrot, you'll be ok. The dip I bought today at Stop and Shop is made from sour cream, cream cheese, spinach, water chestnuts and Knorr soup mix, plus a list of minor ingredients as long as your arm. May I tell you that if you want to be really healthy, just make it yourself. Ditch the chemicals and the soup mix, flavor it with a shot of cayenne and chili powder and you'll be way better off. You'll also save a whole lot of money. But, barring the time to cook -- if you can call stirring a bunch of stuff together cooking -- you'll still have a decent snack where each ounce yields a mere 2 grams carbohydrates, and 80 calories, 70 calories of which are fat. This will keep you satisfied and is a perfectly legitimate snack. Munch on.