To quote Ur-spo.
Here is what caused my horror, not Urspo.
When we eat a sausage and biscuit at Hardee's, I notice they are incredibly salty tasting. I have eaten these occasionally over the years and do not remember them as being so sodium laden. So, I decided to see how much sodium is actually present in the delicious morning meal. Imagine my shock when I saw the figures for each patty.
1320 mg sodium
42 g carbohydrates
!!!!!!!!!
The Mayo Clinic recommends 2325 mg each day as the upper limit of sodium. So, a person consumes more than half the recommended sodium in one tiny meal.
The make matters worse there are 42 grams of carbohydrates in each sausage and biscuit. Mayo Clinic site recommends 200 to 225 carbs per day.
I see every bite he eats and I can assure he eats more carbs than 225 each day. I am not confessing to anything.
As a result of this shocking information, I decided to cook breakfast to avoid more carbs. The last time we went out in time for breakfast, I cooked Johnsonville Sausage patties. He ate two with a piece of bread and complained the sausage had little taste. I scrambled three eggs and ate two sausage patties, thinking the sausage was overly tasty! I think all his years of smoking and eating too much sodium has affected his taste.
Now, I need to figure out how to make his sausage more tasty. I will only eat one patty, if even that. I am not really worried about eggs since three has less than one carb all together. Each Johnsonville patty has 0.5 g of carbs.
Additionally, I had about ten ounces of milk...10 grams of carbohydrates. He had a slice of bread, about 15 carbs. So, we both had a better breakfast than our usual Hardee's breakfast, more nutritious, less sodium, and less deleterious to our health.
From this day forward I will keep a list of foods we eat and carbs therein. Yes, calories count. Carbs are what is making him drive crazy when his blood sugar drops.
There is no need to inform me when I eat something bad for me!
Have you ever found out one thing about the food you eat that has been a revelation and changed your way of eating?
