Hot Sauce!! Vinegar?!?

[Nervosia]

Ok. I have been downing hot sauce like there's no tomorrow. When I bought it, I made sure it had 0 Carbs...but now as I further investigate (on a full stomach) I find that one of its main ingredients is VINEGAR! I've already shelved my Apple Cidar Vinegar for this diet...am I screwing up big time with the hot sauce? I've set it aside until further understanding is reached...

[sunflowergrl]

Re: Hot Sauce!! Vinegar?!?

I think we can have vinegar, but it does have carbs. You should probably count one carb per tablespoon. Its the Balsamic Vinegar we can't have, it has sugar. Is there sugar in your hot sauce? If not, you will be fine. Just count the carbs!!

[Nervosia]

Re: Hot Sauce!! Vinegar?!?

Oh. Whew! I was ready to smash that hot sauce bottle. It's sooooo yummy. And I love vinegar too. But mine is claiming for its tiny tiny serving size...that there are no carbs. Thanks for the quick response.

[Diva217.5]

Re: Hot Sauce!! Vinegar?!?

Vinegar Has Carbs????????

[2big4mysize]

Re: Hot Sauce!! Vinegar?!?

yep vinegar and just about every 0 carb for the small listed serving size food has carbs. so list the foods in your counter and give it .5-1 net carb to be safe every time you use it.

I can't tell you how many recipes had to be relabeled cause a new to Atkins person read their label as 0 for the bottle and not for the listed serving and added a bunch of it to a recipe and "claimed the recipe was induction safe and 0 carb. there was the 96 carb brownines recipe listed as less then 10,a 38 carb bbq sauce recipe that was listed as less then 1 for the recipes, and somebody that claimed to have a great induction cinnamon bun that didn't know cinnamon and flax had carbs just to name a few.

the best advice I ever got was know the accurate carb count for a food before it goes in your mouth. Just cause it says 0 for 1/4 t doesn't mean i it is 0 for a cup and could be a 94 carb mistake at that size seving since manufacturers can by law round down to ) if it has less then .5 carbs ofr the designated serving size.

[Diva217.5]

Re: Hot Sauce!! Vinegar?!?

Ok, so alway goto fitday and enter, is it alway accurate or is there another site I can goto to just log in what i want to eat and see how many carbs come up?

[Isabeau]

Re: Hot Sauce!! Vinegar?!?

I like fitday. I really like the custom food option so you can enter exactly the foods you're eating. If using their lists, just make sure you're using the right amount, etc. Some foods default to a cup for example rather then a tablespoon.

[Elizellen]

Re: Hot Sauce!! Vinegar?!?

This is one time when I always think how lucky we are over here in UK as our labels are mostly giving information on calories/carbs etc for 100 mls (3.35 fluid oz) or 100 grams (3.5 oz) of the food!!

[coitrina]

Re: Hot Sauce!! Vinegar?!?

Franks Red Hot sauce is one that I read was the safest. I use it, and used it during induction. Fry up some buffalo wings and slather them in some butter mixed with Franks, and MAN oh MAN are those wings goooooood!

[Nervosia]

Re: Hot Sauce!! Vinegar?!?

Thank you for all the feedback and food suggestions. Yum. I've been using Texas Pete's Hot Sauce...

[pladd04]

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Newbie here, So far I have been trying to play it very save and not eating anything unless I know for sure that it's safe. Getting a little boring tho... Is that a website? Fitday.com??? Would love some feed back on other sites to find useful carb counters or other help
Been here a short time but everone is just so sweet, I really like this site and don't know what I would do without all of you. HUGGIES TO U ALL.
Thanks everyone

[sunflowergrl]

Re: Hot Sauce!! Vinegar?!?

Oh, Pladd you are so sweet!! Go to fitday.com, and get an account!! Its wonderful, it really helps keep track of everything like carbs and percentages. You want 65% fat, 30% protean, and 5% carbs.

[Elizellen]

Re: Hot Sauce!! Vinegar?!?

One of the useful 'sticky threads' at the top of this forum is this one about using fitday.com
http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...ead.php?t=5775

There are quite a few other stickies there and in the other forums you might benefit from reading too when you have the time.