Taco seasoning

[Raheemah]

It said no sugar but had 4 grams of carbs?
Is this ok?
I did read it until I already dumped it into the pot.
It has mulitdextrose, is that a sugar?

[Elizellen]

Re: Taco seasoning

I did a quick google for multidextrose and some pages for bodybuilders trying to put weight on came up!!

I imagine with the dextrose ending to the word it is some kind of added sugar.

[BeccaBoo]

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Just about any ingredient that ends in -ose is a sugar.
Potato starch and milk are often also used in taco seasonings. Next time, use paprika, chili powder, cumin, and onion powder...just about anything that comes mixed has some additional filler stuff that you don't need or want in your body.

[theredhead]

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Yes, maltodextrin is a form of sugar, so you'll want to avoid it.

Here's a good recipe for making your own taco seasoning:
http://users3.ev1.net/~fontlady/seas...for_tacos.html

[2big4mysize]

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most of the carbs in your mix are from the actual spices themselves. Many new tro Atkins folk are shocked when they discover spices have carbs.

[aleahs123]

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I found that out the first time around and mentioned it to my dad who was also shocked about the carbs since he had considered it a seasoning! I found though that Emeril's Southwest seasoning tastes just like chili powder and has no carb or anyting with -ose at the end! I use it just like I would chili powder!

[2big4mysize]

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wrong!!!!! See this is what I'm talking about newbies thinking spices don't have carbs

it has carbs about 3 for a tablespoon. if you look the serving size on the bottle is like 1/4th t but if you use it like chilli powder you will be using more then that and poof you got hidden carbs. You can download the recipe from the food network and make your own and punch up the carb count for it like I did. WWW.FOODTV.COM

Emeril’s Creole Seasoning (Essence or Bayou Blast):
2 1/2 tablespoons paprika
2 tablespoons salt
2 tablespoons garlic powder
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 tablespoon onion powder
1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon dried leaf oregano
1 tablespoon dried thyme

I found that out the first time around and mentioned it to my dad who was also shocked about the carbs since he had considered it a seasoning! I found though that Emeril's Southwest seasoning tastes just like chili powder and has no carb or anyting with -ose at the end! I use it just like I would chili powder!

[MotherOfGizmo]

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If you want to use prepackaged taco seasoning look for this one next time

http://www.luzianne.com/template_buy_product.cfm?ID=59&

The only ingredients are:
Ingredients: comino, garlic, ground chili peppers, onion, oregano, salt.

Even with those ingredients it has 3 carbs per 2 tsp! The package contains 6 servings so the whole package would be 18 carbs. Yes, spices do have carbs!

[aleahs123]

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I am not a newbie by any means.. I did atkins for 6 months in college but had cut so many carbs out (yes I know mistake) by being fanatical about every carb I ate that I would pass out so I stopped by the insistence of my doctor. So I consider the southwest seasoning a good subsitute.

[Seshena36]

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Okay, now I'm a bit confused. Obviously I understand the posts about taco seasoning thus far.......but....regarding the post and "newbies dont realize that spices have carbs too"....does that mean we have to count those carbs in our 20 allowed per day?????????????? I mean, the way im reading some of these posts....every single little thing has carbs in it....the 20 allowed get used up with my first breath of air in the morning....what am I allowed to eat then???

So if I make my own sugar free, starch free spice mix....I have to count those carbs against my 20 as well??????? Just want to make sure I'm understanding that part correctly.

[2big4mysize]

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I am not a newbie by any means.. I did atkins for 6 months in college but had cut so many carbs out (yes I know mistake) by being fanatical about every carb I ate that I would pass out so I stopped by the insistence of my doctor. So I consider the southwest seasoning a good subsitute.

I found that out the first time around and mentioned it to my dad who was also shocked about the carbs since he had considered it a seasoning! I found though that Emeril's Southwest seasoning tastes just like chili powder and has no carb or anyting with -ose at the end! I use it just like I would chili powder!

What you personally chose to count in your low carb plan is up to you and if you want to not count it that is fine but when you post on ADBB please don't mislead folk saying it has no carbs when you know better.

we have had folk look at their bottle of spice with 0 carbs for 1/4 t and create recipes they posted as no carb or low carb extrapolating from that 0 on the bottle to 0 for large servings that others have egarly jumped at only to wreck their Atkins cause it had over 30 net carbs when all the ingedients were counted. One was a barbeque sauce posted as 4 net for the whole recipe which in fact had over 50.

[2big4mysize]

Re: Taco seasoning

Okay, now I'm a bit confused. Obviously I understand the posts about taco seasoning thus far.......but....regarding the post and "newbies dont realize that spices have carbs too"....does that mean we have to count those carbs in our 20 allowed per day?????????????? I mean, the way im reading some of these posts....every single little thing has carbs in it....the 20 allowed get used up with my first breath of air in the morning....what am I allowed to eat then???

So if I make my own sugar free, starch free spice mix....I have to count those carbs against my 20 as well??????? Just want to make sure I'm understanding that part correctly.

yep we count every carb that enters the mouth cause it only takes eatring one carb over your body's critical carb level for losing or CCLL to stop your weight loss!

[aleahs123]

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wrong!!!!! See this is what I'm talking about newbies thinking spices don't have carbs

it has carbs about 3 for a tablespoon. if you look the serving size on the bottle is like 1/4th t but if you use it like chilli powder you will be using more then that and poof you got hidden carbs. You can download the recipe from the food network and make your own and punch up the carb count for it like I did. WWW.FOODTV.COM

At your insistance I looked up the recipe for the southwest seasoning and ran the NI. If you eat THE ENTIRE RECIPE (and who is going to do that?) you would still only be getting 11.3 Net carbs. Now break that down into a multiple servings and it is significantly better then the average prepackaged chili or taco seaoning.

[Brook]

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At your insistance I looked up the recipe for the southwest seasoning and ran the NI. If you eat THE ENTIRE RECIPE (and who is going to do that?) you would still only be getting 11.3 Net carbs. Now break that down into a multiple servings and it is significantly better then the average prepackaged chili or taco seaoning.

When you're on a website with people who are notorious binge eaters and poeple that weigh in at very large weights, you can count on the fact that someone..or many someones...are going to eat the entire recipe. If they are led to believe that they can do so for little to no carb impact, they're being misled, and that's not what we do here at ADBB

Yep. It's significantly better, but the point is that it DOES have carbs and they are SUPPOSED to be counted. Every carb counts!

The only carbs you don't have to count are fiber. That's it.


~Brook

[Brook]

Re: Taco seasoning

Okay, now I'm a bit confused. Obviously I understand the posts about taco seasoning thus far.......but....regarding the post and "newbies dont realize that spices have carbs too"....does that mean we have to count those carbs in our 20 allowed per day?????????????? I mean, the way im reading some of these posts....every single little thing has carbs in it....the 20 allowed get used up with my first breath of air in the morning....what am I allowed to eat then???

So if I make my own sugar free, starch free spice mix....I have to count those carbs against my 20 as well??????? Just want to make sure I'm understanding that part correctly.

I know. It seems pretty daunting, doesn't it? Really, it's not as hard as it may seem.

Breakfast: 2 large eggs (1.2 grams), .5 oz tomato (1 grams), 1 oz mushrooms (1 gram), 3oz turkey (0), 1oz american or cheddar (1 gram) 1 12oz cup of decaf coffee (1.5) = 5.5 grams.

Snack: 3 oz roast beef with 1 tsp mayo and 1oz cheese (1) = 1 gram

Lunch: 6oz chicken breast, 2oz salad mix (2), 1oz cucumber (1), 2 tbsp ranch dressing (1) = 4 grams

Snack: 2 boiled eggs mixed with mayo = 1.2 grams

Dinner: 6oz broiled pork chop with seasoning (1 gram), 4oz spaghetti squash (5 net), 1.5 tbsp butter, 1 tbsp parm (.5), with 2oz salad mix (2) and 1 tbsp dressing (1) = 9.5

21.2 (and that's with fiber only deducted from the spaghetti squash)

See? It's not so hard!