Catered Lunch

[RichMan]

I work in an office where they cater lunch everyday. Its good and its bad. The good, there is always a protein and salad bar. . The bad, I'm already tired of Salads. I don't eat Poulty, ver Allergic, so I ate Roast Beef Lettuce wraps. They were good. I've already lost 22 pds in 6 weeks and will continue. My question is, why does Roast Beef have carbs? According to DR Atkins carb counter it has 2.x carbs per six ounces. Also, is Lunch meat dangerous? I tend to eat a lot of it since I can't eat chicken.

Thanks,
Rich

[not2late]

Re: Catered Lunch

I work in an office where they cater lunch everyday. Its good and its bad. The good, there is always a protein and salad bar. . The bad, I'm already tired of Salads. I don't eat Poulty, ver Allergic, so I ate Roast Beef Lettuce wraps. They were good. I've already lost 22 pds in 6 weeks and will continue. My question is, why does Roast Beef have carbs? According to DR Atkins carb counter it has 2.x carbs per six ounces. Also, is Lunch meat dangerous? I tend to eat a lot of it since I can't eat chicken.

Thanks,
Rich

Roast beef---the kind you buy raw and roast in your oven yourself--typically won't have carbs. But the processed/deli kind of roast beef can have carbs because sometimes they inject the meat with a sugar-salt solution to prevent it from drying out while cooking or they soak the meat in some kind of sugar-based marinade or (worse) the roast beef is processed and they use some kind of food starch to help hold it together.

Read the ingredients to your lunch/deli meats because some of them contain things like dextrose, corn syrup solids, food starch, etc.