please someone tell me if we can eat fried foods on the atkins diet

[babyv]

Hello, everyone. I have been on atkins for three weeks, fell off the wagon once at the state fair, got back on the next day. I have heard several different things regarding fried foods. Can we actually eat things like chicken nuggets, b/c of course they are breaded? Alot of girls I work with have lost a lot of weight while doing atkins and eating fried foods. Please someone help me with this and what about sugar-free candy? Thanks!

[ladyinred]

Re: please someone tell me if we can eat fried foods on the atkins diet

Regular breading, if it's made with bread crumbs or flour, is not allowed during the Induction phase of Atkins. We don't have any type of flour until we get to the grains rung, which is much later on.

You can make an Atkins legal breading out of pork rinds and/or parmesan cheese and fry your food in butter or oil, but you would have to make it yourself. Very little processed food is Atkins friendly.

If your workmates are eating foods that have breading or flour on them, then I would say that they probably aren't doing Atkins. Maybe they are on some other type of low carb plan. Or maybe they are on the higher rungs of Atkins?

[abstractillusions]

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Speaking of fried foods, i am going to a restaurant for work lunch Friday and they have this dish i love (fried spinach) from what my friend says all they do is put spinach in a basket and deep fry it in oil. i forgot to ask what kind of oil but its a higher class restuarant so i am sure they will oblige and do it with olive oil if i ask them. Any thoughts? I will be calling them next week to get specifics but my friend who makes it was pretty informed.

[Laurenfra]

Re: please someone tell me if we can eat fried foods on the atkins diet

You can eat fried foods just not breaded. I eat deep fried chicken wings each week, my favorite place does it with no flour.

[abstractillusions]

Re: please someone tell me if we can eat fried foods on the atkins diet

Lauren, does it matter what kind of oil it is?

[Laurenfra]

Re: please someone tell me if we can eat fried foods on the atkins diet

It does not matter. Some are healthier then others, but as for Atkins oil is oil.

[Kent]

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Just a small update, here is what the book says about oil:

Fats and Oils
Many fats, especially certain oils, are essential to good nutrition. Olive oil is particularly valuable. All other vegetable oils are allowed, the best being canola, walnut, soybean, grapeseed, sesame, sunflower and safflower oils, especially if they are labeled "cold-pressed" or "expeller-pressed." Do not cook polyunsaturated oils, such as corn, soybean and sunflower oil, at high temperatures or allow to brown or smoke.

The best oil to fry (edited oops) in is peanut oil, but truth be told, I normally fry in corn oil. I don't believe 350 is considered high temp.

[abstractillusions]

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Thanks Lauren and Kent, i thought that's what the book said but with restuarants you never know lol and i wanted to make sure i shouldn't be aware of something that restuarants might use that i should have a heads up on.

Thanks for the input and the looking up for me Kent. Its appreciated.

[G-Mom]

Re: please someone tell me if we can eat fried foods on the atkins diet

I personally don't think we should ever allow ourselves breaded foods, even during that rung. I don't think Dr. A was thinking of this when we are supposed to allow grains back in. These foods are not good for you. I suppose once every few months won't kill you, but should never be allowed often, even on that rung.

[cleochatra]

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I've eaten a chicken mcnoogie before in my day. Pull off the breading and eat only the chicken.

[Chris]

Re: please someone tell me if we can eat fried foods on the atkins diet

Since no one mentioned the other part of your question, I will. STAY AWAY from the sugar free treats -- candies, cookies, whatever. This is especially true during induction; but I make it a firm rule for every phase of the program. They're made with sugar alcohols, which, depending on the type, are either metabolized as carbohydrates (in spite of what the package says about "net carbs") or cause severe gastric distress, much like an overdose of laxitive. Do a search on sugar alcohols and you'll find out a lot more information.

[cleochatra]

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Right on!

[Hudson]

Re: please someone tell me if we can eat fried foods on the atkins diet

I think Dr. A gave a warning against deep frying as well. As I remember deep frying does something to the fat similar to trans fats. The result is fat that is bad for you.

[2big4mysize]

Re: please someone tell me if we can eat fried foods on the atkins diet

you want your spinach fried crisp so don't ask for olive oil frying. we have a pst somewhere with the smoke points of all the oils if you want to fry your own. Rried Kale like tht is great too and not a brittle.

and somebody just posted a great pic in the recipe section of his induction legal fried checken nuggest with the recipe for any chicken nugget folk.


Cleo how on earth do you get any cjicken out of those bread wrappers? and remember if you do thast chicken isn't just ckicken as it has been treated to be moist and tender with added injected stuff.

[angelstar]

Re: please someone tell me if we can eat fried foods on the atkins diet

Just gona throw my 2 cents in...

Personally I dont think we should eat ANY processed foods. The Atkins diet is focused on wholesome, natural foods. Anything that is processed or has added sugar is a no no. All the low carb cookies and ice cream are just full of additives and preservatives, just like the junk food that got us here.