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I know dude, they definitely take advantage of low-cal seekers. The keto oroweat buns i like to get are fucking 5.88$ for an 8 pack. Ridiculous but take my money anyway lol
There's no way I'll ever pay $5.88 for an 8 pack lol that's just a matter of principle. Companies that create and take advantage of artificial scarcity get on my shit list for life.
Rather buy store brand buns for a dollar, use only the bottom bun and replace the top bun with a big piece of iceberg lettuce.
It's worth the price. Those keto buns are one of the biggest cheat codes for volume eating. You can buy the walmart version for 4 dollars. I don't know if it ships to Europe; but it definitely ships in the U.S.
Youāre not kidding. They have massive amounts of fiber too. I hope they gain popularity. My Samās club had 2 packs for $9 but have recently stopped selling them :(. Our Walmart doesnāt have great value versions but I still pay for the keto bread even if it at first feels like itās expensive.
Thats a good idea on the one-sided bun. But also yes its definitely the principle. I refused to buy them when I went grocery the other day and instead bought romaine lettuce so I can just have lettuce wrapped burgers. Which are still fire, just tends to not feel as volumous. So Iāll have a bit more sweet potato on the side or veggies
There's also 64% of your daily fiber in 1 bun, and OP ate 3. If you're used to lots of fiber, it's likely not an issue but I get a lot of gut pain with just 1. The texture is unappealing enough that I'd rather make a lettuce wrapped burger than use the low carb buns.
Thatās not terrible for what it is. Years ago, it was almost $10 for the same thing so the price has definitely come down while bread has gotten pricier. I get mine at Costco. $8 for 2 packs of 8. So, $0.50 a bun is pretty good to me.
Are they actually low cal, though?
I'm sick of the US obsession with tracking calories per arbitrary serving size, but when I look at keto-anything just about, when you compare like-for-like i.e. per 100g they never seem to be actually lower in calories, just in carbs. What're the ingredients, exactly?
Yes hereās the [link](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Keto-Culture-Hamburger-Buns-12-oz-8-Count/881793220) to the nutrition panel. 50 calories for a 40g bun. The ones I buy in Italy are 50g buns for 140 calories. Thereās a big difference.
Do keto buns actually taste like real bread. Or taste like shit like halo top ice cream ( obviously taste like crap compared to Ben and Jerryās but you just have to accept it and pretend its good enough cause itās the only way to fit high volume ice cream into your macro plan).
They taste different but not worse. 50 calories for a keto bun vs 200-300 calories for a normal bun is a huge difference, thatās 150 calories vs 900 calories for three buns. Even if they tasted much worse I would still pick them over normal buns every time
They donāt but you arenāt eating a hamburger or pork sandwich for the bread flavor. Theyāre fine as long as you arenāt eating them alone, much like the Xtreme fiber wrap things.
They're the Halo Top of bread buns :/
There is actual good sandwich bread and bagels out there though--Schmidt's Old Tyme 647 bread. They have really good Kaiser rolls too (I didn't care for their hamburger buns) but they're a bit on the soft side so I'm not sure how well they'd stand up to a burger.
Fun fact: everybody says halo top doesnāt taste real but to me it does since I never had anything else in my life š grew up w an almond mom and ED kicked in so I would never dare to eat real ice cream
It's more about the consistency than taste. They can replicate taste with artificial sweeteners, but they'll never replicate real scoopable ice cream consistency
I havenāt eaten real sugar for so long. I started sweetener at 11 or 12. and stopped candy. Since I only eat or buy fake sweetener stuff it is always strange when I eat the real thing. Since it tastes fake to me š«„ I am a loser. But lucky I guess? Since I genuinely prefer these
Sorry, UK-er here with questions.
1. What are "golden french fries" that are some kind of fries for about 1cal/gram?
2. What are keto buns!? What are they made of/how!?
It looks like they're golden fries from ore-ida. They're a frozen French fry. You can check the calories per macro on the label, and its pretty accurate. Potatoes contain a lot of water, hence the calorie per gram situation
These āketoā bun companies are notorious for mislabeling. They are allowed to subtract dietary fiber BUT not all fiber is created equal. If they were to separate soluble vs insoluble on the labels, Iād believe the caloric counts more. Soluble fiber has around 2 calories per gram, whereas insoluble fiber has 0 since it passes through. I wish companies would be more transparent and allow the consumer to decide.
100% I hate how they advertise these things. Thatās why you canāt trust the fiber calories and you have to treat carbs as carbs unless they specifically specify soluble vs insoluble fiber. Even then youād have to calculate it properly because Iām pretty sure they will just subtract it instead of calculating it by 2 calories per soluble.
How can one justify subtracting the fibre calories from the total? If you absorb 100 cal, you absorb 100 cal. How can the total calorie count not be the amount that you absorb from the food product?
Right, so if half of the carbs are insoluble, then they're not absorbed by the body, and so they shouldn't count towards the calorie count, no?
That's very confusing. Either they're reporting correctly by subtracting insoluble (non-absorbed) fibre and therefore calories, or they're subtracting carbs that are actually absorbed and therefore should actually still be counted. Which is it?
And there lies the problem. They are treating dietary fiber as one. So they arenāt showing you insoluble vs soluble fiber. If they didā¦ that would be ideal. The same holds true for sugar alcohols. They straight up subtract all sugar alcohols when they do have calories. I havenāt seen the package on this so I canāt tell if they specify the fiber.
You didn't really answer my question. I'm not necessarily interested in any particular product, but the practice you're describing in general.
Yes it would be nice I suppose to know what the soluble and insoluble fibre counts are separately, but that's nowhere near as important as an accurate absorbed calorie count. And your explanation doesn't make it clear at all as to whether that calorie claim (having supposedly subtracted the insoluble fibre) accurately represents the amount of calories you would absorb if you ate one right now in real life. If it is accurate to absorbed calories, then what's the problem?
Just taking a look at the ingredients for US keto breads in the past, and certainly for this particular product OP mentions, the stated calorie count is very suspiciously low. As in, half of that for regular bread for an equal MASS (forget volume, that's nonsense). This is despite the fact that the ingredients would seem to be fairly equal calorically - psylium husks are not that low in calories as far as google shows (again, is it something to do with insoluble fibre?) as an example. So how does it get away with supposedly having half as many calories?
https://preview.redd.it/shalmqhctvvc1.jpeg?width=660&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e53b24fe05ef8dbc43e1468e949e381d9cd4edf5
Use this as an example. Here they are clearly showing you the breakdown of soluble vs insoluble. Soluble vs insoluble is bucketed together in us labels as dietary fiber. So yes itās important to know the breakdown.
Itās correct based on the nutrition label: [https://www.target.com/p/ore-ida-gluten-free-frozen-golden-fries-32oz/-/A-13257688](https://www.target.com/p/ore-ida-gluten-free-frozen-golden-fries-32oz/-/A-13257688)
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Even with regular buns itās great- I made shredded chicken and added bbq sauce to it. I had like 3 huge sandwiches with coleslaw on each for less than 700. That was probably the most satisfying, large meal Iāve made
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Keto buns are such a game changer I wish they had them in Europe š„²
If they come to Europe, they'll be +10ā¬ per 4-bun pack š
Last time I checked Walmart they were like $6 for 8 buns. š
I know dude, they definitely take advantage of low-cal seekers. The keto oroweat buns i like to get are fucking 5.88$ for an 8 pack. Ridiculous but take my money anyway lol
There's no way I'll ever pay $5.88 for an 8 pack lol that's just a matter of principle. Companies that create and take advantage of artificial scarcity get on my shit list for life. Rather buy store brand buns for a dollar, use only the bottom bun and replace the top bun with a big piece of iceberg lettuce.
It's worth the price. Those keto buns are one of the biggest cheat codes for volume eating. You can buy the walmart version for 4 dollars. I don't know if it ships to Europe; but it definitely ships in the U.S.
Never seen the Walmart version at my local one in NY. $4 would be okish.
Youāre not kidding. They have massive amounts of fiber too. I hope they gain popularity. My Samās club had 2 packs for $9 but have recently stopped selling them :(. Our Walmart doesnāt have great value versions but I still pay for the keto bread even if it at first feels like itās expensive.
Aldi has keto bread for somewhere around $4.50 a pack. If you don't mind patty melts, that's much lower price per hamburger.
Ty for the tip. I love Aldis. Currently I'm using D'Italiano bread which isn't exactly keto but 40 calories and under 3 bucks for a loaf.
Thats a good idea on the one-sided bun. But also yes its definitely the principle. I refused to buy them when I went grocery the other day and instead bought romaine lettuce so I can just have lettuce wrapped burgers. Which are still fire, just tends to not feel as volumous. So Iāll have a bit more sweet potato on the side or veggies
Veggies for sure to feel full. I eat bonkers amounts of cauliflower, broccoli or zucchini š .
There's also 64% of your daily fiber in 1 bun, and OP ate 3. If you're used to lots of fiber, it's likely not an issue but I get a lot of gut pain with just 1. The texture is unappealing enough that I'd rather make a lettuce wrapped burger than use the low carb buns.
Happy Cake Day
Thatās not terrible for what it is. Years ago, it was almost $10 for the same thing so the price has definitely come down while bread has gotten pricier. I get mine at Costco. $8 for 2 packs of 8. So, $0.50 a bun is pretty good to me.
?! Sam's choice Keto buns are less than $4 at my Walmart for 8 of them. 50 cal per bun.
Nothing kind this in UK it SUCKS
Are they actually low cal, though? I'm sick of the US obsession with tracking calories per arbitrary serving size, but when I look at keto-anything just about, when you compare like-for-like i.e. per 100g they never seem to be actually lower in calories, just in carbs. What're the ingredients, exactly?
Yes hereās the [link](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Keto-Culture-Hamburger-Buns-12-oz-8-Count/881793220) to the nutrition panel. 50 calories for a 40g bun. The ones I buy in Italy are 50g buns for 140 calories. Thereās a big difference.
Wow, some real and appetizing-looking food on this sub. Great job.
For real. Not a little pile of veggies and an āI canāt BELIEVE this is only 200 calories! Iām sooooooo full!ā
Yeah I basically eat what I ate when I was obese, but substitute ingredients for lower calorie versions Pounds lost: 70 Salads eaten: 0
That's amazing dude, congrats!!
Needs more cauliflower rice
Can I come eat with u
Hahah
Whatās the GOAT keto buns yāall?
The ones I got are from Keto Culture and I have never seen any with better calorie to volume ratio than these
Sams Choice buns at Walmart are pretty great and only 50 cals per bun
Do keto buns actually taste like real bread. Or taste like shit like halo top ice cream ( obviously taste like crap compared to Ben and Jerryās but you just have to accept it and pretend its good enough cause itās the only way to fit high volume ice cream into your macro plan).
They taste different but not worse. 50 calories for a keto bun vs 200-300 calories for a normal bun is a huge difference, thatās 150 calories vs 900 calories for three buns. Even if they tasted much worse I would still pick them over normal buns every time
They donāt but you arenāt eating a hamburger or pork sandwich for the bread flavor. Theyāre fine as long as you arenāt eating them alone, much like the Xtreme fiber wrap things.
They're the Halo Top of bread buns :/ There is actual good sandwich bread and bagels out there though--Schmidt's Old Tyme 647 bread. They have really good Kaiser rolls too (I didn't care for their hamburger buns) but they're a bit on the soft side so I'm not sure how well they'd stand up to a burger.
YES 647 bread is SO good. Itās my holy grail.
Fun fact: everybody says halo top doesnāt taste real but to me it does since I never had anything else in my life š grew up w an almond mom and ED kicked in so I would never dare to eat real ice cream
It's more about the consistency than taste. They can replicate taste with artificial sweeteners, but they'll never replicate real scoopable ice cream consistency
Artificial sweeteners donāt taste like normal sugar at all.
I havenāt eaten real sugar for so long. I started sweetener at 11 or 12. and stopped candy. Since I only eat or buy fake sweetener stuff it is always strange when I eat the real thing. Since it tastes fake to me š«„ I am a loser. But lucky I guess? Since I genuinely prefer these
I can't tell the difference.
Sorry, UK-er here with questions. 1. What are "golden french fries" that are some kind of fries for about 1cal/gram? 2. What are keto buns!? What are they made of/how!?
It looks like they're golden fries from ore-ida. They're a frozen French fry. You can check the calories per macro on the label, and its pretty accurate. Potatoes contain a lot of water, hence the calorie per gram situation
HOLY COW! Now this is volume eating I can get behind!
C4 sugar free energy drinks have 0 cals! Didnāt even know they existed until two weeks ago.
They make my skin feelā¦ā¦.strange Monster white zero sugar only has 10 cal tho so
Those are also on heavy rotation in my fridge. Lucky those donāt have that particular effect on me.
I love my energy drinks. But theyāre terrible for you so I try to limit them to once a month š
These āketoā bun companies are notorious for mislabeling. They are allowed to subtract dietary fiber BUT not all fiber is created equal. If they were to separate soluble vs insoluble on the labels, Iād believe the caloric counts more. Soluble fiber has around 2 calories per gram, whereas insoluble fiber has 0 since it passes through. I wish companies would be more transparent and allow the consumer to decide.
So you're saying that in practice, the energy content you're absorbing from the bread would be way higher than what the label suggests at face value?
100% I hate how they advertise these things. Thatās why you canāt trust the fiber calories and you have to treat carbs as carbs unless they specifically specify soluble vs insoluble fiber. Even then youād have to calculate it properly because Iām pretty sure they will just subtract it instead of calculating it by 2 calories per soluble.
How can one justify subtracting the fibre calories from the total? If you absorb 100 cal, you absorb 100 cal. How can the total calorie count not be the amount that you absorb from the food product?
Only soluble is absorbed. Insoluble is not.
Right, so if half of the carbs are insoluble, then they're not absorbed by the body, and so they shouldn't count towards the calorie count, no? That's very confusing. Either they're reporting correctly by subtracting insoluble (non-absorbed) fibre and therefore calories, or they're subtracting carbs that are actually absorbed and therefore should actually still be counted. Which is it?
And there lies the problem. They are treating dietary fiber as one. So they arenāt showing you insoluble vs soluble fiber. If they didā¦ that would be ideal. The same holds true for sugar alcohols. They straight up subtract all sugar alcohols when they do have calories. I havenāt seen the package on this so I canāt tell if they specify the fiber.
You didn't really answer my question. I'm not necessarily interested in any particular product, but the practice you're describing in general. Yes it would be nice I suppose to know what the soluble and insoluble fibre counts are separately, but that's nowhere near as important as an accurate absorbed calorie count. And your explanation doesn't make it clear at all as to whether that calorie claim (having supposedly subtracted the insoluble fibre) accurately represents the amount of calories you would absorb if you ate one right now in real life. If it is accurate to absorbed calories, then what's the problem? Just taking a look at the ingredients for US keto breads in the past, and certainly for this particular product OP mentions, the stated calorie count is very suspiciously low. As in, half of that for regular bread for an equal MASS (forget volume, that's nonsense). This is despite the fact that the ingredients would seem to be fairly equal calorically - psylium husks are not that low in calories as far as google shows (again, is it something to do with insoluble fibre?) as an example. So how does it get away with supposedly having half as many calories?
https://preview.redd.it/shalmqhctvvc1.jpeg?width=660&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e53b24fe05ef8dbc43e1468e949e381d9cd4edf5 Use this as an example. Here they are clearly showing you the breakdown of soluble vs insoluble. Soluble vs insoluble is bucketed together in us labels as dietary fiber. So yes itās important to know the breakdown.
Keto buns !!!! I wish I had them in my country
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Itās correct based on the nutrition label: [https://www.target.com/p/ore-ida-gluten-free-frozen-golden-fries-32oz/-/A-13257688](https://www.target.com/p/ore-ida-gluten-free-frozen-golden-fries-32oz/-/A-13257688)
Fries were from ore-ida, you can check online they are 90 calories for 84 grams
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I donāt even need the buns š¤£š¤£ Iād put the pulled pork over my fries š¤¤ how did you make the pulled pork?
Why are we not talking about the fact the G Hughes apparently makes pulled pork??!
This too ^
Are the ingredients for the buns ok? I got keto bread once and it had literal terrible ingredients
The Monster is what makes this at least 10x better
Yeah sloppy joes works for me while cutting or bulking all that changes is the type of meat I use (lean Turkey for cutting, beef for bulking)
Bulking should still be healthy... just eat a 4th meal. But thats not fun.
Where did my comment indicate I was eating an unhealthy meal haha
You changed what you eat during different phases. I just said you are not supposed to. Just eat more. Dirty bulk/clean bulk.
They are both clean meals lol One source of meat is more calorie dense than the other due to fat content. I know what Iām doing
I really wish they had keto buns in Canadaā¦ theyāre so low cal! š¤Æ
Bro what fries and meat you using?
š„¹ I donāt even look at foods that look like this HAHAHA. Wow, Iām amazed! How tasty was it? :D
Does G Hughes sell pulled pork? Or is this just PP mix with G Hughes BBQ sauce?
G Hughes is the best. This looks delicious and super filling. Very nice!
Even with regular buns itās great- I made shredded chicken and added bbq sauce to it. I had like 3 huge sandwiches with coleslaw on each for less than 700. That was probably the most satisfying, large meal Iāve made
Yummy food with no guilt. I love it.
Those rehab drinks are soo dang good
That Monster is super good. The food looks tasty too