Chocolate and Bacon reintroduction

[klassyart]

There's a Reminder comment at the end of the Sample Reintroduction Plan that I think should be the very first paragraph. It says if you're not missing any particular foods, don't bother reintroducing them. I found it easy to eliminate the food groups from my diet and the only thing I've missed are bacon and chocolate. I make my chocolate using a recipe from Wellnessmama.com and yes, it has honey in it. It's one cup of cocoa powder, one cup of coconut oil, a half cup of honey, tsp of vanilla and a bit of any other flavoring such as mint. I put this in a 9x13 dish and cut it into about 40 pieces and freeze them. My challenge now is to see if I can keep my limit to two pieces a week without waking the sugar dragon. Who knows, maybe I won't even want two pieces? That would be a miracle!

And I missed bacon. True, I bought some compliant bacon doing W30, but it was very expensive. I will reintro my regular bacon that has sugar and nitrites in it and see what happens. I am willing to give it up if I need to, though. Health and feeling good is more important than chocolate and bacon!

[kirkor]

> I will reintro my regular bacon that has sugar and nitrites in it and see what happens.

Nitrites wouldn't be an issue during Whole30, just sugar.

[tmgrasser]

Hey, klassyart! I was worried about finding Whole30 compliant bacon as well and did not want to spend much more on it than regular bacon. I found in our Food Lion a brand called Gwaltney who has a thick sliced bacon not cured with sugar! I copied and pasted their ingredients list below for the particular kind I bought. Looking at the rules and the additives cheat sheet on the Whole30 website, I do not see this as being non-compliant. However, I'm not sure about its quality, so I'm sure there are better choices on that front. This might be good for your budget, though, if sold in a store in your area.

 

Cured With: Water, Salt, Sodium Phosphates, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrite.

 

I hope this helps!