WW Hamburger Buns

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Registered: 02-23-2004
WW Hamburger Buns
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Sun, 02-20-2005 - 11:45pm

This may be old news, sorry if it is - I searched and didn't find any posts about this product. I had searched here to see if there were any whole wheat hamberger buns that were "legal", but I didn't see any. So I searched LONG and hard because I was really craving a burger (actually - I was craving a In 'n Out burger - "monster style"!)
I found these today and thought they looked like they would be okay. I almost didn't even look at the label because they say " Carb Counting" and "Atkins apporved" and that usually means its got *something* wrong with it LOL!

Oroweat 100% Whole Wheat Carb Counting Hamburger Buns

Ingerdients: Water, whole wheat flour, wheat gluten, yeast, modified corn starch, polydextrose, wheat protein isolate, oat bran, soybean oil, salt, vinegar, preservatives, natural & artifical flavors, malt, soy lecithin, monocalcium phosphate, calcium sulfate, sucralose, dough conditioners

Nutritional Facts:
serving size 1 bun (43 g = 1.5 oz)
calories 90
fat 2g
Sat fat 0g
trans fat 0g
choletserol 0mg
sodium 220 mg
total carb 16g
dietary fiber 6g
sugars 0g
protein 7 g

Do these pass? Are they at least close enough for occasional use?

They are a little dry - needed LOTS of sugar-free ketchup and light mayo - plus since my burger was low-fat ground beef that was dry too!! But I grilled some on onions to put on it and we made sweet potato fries...so with the onions and mayo/ketchup sauce it was ALMOST felt like going to In 'n Out! And it was the very first meal I have made since we started this that didn't get a "ewwww" from my kids!

MichaelAnn
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Edited 2/21/2005 3:58 pm ET ET by desert_mom


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Registered: 04-01-2004
Mon, 02-21-2005 - 7:55am

MichaelAnn,


These look fine.

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Mon, 02-21-2005 - 10:55am

Have you ever checked a place like Whole Foods or another 'natural foods' kind of store? Maybe Trader Joe's? I haven't, but I think that would be the first place I look. For me, if I want my burger on something, I usually just put it on SBD-approved bread.

Thanks for the tip! I'm sure there will be lots of questions about buns in a few months when it's BBQ season again. :)

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Registered: 12-19-2002
Mon, 02-21-2005 - 12:36pm

Hi MichaelAnn,


Have you seen on the updated Breads & Cereals list, the Food For Life Ezekiel 4:9 sprouted grain hamburger buns?

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Registered: 02-23-2004
Mon, 02-21-2005 - 1:13pm

I did see that mentioned on the list - but I cannot find the Food for Life brand anywhere here - in any variety! I've tried all the regular big grocery stores, Trader Joe's, gourmet groceries, etc. I have VERY limited availablity of SBD foods here! And I have to go to at least 6-7 stores each weekend to get things because no one store carries everything (only one has fudgscicles, only one has the right torillas, only one has whole wheat pasta, only one has light mayo w/no sugar, only one has ff whipped creme, only one has reduced fat cheese, etc.)

So yea, I did look at Trader Joe's and they had a house variety of ww bun but it only had 2 g fiber and honey was pretty high on the list of ingredients, so I passed it up.

Anyhow, I found the buns at Stater Brother's in case anyone else is looking for them!

MichaelAnn



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Mon, 02-21-2005 - 2:04pm

One more question about these, sorry! Why would it count as 2 starch servings? The 1 whole bun is 43g. Most of the approved breads are 40-45g per slice, and I thought one slice is a serving - so wouldn't then a whole bun be one serving since it equals one slice of bread? They are much smaller than most regular buns. Just curious!

MIchaelAnn



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Mon, 02-21-2005 - 3:08pm

"Why would it count as 2 starch servings? The 1 whole bun is 43g. Most of the approved breads are 40-45g per slice, and I thought one slice is a serving - so wouldn't then a whole bun be one serving since it equals one slice of bread? They are much smaller than most regular buns. Just curious!"


Hi MichaelAnn,


Are you talking about grams of carbs when you say 43g?

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Registered: 12-19-2002
Mon, 02-21-2005 - 3:28pm

If anyone reading this thread is interested in the Ezekiel buns, here's a great pic and more info on them:

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Registered: 02-23-2004
Mon, 02-21-2005 - 3:44pm

No, 43 g is not the carbs! The carbs are only 16! The WEIGHT is 43 g per bun (they are about the size of an english muffin) I don't know how many oz that is?

edited to add: one WHOLE bun is 1.5 oz , that is not over 2 oz - so then one whole bun should be fine right?

I already posted all the nutritional info, including the weight of the bun in my first post!

MichaelAnn




Edited 2/21/2005 3:57 pm ET ET by desert_mom


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Registered: 12-19-2002
Mon, 02-21-2005 - 4:19pm

"The WEIGHT is 43 g per bun (they are about the size of an english muffin) I don't know how many oz that is?"


I had to go to an online metric weights conversion chart to

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Registered: 04-01-2004
Mon, 02-21-2005 - 5:38pm
I did not figure out the metric conversion when I gave my answer but knew that it was over one serving.
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