Canadian here - This is the one I buy:
http://www.dempsters.ca/EN/PublishingImages/product-detail/scn_bacon.jpg
Ingredients: Pork, water, sea salt, cane sugar, cultured celery extract, spice, smoke

Just check the label and try to find something nitrite-free!

Not sure if you have it in the uk but I love Mavericks bacon. Its my fav, but a treat for us since it cost an arm and a leg!

the sugar won't be a problem if you buy unsmoked. that's unheard of in the states from what i've found so far

Do you live in an area with farms? Not that you need to go to the farms but around here a few of the grocery stores sell bacon from the local farms at the meat counter. I've bought it several times and it's delicious and so much better than the packaged stuff.

Even 'nitrate free' bacon has nitrates. The phrase is a legal dodge because the product does not use sodium nitrate - it gets the nitrates from celery powder or kale powder, where the nitrates occur naturally. The bacon gets to be called 'uncured' because there isn't enough nitrates to keep it shelf stable at room temperature - it has to be refrigerated.

I get pork belly, or 'side pork' (also known as 'fresh bacon') through my butcher, who also slices it for me. I then freeze it in usable portions. Cooking it, I salt it to a bacon-like level. Voila! Real nitrate-free bacon. The only difference is that it is brown instead of artificially red.

Interesting...one of the stores near me has pork belly. Might try this.

Canadian here - This is the one I buy:
http://www.dempsters.ca/EN/PublishingImages/product-detail/scn_bacon.jpg
Ingredients: Pork, water, sea salt, cane sugar, cultured celery extract, spice, smoke

Just check the label and try to find something nitrite-free!

We have to watch the marketing tricks of food corps. They know that we want healthier food but they have ways to fool us. This bacon is still processed from factory farmed animals, and "cultured celery extract" contains nitrites and nitrates. Same food, but now it's "natural" and "nitrite" free, and no, it isn't!

And yes, I do eat bacon. Lots.

I dont like smoked bacon anyway Tbf Im not a big bacon fan at all, but turkey bacon has gotten boring within a week and realised eggs are also not very funny. I need to learn to just not have breakfast, so hard to find good stuff to have

Are you eating turkey bacon because you think it's healthy? No. If you are hungry, eat breakfast. I NEVER get tired of eggs and meat. Also, an avocado makes a great breakfast. Don't be afraid of fat; healthy fat is our friend.

I don't eat breakfast because I am not hungry until noon or later. If you are hungry in the morning, it's best to eat and not "learn" to not have breakfast. :noway:

I'm a brit living in Sweden. When I lived in Scotland I bought belly pork from the butcher and asked them to slice it thin.

Here the equivalent is sidfläsk and it is nearly always heavily smoked but I have lucked out with a brilliant farm which has their own butcher and I can get fresh unsmoked sidfläsk from them.

I'm not a huge breakfast fan either, I usually have a protein shake and coffee but I go through phases of wanting food in the morning. When that happens I usually have fil (it's a cultured yogurt type thing) with macadamia nuts. If you do dairy perhaps something similar would work for you as it's a bit lighter and easier to get in first thing in the morning.

Good luck

Even 'nitrate free' bacon has nitrates. The phrase is a legal dodge because the product does not use sodium nitrate - it gets the nitrates from celery powder or kale powder, where the nitrates occur naturally. The bacon gets to be called 'uncured' because there isn't enough nitrates to keep it shelf stable at room temperature - it has to be refrigerated.

I get pork belly, or 'side pork' (also known as 'fresh bacon') through my butcher, who also slices it for me. I then freeze it in usable portions. Cooking it, I salt it to a bacon-like level. Voila! Real nitrate-free bacon. The only difference is that it is brown instead of artificially red.