One advantage of being in the south, get are in every grocery store and gas station

I have never dipped them!

They are flavored, hot, Cajun, or BBQ

Have not had them in a bit

Try and check your ingredients though...some brands you find in the store will add MSG - especially the flavored ones... You should only see Pork, oil and salt (if you worry about that kind of stuff). If you like the spicy guys, try getting the plains and adding some tabasco. Delish.

Omg. I am sad to say I sometimes eat more pork rinds than veggies in a day.
They're great plain, with Ranch dressing on them or for a sweet snack, I put cinnamon and a bit of Splenda on them and shake the bag to mix. It's good- seriously.
I avoid flavored pork rinds, but use them- crushed- for croutons or breading!
I think LCHF wouldn't work for me if I couldn have my go-to snack.

Finally found some. Old Dutch bacon puffs. Wow way better than I expected and obviously was needing the salt cause I really enjoyed licking it off, then crunching them.

Here I find them with the Mexican/Spanish import foods.

I like these with my tuna salad for a no carb lunch. the satisfy my salt craving.

Oh I just had the most amazing taste! I had the BBQ flavored pork rinds with cream cheese and pickles - YUM!

Just read if low on sodium pigging out on a bag (I would never do that ) can keep the scales from dropping or to even shoot up due to added water retention until the sodium level drops back to our new "normal".

I use them as my french fries and potato chips. Get a low carb burger from Hardee's with no ketchup or tomato and I'm in heaven!

Monklady123 wrote: »

Pork rinds? My first thought was "ick" and my second was to go add them to my grocery list. lol. Who would have ever thought? My downfall is salty potato chips and I cannot stop at just a few, so they aren't welcome in my house anymore. But I wouldn't think I could eat too many pork rinds at one sitting because the protein will fill me up... ?

I can't wait to try them. I'll read the ingredients and be sure to get the ones with no weird ingredients like you all suggested.

Homemade cheese crisps sprinkled with a bit of popcorn seasoning after they are cooked can be a similar potato chip substitute...

Oh my gosh.
New discovery while I was at the local co-op grocery store:
http://baconsheir.com/

I just picked up a bag of habanero and one of rosemary. I usually have Daisy sour cream to dip my pork rinds into...
This stuff just...OMFG. I inhaled the bag of habanero pepper pork clouds. Didn't even make it to the fridge for the sour cream. And I don't even really like super spicy foods, either.
So good. The ingredients are so simple and clean. I can't believe the amazing taste and texture on these.
Ever get the roof of your mouth all cut up from chicharrones or potato chips? Not these. They are indeed like fluffy pork clouds. They remind me of Funyuns (because of the texture and the onion powder), but SPICY.
My lips burn with joy.

-T.

So I mentioned these to my husband and he brought home a bag from wherever he was doing errands today. His are lime and chili flavored, and they do have msg and other ingredients in them. When I buy some for myself I'll read the label better, but it was sweet of my husband to bring them home. And, they're not bad. lol.

But the interesting thing is that the serving size listed on the bag is 1 ounce, which is 1/3 of the package. So I weighed out one ounce. Started eating. And put more than half an ounce back. Not because I didn't like them but simply because I couldn't eat any more. This is excellent because now I can have salty and crunchy and not eat the entire huge bag!

Thanks so much for this tip!!

The Pork Clouds I linked in my last post says they ship to Canada.
Apart from that, try checking for an ethnic market in your area perhaps that carries Mexican foods.

-T.