I got a pack of sausages for $3.99 from Trader Joe's the other day for my daughter. Obviously, I got the wrong sausage; she hated it. So I was going to eat them this morning and found it to be healthier than I thought. The sausage I bought was made with chicken and natural ingredients such as : skinless chicken meat, pure maple syrup, evaporated cane juice, dried apples, salt, lemon juice, and spices.
These are fully cooked, so all you need to do is heat them. Since there's no microwave in our house, I pan fried them with a tiny amount of coconut oil. I noticed that these sausages were a bit sweet for me, but it was delicious. I could've eaten the entire package if I wanted to.
I was thinking maybe eating sausages is better than some of the protein bars I used to eat. After all, these sausages have only 120 calories with 11g of protein. The calories is substantially lower than the protein bars I eat. Only thing I'm worried about is sodium, which is 340mg. But some protein bars have relatively high sodium content, such as CLIF bars which has 240mg of sodium. Also, this sausage has only 7 grams of carbohydrate, which is significantly lower than some of the protein bars I usually eat.
I may have to do more research on this, but based on price and ingredients, eating healthy sausages could be better than protein bars as protein source. If you have any thoughts on this, please let us know.