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Armour Lite Vienna Sausage

Armour Vienna Sausage A review of Vienna Sausages probably belongs more on Cheap Eats than on a healthy foods reviews website, but who says cheap foods shouldn't try to be healty too?! I'm not sure about the popularity of vienna sausages outside of people who are broke have to live on a tight budget. While I was a broke graduate student working on my Master's degree, I ate canned tuna as the 'cheap food of choice.' Now, I'm working on another graduate degree, but I cannot eat any more tuna, but I'm still broke financially challenged, so the cheap food of choice has become vienna sausages [and sardnines]. One can of Armour Vienna Sausage has 7 sausage links, and costs about 50 cents - and you can get two servings from that if you eat it with scrambled eggs or an egg omelette (eggs are another cheap food essential to most students).

My homemade sauce: Water, ketchup, and a little hickory smoked barbecue sauce. I prefer to 'cook' my Vienna sausages in a little sauce on the stove. Since they are already pre-cooked, it doesn't take very long. They come out tasting pretty darn good. The texture is soft, and he flavor is mild. The Lite version of Armour Vienna Sausages has 90 calories, 7 grams of fat and 2.5 grams of saturated fat, which is about 10% of what should be your daily amount. There's also 40 mg of cholesterol, 30% of your daily value, and 420 mg of sodium, which is almost 20% of your daily limit.

One website [here] calls Vienna sausages "food of the Gods" and swears that they are one of the best foods to take on hikes and fishing trips. I certainly won't go that far - mostly because of the ingredients. Armour Vienna sausages are made from "mechanically deboned" chicken, pork AND beef. What this means is that the waste trimmings from the different animals are scraped together, crushed and formed into a 'sausage.' If it wasn't so damned cheap ... I probably wouldn't ever eat this, and I'm pretty sure I won't after I get through with school.

Rating
Taste: 5
Nutrition: 3.5
Price: 5
Overall: 3.5
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2 Comments

Vienna sausages are pretty good as a snack. They are cost effective and are not to bad on calories.

Truthfully, I'm a big fan of vienna sausages and it's not just because they're cheap. They actually taste pretty good.

I cut them in half and serve them on saltine crackers with hotsauce :)

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