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Packaged Foods in the Low-carb Pantry
What to Keep, What to Toss, What to Buy

By Laura Dolson, About.com

Updated: October 29, 2007

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To Keep

  • Nuts such as almonds, hazelnuts, pecans, walnuts, or peanuts
  • Seeds such as sunflower or pumpkin
  • Coffee
  • Tea

To Buy

To Toss

  • Pasta
  • Rice
  • Bread
  • Sugar-sweetened beverages such as hot cocoa mix, flavored coffee powders or Kool-Aid
  • Cereals that aren’t especially formulated to be low-carb
  • Snack foods such as chips, crackers, granola bars or rice cakes
  • Candy
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