\r\n \r\n Whole foods has some more natural lunch meats. The brand name is applegate farms.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n A great online source for grassfed meats is www.uswellnessmeats.com. They sell some bologne nitrite, nitrate and msg free. Thier jerky is really good too. My freezer is stocked with it.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n People crack me up who make a livable salary but go cheap on food. I have one friend who spends easily 2-3 thou a yr on concerts but thinks organic is way too expensive.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n awesome...thanks for the website!\r\n

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\r\n \r\n I\'d like to find a nitrite free olive loaf. That\'s what I miss.
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\nI wonder what are the real ingredients of that store bought bologna. Tongue? Just curious, or maybe I don\'t really want to know.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n Let your imagination be your guide and they cook it up in a ressure vat and process it into a paste and load tubes. Also, when dealing with nitrite free, they add celery juice in many products (nitrates) and an enzyme that converts the nitrates to nitrites.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n target has applegate too, but i couldn\'t find bologna. I need to go up to Whole Foods and check it out.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n https://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/bee...and_prices.htm
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\nnot cheap, but then again, neither is the grocery store for lunchmeats.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n here it is
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\ndavemo,
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\nI don\'t have much time, but I found this quick (below).
\nI know Sausagemaker is a reputable place. One thing I noticed was it seems you\'re consumption of nitrites would be the same with this as with any other cure, so I don\'t see what the benefit would be.
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\nBearcarver
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\nCan cured meats be produced without sodium nitrite?
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\nCured meats by their definition must include sodium nitrite. Sodium nitrite is the ingredient that gives a product like ham its color and taste. Without sodium nitrite, these products’ shelf life would be shortened substantially.
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\nSome uncured products available today use vegetable-based ingredients like celery juice, which may contain nitrate naturally, to deliver a color and flavor similar to traditionally cured meats. When the sodium nitrate in celery, or other sodium nitrate-containing vegetables, is exposed to certain types of bacteria in the product, the nitrate is converted to sodium nitrite, which results in product characteristics similar to traditionally cured meat products. The amount of sodium nitrite consumed from these types of products versus traditionally cured meat products is virtually the same.
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\nhttps://www.meatsafety.org/ht/d/sp/i/45243/pid/45243\r\n

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\r\n \r\n But
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\nhttps://www.naturalnews.com/sodium_nitrite.html\r\n

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\r\n \r\n Some good articles. I do like hot dogs (2 a month), but I really love bacon, but the whole foods stuff is celery juice powder added. Why not just not add it, and keep it frozen. It will be safe?\r\n

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\r\n \r\n I don\'t mean to be rude, but I can\'t imagine anyone actually craving Bologna. At the price & restrictions that these on-line sources require, maybe it would be wiser/easier
\nto just buy a good brand of bologna from your grocery store. Sure beats $200.00 worth of meats just
\nto get lunchmeat. How long do you expect this craving to last? Are you pregnant? \r\n

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\r\n \r\n I\'m a man, so no...I hope I\'m not pregnant. some of the online places were like 8 bucks a pound....seems fair. craving bologna? believe it. I like the taste. What can I say...sometimes I have trashy taste.\r\n

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