The other day I had a craving for a hot dog, specifically a chili dog. I went over to the hot dog section of the grocery store, and found a couple brands of “lite” hot dogs. These lite hot dogs weren’t so lite with over 60% of the total calories coming from fat. That’s a lot!
I was doing a search on the net for info on low fat hot dogs, and found mention of some fat-free hot dogs! Now that would be great!
On my next visit to the grocery store, I revisited the hot dog section and found Park Park brand Fat Free Franks. They are made with beef, pork, and turkey. According to the package, each hot dog has only 40 calories. Wow! The calories come from the 4 grams of carbs, and the 5 grams of protein. There is no fat! Way cool!
Well, I was hungry this afternoon, so I cooked up a couple of them for lunch. The buns I used are ordinary store brand buns. Each bun has 130 calories, with only 15 of those calories coming from fat. Each bun has 25 grams of carbs, and 5 grams of protein.
So most of the calories were coming from the buns, and not the hot dogs! That’s kind of weird. Any, I cooked up two hot dogs (boiled them in water), then placed them on the buns. I squirted on some ketchup. I considered some mustard, and maybe some relish (I love a good junk dog with the works!). But I wanted to see the taste of the hot dog. So I just used the ketchup.
Well! They were good. Not as good a Zweigels Red Hots, but they were still very good. I will definately be buying more of these! Yummy!

Posted by Rob in Reviews on March 9th, 2007 | No Comments