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Hickory Farms Beef Summer Sausage: How Many Calories?

How Many Calories Posted on Dec 30th 2009 11:30AM by Bev Sklar
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Move over Christmas leftovers, it's time to stock the fridge for New Year's Eve. You'll need to chill the bubbly and exotic triangles of cheese. Don't forget to throw in the Hickory Farms summer sausage you scored in that festive Christmas basket. Ringing in 2010 is the perfect time to slice it up.

But there's no way summer sausage is a health food -- it's too salty, spicy and wonderful. So let's take a look at the gift basket king of all summer sausage -- Hickory Farms. How many calories in 2 ounces of Hickory Farms beef summer sausage?

Swiping 2 ounces of Hickory Farms beef summer sausage off the platter is 200 more calories in the food diary. Record even more calories if you're enjoying the sausage with cheese and crackers. Guess why summer sausage tastes so good? While there's nary a carbohydrate (1 g) and a decent 10 g of protein, this portion size packs 18 g of fat (7 saturated) and 650 mg of sodium.

Enjoy a slice or two, then hunt down the nearly fat-free jumbo shrimp cocktail. If you still can't resist a summer sausage gorge, prep first with workouts that burn twice the fat in half the time.



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