Deli Meat

[Anonymous]

If I buy freshly sliced ham or turkey and is says oven roasted or something, is this healthier than the packaged lunch meat? It tastes better and seems less processed than the packaged ones.

I don't have time to cook my own ham and turkey. I don't want to invest in a meat slicer to get it thin enough for the kids to eat. I would like to avoid giving them all the salt and preservatives that make lunch meat unhealthy.

[Anonymous]

Dont know the answer to your question but if you want to stick with real "meat" some supermarkets actually have real oven roated turkey breast that they will slice thin enough for sandwiches - I know whole foods does for sure. Not sure about ham, but you can always ask at the deli counter.

[Anonymous]

Go with boars head always better

[Anonymous]

Applegate Farm is organic and "real" without lots of additives. It even tastes fairly decent out of the package, if you can't find a store that slices it. I think Whole Foods carries it.

[Anonymous]

go with Boars Head definitely the packaged stuff is gross!

[Anonymous]

I think it's all as equally bad for you. It's all totally processed - how else do they get those big chunks of meat to be able to slice? That big chunk is not a real turkey breast. I do buy Boars Head because I think it tastes better but it still has stuff added to it.

[Anonymous]

Go to Whole Foods deli counter and pick out what you want and they will slice it. Or get the packaged lunchmeat at Trader Joe's.

[Anonymous]

yes. deli sliced oven roasted is better for you health wise. lots of preservatives in anything packaged, and the applegate farms someone referenced is just slimy and gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's all as equally bad for you. It's all totally processed - how else do they get those big chunks of meat to be able to slice?

A ham is a pretty big chunk of meat to start with, but I've always been leary of turkey "breast."