Note: No one pays me to talk about any product or medication in this or any other post.
I do not get free anything from anybody.
Just sharing my own experiences.
So I never really ate chips. Well, unless there was onion dip piled on top of one. However, oddly, I have nibbled on Lay’s Potato Chips three times since starting Mounjaro. I don’t snack while on the medication, so it was a weird thing to do. When I snacked before GLP-1s, it was candy, especially chocolate.
I spent a couple of weeks in Texas and visited an HEB store with my daughter, also on Mounjaro. She grabbed a bag of Protein Chips, something I had never heard of.
C’mon, Walmart… Get Healthier Already
Look! Chips made out of chicken! What? Is that the craziest thing ever?
My first thought was, “Hey, I’m eating chicken now. I can try those!” After a lifetime of being vegan and vegetarian, I started eating chicken again when I wasn’t getting enough protein on the Mounjaro. I am supposed to be eating between 175 to 200 grams of protein a day (depending on who you ask), but I am lucky if I can get 150 in. I’m trying! Maybe these chips will help? (NOT going to be eating this as a protein source, I promise.)
When I came back home, I ordered some of the same flavor from Walmart. They don’t carry them in the store where I live, as I learned when I went to the pharmacy to pick up my monthly supply of Mounjaro. I couldn’t even find unbreaded Tyson cooked pulled or chunks of chicken. All they had in the freezer was breaded/fried chicken. Ugh. I told the pharmacist this was the unhealthiest Walmart market ever created. Not GLP-1-friendly. I ordered the frozen grilled chicken to be delivered instead.
Denture Eating Challenges
When the chips arrived, I wanted to try a couple of them.
Okay, I’m going to confess something. On that day when I was the fattest, April 22, 2022, when I weighed 405 lbs., I had just gotten dentures. My teeth had been pulled out a week earlier and I went from the denture place to the ER and was admitted with cardiac and lung problems from COVID. I mention this because it is now 20 months later and I am only able to use my top dentures. The bottoms never fit or stayed in and I eventually gave up on them. I’m sure that helps me eat more carefully. I can’t eat crunchy things. I can’t pull apart foods.
Therefore, something like chips is not usually possible for me. No nachos. No chips and dip. No tacos. No apples, and on and on.
When I was on Trulicity (and didn’t know it was a GLP-1 helping me with my blood glucoses and keeping me full), I tried many different kinds of snacky foods. Veggie straws (way too hard), Harvest Snaps’ green pea puff things (kind of okay, but still scratchy on my gums), and then I pretty much gave up.
But when I saw these in Texas, I wanted to see if they would be okay every once in awhile on my gums. And yes, I hope to have nice anchors on some new bottom dentures one day.
Wilde Protein Chips
Then it was time to try these new-fangled chips.
I was shocked by their taste. They taste like potato chips! I love them! They are scratchy in my mouth, but tolerable. I won’t be able to eat more for at least a week, though. I can feel the nicks in my bottom gums. But man, do they taste good. If you aren’t eating with your gums, you will totally enjoy them.
20 chips is 10 grams of protein. Pretty darn good for a snack, don’t you think? I only had four before stopping.
I have some Barbecue Protein Chips on the way and look forward to tasting those, too. I don’t want to become a snacking girl on GLP-1s, so will really wait to eat a couple when I am hungry. I think having gum issues works in my favor a lot of the time.
This goes right along with my GLP-1 Food Ideas for Manufacturers post. People clearly have thought of this long before me. Lucky us!
If you taste these Wilde Protein Chips or have other protein snack suggestions, I would love to hear your thoughts.