Best Low Carb Bottled BBQ Sauce with BBQ Pulled Pork

Who said eating low-carb can’t be fun? BBQ Pulled Pork anyone!

One of the biggest challenges for me, keeping low-carb in the summer, is BBQ sauce. I love ribs, BBQ pulled pork and anything else you can slather that yummy, spicy, sticky sauce on. I have made my own low carb version and may perfect that recipe in the future and share it with you but for now, as my 12 year old daughter says, “Ain’t-nobody-got-time-for-that!”

There are plenty of bottled BBQ sauces on the market but most have way too many carbs to even be considered low-carb some over 20 grams per serving so read those labels carefully. I have recently found an exceptional brand – JB’s Best, that is infused with beer and has the lowest carbs of all bottled BBQ sauces – around *4-6 grams. I use several spicy and not so spicy varieties in the BBQ pulled pork recipe below.

This is not a complicated meal to prepare and it feeds around 10-12 people affordably and heavenly.

The secret is in the spices! I use the southern-style, Penzeys – 33rd and Galena, Chicken and Pork Rub which is mixture of black pepper, paprika, nutmeg, sage, cayenne, red pepper and basil.

Be sure to have all the ingredients on hand to make our coleslaw recipe to go with. This meal would not be the same without it. My wife Lisa claims she wants this to be her “last meal on earth” – no kidding.. she said that – It’s that good!

Now many hard-core BBQ enthusiasts would argue that using a crock pot is not serious BBQ but hey… don’t knock it till you try it! This is one of those quick prep time, set-it-and-forget-it deals so you can go about your day and have an amazing dinner ready 8 hrs later for a small crowd. Either that or you will just have to enjoy the left-overs for days.. and you will as it is just as good the second day. Can I get a Yeeehaa!?

I have to admit I had a BBQ pulled pork sandwich with a soft carb-loaded roll for my first serving. Hey, I’m already down 30 pounds and I played tennis that day – As I have said many a time – “If you eat Keto most of the time… you can eat whatever you want some of the time! My seconds and thirds were straight up. Lisa used a low carb wrap and added coleslaw to it – said it was amazing. Here is the recipe for the coleslaw – It is my wife Lisa’s but she said I made it so good that I need to make it from now on. Happy to!

 *As I was finishing this blog post I called JB’s Best to clarify some things and had the opportunity to speak with the owner, Jonathan Milo. Nice guy! We had a great conversation but sadly the carb-addicted marketplace had spoken, and the recipes for JB’s BBQ sauces were recently updated adding more carbs to cater to the carb-abused American palate. Bummer Summer! Here is the good news… This update just happened a month ago so most of the product still in the marketplace are the old recipes which to us low-carb lovers tastes truly amazing. So get out there and grab all you can of the lower carb versions before they are gone. I found my supply at Home Goods recently. Here is a link to order some online – This source still has the older recipes. Jonathan was empathetic to our cause and is considering a low glycemic variety in the near future. Let’s hope he does his homework and keeps the carbs low as well. We will be watching.

On a side note – Jonathan and crew have hit it out of the park with their Vino De Milo, line of wine-infused salad dressings that have only 1-2 grams of carbs per serving. I have yet to try these but look forward to it as they do look amazing.

As an alternate brand I have found Stubb’s, Original Recipe to have only 5 net grams of carbs per serving and they make some great BBQ sauces as well.

As a suggestion you may want to wait until you have hit a weight loss goal before trying this recipe. It’s hard to eat just 1 serving and the chances that you are gonna get kicked out of ketosis are pretty high. Hopefully you have a short cut in place to get you back on track come Monday morning!

 

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