Sound like you should buy what he likes. If roles were reversed, would he shove his ideals down your throat? I personally don't like breakfast sausage, but maybe you could try a local butcher that makes their own in house sausage. If that fails, take the L and allow him to start his day with what he enjoys.

Hey, if what he loves is what you think is less than desireable, let him eat it as long as he doesn't eat it everyday. Don't be so judgemental and pious and try to push your taste on him.

How about making it at home. Breakfast sausage only takes a few minutes to mix up. Get your husband involved in the process and he can change the recipe to suit his taste. Have fun in the kitchen - have fun in life.

Check your local butcher shops and specialty stores like Whole Foods and Fresh Market. A lot of them make their own sausage but it definitely comes at a premium. If he's not eating it everyday, I would leave him alone and let him enjoy what he likes.

I personally really like these and get them at my local supermarket.

http://www.alfrescoallnatural.com/FlavorDetails.aspx?ID=9709

I don't know where you live, but in Canada Maple Leaf has a 'Nature's Selection' brand and I tried the breakfast sausage. They tasted just like the regular one but had 6 or 7 ingredients, top. Which doesn't mean they won't be salty or greasy. Just, more natural.

I'm NOT a vegetarian, but my favorite breakfast sausage is the Morningstar Vegetarian Breakfast sausage - they make patties, too, and are packaged in cardboard and plastic.

I grew up eating turkey sausage links for breakfast and I can't stand the pork ones. But I can't seem to find any in the stores anymore, only the precooked sausages. Does anyone have a favorite turkey sausage?

Try the local farmers market or a place like Cleveland's West Side Market (not sure where you are) - they are full of vendors that produce local, sometimes organic, healthfully raised meats and often have a variety of "flavor combos" to choose from. Thhe place I am thinking of at WSM has maybe 20 different sausages at a time.

My husband and I make our own sausages, and they are far more flavorful and juicy than anything at the store. It sounds funny, but they come the closest in flavor to the "bad for you" type sausages (intense flavor), but are obviously so much better. We use the recipe for breakfast sausage out of the Charcuterie cookbook, but Alton Brown's recipe is also tasty.

Thanks for responding everyone...There was a little misinterpretation in the post. I am a vegetarian but my husband is not, and when I buy him REAL sausage (I never buy veggie sausage, I don't believe in it) I have no idea what it taste like, so I'm just guessing at the butcher counter.

He hates all of the whole foods house made sausages, those are the ones that are dense and dry. He wants something like the good ol' days of Jimmy Dean and I'm looking for links, not patti's. THanks again!

Hi TWH - are there butcher shops (not counting WF) in your area? Butchers, and some ethnic markets, offer either their own house-made links or other non-Jimmie Dean links. That may not get you to humanly-raised, but it can cut out a lot of the fillers that get packed into more mass-produced products.

You might also look into meat CSA's, again, if you have them in your area. Some of them make their own sausages, and most are committed to human animal husbandry.

Hogs are not grazed. They must be penned. But the Jimmy Dean company still makes breakfast links. Might need to find a more ordinary grocery store, though.

I am actually have luck with Applegate Farms chicken sausage!

I really enjoy Blinski brand sausages (all the varieties). I buy them at Whole Foods.

@SunnyBlue - re: hogs not grazed
Absolutely not true.
http://riverdoghog.blogspot.com/
Those are the happiest, tastiest pigs in town, and look at all that beautiful pasture.

As for the original post, it would be beneficial to figure out a recipe at home! Check out different recipes and experiment in very scaled down batches until you find the one that works. Then you can make a whole bunch of freeze it for later.

@caseoftornados. Ok. MOST hogs are not grazed :)

Wow, the people here criticizing the asker/her husband about shoving their ideals down eachother's throats... get a life. The question wasn't "MY MARRIAGE IS IN TROUBLE BECAUSE I MARRIED SOMEONE WITH DIFFERENT IDEAS ABOUT FOOD THAN ME," it was "what is a juicy flavorful sausage that isn't made out of garbage." Stop projecting your own silly crap about how everyone is trying to oppress you onto this person's relationship, which you know nothing about.

Anyway, I personally would probably just let him eat the crap he likes, but that is just because I have noooo idea what the sausage options out there are. I like the idea of maybe making the sausage or trying to interest him in making it, but not everybody wants to do that, whether out of objections to meat or objections to caring enough about a small breakfast side to put the effort in. If you find a good one though, let me know, because I love sausage but I think I am probably picky in the same way he is about it.

Soyrizo is AMAZING (TJ's carries it). It tastes exactly like regular mexican chorizo and is less fatty.

-Ruth

OK WOW! This post wasn't meant to stir up peoples convictions! This is how our marriage works, I'm a veggie for my own reasons and I care about animals but I love to cook, Hubby is not, but still cares about animals and his health, so WHEN he eats meat, which isn't often, he prefers organic, or all natural and ones that lived a happy life! I don't mind buying meat for him.

As I said above, I am having luck with APPLEGATE FARMS chicken sausage. Thanks everyone!

I've actually had a hard time finding good quality breakfast sausage that isn't CAFO. I don't like any of the WF sausages they make in house either and I also don't like any of the fresh, branded versions they sell. The frozen Applegate Farms are better than most.

We know make our own Italian sausage (frozen in lumps on baking sheet, fast and easy) because we could only find CAFO meat version we liked.

I'm a vegetarian and tasted pretty much all brands and hands down the best tasting veggie sausage is from The Field Grain Meat Co. Their apple sage version is AMAZING. It's available at Whole Foods.

If it were my husband, I'd ask him to shop for his own sausage.

The Al Fresco Chicken Apple sausage is a favorite in our household. Their site also often has coupons :)