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Running Kev
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I don't eat a lot of bread - say 5 slices a week. Whilst I prefer whole meal seeded bread I find myself going to the loaf and its gone past edible as I don't eat it enough. Therefore tend to end up not buying and eating the families white bread (kids don't like whoemeal). Is white bread, in that quantities, really that bad for you nutritionally?
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If you have bread in the house that lasts for several days and is still apparently edible..... you have to ask what's in it to keep it so 'fresh'.
I think there is bread and there is bread. Some are made with a few ingredients and some are processed to death and made with lots more. I know which I would chose and personally I am more satisfiedd with a chunk of rough artisan bread than a few slices of plastic pretend bread - white OR wholemeal. I honestly don't think that the difference to your health from white or wholemeal is huge but I don't buy the white fluffy plastic stuff because the kids eat it like candy.... which says it all I think.
On the whole I think white bread is kind of neutral. It's pretty bland stuff and there isn't that much in it to make it either good or bad, although bread baked daily by a baker is going to have fewer preservatives than supermarket bread wrapped in plastic.
I'm not sure 5 slices a week would make much difference either way though.
why not keep your bread in the freezer then just defrost a slice when you want some? I generally don't even buy white bread and the family have to eat what I buy! The kids have been brought up on wholemeal so they don't complain
Good point mathschick, especially if it's for toast - and it sounds like it might be from what you say.
+1 for that. We just normally end up with dozens of frozen crusts!
We keep our bread in the freezer as we only use it for toast and it's absalutely fine. I'm more intrigued by the thought that someone eats an odd number of slices at a time. I always thought bread should be eaten in pairs of slices (for a sandwich, or 2 slices of toast). The thought of eating it in odd multiples confuses me... is that just me?
All things in moderation is old-fashioned, but correct...
@penguingirl, it's not just you, but it's still a weird idea!
I quite often have one piece of toast, especially if it's for dipping in a nice runny egg!
If it's only five slices a week, I don't think it will matter whether it's white or brown.
I often have only one slice, for toast.
We make it in a breadmaker, no preservatives, when we can. I don't get on with bread as a rule and I can't use it for carb loading as it just leaves me wiped out but the home made stuff, far less so.
So, I guess, like a lot of things, it's what goes in it. Ours goes stale in a day or so, as it should.
With bacon and cheese baked into the bread, it's orsum.
But there are times when only the cheap cotton wool white bread will do. Like for chip or fish finger or egg butties.
personally i prefer seeded bread but one of my girls only likes super bleached fluffy bread - *sigh* lol i let her as she eats my meals of veg overloading, pulses and seeds.
we freeze bread the other girl often eats 1 bit - this also frustrates me -
more frustrating is her freind who is staying this w/end and doesn't eat spicy stuff - wth!! or cheesecake ?
I eat bread in huge quantiities...and white plastic bread and butter is gorgeous....i could eat a whole loaf........prefer it to chocolate or bisuits.......
kev...i got my kids over to the 50/50 stuff........obviously not as good as homemade seededed granary with linseed and soya etc etc etc.............but i think it must be better than the plain white stuff
Oh God I miss bread..... real bread, sticky, yeasty, healthy bread.... but I don't miss gluten.
I have 6-8 slices of wholemeal a day
hasn't done me any harm i think
The odd number comes from having one slice to go with soup!
RK - ditto what others have said about the 50/50 loaves - think Warburtons and Hovis do them?
Other nice white bread which you can get from a bakery and are very nice include a tiger loaf and milk loaf - nice when you fancy a change from every day bread.
Have you tried alternatives like muffins, crumpets and scones for the weekend? Nice every now and then. Muffins go well with eggs too
I don't eat much bread but bake my own sourdough and that easily lasts up to a week with no crap in it. I agree that it's not ideal for a chip butty though.
Bread doesn't "go off" until it's got lumps of mould growning on it, who cares if it's stale? The best bread to buy is in supermarkets at the end of the day, you can get an 800g loaf for 14p, enough cals for a whole day, apart from scrumping I can't think of a cheaper way to live. 98p for a whole weeks food.
If salt was removed from processed bread, we would save 4000 strokes a year.
http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science-Nutrition/CASH-recognises-bread-industry-efforts-on-salt-reduction