Bread..your thoughts?

In almost every single post I see people classifying bread as junk food !! Even some of my family and friends!

"Oh I can't eat bread I'm on a diet!! OMG I ate a chicken sandwich today with 1/2 a slice of white bread!!"

It really irritates me because I love bread and eat it almost every other day. It's not as fattening as pasta, bagels, cookies, etc. It's actually filling if you combine it with protein, or if you buy the whole-grain kind.

What do you think? and how much bread do you usually eat?

 

 

 

 

Yeah, I eat like 5 pieces of bread a day some days, I don't see anything wrong with it. In my opinion you could do a lot worse! Its only bad if you eat it in excess, like everything obviously. Thats wholegrain/brown bread I'm talking about, I don't eat white bread and I could see why you could classify that as junk because it pretty much is!

If you are choosing the right bread it is good. I use whole wheat fat free bread. It is only 35 calories a slice. I could never cut out bread either. I do miss white Italian bread and garlic bread and buns which I have not eaten in a long time.

for me, its more about the carb content of bread.. also the fact that it's pretty nutrionally empty compared to most food i eat. i do eat it ocassionally but i'd rather have a portion of brown rice for dinner than a piece of bread for lunch. i keep my carbs to one meal per day (this is excluding sugar in fruits of course..) so yeah, for me it's not exactly "junk" food, just something i tend to avoid because it doesn't seem a worthy part of my daily diet!

what exactly is wrong with carbs? i don't get this, and never have. certainly i dont see anything wrong with bread, but i don't eat too much of it anyway, simply because i have more of like an order and routine with my eating. yesterday i had around 3 slices of wholemeal bread - which is tons for me, but it was neccessary because i was going on a night out and i wanted something to line my stomach, even though this failed miserably! i had half a slice of wholemeal toast in the morning with marmite, and then at around lunch, for my 'lining', i had two slices for cheese toasties, and then when i got it, i had another half slice of wholemeal to accompany my chicken and mushroom soup, which i swear's given me the s**ts, lol. still, i don't get this bread fad anyway. i just think it makes you bloated.

is that why people don't like carbs? because they make you bloated?

doesn't bloated fill you up for longer though, and then you won't eat or indulge in fatty snacks because your already full?

the only down sides i can see myself to bloatedness is that you look rather tubby in tight-fitting tops, and you get the burps, or even worse, 'back burps', lol.

xx.

I agree, you have to have a balance. Carbs are part of it. I never understood the whole low or no carb diet thing. I am a true believer that NO diet works. It is just moderation, choosing healthy food. Cut out the bad fat and watch the calories. You have to have some carbs, fat and sugar to be healthy. Half of my family went on the Atkins diet. Lost a bunch of weight and gained all or more back. If you cannot stick to it for the rest of your life it is not worth it.

haha, that's what my nan and my great-nan used to believe - especially my great-nan! they didn't believe in this diet or calorie counting, god forbid, fad, and they just thought you should have like a proper meal, but a smaller amount. on a sandwich plate instead of like a proper dinner plate, perhaps. i do that anyway, but end up usually having the same bloody amount because i just pile it a tad higher, but shhhhhhh, i try not to! lol.

but then again, they werent really right. i mean, i never met my great-nan as she died before i was born by a few months, but my nan really can't comment on her weight. i don't talk to her any more, but she was piling on the pounds like anything. maybe that sounds mean, talking about my 70-odd year old nan like that, but it's true. she just ate s**t. ice buns, pastries, four meals sometimes a day, chips, everything. it was rubbish. i lived with her and my uncle for 11 somewhat morbid years, and my diet was appalling, yet they called me fat. all we ever ate was potato, chips, processed southern fried chicken, or meat and potato pasties. maybe we'd have a curry. i never had any meat or anything, becuase my uncle was this supposed vegetarian and my nan licked his arse so much i had to suffer and not have meat for 11 years, because it put him off his appetite, and if i even mentioned the word 'pork chop', i'd be looked at in disgust. fortunately now though, i live with my mum, and she loves meat. if anything, we have it too much, and i actually had to say to her today when i noticed this morning she was thawing out two pieces of steak on the sink side for tea later on, that i didnt want steak, and i wanted chicken instead, because we'd had meat all week! xx.

this woman is my doctor and saw me through when i was ill with ME. i am also prone to candida in the gut. this is why i personally eat a low carb diet. http://www.drmyhill.co.uk/article.cfm?id=288 (am i allowed to post that?)

in reference to the link posting, probably not, but who cares?, lmao.

 

and what's candida? and how do carbs effect it? oooh, all these new things i've never heard of! i'm like a bloody sponge, soaking up calorie information xx.

Everyone is different.  I stay away from bread because I know if I start to eat it I won't want to stop; it's like chocolate for me (I don't eat sweets).  I swear bread is like giving alcohol to an alcoholic for me.  I know that I could somehow justify my entire caloric content for the day around bread!!!  Not so great nutritionally....

I still eat rice, crackers, chips and the like but there is something about bread.....don't get me started on biscuits and garlic breadOH MY!

Some people avoid bread because of the calorie-density of "real" bread, although they may eat "diet" or "lite" varieties, which only have 30-50 calories a slice. Personally, I would rather have a slice of real, good bread for 100-120 calories than eat low-carb breads. I buy Rudi's Organic Oat & Wheat bread.

some breads are junkfood, like white bread, but there's nothing wrong with eating whole-grain bread.

i personally don't buy bread because i eat the whole loaf within the day, but if you can eat just 1 or 2 slices at a time, then eat and enjoy your bread.

my mum thinks this too, but i've always thought white bread looks terrifying! lmao, you may laugh, but at the side of wholemeal or brown bread, it looks so cold and hard, and like it's heathcliff in wuthering heights - all aloof and arrogant, and hard to the touch and taste. whereas wholemeal and brown looks warmer and more fulfilling, and softer to the touch. lmao, dont you agree? xx.

I love bread! seriously who doesn't? and I know it can be considered junk food. BUT I found a delicious bread that is super good for you. its from trader joe's

here it is: Flaxseed Bread

I also eat naan bread. anyone ever try it? theres a whole wheat version at traders in the freezer section. a small piece goes a long way.

I try to balance out my diet so I can have some bread every so often! I couldn't live without it.

I LOVE bread and I will not tell myself I cant have it.  I eat bread for atleast one meal a day.  Not white bread but whole grain breads.

i LOVE bread. i have to have some form of it at least once a day. i try not to eat it plain because it makes me hungrier, but paired veggies and protein it helps me feel fuller. low-carb diets in my opinion are stupid. carbs can't make you fat, carbs (or anything for that matter) in excess do.

las4385 i love naan! i can't find it anywhere near me though except at restaurants :'(

naan breads well easy to find! it's for sale in all large supermarkets and even in little corner shops and newsagents, usually near pasta or curries or curry powders, or sauces and garnishings. just ask a store member, it's fudgeiting everywhere. haha, i've only had it once myself, with a korma, years ago, but yes, it's quite divine :)

talking of curries, dont they say milk's best with it? an indian woman on television said that your supposed to have it with milk, but i just prefer water. and men prefer lager! eek, i cant think of nothing worse! xx.

I probably eat 2 slices a day as a sandwich.  High in fiber, vitamins and calories.  Like rice, I might eat more to supplement my calories if I'm low.  I stopped white bread, buns and garlic bread. 

maybe easy to find in the uk but in dallas.. not so much. :(

I couldn't go without my carbs. I stay away from white bread (I find it boring anyways) but tend to eat wheat bread or oat & fiber bread >>both only have 35 calories per slice. Put it in the toaster then put a little peanut butter and cut up a banana and put it on top. mmmm...if I have some calories left over I just might go have me some :-)

When I started my diet on Feb. 1 I made bread an important part of my daily diet.  I don't eat just any bread, I make my own using whole wheat flour.  I think the positive aspect of bread outway the negative.  I try to use all organic material when possible, when I do not have time to make my own by hand I make a loaf in the bread machine.  Most of the boxed mixes I use carry a B or C grade.  As a snack, I will put on a serving of organic, salt free peanut butter.  Hope this helps.