How's light/diet bread?

I was thinking of getting some light bread in the house because I saw that they were only like 40 calories each. If i had 3 slices, that would equal my normal 2 slices... (I eat roman meal whole grain bread atm, 120 calories).

I figured if the bread was only 80 calories together, then I can slather on some butter on the thing without much regret because than it would just become around 140 calories (normal bread calories) and I would be eating some fat at the same time which is a good thing for me. Normal bread only has like 2 g of fat but if I slather on some butter it would be 5g of fat.

Are light/diet breads really small though? I also thought about getting those sandwich thins but I never had either of these choices... Are these breads really small compared to the middle normal breads? (not those giant breads which are like 110 calories per piece. Those breads that are more like 60-70 calories a piece).

if it's so small that it's not even worth it, I'll stick to normal bread. It's just that I want to start eating fat like I used to!

Bread is one of those very simple foods... basically flour and water leavened with yeast.   It's tough to reformulate something that simple to make it any more low-cal than it already is.  Traditionally what's happened is that the dough is puffed full of air so the resulting bread is a big, sponge-like creation.   Cals per 100g it's not all that much different to regular bread but, because the slices are thin, small and full of holes, they are relatively low in cals.

I would suggest you eat regular bread in smaller, thinner slices.  Buy small, uncut loaves (wholemeal so that there's plenty of fibre) and a sharp breadknife so that you can cut the slices nicely thin.   And enjoy a little butter just the same.

I always buy Arnold Light 100% whole wheat and the slices (or maybe just cause im used to them) are pretty decent in size for a light bread.
I am not a huge sandwich bread lover so I try to cut out those calories and save them for stuff that I like better!

Dont get the Pepperidge Farms sliced thin bread (its almost paper!)

I used to eat light bread.  Now I stick with organic natural bread.  But to answer your question: I found Nature's Path Honey Wheat or regular Wheat to be the best.  It doesn't fall apart when you try to spread something on it and it has the most consistency.  Hope that helps!

It's okay but not the same as a real good quality real bread.  It depends on your uses for it.  The best thing I have made with diet bread is a grilled cheese with fat free cheese.  Given the low calorie and fat in it it's not too bad (all things considering).  However, if I want to eat bread for the sake of eating yummy bread then I wouldn't try diet bread, I'd just go for the real thing fresh baked and just watch myself through the rest of the day.

I would stick to the "real" bread. most those light breads are not whole wheat anyway. I once bought the light bread and noticed as I could eat more, I wanted more. And that went on to other foods as well. Just throwing that out there.

Yea, I hear you ifeelnothingatall.  If you can eat more of something you usually do and end up at the same point as if you just ate the "real" thing anyway.  With many things you are better eating a small amount of the real thing rather than a large amount of the fake (i.e., chocolate, cheese, and so on).

Hi bought a low calorie light wheat bread....35 calories per slice, so 70 for a sandwich.  It's not bad, but I found it's better if you toast the bread to make the sandwich, it tastes better and your sandwich won't get as soggy if you leave it in the fridge like I do at work.

For me, this has helped with weight loss more than anything else. I've always loved bread, but never thought about eating it as a snack until I joined here and started looking at calorie counts, and now that's my big afternoon snack, about 100 calories worth of bread and margarine/peanutbutter/melted cheese. 

I don't remember the brand I get, but I know the reason it's only 35 calories per slice is because the loaves are smaller and cut thinner, but for me... that's what I need. I'll eat two of these little slices of bread, and my brain still registers them as a regular size, so they fulfill my urge quite nicely. And, if I splurge and have four slices, I'll feel like a pig, while in reality it wasn't a big deal at all.

PLUS, a low-calorie sandwich looks enormous with the smaller bread sizes, when it might otherwise look like two pieces of bread stuck together. 

That's me, though... I need things to come in individual packages with obvious serving sizes and "tricks" to make them seem larger, because I can't (working on it, but it's gonna be a long haul) control myself otherwise. 

I like dense loaves more, so I'm more likely to be satisfied with 2 slices of 100 calorie bread, instead of eating 2 slices of 70 calorie bread and bingeing on another 5 afterward...

Thanks guys! I'll stick to regular whole grain/whole wheat bread! I just thought diet bread omitted some more calorie packed things (like full on butter) or something like that. If they are just smaller, puffed up versions of the same thing, I rather pass. I think I'll just put like 25 calories worth of butter instead on normal bread to make it still 5g of fat each serving. :)

That being said... Any preference for bread types and bread brands? I'm currently eating roman meal whole grain bread which seems pretty tasty. I don't really have that much of a preference.