I bloody, bloody love bread so much.

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We're currently living near a bakery where the bread is almost always both crusty and still warm from the oven when you buy it. It's RIDICULOUSLY delicious and tends to go stale/mouldy very quickly so it's very easy for me and DP to horse down a loaf between us in a day. They put it through the machine so they're normal slices not the hacked off doorstep slabs I'd cut myself but even so 4 - 6 pieces a day seems excessive. What can I eat instead to stop me reaching for the bread-bin all day?? I tend to have two with breakfast (toast or tofu sandwich, avos on toast etc) and then almost always grab a few pieces with spread or Vegemite/peanut butter throughout the day. (Vegan btw).

I'm thinking I need to get into shakes or protein balls (BOAK) to fill me up. I have some protein powder but it's unbelievably disgusting.

Urgh, I feel like I've eaten a whole compost heap already today. I'm going for a bloody run.

Ha at DrDavid

I only buy crap supermarket bread for dc because the real stuff is too good to resist.

I agree fresh bread is heavenly and I could eat my body weight in it every day and that is sadly why I never touch it ever. Once I hit 45 every slice of bread was a pound gained. When I am very old I am going to live on bread with butter and apricot jam.

Live in Spain, bread is fresh and hot all day. Has to be eaten on the day. Bloody fantastic.

@Megatron

Easy - just look at recipes by James Morton !

InFortheLongHaul me too

When I’m older it will be bakery bread and butter every day. It’s my weak spot.

I will @VictoriaBun, will let you know how I get on! Thanks.

I have PCOS so early bread (or anything else carby) really is the enemy.

Please eat loads on my behalf!

@MarshaBradyo I hope it’s a long way off but I’ll be gluttonous. I don’t miss sugar at all but warm buttered bread is something I do miss. I make bread for my family and watch them eat it. I very occasionally chew a chunk and spit it out how sad is that.

I love bread. I'm not fussy. From an authentic baguette to a sliced white loaf, bread will always have my love. I've been watching Shtisel on Netflix and they eat a lot of bread on that show! I'm tempted to just convert to Judaism so I can scoff a challah all weekend, every weekend.

I'm just remembering also my years in Italy. There was this little shoe box of a bakery next door to my block of flats where I'd buy olive focaccia and rosemary focaccia nearly every day. Gorgeous! I'd eat it with chickpea and rosemary soup. Heaven. My clothes tightened quickly living there. I can't eat focaccia outside of Italy. It's got to come from an Italian bakery, warm and fresh, soft as a pillow, with the edges ever so slightly crisp where the oil has collected. All of that salt and oil and flavour making my fingers greasy. Gorgeous. Right. Back to my sliced loaf and tea then. You can never underestimate a decent slice of white bread with lashings of butter, can you? It's just perfect!

Same. I'm trying to lose weight and I'm fine with salad/soup lunch, eating a bit less at tea and calorie counting breakfast but if there's BREAD IN THE HOUSE I WANT IT.

Sourdough, rye, ciabatta, soft baked - I love it all

I got bought a breadmaker a few years ago and have never looked back! The novelty wears off after a while so your consumption goes down
Much better bread than shop bought longer life stuff. Less salt, less sugar.
I've been experimenting with using it to make different doughs during lockdown - made pizza dough which was excellent and cinnamon buns which still need working at!

InFor haha you’re crazy not for the spitting thing but making it. Such strong will to abstain.

My neighbour gave us some bakery bread, my goodness it went. We also got a delivery from a local place of top top stuff. I’ve frozen the brioche and other top ones. Until a birthday or maybe when I’m 77.

@LTP2020

I joined this as I thought it was parents who are struggling , getting advice on parenting and sharing their experiences. Not a discussion about bread and the other nonsense I have seen on here.

You don't have to read the threads that are not about parenting and that sort of stuff. Off you toddle to the topics you joined for, whatever you do, don't join in with anything that takes your mind off the shit we are living through just now.

I love bread, freshly baked, sliced in a plastic bag, but not the bricks I make in the breadmaker. Holidays in France where you buy bread every morning for breakfast (and lunch, and dinner), mmmm.

Sadly a lot of bread is no longer made with traditional ingredients due to cost and more recently people deciding that carbs are evil. No butter, just palm oil, real flour replaced partially with soya or chick pea flour. And people don't realise and wonder why they are bloated and uncomfortable.

If I had to live in one food, it would be bread. I'm not sure I could decide between focaccia and a (white) sourdough loaf though. Or maybe a freshly baked (and slightly slightly under baked) baguette.

@TinkysWinky @Beamur I posted about breadmaker on another page & lots of comments that I must try the enriched dough & how good it is for cinnamon buns too

Pre machine, I made bagels from bbc website. Sweet Lord they were unreal. I will make them again for my birthday as I need to lose many stones but I'm so looking forward to my birthday bagels in a couple of months!

Have the bread, just buy it half as much, that's already cutting calories in half! What other stuff do you like? I really like wraps and thin bagels, and find one is usually enough, unlike toast where I could eat slices and slices.

Read this thread just after a very violent internal argument about whether I should have thick white toast spread with thick butter, as I want, or rice cakes with avocado for breakfast.

I’ve got hypothyroidism and gluten really is the devil for me, especially as it was a large proportion of my diet as a lazy vegetarian! I ended up looking like an oversized Pilsbury doughgirl until I cut it out (mostly) and started losing weight.

You lucky buggers who can eat it with impunity .

@LTP2020

I joined this as I thought it was parents who are struggling , getting advice on parenting and sharing their experiences. Not a discussion about bread and the other nonsense I have seen on here.

Your mistake. You'll get over it

Go polish your hooves.

@Turnandfacethenamechange

I'd have to move house!

I low carb to control my diabetes, so no bread for me anymore

Don't substitute lovely bread for equally Carby rice crackers. If you're going to eat carbs, might as well enjoy them!!

Maybe concentrate on getting enough protein, fat, fibre nutrients And naturally having 'less room' in your diet For bread, rather than stopping eating bread iyswim?! Bread is a convenience - that's hard to change! (Esoecially living near a bakery! )

I work in a bakery and I'm just wondering how they put it through the slicer if it's still warm it tends to crush it IME!

I've got a rye sourdough loaf proving on my garden table at the moment. I'm alternating between rye and wheat sourdough depending on what the kids want. Freshly baked sourdough bread thickly sliced and spread with a liberal amount of proper butter. Mmmmmmm
The sourdough starter is right from the beginning of lockdown when it was easier to buy crack finding yeast was hard. Takes a bit of looking after though but it's also outside proving. We've used it for all sorts including pizza bases.
Its only outside because that's the warmest place at the moment. And if I don't stop with a constant stream of baked goods I'm going to end up like ten ton Tessie.

I made amazing bread at the beginning of lockdown, haven't done it since as the only way to eat it is clearly warm and with enough proper butter on that it looks like cheese.

I would have been craned out of the house in the end if I had carried on.

@buckeejit

I havent thought on cinnamon rolls but might now!! Have been concentrating on making jam turnovers out of puff pastry. An intervention might be needed I suspect by your username you may also be in NI - feel free to deliver me some cinnamon rolls to sample any time you like

I only have a cheap argos bread maker and the bake on it isnt great (And I hate fishing the paddle out of the bottom of the bread!) but it mixes and proves dough great - I always just shape and go for a further prove then bake in oven

Nothing like the smell of freshly baked bread and definitely one of my vices so I have to limit the amount i eat otherwise it goes straight to the hips 🤪