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#21
08-15-2007, 09:25 PM
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Re: Types of bread you eat
I don't know if it's healthier, but I make my own bread most of the time.
Recipe: 2.5 cups organic unbleached white flour 2 teaspoons yeast 1 tablespoon kosher salt (kosher is important because it gives the bread a better texture) 1.5 cups lukewarm water. Mix the dry ingredients together then stir in the water. The dough will be really sticky. Flour up your hands and a surface and work in just enough extra flour to make it not stick to everything. Don't overknead! If you knead it too much it will be flat. And don't make the water too hot or it will kill the yeast. Put it in a metal bowl covered in saran wrap for like an hour or two. Then you can either make it into a focaccia by flattening it into a pizza shape, coating with olive oil and sprinkling with kosher salt.... or cut it in half and make 2 baguettes (you need a special pan for this). If you want to the baguette to crisp up nicely, brush the top with egg white. 
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#23
08-15-2007, 10:49 PM
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Re: Types of bread you eat
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All, I'm still baffled why a modicum of HFCS would be worse for you than sugar in bread? The GI/IR would be mostly blunted if you just ate anything other than bread, and even then the difference between the two is almost negligible in the bread itself. [/ QUOTE ] http://www.google.com/ + high fructose corn syrup Here's a fun fact... [ QUOTE ] Studies on the Maillard reaction indicate that fructose may contribute to diabetic complications more readily than glucose. [/ QUOTE ] But I'm sure you already knew that.
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#25
08-15-2007, 11:26 PM
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Re: Types of bread you eat
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Thremp is saying that there is such a small amount of HFCS in the bread anyway. [/ QUOTE ] Pretty much. Doesn't seem like it would matter near at all compared to other factors... like taste.
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#26
08-16-2007, 01:24 PM
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Re: Types of bread you eat
I eat anything except white bread, they're totally tasteless and nowhere near as nutritious as brown bread.
My favourite bread has to be Subway's honey oat, don't think you can buy this on its own though [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
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#27
08-16-2007, 01:39 PM
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Re: Types of bread you eat
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[ QUOTE ] Thremp is saying that there is such a small amount of HFCS in the bread anyway. [/ QUOTE ] Pretty much. Doesn't seem like it would matter near at all compared to other factors... like taste. [/ QUOTE ] There's a pretty surprising amount of sugars in bread products.
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#28
08-16-2007, 01:46 PM
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Re: Types of bread you eat
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Thremp is saying that there is such a small amount of HFCS in the bread anyway. [/ QUOTE ] Pretty much. Doesn't seem like it would matter near at all compared to other factors... like taste. [/ QUOTE ] There's a pretty surprising amount of sugars in bread products. [/ QUOTE ] Hrm. 3g of HFCS or 5g of brown sugar. Decisions. Actually I was stunned to see that 10% of bread is sugar. Weird. Regardless considering that I eat the bread with other foods 100% of the time. I'll start stressing over the sugar in my coffee long before the HFCS in my bread.
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#29
08-16-2007, 03:28 PM
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Re: Types of bread you eat
There's a certain minimum of sugar you need in yeast breads to get them to rise, and then there's the sugar you put into regular bread just for taste, and then you get the very popular "health" breads that have honey in them -- more sugars. You can be getting a pretty good dose of it in quick-absorbing form.
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#30
08-16-2007, 03:42 PM
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[ QUOTE ] I think I prolly eat around 5-6k a day. I never stop eating. [/ QUOTE ] Count it out. This is a small mountain of food. [/ QUOTE ] Depends what you eat. Pint of ice cream is 1100 to 1300 calories. A bag of potato chips is about 1000 calories. A 9 ounce can of cashews is about 1500 calories. I often eat those in one sitting. It's not like eating veggies all day.
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