Bread

(Angela ) #1

I’m fairly new to Keto I have been doing it for about a month. I REALLY miss bread. I have tried several recipes and haven’t found one I like. I did come across a bread at the market. It claims to have 14 carbs and 8 dietary fiber so 6 net carbs. Could this be true?? And is it ok to eat this

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#2

What do you miss about it? What I use depends on what I need it for and what I have available:

There are expensive low carb breads (about 1 net carb per slice) by Great Baking Company and Thinslim. A more convenient choice is Walmart’s High Protein Bread, but it’s still got seven net carbs for two slices. However, all of these breads are very high in fiber and make me feel bloated afterwards.

(Lori) #3

I have ordered the Thinslim online and it’s awful to me, sits like lead in your gut. Have you tried this? I looked it up and it looks fine if you want to spend your carbs on bread…I would love to get a review on how it tastes…it “looks” a lot more like regular bread. I would love a piece of toast now and then. That’s also something to consider is will you be able to just eat a couple of slices without having a “trigger” to eat the entire loaf! :slight_smile:

(Angela ) #4

I’m not looking to have bread everyday. I do use the lettuce leafs and have tried a few of the diet doctor recipes but I find they taste a lot like eggs. I eat eggs but not a huge fan. I saw this bread and thought it might help with my bread issue. I just don’t wanna knock myself out of ketosis by eating it. A little history this is not my first attempt at this life style. About 15 years ago I did Adkins lost 30lbs gained back at least double. I found it very hard to continue. Im hoping to have more success this time but know realistically that there are things that I may not be able to stay away from, and thought that this bread could be an alternative

(Angela ) #5

That’s my hope is to just have a slice now and then. I think that will work for me. I tried dietdoctor.com mug bread for a burger and just couldn’t do it. I’m not a huge fan of eggs and that’s all I could taste. I have been doing keto for about a month and I dont feel it’s as hard as it was when I tried 15yrs ago. Life’s changed kids are mostly grown.

(Jeanne Wagner) #6

I personally would not eat that. It will basically make it impossible for you to stay on the keto side of this way of eating if you want to get into nutritional ketosis. For that, you want to stick to under 20 total carbs a day. I am sorry you are still addicted to bread, it really makes things hard. You could still be low carb if you stick to only 2 slices a day. But look at that ingredients list… enriched flour! malted barley flour, sugar, wheat gluten, high oleic safflower oil, more wheat products, wheat starch…all the awful “poisons.” In fact, I personally would run screaming from that bread.

May I suggest a very important book titled Wheat Belly by William Davis, MD? It will educate you about wheat and gluten, and may just change your mind about how much you miss bread. It immediately snapped my head completely around 180 degrees about bread. I haven’t had one bite of traditional bread since I read it last summer, once I learned how it poisons the body. I twice made a 7-egg keto bread recipe, but that was all.

If you absolutely must have bread, do you have a breadmaker? There are keto bread recipes out there that taste pretty normal from what I hear, but do use some sort of yeast. Orrrrr, why not just have what you normally would have, a hamburger with no bun… use a fork and knife to eat it. It gets easier with time, but you have to do the work. I prefer the rip the bandaid off method…

I’m sorry I’m not very helpful here. And I’m not trying to be mean about it, I just have zero use for wheat bread now, and I try to encourage others to learn how bad it is for the body. Please read Wheat Belly. :wink:

#7

I think this might be kind of like the arguments of keto sweeteners: if they fit within your macros then they’re technically fine for you physically, but what do they do for you emotionally/psychologically? Do they make you crave more bread? Or does it satisfy your craving and allow you to go another week-ish before wanting it again?

I think it’s really an individual call for you. On the plus side: if it fits in your macros then it’s definitely not the worst kind of carb for you to have. On the negative side: it might delay your taste-bud adjustment to the new way of eating and leave you just wanting more carbs. Up to you!

(Angela ) #8

I’m trying the rip the bandaid off. I have done good for the past month. Just looking for things that will help me continue this lifestyle. I do realize how bad the “American diet” is, full of persertives and junk. I am trying to be realistic knowing for the past 40+ years I have been living on that diet. I felt like crap and was grossly over weight. I want this change but know myself and there are going to be times I’m gonna want that piece of toast with breakfast, just trying to find the best way to get it. I do have a bread maker and will do a little more research on making my own. Thanks for your support :-):slightly_smiling_face:

(Ethan) #9

The answer is, “maybe.” Dietary fiber may or may not produce a glucose or insulin response in different people. In some people, the fiber actually is digestible and turned into glucose. For others, gut bacteria can process it into other carbs that are digested into glucose. Keep in mind that this is reporting as 6g net carbs PER SLICE. Even if you are a person who cannot digest this fiber and whose gut bacteria do not turn it into a digestible carbohydrate, having two slices is still 12g net carbs, which is significant.

(Allie) #10

It’s not something I would want to eat.

(Garry (Canada)) #11

There’s nothing in that crap filled bag that you NEED to eat…YOU KNOW THAT!
Feed it to the birds. It’s done nothing good for you in the past.
Thank me later. :slight_smile:

(Jeanne Wagner) #12

I think you’ll do great with homemade keto bread. Definitely give it a try! I basically consider a recipe pretty decent if it consists of real foods, and has like 5 ingredients or less. That way you can avoid preservatives and other junk ingredients. Keep calm and keto on. :smile:

#13

I’d suggest experimenting with a few microwave breads. They’re easy to make and you can vary the ingredients significantly. Just make them in a mug or something similar, and you can slice what comes out. For example, the protein bread recipe I linked to. I used it for grilled cheese sandwiches. But for something to put other things in between, I like the Lavash Bread a lot. But it’s more of a flatbread and not “spongy” like “real” bread. :slight_smile:

I love quesadillas made with low carb tortillas. They’re the next best things to grilled cheese or melts.

#14

I understand how you feel about eggy bread! These are my go to buns. They have quite a few ingredients (most bought on amazon). And no eggy taste! I make them weekly.

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #15

I wouldn’t eat it, with all that wheat/gluten soybean oil, sugar. Not keto.
I was a total bread addict, made my own sourdough breads. Breads are the thing I miss, but I have found some that do the trick for me.

Try this biscuit recipe, if you bake them in muffin top tins, you can slide in half to have sandwich rounds. You can also cook them in regular muffin tins or do drop biscuits.

ETA: if you must get store bought bread, go with Ezekiel Bread, some of them have large amounts of fiber and lowish carbs per slice, which go lower after subbing the fiber. If you don’t have issues with gluten they can be a nice change.

#16

These look good. Have you ever made them without the sweetener?

(Amy Ramadan) #17

Thank you so much for this!! I went to the store today looking for Joseph’s lavish bread, and although I didn’t find it I did find their pits bread!! It was excellent, and surprisingly very cheap!! $2.08 for six pitas!! Thanks a bunch!!

(Michelle) #18

Psychologically, I avoid bread. Just like sweeteners, bars, and anything else that pretends to be something I used to eat.

(Brian) #19

One of the ladies I buy eggs from gave me a loaf of homemade bread yesterday, right out of the oven. I didn’t have the heart to tell her we don’t eat bread so I graciously accepted. But, we had company over for supper last night and she isn’t keto. So we sliced a half dozen thin slices.

Yup, I had two. One was a very small heel piece, didn’t taste like much of anything. Had one more that I put chicken Parmesan juices on. Better, but it was the chicken Parmesan juices that were really good, not the bread.

We sent the remaining bread home with our guest.

That’s the most bread I’ve had in almost a year. Don’t plan to have any more anytime soon. Have lost the taste for it.

(Jane) #20

I ate a lot of Lavash bread early on and it really helped wean me off of breads. I have baked them crisp for crackers, used them for enchiladas and even as a thin (REALLY thin) pizza crust. The pizza is so thin you have to roll it to eat it LOL.

I even found it in BFE Arkansas at my local WalMart.