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Bread? Bread!!

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Pine Marten

Pine Marten

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About 4.20 this afternoon I felt a little peckish so had a small coffee and 1x slice of toasted buttered M&S sunflower & honey bread with pate. Lunch had been at 12.15pm.

About 90 minutes or so later I thought I'd do a workout and tested my levels...eek, 9.1! so I did it again...8.6. Blimey, toast & pate isn't usually that bad. After half an hour's workout I tested again...down to 4.6! That's more like it 🙂 I think I may not have the M&S bread for a while 🙄

Life's a challenge, init?
 
Northerner said:
Haven't tried that bread - how many carbs per slice? 😱
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It doesn't give it per slice but per portion (= 31.9 carbs), which I thought worked out as four slices, but looking again at the front label it says two slices are a portion, which means that er, each slice is over 15 😳.

It's actually sunflower & pumpkin, quite nice, and which I thought somebody here mentioned. Maybe as a treat, then :confused:
 
I have the Hovis pumpkin & sunflower bread & that's about 10g carb per slice. It's very nice.
 
And I like the teco sunflower & pumpkin think its about 14 tho, will have to find that hovis one mark.
And I can have a 2 slice sandwich with ham & salad don't think I've ever gone up more than 2
 
It's a special edition loaf. 95p so not too badly priced. Slices are smaller than Burgen but bigger than Nimble.
 
I have developed a sudden leaning towards The New York branded wholemeal bagels. They really are something a bit special. Not really stupid CHO levels either. Oh my word I think the toaster is calling me
 
Diabeticliberty said:
I have developed a sudden leaning towards The New York branded wholemeal bagels. They really are something a bit special. Not really stupid CHO levels either. Oh my word I think the toaster is calling me
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Oh I need to give these a try, love a bagel
 
Also try Burgen and Hovis Nimble both are under 10g and taste OK
 
I thought bagels were high carbs the white ones are around 40 grams.
 
You can get thin bagels (like those square thins that are like a bread roll but v.v.thin) - quite alot less carbs per bagel.
 
To me that is alot of carbs, as I eat the Thins and have done for 2 and bit years and they are only 16-19 grams of carbs depending on brand. As they come split I use one as I would 2 slices of bread. I can even use as a burger buns, they only thing I find they don't toast well.
For me they have helped me reduce my bread and therefore carb consumption. Which in turn has helped my weight reduce and be more stable, and aid my potion control.
 
grovesy said:
To me that is alot of carbs, as I eat the Thins and have done for 2 and bit years and they are only 16-19 grams of carbs depending on brand. As they come split I use one as I would 2 slices of bread. I can even use as a burger buns, they only thing I find they don't toast well.
For me they have helped me reduce my bread and therefore carb consumption. Which in turn has helped my weight reduce and be more stable, and aid my potion control.
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I use the thins to make toasted sandwiches, fill it up then I use one of these sandwich bags that go in your toaster, Yummy stuff I tell you, I'm hungry now.
 
grovesy said:
To me that is alot of carbs, as I eat the Thins and have done for 2 and bit years and they are only 16-19 grams of carbs depending on brand. As they come split I use one as I would 2 slices of bread. I can even use as a burger buns, they only thing I find they don't toast well.
For me they have helped me reduce my bread and therefore carb consumption. Which in turn has helped my weight reduce and be more stable, and aid my potion control.
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A single wholemeal bagel does in fact contain 34g of CHO. If however you slice one in half and only eat half then you are of course at on 17g. I personally find half a wholemeal bagel a lot more filling than any of the 'thins' that I have tried. From a personal taste point of view I always feel that thins have the taste and texture of buttered balsa wood. Once again though it is of course a matter of personal taste 😉
 
I love buttered balsa wood!:D
 
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