BREAD

[Jenny101]

I've found that I can't tolerate processed bread - it must be the chemicals they put in. Since making my own (well, putting the ingredients in a bread machine and turning it on!!) I don't have any problems with any type - wholemeal, wholegrain....

 

[ChrissieMM]

Does anyone live near a Booths supermarket? They sell a low GI bread, which is actually also low carb -ish. 39 g carbs per 100g but the sliced version has 9g per slice and it’s very satisfying. I actually prefer cutting very, very thin slices of the unsliced version. Same carbs per 100g. I find less than 50g of this particular bread has little effect on my blood sugar.

 

[goodybags]

Burgen bread is in Asda and sometimes in Tesco
Carol

Thanks for that I haven’t looked in Asda yet (Tesco round here don’t do it) will look in Asda

 

[Nayshiftin]

I buy Hovis Lower Carb, which has roughly half the carb of your average wholegrain bread, but I keep it to two slices a day and some days don't have any at all. I keep it in the freezer and defrost a couple of slices only as and when I want some.

There are some other low carb breads around - LivLife, HiLo and Burgen - which have even fewer carbs. They might not spike your BG so much.

I am struggling to find them in the shops here and looked for low carb online. No way will I pay £10 for a loaf of bread. Nimble was lower carb due to density and slice but it did set my BG up. I would manage sometimes without bread but hubby eats 4 slices of normal a day and has no idea or sympathy. It says you just have wholegrain types. I am getting really wound up over this. I wish they sold Bergen near me.

 

[EllsBells]

Sainsbos have a low carb loaf - it can't be anywhere near £10 a pop. Not sure if they sell it everywhere but check with the store and see if they can get it in? Can't remember the name but will check. I'm spoilt though as I'm sitting right on top of a largish store.

 

[Nayshiftin]

Bergen Bread is a trade mark of ABF Grain Products. This part of Allied Bakeries which is part of Associated British Foods. It's not made by some small independent baker but by one of the conglomerates feeding the major supermarket chains. This means that it will only appear in supermarkets that source stuff from Allied Bakeries (mostly those who stock Kingsmill sliced white, the main ABF brand) and only then when enough of it is sold to merit the shelf space.

For this reason its a bit hit and miss in terms of stocking and there is little option to look for it locally and hope that somebody has it on their shelves. Be prepared to search here there and everywhere.

Might be worth looking at local bakers to see if anybody makes a low carb bread. In this neck of the woods (up in the North West) I point people to Booths, who keep a really nice low Gi bread as a stock item sourced from whatever baker they use.

Thanks yes, not seen but will keep looking. I got the local baker and they tried rye sourdough but to be fair it raised it as much as the normal bread does. I think that and mayonnaise or salad cream need to change as the vegetables are not bad but then carrots and cabbage could be carb too. I like coleslaw homemade. It all trial and error will search Asda as in Tesco Saffron Walden they do not have any I have seen. Unless looking in the wrong area. I asked in Aldi and they were like no.

 

[Nayshiftin]

I've more or less stopped eating bread
This has nothing to do with what I can or cannot tolerate, it's just the convenience of not having to divide up a loaf and keep it in the freezer, because when I reduced the amount of bread I ate it went off before I could eat it all

Years ago, before I developed diabetes, I changed from white to wholemeal, and after diagnosis I reduced the amount of bread I ate to next to nothing

Now if I want anything like that I have an oatcake or two, with cheese, boiled egg, tomato, Marmite, peanut butter etc

Oatcakes are made from oats (surprise surprise) not wheat
Reading the pack label, one oatcake has 6,2g cabs, of which 0,1g sugar,1,9g fat and 1,1g fibre
They are high fibre, wheat free, vegan, have no artificial colours, flavours, preservatives, GM ingredients or hydrogenated fat
They also have a long shelf life at room temperature

Instead of biscuits I sometimes have an oatcake, with a topping or just dry; it's not so much the biscuit that I miss as the nibbling

I've tried Bergen bread; nothing wrong with it, but I still can't eat it fast enough
Perhaps I'll give it another go, also other low carb bread. The loaves are usually small and I'll make a bit of room in my freezer

being Scottish they are too morish for me. Yes if you buy some oatcakes they do have wheat , One is the cartwright and butler Oats (52%), Water, Wheat Flour (Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamine, Flour Treatment Agent: Alpha Amylase), Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Raising Agent: Sodium Bicarbonate. Some of Nairns have too be very careful best gluten free but I did agree with you once until my friend reacted sadly.

 

[What the..?]

I buy Burgen at a large Sainsbury's, but sometimes they don't have it. I need to clear space in the freezer (what on earth's in there?) to freeze some when I can get hold of it. I like it, but only really have it toasted. Bread used to be the basis of breakfast and lunch for me, and also sometimes accompanied my evening meal, but since I was diagnosed I've cut down so much that I don't eat any some days, and have just one slice of Burgen other days, if I really want it. Going off on a tangent, thanks to recommendations on here I've become a firm fan of cauliflower rice, and oh my gosh, the wondrous and incredibly versatile celeriac!

 

[Nayshiftin]

I buy Burgen at a large Sainsbury's, but sometimes they don't have it. I need to clear space in the freezer (what on earth's in there?) to freeze some when I can get hold of it. I like it, but only really have it toasted. Bread used to be the basis of breakfast and lunch for me, and also sometimes accompanied my evening meal, but since I was diagnosed I've cut down so much that I don't eat any some days, and have just one slice of Burgen other days, if I really want it. Going off on a tangent, thanks to recommendations on here I've become a firm fan of cauliflower rice, and oh my gosh, the wondrous and incredibly versatile celeriac!

I love celeriac yum so glad that's something and will try the cauliflower rice.

 

[zuludog]

being Scottish they are too morish for me. Yes if you buy some oatcakes they do have wheat , One is the cartwright and butler Oats (52%), Water, Wheat Flour (Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamine, Flour Treatment Agent: Alpha Amylase), Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Raising Agent: Sodium Bicarbonate. Some of Nairns have too be very careful best gluten free but I did agree with you once until my friend reacted sadly.

I don't have any problems with gluten; I can eat wheat so I hadn't paid that much attention to the ingredients list till now

The oatcakes I usually buy are Nairn's Rough Oatcakes, they just happen to be the ones I like
The label states -

Wholegrain Oats 89%,
Sunflower oil
Sustainable Palm fruit oil
Sea salt
Raising agent: sodium bicarbonate

So no wheat

Sometimes they are on offer so I stock up with several packets at a time, though they are not that expensive in the first place

 

[chaoticcar]

If you can find Schneider Brot Protein bread 7.9 g of carbs per 100g only small slices but filling it is only a small pack 250g .Asda sometimes have it I have spies out with instructions to buy as many as possible ! It freezes well fortunately
Carol