Running out of bread choices :(

[pav]

Found out earlier in the year that white bread is one of the things that have suddenly started shooting up my BS, only used to eat it as a treat (a freshly baked crusty roll).

Noticed the other week that granary bread caused a problem, then had some wholemeal bread from a local bakery the other day and again BS went high.

Tried granary again today for lunch and check BS and its 14.3 after 4 hours of eating it. This is getting to be a great pain in finding bread I can eat. So far its now looks like its being limited to one bakeries bread that I can trust

 

[Mark T]

Have you tried a lower carb linseed based bread such as burgen?

 

[pav]

Did ask one bread shop about it and they have never heard of it, not sure where one can get it from.

 

[Northerner]

As Mark suggests. Burgen soya and linseed bread is lower carb because of the soya flour, and the seeds help make it lower GI 🙂 And it is yummy!

 

[Mark T]

Did ask one bread shop about it and they have never heard of it, not sure where one can get it from.

Tesco's, Sainsbury's, Asda, Ocado,...

 

[pav]

I shop in ASDA, will have to have a harder look.

 

[Mark T]

I shop in ASDA, will have to have a harder look.

Not every Asda carries exactly the same stock so it's not impossible it's not there - but this is what you are looking for: http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/search/searchcontainer.jsp?trailSize=1&searchString=burgan+linseed&domainName=Products&headerVersion=v1&_requestid=605885

 

[spiritfree]

My local co-op also sells it. I think it's really nice bread.

 

[Casper]

My local Iceland also stock it ?1 per loaf, freezes well and it very tasty!

 

[yorksman]

Wholemeal doesn't have a tight legal definition in the UK and the stuff supermarkets sell is variable, one selling a loaf described as wholemeal but actually only with 6% wholemeal flour. See A Wholegrain of Truth.

You may have an artisan baker near you. The real bread campaign have a real bread finder where you can enter your postcode.

Lidl do two home bake bread mixes which contain german wholewheat and whole rye mixes. The whole wheat in one of them is type 1060 and the other, darker, is type 1600. Both of these packs prioduce two easy to bake loaves which don't spike me at all. However, my local artisan baker does about 4 loaves which taste better and one of them, the Sisu, a 100% rye loaf can be eaten in great quantities before it has much effect. I always have a selection in the freezer and packs of the Lidl bread mixes to hand as I tend to have sandwiches for lunch.

 

[Steff]

make your own maybe

 

[JohnCo]

Have more fat or protein filling in a sandwich? If you can`t find the bread you`re looking for!

 

[pav]

Will be in town the next few days can look in Iceland as the likes of asda, Tesco are on retail parks.

Trying to keep the fat to fairly low as already have a spare tyre I am trying to loose. The higher protein plan works too well as I go low BS if I don't have any carbs with the protein.

Seams to be a big juggling hat in trying to get the two right, the past 5 months have been a very steep learning curve and that's after being diabetic for 13 years.

I do some times wonder if its better to be on insulin, rather than trying to get / guess the food I need for the gliclazide. If I reduce the gliclazide then my peaks become more often.

Its taken a fair amount of work to get the numbers as in the chart down from the mid 20's.

 

[yorksman]

make your own maybe

The Lidl bread mix, Country- Style Wheat Rye (68%/24%) Wholemeal uses type 1600 wholemeal wheat and is a darker tin baked bread looking something like this:

The other Wheat Rye mix is 71% type 1060 wholemeal wheat and 20% rye and is a lighter bread which can be baked free standing:

They both contain dried sourdough and each pack bakes two 750g loaves.

 

[pav]

Looks an interesting option as there's a Lidl fairly close to me.

 

[Taz]

Burgen bread is the best so glad I tryed it
🙂

 

[PattiEvans]

Beware with Burgen, the Soya and Linseed is good and low carb, but they do other breads e.g Sunflower and Chia which are higher in carb.

 

[itsallgood]

I use Burgen and it's very good. Be careful which one you choose though as there are more than one (in a big Sainsburys anyway) and the carbohydrate count varies by quite a lot between them. I go for soya and linseed but you can also get buckwheat and poppy seed which is higher carb but might still be low GI. Makes great toast as well!

Also Hovis do a multiseed loaf that has a low carb and high fibre content but I can't remember the name of it, sorry, I only buy that when there's no Burgen about.

 

[AlisonM]

I have the Buckwheat and Poppy seed Burgen at the mo, it's really nice and doesn't seem to spike me. I prefer the Soya/Linseed one, but they didn't have it in store when I was shopping yesterday. Failing that, I'll usually go for any wholegrain loaf, never, never any kind of white.

 

[itsallgood]

I only buy white bread when the wife fancies a sausage sandwich, then its usually a good quality ciabatta with ketchup. She loves that.