Is there anyway I can make my HM bread less fattening ??

foxgloves

I've always thought WW & simlar 'diet bread' is a bit of a con to be honest. Anything is lower calorie if it's a piddley little slice of air which means you're starving hungry by 10a.m. We make our own wholemeal but go for the medium of the 3 size settings to get slightly smaller slices. We use a plastic slicing guide thingy from Lakeland to get reasonably thin slices & find that one slice of toast will fill us up rather than 2 slices of bought sliced bread. Also, with the oil content, we only use about a tblspn of oil per loaf and divided up between the slices, that's going to be almost negligible fat content, so I think bread is probably painted as more of a baddy than it actually is, really.

janiebaby29

fiscalfreckles wrote: »

Its really what you put on bread that adds the calories, not the bread itself.

I usually have a scraping of philly light then fill it with loads of salad !!

janiebaby29

morganlefay wrote: »

Make wholemeal ? It's supposed to be more filling, slower-burning etc It's because HM bread is so good that we eat more of it - no escape from that I don't think !

I always eat wholemeal , I cant stand white bread , yuk .
Im on the slimming world plan so have made a loaf and its sitting in BM at mo ,
Off to work out its syn value , and will be back to update

angelavdavis

Made me laugh reading about WW bread.

Many years ago when my dear Nan was still alive, we caught her piling about 12 slices of Slimcea bread on her plate. My Dad said "what are you doing eating all that bread - I thought you were supposed to be on a diet!". "Oh yes, its OK though" Nan said "its diet bread!" "Not if you eat a dozen slices of it, it isn't Mum!":rotfl:

Farway

angelavdavis wrote: »

Many years ago when my dear Nan was still alive, we caught her piling about 12 slices of Slimcea bread on her plate. My Dad said "what are you doing eating all that bread - I thought you were supposed to be on a diet!". "Oh yes, its OK though" Nan said "its diet bread!" "Not if you eat a dozen slices of it, it isn't Mum!":rotfl:

Bit like the folk who have a bag of chips with a diet Coke

foxgloves

That made me think of my old Gran who years ago in the 1970s used to buy those Limmits slimming biscuits. Remember them? Only Gran didn't realise that they were actually for meal replacement, so she was eating her normal meals.....and somewhat optimistically following them by a plate of 'slimming' biscuits. Needless to say she didn't lose any weight!!

janeym8

i know about the cal contents of the breads but if you are a breadaholic like myself i will happily eat 4 slices ww bread but also 4 slices of hm bread-at different times
so for me i can have 8 checks on scottish slimmers for 4 slices ww bread but i wouldnt even consider hm bread at the moment so for me its the amount of slices if im honest .
on a good day i get 10 slices from my hm bread but its usually 9 so i would be eating half a loaf mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
oh and i usually try and get the ww bread when its reduced to about 10-20p at our local asda

janeynxxx

TravellingAbuela

foxgloves wrote: »

That made me think of my old Gran who years ago in the 1970s used to buy those Limmits slimming biscuits. Remember them? Only Gran didn't realise that they were actually for meal replacement, so she was eating her normal meals.....and somewhat optimistically following them by a plate of 'slimming' biscuits. Needless to say she didn't lose any weight!!

This thread is taking me back a bit! Slimcea bread and Limmits biscuits, I remember those. Reminds me of the time I bought some toffee sweets from Boots called Aids. The idea was that you chewed one of these toffees slowly before a meal and then you ate less. I loved them so much I devoured the whole box and didn't bother with a meal!

thriftlady_2

TravellingAbuela wrote: »

This thread is taking me back a bit! Slimcea bread and Limmits biscuits, I remember those. Reminds me of the time I bought some toffee sweets from Boots called Aids. The idea was that you chewed one of these toffees slowly before a meal and then you ate less. I loved them so much I devoured the whole box and didn't bother with a meal!

That takes me back, my mum used buy Ayds! Goodness I remember eating them too, they had a very odd taste-all the artificial sweeteners I suppose.

What was she thinking letting a 10 year old eat appetite supressants?:eek:

Needless to say they didn't work....for either of us.