The shocking truth about bread and why you should make your own..

shell2001

Since you lovelys on here sorted out the recipe for my BM we have had a loaf made every day. Its smaller than the shop bought stuff so ideal for having fresh bread. I still have about 4 loafs left in the freezer as standby but lets face it less than 5 mins to chuck the stuff in and thats it!

I too have always cooked the majority of our food from scratch, last night DD went to her friends for tea, apparently she did not each much (shop bought chicken sticks, mashed spuds and spaghetti hoops - Elise told her she didnt think she liked them, but in truth she has never had them before because I refuse to buy them due to the sugar and other junk in them). I do admit I felt a bit funny saying she had never had them before, especially as the mother looked at me as if I was a bit weird! but its my kids health and wellbeing.

Maybe I am a bit strange, recently the same woman brought my girls sugar dummys as a present - these were swiftly hidden away and thrown in the bin with the wrappers still on them. As my girls are 3 and 2 I think this amount of sugar was not acceptable. They are allowed sweets but as an occasional treat not the norm.

Sorry getting off my soapbox now.

ka7e

I use my MR breadmaker to make about 5 1.5lb loaves a week, keeping one organic Sainsbury's loaf in the freezer, for emergencies. As a family of 5, we're actually eating less bread than previously because it seems so much more filling. There are actually squabbles about who gets the crust!
The only voice of dissent is DD who says the crust is chewy and the bread has holes in - she is too used to the polystyrene texture of sliced bread!

thriftmonster

Queenie wrote:

I really love putting 'additives' in my loaves and then letting the kids decipher what they might be

Beetroot, parsnip, sweet potatoes, apricots, nuts etc. :laugh:

It's not just bread that has some dubious ingredients in - I only really began reading labels fully a few years ago and by making more things from scratch I've seen behavioural patterns alter (for the better!) in my children, we catch fewer colds (don't ask me why ) we have fewer tummy upsets, they don't have eczema flare ups now. Love it!

Funnily enough, now I think about it ds2's eczema is much better when he has HM bread (ans HM everything alse)

beachbeth

shell2001 wrote:

Maybe I am a bit strange, recently the same woman brought my girls sugar dummys as a present - these were swiftly hidden away and thrown in the bin with the wrappers still on them. As my girls are 3 and 2 I think this amount of sugar was not acceptable. They are allowed sweets but as an occasional treat not the norm.

Sorry getting off my soapbox now.

I was the same when my kids were little. When my girls were this age I couldn't see any reason to give them sugary stuff and sweets so I didn't bother and they didn't ask. One of my daughter's was tired and crying one evening whilst we were late shopping in M&S and a lady came up and very sympathetically said "Oh dear, whats the matter" and before I could say anything, popped a sweet in her mouth. Well, she screwed her face up and spat it out because she just wasn't used to sweets! When they did eventually start eating sweets they didn't get them every day and were only allowed very small packets.

sandieb

"we were late shopping in M&S and a lady came up and very sympathetically said "Oh dear, whats the matter" and before I could say anything, popped a sweet in her mouth"

What a nerve! How would that lady like it if someone did it to her??!!!

Topher

I was once in Tescos with my son lying on the floor doing his best tantrum while I hummed a happy little tune and chose between two types of tomatoes when a woman very deliberately stopped by my son, gave several glances from him to me, then tutted very loudly. "Don't you Tut at me" I commanded in my best teacher's voice (I wasn't one at that stage, but the signs were there) she had the grace to blush & shuffle off.

B.T.W. my children weren't allowed chocolate until after they were two (amongst other thought out rules of thumb) neither have developed allergies and both can stop eating sweet things when they've had enough (I find this really difficult m'self), some relatives, thinking they were being deprived went out of their way to buy white chocolate under some belief that it was milkier therefore better for my babies !!!!! (They weren't allowed that either)

T.:D

Topher

I read somewhere that someone who makes homemade bread puts vitamin C powder in it, to help it rise, and to preserve it.

I understand that modern flours are milled differently in such a way that eating wheat products is not as healthy as it might be, and makes them addictive.

T.

Sarahsaver

Why is AMylase put in bread? Remember from the school biology class that thats the enzyme in your spit that helps begin the process of digestion...

Sarahsaver

eugh so it may be of animal origin... and exacerbate eczema (after all I avoid enzymes in detergents because of DS1)
off to fire up the breadmaker!

Swan_2

Sarahsaver wrote:

Why is AMylase put in bread? Remember from the school biology class that thats the enzyme in your spit that helps begin the process of digestion...

there's an amylase that has something to do with the production of malted grain (not sure exactly what, I'd need to research it) perhaps (hopefully!) it's that kind?