Low fat bread recipe for bread maker?

thriftymoo

Hi all

I'm looking for a recipe for low fat bread that i can use in my morphy richards breadmaker. Just worked out how many weight watchers points are in a loaf of bread made with the basic white bread recipe from the handbook and i'm shocked! its lots!

I've done a quick search of the forums and cant find anything but i could of missed something....

thanks

BitterAndTwisted

Er, how much fat are you adding to the mixture? I wouldn't have thought that it could make so much difference. There are some recipes that call for no fat to be added at all, in fact most of the most common recipes that I know call for none, except broiche and savarin

jackieglasgow

Homemade bread is no use at all for WW or SW, the points are far too high, you'll either need to give bread up, or buy premade just for the dieter. Its the flour that's the problem, not the butter, as you can easily make bread with no butter. You could try making bread by hand, just flour yeast a kn0b of butter and water, but it tends to "point" really high, too.

PennyGSD

Tha fat's not the problem it's just that the flour is really pointy and there's no low point alternative.

However, it's so much more filling than fake fluffy shop bought stuff so you can get away with eating a lot less. Quite difficult to do though when the whole house smells of baking bread and it tastes so gorgeous freshly made.

foxgloves

Both my partner & I started a healthy diet in Jan. We are still using our breadmaker. I make 70% wholemeal or 100% wholemeal loaves and also make up a batch of the 70% bread dough eachweek which I make into rolls. We limit a slice of toast/bread to maximum of 2oz and only allow one bread roll (they are very filling) for lunch. I can tend to overeat bread, so if I've had it for breakfast, I usually pick a different carb such as a jacket potato, oatcakes, crispbreads, etc, for lunch. Anyway, despite feeling we are eating lots, as of yesterday, I've lost 11lbs and husband has lost 14lbs. My feeling was also that our breadmaker would be incompatible with following a weight loss plan, but we are not finding this to be the case.

Turkishdreamer

This has made me trawl through my Breadmaker Cook Books, more out of interest than anything. It is surprising what I have come across, probably not much help in this instance as it is obviously the flour which is the problem.

There are recipes in my Breadmaker Bible by Karen Saunders for all sorts of special diets, one of which has caught my eye, think I will be having a go at it over the next few days - Oatmeal and Cranberry Loaf. It is dairy free, sugar free, low fat, egg free, high fibre, healthy heart and diabetes management friendly sounds delicious and so healthy.

Watch this space!!!!!

mulled_wine

Turkishdreamer wrote: »

This has made me trawl through my Breadmaker Cook Books, more out of interest than anything. It is surprising what I have come across, probably not much help in this instance as it is obviously the flour which is the problem.

There are recipes in my Breadmaker Bible by Karen Saunders for all sorts of special diets, one of which has caught my eye, think I will be having a go at it over the next few days - Oatmeal and Cranberry Loaf. It is dairy free, sugar free, low fat, egg free, high fibre, healthy heart and diabetes management friendly sounds delicious and so healthy.

Watch this space!!!!!

ooh please post the recipe! I'm on a diet to lower my BP and this sounds like it *might* fit the bill... *fingers crossed*

I_luv_cats

PennyGSD wrote: »

Tha fat's not the problem it's just that the flour is really pointy and there's no low point alternative.

However, it's so much more filling than fake fluffy shop bought stuff so you can get away with eating a lot less. Quite difficult to do though when the whole house smells of baking bread and it tastes so gorgeous freshly made.

It generally is the same weight or more as a normal loaf BUT smaller so you are eating around double the calories per slice!

I always use a small amount of olive oil to make it healthier.

I agree as freshly baked it is so moreish and therefore the temptation to eat more than you had planned to !

Jo_anne_2

funkystarfish wrote: »

Just worked out how many weight watchers points are in a loaf of bread made with the basic white bread recipe from the handbook and i'm shocked! its lots!

I worked out the WW points in my standard wholemeal loaf for my breadmaker. One slice is 3 propoints - the same as a lot of other bought breads but it's much much nicer and more filling

thriftymoo

Its 40 points per loaf for the basic bread in my booklet. Thats working out about 3.5 original points a slice, shop bought white bread is about 1.5-2 points slice. There isnt really fat in there no butter just a small bit of oil. The main issue is the flour. Surely there must be a way around this as the shops manage to make low calorie bread using flour! Is wholemeal flour lower in calories than white?

Turkishdreamer

Oatmeal and Cranberry Loaf as requested, I haven't had a chance to make it yet, although It's a must:

250ml/9floz/1 1/8 cups of water
3tbspn frozen concentrated orange juice, thawed and at room temperature
1 tspn salt
75gm/3oz/ 1/2 cup of fine oatmeal
70gm/2 1/2oz/ 1/2 cup strong wholemeal flour
300gm/11oz/2 cups very strong white bread flour
1 1/2 tspn instant or fast acting dried yeast
75gm/3oz/ 1/2 cup ready to eat (semi-dried) cranberries
glaze/topping optional

Pour the water into the breadmaker bucket, followed by the orange juice, salt and oatmeal. Cover with the flours and sprinkle the yeast over. Fit the bucket into the breadmaker and set to the basic white bread programme. Add the cranberries according the manual's instructions, usually at the beginning or middle of the second kneading cycle or when the machine bleeps. When cooked, carefully shake the loaf from the bucket and stand the right way up on a wire cooling rack. Brush with your chosen glaze and leave to cool for at least an hour before slicing.


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