Does the bread maker save your family budget?

Happygreen

mumofthetwins wrote: »

ive got loads of flour in but haven't used my BM in ages ..
going to start tonight !!
anyone know any good recipies .. and im thinking about making HM pizza later in the week .. is it worth using the BM for the dough ?


Lisa x

Absolutely - I use the same recipe for pizza dough as for my bread, being a creature of habit. I think most recipes ask for less sugar, olive oil as the fat and you only prove it once (but I'm not sure about that one). My pizzas are fine either way

Happygreen

Justamum wrote: »

Your body converts food to simple sugars because glucose is the fuel your body needs, otherwise it wouldn't convert it. Being 'carb free' is starving your body of fuel.

Going "carb free" usually means free from starchy carbs, not the carbs you find in fruit and veg. I've been following the arguments out of interest and the way I understand it is that our body can convert fats and proteins into fuel so we don't really need to eat starches. There are no carb dependent vitamins but many fat dependent vitamins so cutting out fats can be extremely dangerous. It's interesting generally but atm I am quite happy living with the "happy factor" bread and pasta are giving me but if I need to get back to losing a few pounds going starch free is a sensible option. For now - let's bake!

honeythewitch

Happygreen wrote: »

Going "carb free" usually means free from starchy carbs, not the carbs you find in fruit and veg. I've been following the arguments out of interest and the way I understand it is that our body can convert fats and proteins into fuel so we don't really need to eat starches. There are no carb dependent vitamins but many fat dependent vitamins so cutting out fats can be extremely dangerous. It's interesting generally but atm I am quite happy living with the "happy factor" bread and pasta are giving me but if I need to get back to losing a few pounds going starch free is a sensible option. For now - let's bake!

I suppose that for someone cutting down on carbs, the breadmaker would be handy to make high protein bread instead of the usual kind?

londonTiger

Happygreen wrote: »

Going "carb free" usually means free from starchy carbs, not the carbs you find in fruit and veg. I've been following the arguments out of interest and the way I understand it is that our body can convert fats and proteins into fuel so we don't really need to eat starches. There are no carb dependent vitamins but many fat dependent vitamins so cutting out fats can be extremely dangerous. It's interesting generally but atm I am quite happy living with the "happy factor" bread and pasta are giving me but if I need to get back to losing a few pounds going starch free is a sensible option. For now - let's bake!

No going "carb free" depends on the dieters. Fruits contain a lot of sugars and will knock ketosis out of wack.

Carb free is carb free, paleo dieters eat fruits but they dont regard themselves as carb free

I am purely carb free, no fruits, no grains, no flour, nothing at all. Just fat and protein. The only carbs are incidental such as a grilled chicken may be marinated with yoghurt which has sugars. Though this is extremely low amount of carb. Or a vegetable stir fry, vgetables have trace amounts of sugars and a full plate of vegetable stir fry might have 6g of carbohydrates, half of which is sugar.

This does not affect ketosis as the body will absorb these tiny amounts of sugar and still burn fat.

It's so hard to find high fat zero carb salad dressing now. It's so annoying because women beleive "salad is healthy" so they eat saladsand the food manufacturers know that sugar is adictive and sells food so they lace the salad with dressing full of sugar.

I think women in patiuclar struggle with the idea of low carb/high fat. They might jump on the bandwagn and then they'll cut out all the carbs but dont increase fat intake thinking "fat is bad".

It's so dumb, my ex used to have skimmed milk, diet coke and then snack on chocolates, pasta, biscuits etc. Of course tonnes of "fat free" stuff as well, fat free youghut, low fat spread (which turns into trans fats - the worst kind)

Meanwhile I'm struggling to diversfy my fat sources, cos everything is laced with sugar & carbs.

londonTiger

honeythewitch wrote: »

I suppose that for someone cutting down on carbs, the breadmaker would be handy to make high protein bread instead of the usual kind?

nah just buy high protein bread from lidl