Bread alternatives

just_trying

Tink, I would go with toast for breakfast. Crackerbread or crackers with veg, cheese, ham, peppers, cucumbers etc. Or baked tatties for lunch with beans, tuna coleslaw etc. Supper scone, pancakes etc. Though my lot love bread to, so just some suggestions.

Tiddlywinks

I know I keep banging the same drum but... why do you think you *need* to apply the 'everything in moderation' mantra about eating bread?

Also, you don't need a bread maker to make bread - you can prepare the dough the night before and then bake the next day in about 30 minutes.

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1916656/easybake-bread

There are loads of videos on YouTube with demos.

If you compare the ingredients of shop bought with home made you'll see that there's nothing really unhealthy in bread.

Cornucopia

What about other varieties of bread? Wholemeal? white bread with seeds in? Pittas? "Sandwich Thins"? English Muffins? Fruit bread? Potato scones? Pancakes?

There's loads of different products on supermarket shelves these days...

And once you start on things you can make yourself...

I make Banana Bread (it has no flour -just oats and it can have as little sugar/honey as you can bear the taste of). Takes about 10 minutes to prepare & 20 minutes to bake, and the method is like a cake with no proving, kneeding or rising required.

There are loads of recipes like that on the web as people want/need restricted diets.

pigpen

toast and cereal seems excessive for young children.. cereal alone is plenty, with chopped fruit for a bit of variety.. Mine will eat 6 weetabix given the opportunity so we compromise at 3 and add fruit & yoghurt.. which might be just as 'bad' as bread.

Instead of sandwiches for lunch why not make up a tub of salad (pasta or potato salads are best.. I hate leafy salads, they dont like me much either!) handful of rabbit food, or noodles or baked spudato, with a bit of cooked meat or tinned/cooked fish or boiled egg. Dinner we go with the 'meat and 2 veg' usually.. no bread and butter but they can have garlic bread or yorkshire puddings. and a slice of bread and jam at bed time.

I don't eat bread often, it makes me feel bloated so I do avoid it where possible.

marleyboy

Pancakes are a good alternative, I could happily eat a plate full with a variety of different toppings wrapped inside them,

Feral_Moon

Yes, those small Ameican pancakes are a great alternative for breakfast and you can serve them with fruit, bacon, etc. You can even add fruit such as blueberries or sultanas to the batter before cooking.

Or how about a banana omelette for breakfast. Absolutely delicious and extremely healthy, just eggs, banana and ground cinnamon cooked in a little coconut oil. You can google exact recipe and there are loads of YouTube videos full of fitness bods making them to show you how.

Another compromise between bread and crisps is to make your own "Doritos". Get the kids involved too, they'll love it. Get normal flour tortilla wraps and cut up into triangles, brush with oil and season with whatever flavourings you like, or leave them plain, and bake in the oven. Serve with home made dips such as guacamole (mashed avocado with finely chopped onion, tomato, chilli), salsa (tomatoes & onion) yogurt dips etc.

All recipes can easily be googled if you're unsure. And as others have said, cut back to one slice of bread per serving and add beans, eggs, tinned mackerel with cheese etc for healthy lunches. Certainly don't offer cereal and toast together for breakfast. Way too many beige carbs!

suki1964

Supper in our house is a glass of milk and a plain biscuit for the grandkids or a plain bun or a crumpet

I do American pancakes for breakfast with bananas and a drizzle of syrup. They are so big that one is plenty. They also get yoghurt for breakfast and gs does love a babybell. Gd will eat cereal and grapes and yoghurt. Gs will also take a bowl of cereal

Gs does love a sandwich and would live on them if he could. So I have to mix it up as well. If it's a sarnie lunch it comes with soup. Other days it's beans or cheese on toast. Another will be wraps, he makes his own like pizza. Jacket spuds are also on the lunch menu

Our daughter is the one for sandwiches and toast. For her it's quick, easy and she knows the kids will eat it. I use their visits to introduce other foods to them and mum is slowly changing, it's getting easier now as she's becoming more confident in cooking and isn't relying on convenience foods so much

GwylimT

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

What exactly have you got against bread - you're not really explaining it.

The kids like it, they ask for it... so, what's the problem.

Why do you think it's unhealthy?

Like I wrote earlier, you could make your own everyday (even if in a bread machine). It would then be cheaper, have less additives and you can make it low salt too.

If you're happy to give them chips (even though made from sweet potato) and crisps (full of fat) then I don't get it.

Bread is essentially sugar.

GwylimT

We don't eat bread in our house, for us pack up tends be the extra portions of last nights meal that we made, if not our daughters pack up often looks like some of the options below instead of sandwiches.

Chicken, seed and humus wrap, with iceburg acting as the wrap.

Pulled turkey and pulse wrap, again, lettuce acting as the actual wrap.

Tinned mixed beans with seeds, mozarella and salad leaves, you can make this not need a fork by wrapping in lettuce leaves as well.

Mini potato skins, we use standard spuds for these rather than baking potatoes.

Stuffed peppers, nice and easy to eat and they are easily frozen.

Then standard salads with boiled eggs etc.

splishsplash

I suggest you do up a meal plan for the week. Allow what you think is a reasonable amount of bread per day and work from there.

If it's just white sliced you're trying to get away from, then consider brown soda bread, pitta breads, wraps, scones, tortillas, pancakes etc.

If you're moving away from refined carbs, then make sure they're getting carbs elsewhere. It's all well and good feeding them stuffed leaves, but they need carbs for energy at their ages.

Other breakfast alternatives: porridge with fruit; potato hash browns with scrambled eggs (just spray oil to fry); frittata.

Other lunch alternatives: buckwheat wraps with your fillings of choice; sweet potato flatbreads; aubergine pizzas.

Then they could have toast for supper, total 2 slices per day.