bread machine owners...do they make you fat?

apprentice_tycoon

I don't have a bread machine, I just use my Kenwood Chef to make bread and I'm busy arguing with myself about whether I need /want one.
The question is, if you have this willing machine ready 24 hours a day, and it's dead easy to produce all sorts of yeasted high calorie stuff, do you end up eating more bready things than if you bought them and consequently put on weight?

edit..... I have really, really got to concentrate more when posting here ----this was supposed to be a new thread

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so maybe Squeaky could move this when he's finished laughing, either that or he could just leave it to embarass me forever

edited again - the first edit was because I put this in the middle of someone elses thread

pavlovs_dog

lol, bless you apprentice tycoon!!!! you make me giggle.

in answer to your question, i dont find i end up consuming more than i normally would - then again, i dont always have the time to make as much as i would like.

depends how strong willed you are i guess

misty

I eat more bread since I bought mine - 1) because it tastes 20 million times tastier and 2) We eat it all instead of throwing it away because it had gone off . Then, because the bread is fresh and perfect it would be an insult to sully it with low- fat spread and therefore only butter will do. Also, as it makes jam, there's that to consider because I never bought jam. However, whilst eating the bread/toast and butter/jam - I haven't got room for the chocolate.

Ticklemouse

Well, I reckon Old Style has a tendancy to make you fat It's a case of all this lovely food we make just has to be eaten, with second helpings. Pre OS I rarely made a pud during the week, but now when I see plums or rhubarb etc going cheap, I think 'that'll make a nice crumble'

Now, my new breadmaker - well, I've had to test it out to make sure it works. The fruity bread is to die for, the cakes are scrummy and as I had too many strawbs to make it worthwhile doing the jam in the breadmaker, I did do those in a pan. However, I have a punnet of raspberries DS1 has decided he doesn't want to eat, so jam they will become. Mr TM is away a lot this month so I haven't made too many loaves - I hate waste and I am trying not to eat too much. I will make another one tomorrow though.

I actually eat really healthily most of the time - loads of fruit and veg and lean meat/chicken. My downfall is cakes/biccies and now puddings and then just eating too much because it's sooooo lovely. Anyone got a willpower machine in their pantry, I seem to have lost mine

Actually - just re-read your title. Do bread machine owners make you fat? Answer - yes, because we make such lovely food which we insist on feeding you (ourself)

soba

Only if you shove it up your jumper?

soba

It's very tempting to have HM bread sliced an inch thick, toasted and spread thickly with butter yum yum. Since I got my new breadmaker that's been my downfall. I've realised however, that there's nothing money saving about getting only six slices to a loaf, so I hunted out my Lakeland Evenslice, and we get tons more slices now! I always save the end pieces for toasting and buttering. Chef's treat!

blue-kat

I'd say a BM is high risk gadget :rolleyes:

I have to keep away from breads/biscuits/cakes/flapjacks etc., even though I can only eat wheat-free versions, because 1 is never enough.

squeaky

One loaf at a sitting is usually enough for me

mah_jong

As a singleton I sometimes (esp with the whole wheat bread ) slice up a loaf (using a slicer) and freeze it in wee bags at 2 slices per bag....just ideal for me!!!

exlibris

Pre OS I rarely made a pud during the week, but now when I see plums or rhubarb etc going cheap, I think 'that'll make a nice crumble'


Make the crumbles and then freeze them for later. Go on, I dare you

SomersetPrincess

Perhaps there is a connection - my mother says that since she bought her bread machine she has become more "traditionally built" which makes me giggle every time :-)