What can I have instead of bread?
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sparklyball
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Hi, I eat the same breakfast every morning, a boiled egg and a slice of wholemeal bread with Bertolli margarine. Just learning how calorific bread is but don't know what to have instead, I can't imagine eating an egg without it!
I don't eat cereal because I don't have milk. Any suggestions, please?
I don't eat cereal because I don't have milk. Any suggestions, please?
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1 egg with 1 slice of bread shouldnt be hard to fit into your calorie allowance. If that is what you like, just have it.11
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If you really enjoy your morning bread, why remove it? Try working it into your daily calories instead by having a smaller dinner, or working out/walking an extra mile to burn it off.
Removing the bread can potentially be counterproductive as you might crave it more and more and end up eating the whole bag of bread.
If you do want to remove it, you could try having oatmeal (cooked in water if you don't use milk) with fruit, or yogurt with dried nuts and fruit, ham or salmon rolls stuffed with cottage cheese or scrambled eggs, or just scrambled eggs with mushrooms/peppers, an omelette with a side of avocado & cherry tomatoes sprinkled with salt and oil...however these option do seem fitting with a slice of bread. Maybe you can try German-style rye bread (the one made of purely ground rye instead of rye flour) if you are looking to try out more macro-friendly bread options. I personally like the taste, but it is strong and might overpower the toppings you use. Wasa bread (Swedish crispy flatbread) is high in fiber and since the pieces are very light, you might be able to fit in 3 slices for breakfast for less caloric content than you wholemeal bread and they combine well with butter flavours...again, the texture is different and you might just be happier sticking to your bread and fitting it into you daily intake, or leaving it for weekends only.2 -
All food has calories. If that's the breakfast you like, figure out how to fit it into your budget. You might try a bread that's sliced more thinly, so "a piece" of bread has fewer calories.4
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Wait.
A slice of bread is about 100 calories.
Eat the bread.
Are you set at 1200 calories? That may be your problem because I fit in two slices of bread every day when I was losing weight on 1500.5 -
I buy a crusty baguette from the French bakery, cut it up the way I like it and freeze it. To thaw, wrap in kitchen towel and give it 15 seconds in the MW. Just like new.4
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It sounds like the problem here isn't the bread, but that your calorie goal is too low. 1 slice of bread shouldn't be that big of a deal calorie wise to fit into your day.
And usually cereal and milk is more calorie dense than a slice of bread. At least, the cereal I like is.. 😂4 -
If that particular type of bread is more calories than you feel it is 'worth' - then try a different bread perhaps? Or a lesser amount of it? Or less margarine?
My breakfast today: 1 oz cheddar cheese, 98 grams hard boiled eggs, and a small chicken sandwich in a 1/2 pita. All total about 425 cals.1 -
I eat bread often but it's mostly the sprouted grains type, what I read . . .Sprouted grain bread is lower in carbs and calories and has less of an impact on blood sugar compared to other types of bread. It may even help you lose weight.0
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I eat bread often but it's mostly the sprouted grains type, what I read . . .Sprouted grain bread is lower in carbs and calories and has less of an impact on blood sugar compared to other types of bread. It may even help you lose weight.
The thing is, I don't think this is true .
Ezekiel bread (a popular brand of sprouted grain bread) has 80 calories and 15 grams of carbohydrates per slice.
Nature's Own 100% whole wheat bread has 60 calories and 11 grams of carbohydrates per slice.
Both are fine choices and those 20 calories and 4 grams of carbohydrates aren't going to be relevant for most people. But if someone is making claims that sprouted bread is inherently lower in calories and carbohydrates, they're not a good source of nutritional information.
No bread is going to "help you lose weight." Weight loss is created by a calorie deficit. If someone finds a certain food more satisfying or filling and it fits well into their calorie goal, then that would be a help. But that could be many types of bread, not just sprouted grain bread.9 -
What's wrong with bread? Everything has calories, including bread. I eat three slices of bread every day, which come in at around 260 calories. Nothing wrong with that.1
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I use this bread... Less calories than typical bread..
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sparklyball wrote: »Hi, I eat the same breakfast every morning, a boiled egg and a slice of wholemeal bread with Bertolli margarine. Just learning how calorific bread is but don't know what to have instead, I can't imagine eating an egg without it!
I don't eat cereal because I don't have milk. Any suggestions, please?
What would you sub for the bread instead?
I haven't used milk with cereal in a very long time. You can learn to eat that way and without toast with your egg if you want.
That being said, and egg is about 78 and bread can be anywhere but lets say 150 and about 30 calories with the margarine. That's about 260 calories. That's actually a good breakfast for the amount of calories it has. If you like it and it fills you up, then I say don't change what you are doing.1 -
I took a peek at your FOOD diary, @sparklyball
You haven't been logging food consistently, and you do have it set to 1200.
I also noticed on the one day you logged food that you had about 450 calories from oils and nuts (margarine, mayonnaise and oil/ linseed-flax, a "healthy nut mix," and pecans) in that one day. That puts you over on your fats, is that your intention? Since you are also eating animal products (egg, ham, lamb) I'd say the place to cut back would be the added oil. A serving of whole linseed is 14g or two tablespoons for 60 calories, so you had several servings? Six tablespoons? You could likely cut that back quite a bit.
Your bread was logged at 84 calories. You did have other grains, too - is "Bap" a bread? Eat the slice of bread and cut back on the added oils, that's a lot easier. I find the flavor of the margarine and the oil can be had for about 3g per serving (about 54 total calories for 6g) and you really don't need the added oils at all with the lamb and egg and ham and nuts.
You still came in very close to your (super low) goal, so I'd call that pretty good.
Why are you set at 1200? How much weight do you have to lose? How tall are you? Do you work or care for a house or kids? I'd change that Goal. That's hard, 1200.6 -
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647 is the NAME of the bread.
The calories look like about 40 calories per 28g slice.5 -
You like thick slice of bread?
Typical US bread per slice are 30g more or less..
You eating 3 to 4 slices . 🤷♂️
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By comparison..
Equivalent to 2 slices of bread by weight
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You like thick slice of bread?
Typical US bread per slice are 30g more or less..
You eating 3 to 4 slices . 🤷♂️
I believe that user is using 100 grams as a point to compare, not claiming their average serving of bread is 100 grams.2 -
janejellyroll wrote: »
You like thick slice of bread?
Typical US bread per slice are 30g more or less..
You eating 3 to 4 slices . 🤷♂️
I believe that user is using 100 grams as a point to compare, not claiming their average serving of bread is 100 grams.
Read the print.. they are comparing per 28g.. a slice0 -
cmriverside wrote: »
647 is the NAME of the bread.
The calories look like about 40 calories per 28g slice.
Ohh.. 😂. Yeah. 647 is the name/brand of bread..0 -
The Wheat bread above would come out to 250 calories per 100 grams...so not really much different.
I eat Dave's Killer Bread which is just a normal off the shelf whole grain bread...it's 244 calories per 100 grams. I find most bread to be in that neighborhood...one slice is typically 45 grams give or take with one slice (45 grams) being 110 calories.
I don't know that the bread above is actually less calorie dense than other breads out there...it looks like the slices are probably pretty small if a serving (slice) is only 28 grams...all things being equal, it looks like it's just as calorie dense as most other breads at 100 grams.2 -
janejellyroll wrote: »
You like thick slice of bread?
Typical US bread per slice are 30g more or less..
You eating 3 to 4 slices . 🤷♂️
I believe that user is using 100 grams as a point to compare, not claiming their average serving of bread is 100 grams.
Read the print.. they are comparing per 28g.. a slice
No, I don't believe they are. They're stating the calorie count of their usual bread per 100 grams. That is not the same thing as saying they consider 100 grams to be a serving. The 28 gram statement, I believe, came from someone else completely.
If someone says their bread is x calories per 100 gram, we don't have enough information to conclude about how thick they like their bread sliced. Their typical serving size could be way less than that. Expressing calorie counts per 100 grams is just a quick and easy way to compare nutritional information even if one is regularly eating less or more than that amount.1 -
janejellyroll wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »
You like thick slice of bread?
Typical US bread per slice are 30g more or less..
You eating 3 to 4 slices . 🤷♂️
I believe that user is using 100 grams as a point to compare, not claiming their average serving of bread is 100 grams.
Read the print.. they are comparing per 28g.. a slice
No, I don't believe they are. They're stating the calorie count of their usual bread per 100 grams. That is not the same thing as saying they consider 100 grams to be a serving. The 28 gram statement, I believe, came from someone else completely.
If someone says their bread is x calories per 100 gram, we don't have enough information to conclude about how thick they like their bread sliced. Their typical serving size could be way less than that. Expressing calorie counts per 100 grams is just a quick and easy way to compare nutritional information even if one is regularly eating less or more than that amount.
100/28= 3.57
3.57*40=143 +/- calories per 100grams.
Eta.. doesn't matter thickness if you comparing by weight..
Thickness doesn't come in the equation..
A 2" slice of bread is 100 grams in one brand..
3" slice that is still 100 grams in another brand. All both still 100 grams of bread..3 -
janejellyroll wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »
You like thick slice of bread?
Typical US bread per slice are 30g more or less..
You eating 3 to 4 slices . 🤷♂️
I believe that user is using 100 grams as a point to compare, not claiming their average serving of bread is 100 grams.
Read the print.. they are comparing per 28g.. a slice
No, I don't believe they are. They're stating the calorie count of their usual bread per 100 grams. That is not the same thing as saying they consider 100 grams to be a serving. The 28 gram statement, I believe, came from someone else completely.
If someone says their bread is x calories per 100 gram, we don't have enough information to conclude about how thick they like their bread sliced. Their typical serving size could be way less than that. Expressing calorie counts per 100 grams is just a quick and easy way to compare nutritional information even if one is regularly eating less or more than that amount.
100/28= 3.57
3.57*40=143 +/- calories per 100grams.
That . . . that is not the issue here.3 -
Janejellyroll, you're not keeping up. I agree with lx1x.1
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janejellyroll wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »
You like thick slice of bread?
Typical US bread per slice are 30g more or less..
You eating 3 to 4 slices . 🤷♂️
I believe that user is using 100 grams as a point to compare, not claiming their average serving of bread is 100 grams.
Read the print.. they are comparing per 28g.. a slice
No, I don't believe they are. They're stating the calorie count of their usual bread per 100 grams. That is not the same thing as saying they consider 100 grams to be a serving. The 28 gram statement, I believe, came from someone else completely.
If someone says their bread is x calories per 100 gram, we don't have enough information to conclude about how thick they like their bread sliced. Their typical serving size could be way less than that. Expressing calorie counts per 100 grams is just a quick and easy way to compare nutritional information even if one is regularly eating less or more than that amount.
100/28= 3.57
3.57*40=143 +/- calories per 100grams.
That . . . that is not the issue here.
I'm comparing the bread per 100gr.. it's still close to half the typical bread in calories..
But the op issue seems to be what s/he puts on the bread that adds up the calories.. in addition to what type of bread being used.1 -
rice...............Asian staple. And in Asian countries, obesity isn't the same as many others. So carbs aren't the enemy contrary to what low carbers or keto claim.
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If you want cereal or oats you could use any of a variety of plant milks, or yoghurt.
You could eat your egg with oatcakes, or chop it up into some bulghar wheat or cous cous with some veg and have a salad.1 -
cmriverside wrote: »
647 is the NAME of the bread.
The calories look like about 40 calories per 28g slice.
ROFLMAO!0 -
cmriverside wrote: »Janejellyroll, you're not keeping up. I agree with lx1x.
Thanks for the correction, I'm still not seeing the connection with concluding the size of the slice based on the information provided but accept that I'm missing something.0
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