Giving up flour & sugar....??

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  • Dragonwolf
    Dragonwolf Posts: 5,600 Member
    Well I am looking for suggestions. I was thinking bread is a killer and may be stalling my loss. Maybe what I keep hearing is just bleached or whole wheat is bad? I love the idea of oatmeal as flour. Interesting! How do you use it? Baking, pizza crusts??

    Here are the other types of flours I use to make "bread-type" foods.
    If you google another of these with "bread" behind it you'll come up with recipes!

    Almond Flour
    Coconut Flour
    Soy Flour
    Flaxseed meal
    Psyllium Husk

    Good luck!

    One thing to note - almond flour doesn't absorb liquid like most other flours (at least not what I have, which is relatively coarse compared to wheat flour).

    Also, to add to the list:

    Tapioca Flour (this is great for getting a similar texture to wheat flour)
    Rice Flour
    Potato Starch (usually mixed with other flours as a gluten substitute)
  • jwalworth
    jwalworth Posts: 32 Member
    Giving up flour is basically giving up junk food. VERY FEW things with flour are good for you. actually none come to mind.

    Hogwash. Flour based / included products have been part of the human diet for thousands of years. Now perhaps you meant bleached white flour -- but again its not the flour that makes something junk food -- its the product itself and how much you eat of it.

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