Bread and smoothies

Pure orange juice would be what the WHO call "free sugar" and viewed in the same way as other free sugars ie they recommend limiting to 10% of calories.

Strawberries and raspberries I like, with greek yoghurt and/or cream or perhaps in a smoothie with protein powder.

Ok so this topic is about bread so i have a question. So white bread counts as not valuable and additional caloriea. But what about black bread not the brown?

I adore smoothies, I work on the feet without a chance for breakfast often so I can blitz up a smoothie and sip it as I go. I'm going to have a banana and kale one with some total for lunch! I also eat bread everyday, mainly for breakfast with some eggs and I've both lost theb maintained. moral is, eat anything within your cals if you like smoothies, eat one. If you prefer the fruit, eat that instead !

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Do people eat brown bread or do they avoid it ?

I sometimes eat it. Bread isn't something I care about a lot, so it's something I tend to cut when cutting calories, but I keep in similar foods like potatoes, sweet potatoes, pasta, so it's really just about taste preference.

Also what do people think of pure orange juice, strawberries, raspberries and banana smoothies good or bad idea

You can drink orange juice if you like it (same answer for most foods, really), but I personally do not since I don't like drinking calories and would rather eat a clementine or three, which fills me up much more (and has fiber). I personally rarely do smoothies for the same reason (drinking calories is less enjoyable to me than eating them) and I don't tend to like smoothie breakfasts simply because I enjoy eggs or, occasionally, oatmeal (another food similar in type to whole grain bread). That said, I think berries are great and eat them really often and making a smoothie of them and bananas would be a perfectly good breakfast for many people. I'd just say watch the calories (they can add up with bananas), consider adding in some greens, like spinach or kale -- they work surprisingly well blended -- and consider whether you'd be better off with some additional source of protein. I find it helpful to have protein in the morning (and with all my meals).

But people vary, so what matters is what works for you and what you like and can fit in your calories.

What exactly is brown bread? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it all kinda brown?

I do semi-homemade bread (I use my family recipes, but in a bread machine because I'm a lazy cheater, lol), and eat it almost daily. Nothing wrong with bread unless there's a medical reason for you to avoid it.

If you like smoothies, as long as you account for the calories, go for it. It's a great way to add some extra nutrition into your day.

For bread, I prefer wheat bread for sandwiches and the like. But not the wheat bread with the whole grains in it, the texture is REALLY weird to me! We usually go with Nature's Own as it has less sugar in it. But I'm totally on-board with other breads, espically garlic breads, and there's a store that has the Italian brioche bread which is made of awesome and win!

I like smoothies as a way to incorporate some nutritious things I don't love eating on their own (plain yogurt, protein powder, greens, bananas) and as a way around the difficulty of having fresh fruit available all the time (frozen stays good much longer). I'm also kind of picky about fresh fruit (if it's even a little past peak, I get a little icked out by it) so frozen and blended is much easier for me to eat than picking through to get rid of all the smooshy bits in a carton of overripe berries. It also feels more like a treat, being similar to a milkshake.

I usually don't add much if any juice, as that's a lot of calories without much added nutritional value.

But you can eat whatever you like as long as it fits within your calories. Eat the whole fruit if you like it better, eat a smoothing if it's convenient. It's easy to rack up the calories quickly in a smoothie, though, so be sure to log everything, don't just count on the idea that it's "healthy."

And many commercial smoothies are very high calorie and high sugar, so homemade is usually better.

Trial and error will help you determine what foods help keep *you* full and satisfied, but there are no "bad" foods, so as long as it fits you calorie and macro goals, you're fine.

Love smoothies - just have to be careful how much fruit you use if you're trying to watch your sugar.

My go-to recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/jeff-mauro/power-smoothie.html and I like to add a tablespoon of chia seeds as they absorb 10x their weight and can help you feel fuller longer.

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