bread replacement??

Fats have twice the calories per gram of either carbs/bread or protein. It’s not bread that is pushing you over your daily calorie allowance it’s your whole meal.

To meet my calorie goals I started eating burgers open face with half the bread.

Most wraps have just as many calories as the bread they are replacing.

The low calorie breads in my experience are too weak to support a sandwich.

Some people are fans of the seeded and sprouted breads like Ezekiel or Squirrelly bread. Some of their bulk is made up of fiber to make them lower calorie but check the label.

If you are eating out a restaurant will not be equipped with the specialty bread you are looking for. So just ditch half the bun. IMO.

Something about a burger that is not the same without a bun. The same for a sandwich. I don't eat very high calorie buns or sandwich bread. My buns are 110 cals and sandwich bread is 60 cals per slice. I just prelog the bun or bread and enjoy the burger or sandwich.

theres nothing wrong with bread.

but if you insist on replacing it, you can use a tortilla (which for the record can be just as 'bad') or sandwich thins, or light english muffins, or pita bread

NicH67 wrote: »

Lately i’ve been trying to cut out all bread from my diet in hopes to lose weight. The thing is i ocassionly have a vegan burger or a turkey burger for dinner but don’t know what to put it on. I know I could just easily eat it just the patty but i’d prefer having it on something.. I’ve tried doing the lettuce wrapped burger and I was for sure NOT a fan.. So if anyone has any other ideas or if there isn’t many bread replacements I would even be open to healthy bread options

Bread is not the cause of your weight gain. It's how you calculate your calories (do you weigh your food??? Do you track everything you eat??? Is the TDEE number really your TDEE???). No food or macro makes you gain weight, eating more calories than you burn does that and this is coming from a guy who was eating McDonald's when I was cutting (aka fat loss phase) and still losing weight.

The french flatbread Socca (many recipes online) is a chickpea based food rather than grain based - it's sometimes worth using.

injera is another flatbread, fermented so it tastes kind of like sourdough even though it's thin like a crepe and is teff based, not wheat.

or like was said, portobello mushroom caps.

For little ones, you can use slices of potato, sweet potato, or other root veggies that have enough diameter to work for you. Sometimes, cutting the 'burger' into small, bitesized pieces and putting something on them, to make sort of finger foods, can work nicely without having to have them inside of anything.

I personally like the Flatout whole wheat flat bread. Still has calories (100 cal per piece) but better than two slices of bread (79 cal x2) I just put my sandwich makings on it and roll it up.

Cutting out bread will help with weight loss if you're doing a keto diet, but don't worry too much about eating bread as long as you're under your calorie goal for the day. An occasional slice won't hurt you.

If bread is an easy place for you to cut calories, go ahead, but in this instance it seems to be making your life harder, not easier. Why not "avoid" bread instead of "cutting all bread from your diet?" Bread is not magic and no one will tell on you if you do it wrong - your calorie intake, which is the only thing which leads to weight loss, will never know the difference.

As a diabetic I don't usually eat buns because my blood sugar can only handle about half a large bun, which is no use to anybody, and I prefer to eat a small amount of fries than half a bun. But I have not found a good alternative. If you like to eat ingredients on your burger and a lettuce wrap falls apart, using cabbage instead of lettuce can help. But the best bun is still a bun.

whitpauly wrote: »

I'm weird about having to have a bun!

Same. I'm also that weird person who likes a burger for the way it makes the bread taste. A burger without a bun is not a burger, and hits so far off the spot for me it isn't even funny.

To OP, you can reduce bread calories by choosing a smaller/thinner/puffier kind of bread. This way you would use fewer grams of bread per meal.