I have often wondered why we see so many threads about bread?
I gave it up and don't miss it but many people spend ages trying to find low carb bread (which must surely be an oxymoron).
So why do you think we need to eat it?
Habit, lack of imagination or does it fill another role (intentional pun) in our lives? I'm interested to have your thoughts.
There's possibly many angles to this. I'm thinking:
* Bread is considered a staple (in the UK at least). So most people are likely to be very used to eating it. If they suddenly get told they should avoid carbs, then they might naturally wonder whether they can keep this 'staple', or some form of it, in their diets.
* Bread is ancient. It's not typically considered a junk food. Many people are likely to think "Surely I can still have this!"
* Many types of bread contain good stuff - it has nutritional value.
* Bread is far from the highest carb food out there. It's not necessarily the top-priority thing to eliminate in most people's diets at the point of T2 diagnosis for example.
* Bread is possibly one of the most (the most?) 'easy' of the staple foods. No cooking required.
* Bread is one of the most versatile of the staple foods. It can be made to do a lot of things, and very easily.
* There aren't many low-carb foods which have a bread-like texture, whether toasted or not. Something fairly unique disappears from your food repertoire if you remove bread.
Personally I've hugely reduced the amount of bread I eat. I only eat the low-carb stuff, and often just one tiny slice. Often I don't have it at all in a meal where I normally would. I like toast with bacon and egg, but often skip the toast. I like a chicken sandwich in a packed lunch, but often I'll just have the chicken with salad.
But sometimes I have the bread, because it's variety and I like it. It's also not a huge deal carb-wise - for breakfast, I can include a sausage which can easily be 4g of carbs, or a slice of low-carb bread which is the same.
I guess for a lot of people the simple answer is: "I like it". I imagine the vast majority of us can identify at least one foodstuff in our diets which we think we would be better off without, but we keep eating/drinking it, because we like it a lot and, even when eating it, we know we've improved our diet drastically.