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Wow I must have had a deprived childhood. I cant decide whether I would have preferred tea at yours or your friends!
Wow I must have had a deprived childhood. I cant decide whether I would have preferred tea at yours or your friends!When I was a kid, a treat was buttered toast with lashings of marmite and a variety of different fruits - mashed banana ( no sugar), grapes, melon or apple slices
Not the best for a diabetic in waiting maybe, but positively healthy compared to one of my best friends whose favourite sandwhich consisted of a bar of Dairy Milk chocolate between 2 slices of thick sliced white bread
It's not just bread.
I personally cannot understand why people want to find "alternatives" for stuff.
There is a huge wide world of delicious low carb food out there to eat.
Sub standard alternatives for high carb food are the last thing I can be bothered thinking about.
We were even served bread and butter with tinned fruit and carnation milk ....
Clearly a big treat only to be enjoyed once a week!Snap. Only on Sundays though, when we went to tea at grandma's house. I left the fruit and spooned up all the Carnation.
I remember being told by my nain that she was giving me wheatgerm and butter to go with my tinned fruit cocktail. I told my mother she never gave me bread with germs in it. I never ate tinned fruit after that but continued with wholemeal bread. I was 5.My childhood was packed full of bread and potatoes with nearly everything! As a miners daughter we were taught to fill up with stodge so bread -white of course- was always on the table to go with your potatoes and maybe a Yorkshire pudding! We were even served bread and butter with tinned fruit and carnation milk ......no wonder I became diabetic my pancreas never stood a chance! Trouble with childhood habits they tend to carry on and hard to break!
It’s wonderful now only eating the good food that we were only given small quantities of as a child - as more expensive for a big family compared to the good old carbs!
The one thing that was good about my nain was that she could slice bread as thin as tissue paper. Absolutely amazing.I remember being told by my nain that she was giving me wheatgerm and butter to go with my tinned fruit cocktail. I told my mother she never gave me bread with germs in it. I never ate tinned fruit after that but continued with wholemeal bread. I was 5.
Clearly a Welsh thing - we used to joke that you could read the paper through my nain's bread.The one thing that was good about my nain was that she could slice bread as thin as tissue paper. Absolutely amazing.
@AdamJames you have made me remember normal fried bread. A couple of years ago I succumbed to half a slice of fried white bread with a normal low carb fry up. It was delicious, and surprisingly it made NO difference to my post meal levels. I have had it a few times since, and still no difference, with or without the bread the levels are the same. I haven't had any since the Lidl rolls were first discovered a year or so ago. I do like some toast with my fry ups, so I am now going to try the fried again. Half a slice is enough, and I'm sure the fat in the frying keeps any spikes down. The bread soaks a lot of this up.
But I must have got lucky with my attempt tonight, because it really was wonderful!
Glad you enjoyed it! Personally I use medium and only half a slice. What did your meter say?
I went and did it. I had to walk from work to a garage tonight to pick up my car, which took me right past a B&M store. I figured if there was anywhere I would be able to find the most rotten, good for nothing, nutritionally bankrupt white bread, made out of flour and chalk and pavement dust or whatever goes into white bread these days, it would be there.
Sadly they only had Warburtons who are probably respectable enough to leave out the pavement dust, but they had ... Warburtons Thickest.
Not thin. Not medium. Not thick. THICKEST. I trembled as I bought it.
I made 3 slices of bacon, some mushrooms and an egg, then once that had been cooked and taken out of the pan, I fried one side of the bread in all the fat, then added 10g of butter and fried the other side in that.
It could have absorbed a lot more fat / butter by the looks of it - the very centre was still dry and fluffy after I'd fried it.
But I have to say ... it was heaven. The texture was light and crispy and just greasy enough without being disgusting. The taste was amazing. Enough to be enjoyable by itself, but mild enough to be a nice addition to bacon and eggs. 27g of carbs well spent.
I was never a regular eater of fried bread, and some of the stuff I remember getting in cafes, where it dripped fat or oil or margarine or something when you lifted it up, was pretty nasty. But I must have got lucky with my attempt tonight, because it really was wonderful!
We usual have white Warburtons Toastie small loaf in the house....I wonder if I fried a slice for breakfast how that would go? Do t know if I am brave enough but if I do I will report back.I went and did it. I had to walk from work to a garage tonight to pick up my car, which took me right past a B&M store. I figured if there was anywhere I would be able to find the most rotten, good for nothing, nutritionally bankrupt white bread, made out of flour and chalk and pavement dust or whatever goes into white bread these days, it would be there.
Sadly they only had Warburtons who are probably respectable enough to leave out the pavement dust, but they had ... Warburtons Thickest.
Not thin. Not medium. Not thick. THICKEST. I trembled as I bought it.
I made 3 slices of bacon, some mushrooms and an egg, then once that had been cooked and taken out of the pan, I fried one side of the bread in all the fat, then added 10g of butter and fried the other side in that.
It could have absorbed a lot more fat / butter by the looks of it - the very centre was still dry and fluffy after I'd fried it.
But I have to say ... it was heaven. The texture was light and crispy and just greasy enough without being disgusting. The taste was amazing. Enough to be enjoyable by itself, but mild enough to be a nice addition to bacon and eggs. 27g of carbs well spent.
I was never a regular eater of fried bread, and some of the stuff I remember getting in cafes, where it dripped fat or oil or margarine or something when you lifted it up, was pretty nasty. But I must have got lucky with my attempt tonight, because it really was wonderful!
We usual have white Warburtons Toastie small loaf in the house....I wonder if I fried a slice for breakfast how that would go? Do t know if I am brave enough but if I do I will report back.
Oops.. it was meant to put them off it forever... oh well the best laid plans etc.. just shows how strong habit and addiction can be I guess!
Oops.. it was meant to put them off it forever... oh well the best laid plans etc.. just shows how strong habit and addiction can be I guess!
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