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Livlife Bread

Ewelina? Am I missing something? You are one of my low carb cooking gurus? I'm either having an episode or i fell of the world lol


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Tried the bread for the first time last week had a peanut butter sandwich with two slices and got a 5.3 two hours later.
 
meoman said:
good news.. and.how did it taste?

It has a nice malty flavour tastes good, going to try frying a slice in bacon fat to have with my fry up.
 
Haha Andy yes I can be low carb guru when it comes to cakes but I liked roast potato from time to time. No more now Im afraid
 
Thanks Andy Getting back to bread its really nice. Nearly like a normal bread
 
3 times ive been to waitrose every time they didnt have it *jealous*
 
Ask them to order it for you. They are very nice in Waitrose
Meoman i dont know burgen ref carbs but waitrose bread tastes like a nice bread with some seeds in
 
Burgen bread is OK in the Soya and Linseed variety
 
Ricky said:
Burgen bread is OK in the Soya and Linseed variety

A lot higher carb than Livlife though
 
ewelina said:
Thanks Andy Getting back to bread its really nice. Nearly like a normal bread

pity the slices are so tiny though...
 


The comparable loaf of Burgen (400g loaf) has 9g of carbs a slice compared to the Livelife bread which has just under 4g, the main ingredient for Burgen bread is Wheat Flour as where on the Livelife bread it is listed second on the ingredients, still if your avoiding wheat products or believe the 'Wheat Belly' hype both breads would not be suitable.

Livelife Bread
Ingredients: Water, wholemeal wheat flour, wheat gluten, mixed seeds 10% (brown linseed, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds), wheat protein, kibbled soya, soya flour, wheat fibre, sunflower oil, bran, salt, yeast, malt flour, preservative calcium propionate (added to inhibit mould growth), wheat dextrose, emulsifier mono-and diacetyl tartaric acid esters of mono-and diglycerides of fatty acids, wheat flour, vegetable oil (palm oil*, rapeseed oil), flour treatment agent ascorbic acid (vitamin C).

Burgen and Livelife bread aside, there was a food programme on C4 a month or two back examining how breads such as Slimcea and Weight watchers had lower calories than standard bread, the result was the slices were much smaller but the ingredients were just the same, so in theory you could buy a standard loaf and half the slices and still get the same result :lol: Best of all they charge a lot more for the calorie reduced bread but they come in smaller loaves
 
ok so on the 4th visit i finally got it, i was walking through the car park excited with my purchase but slightly nervous i would get mugged by a jealous diabetic, got home to find the missus has chicken stirfry cooking, i cant have bread with that i wanted toast for dinner, anyway i have something to look forward to i suppose, my anticipation is building lol


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Andy
I managed to get some also today. Lets share notes on how it performs ref blood sugar... will try some later.. fingers crossed
 
How heavy are the livlife slices compared to Burgen please ?
CAROL
 
im going to have 2 whole slices with butter and with a cup of green tea about 9pm once the kids are in bed, that way ill have the 2 hours after eating dinner test and then be able to test at 10 then 11 so ill get a really good idea of its effect, i intend to make it with great ceremony lol, even going to use my favourite plate, lmao so silly but i do mean it
 
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