Livlife Low Carb Bread Discontinued

[Ceppo]

It is showing as out of stock in Preston (for a few weeks) but there is still an SEL?

You did well to find it in Preston. Always hidden on the top shelf and pushed backwards so it appeared there was none in stock. Almost never available for delivery. No doubt because it couldn't be found by the pickers. I complained a few times. Also wrote to Waitrose to complain and ask them to go back to their buyers for the obvious reasons. They just stated it was low demand and would pass my comments on. If you do see it please let me know. On my last frozen slices.

 

[Zippy1st]

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Lidl do a "low GI" unsliced loaf now and there are also some part-baked rolls and thins similar to the Warburtons ones, but I don't know what the macro's are as I'm trying not to have any bread products (they're the carb I struggle with the most)

i contacted Lidl head office a while back to enquire about carbs in the ‘low GI’ loaf and there were more than in the sourdough rolls per 100gm. Can’t remember the amounts but I stick with Sainsburies hi-lo as a result. Yes please to any recipe suggestions.

 

[HSSS]

Lidl do a "low GI" unsliced loaf now and there are also some part-baked rolls and thins similar to the Warburtons ones, but I don't know what the macro's are as I'm trying not to have any bread products (they're the carb I struggle with the most)

A year or so back I asked Lidl about the macros. Not great and not really any different to the other breads. (Although it does taste ok)

5300877 Low GI Multiseed Cob
Ingredients

Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin); Water; Sunflower Seeds (8%); Linseed (4%); Wheat Gluten; Oat Grits; Wheat Bran; Pumpkin Seeds (2%); Rye Flour; Yeasts; Oats; Dried Wheat Sourdough; Sourdough Powder (Pregelatinised Wheat Flour, Lactic Acid); Sugar; Salt; Burnt Sugar; Caramelised Sugar; Corn Grits; Full Fat Soya Flour; Dried Rye Sourdough; Malt Barley Flour; Flour Treatment Agents (Calcium Sulphate, Ascorbic Acid); Emulsifiers (Mono- and Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters of Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Soya Lecithin, Sodium Stearoyl-2-lactylate); Whey Powder (Milk); Dextrose; Palm Fat; Raising Agent (Disodium Diphosphate) Wholemeal Rye Flour.

Nutritional Information
Typical Values per 100g
Energy 287kcal/1206kJ
Fat8.5g
Of which saturates1.0g
Carbohydrate36.0g
Of which sugars3.8g
Fibre8.0g
Protein13.2g
Salt 0.90g
Allergens
For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see highlighted ingredients. May contain traces of Sesame.
Useful Information
Suitable for vegetarians.

 

[Ceppo]

Just to say the Waitrose website still allows product comments for LivLife bread. I left one a couple of days ago. Maybe anyone who is registered on their shopping website could try adding more comments. Maybe someone might notice.

 

[thebeesknees]

Hi All
I've just discovered Waitrose have delisted Livlife bread - the only supermarket that sells it. I'm sure many of you who regularly buy it know it's the best (and frankly the only) decent low carb bread available in main supermarkets.
I totally rely on it to keep my carbs in check, and whenever I go to buy it it's usually sold out (I have to get loaves put aside for me first thin in the morning if I'm not going to get to a store before midday!). So it can't be because it's not selling... it's clearly incredibly popular, I imagine largely with us diabetics!
I've been trying to contact them to get a reason, but am waiting for a response from their customer services. My mum (also Type 1 and a Livlife convert) spoke to the supplier, who said Waitrose have cancelled their supply contract, and as they were the only supermarket they were supplying with it, they have now ceased production.
I honestly am going to really struggle without it, and I'm sure there are many others here who feel the same.
I think our best hope is to all contact Waitrose customer services and register complaints, ad hopefully this will encourage them to reverse their decision. We need to try to make them understand how important specialist products like this are to communities like ours...
So please, if anyone else who buys Livlife is going to miss it, let's try to knock some sense into the Waitrose buying team! Thanks xx

Breadmaking is super easy. You need to make it if there are 2 of you eating it ,then freeze it. U tube or All Recipies probably has several versions. You will prolly like your version when you start baking.

 

[Lainie71]

At the moment, I have been eating this. From Holland and Barret. On sale at 3.74 from 4.99 250g. Taste is ok. But Livlife better in taste n texture.

I was eating the Dillon bread but have gone on to the SRSLY low carb co although more pricey, the bagels are to die for and the Dillon bread was spiking me where as the new brand doesn't. I only have it on my work out days though

 

[Jim_AFCB]

My local sainsburys discontinued the HiLo bread some months ago. Told me I could get them at another branch 20 miles away. Great.

The Warburtons Protein Power loaf is worth a look. My local Tesco stocks it and it's very nice, if a bit more expensive then the rest of their range.

Just finished my first loaf of it, and to my surprise it has not caused any spike in my glucose levels. Normally have a fairly deep-filled sandwich. Tonight I had 3 slices of toast and more than 2 hours on and I've not really had much of a rise in glucose beyond the normal random variation.

Bit surprised as it's 17.6g carbs per (standard large loaf ) slice, but has 8g protein and 3.5g fibre, so maybe that offsets the carbs enough.
YMMV...

 

[IanBish]

I've never tried the HiLo or the LivLife breads, but I've tried a few other low-carb breads, which I mainly didn't like. I've been using the Lidl high protein part-baked rolls, which are very nice, and have 18.8g carbs and 15.8g protein per roll. They don't seem to cause much of a rise to my blood glucose either.

 

[HSSS]

I've never tried the HiLo or the LivLife breads, but I've tried a few other low-carb breads, which I mainly didn't like. I've been using the Lidl high protein part-baked rolls, which are very nice, and have 18.8g carbs and 15.8g protein per roll. They don't seem to cause much of a rise to my blood glucose either.

Glad that it’s working for you but if it’s these (and it may not be but still possibly useful for someone) then the carbs are higher than normal bread! Or was it the triangles ones? I thought those were discontinued years ago. Please let us know where you got them if it is these ones as they were good

5302428 Low GI Roll

Ingredients
Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin); Water; Sunflower Seeds; Wheat Gluten; Brown Linseeds; Wheat Bran; Pinhead Oats; Yeast; Rye Flour; Pumpkin Seeds; Sugar; Salt; Whey Powder (Milk); Burnt Sugar; Vegetable Oils (Rapeseed Oil, Palm Oil); Dextrose; Wheat Fibre; Malted Wheat Flour; Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid).

Nutritional Information Typical Values per 100g
Energy 295kcal/1240kJ
Fat8.5g
Of which saturates1.1g
Carbohydrate44.9g
Of which sugars4.2g
Fibre8.4g
Protein14.0g
Salt 0.78g
Allergens
For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see highlighted ingredients.
Useful Information
Suitable for vegetarians.

 

[IanBish]

It wasn't the triangle ones, @HSSS, it was these:

 

[HSSS]

Ooh new item that wasn’t on my list.

Sadly nowhere near as low carb as the old triangles and at 1/4 carbs still too high for me.