Healthy bread; What is there?

[Sheltowee]

My wife has a flour grinder and grinds her own flour. The fresh ground flour folks can be a little tribal, but it makes good bread and it's supposed to be healthier.

Got my wife a KoMo grain mill for Christmas... for purely altruistic reasons, of course. What kind of wheat does your wife prefer to grind?

 

[OleRedbeard]

Depending on what your willing to spend... you can buy wheat berries and a mill and have bread better than anything you can get from the store.
We grind our own corn and wheat and to say theres a difference is a understatement. Even if you dont want to spend the money on a mill theres usually a few places locally that will grind it for you. Almost every bread you get in the store has been stripped clean of everything good and replaced with artificial stuff.

 

[OleRedbeard]

Got my wife a KoMo grain mill for Christmas... for purely altruistic reasons, of course. What kind of wheat does your wife prefer to grind?

The KoMos are really really great mills!
we have a Country Living grain mill I hooked up to a small motor. One of these days I would like to get the KoMo.. I have a friend that has one and its bulletproof and grinds a great consistancy usually in the first pass.

 

[Nick87]

well worth the time

Gonna pass this onto the wife. She has a mountain of food allergies she's trying to figure out. Worst is yeast though, so sourdough is all she can really have.

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

Yeah, I’m going to have to go ahead and disagree with almost everyone here. There is no healthy commercial bread option. It’s like asking for a healthy beer. I say if you feel you need bread, options don’t matter and if you feel you need better options, bread don’t matter.

 

[woods89]

Got my wife a KoMo grain mill for Christmas... for purely altruistic reasons, of course. What kind of wheat does your wife prefer to grind?

I'll have to ask her, I'm not terribly informed on the specifics!

 

[mxracer317]

Dave's Killer Bread bagels with a schmear of almond butter are my go-to for hunt camp breakfasts.

You’re healthier than me. Mine is Nutella. Haha

 

[mxracer317]

I don’t think it’s “bread” that’s the problem. I think it’s GMO, added sugar and bleaches that’s the problem.

Look at Europe… they eat a ton of bread and don’t have the same obesity issues. Added sugar is the #1 culprit to weight gain.

 

[TOGIE]

Gonna pass this onto the wife. She has a mountain of food allergies she's trying to figure out. Worst is yeast though, so sourdough is all she can really have.

My wife seems to have a mountain of food sensitivities. And we really haven’t figured it out. Whole natural foods has been the best we can do.

But one thing we’ve noticed recently is that there instances she will devour a literal plate full of takeout that she knows will wreck her stomach (because it always does but sometimes it’s worth it ya know) and it doesn’t and then a couple days later she eats one of our normal typical routine extremely clean and boring meals that never upsets her and she has a terrible stomach ache the rest of the night. And she thought about it one day and realized take out Indian food night was a low stress fun day, clean home made meal night was a rushed stressful anxiety inducing day.

We’ve known anxiety will wreck her stomach for years now, but we’ve never noticed such a standout instance where a food basically guaranteed to wreck her stomach doesn’t and food that basically is guaranteed to go easy on her stomach does. The stress may be playing a bigger hidden role in her food “sensitivities” than we realized, or ever thought really.

In summary, we’ve become less certain of all the foods we’d become skeptical of with her stomach.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

I just read something about an additive to bread that allows for the 2 week shelf life and of course it's link to diabetes. I'm getting to the point of not even buying bread anymore as I can't eat it fast enough and just waste most of it.

 

[Nick87]

My wife seems to have a mountain of food sensitivities. And we really haven’t figured it out. Whole natural foods has been the best we can do.

But one thing we’ve noticed recently is that there instances she will devour a literal plate full of takeout that she knows will wreck her stomach (because it always does but sometimes it’s worth it ya know) and it doesn’t and then a couple days later she eats one of our normal typical routine extremely clean and boring meals that never upsets her and she has a terrible stomach ache the rest of the night. And she thought about it one day and realized take out Indian food night was a low stress fun day, clean home made meal was a rushed stressful anxiety inducing day.

We’ve known anxiety will wreck her stomach for years now, but we’ve never noticed such a standout instance where a food basically guaranteed to wreck her stomach doesn’t and food that basically is guaranteed to go easy on her stomach does. The stress may be playing a bigger hidden role in her food “sensitivities” than we realized, or ever thought really.

In summary, we’ve become less certain of all the foods we’d become skeptical of with her stomach.

It's been a nightmare trying to figure hers out. We went out last Friday (we probably go to a restaraunt like 3 times a year amd do take out once every 2 months at best) even with being picky she gets what she describes as food hangovers nausea and terrible headaches. Other more obvious food gives her terrible stomach issues. Doctors seem to be less than helpful she has another specialist appt next week. She's pretty tough it's not like she's having mild symptoms with this. I always thought that kind of stuff was exaggerated til lately.

 

[Dsnow9]

We do sourdough and Ezekiel bread. My wife will only make about one sourdough loaf a week though otherwise I would eat it all. No self control with that stuff, it’s amazing!

 

[gouch]

I have solved the problem by all but eliminating bread from my diet. What little bread I do eat is usually sour dough just because I like the flavor. On occasion I will make buttermilk biscuits with some meals but for the most part I have little use for bread products.

 

[mxracer317]

My wife seems to have a mountain of food sensitivities. And we really haven’t figured it out. Whole natural foods has been the best we can do.

But one thing we’ve noticed recently is that there instances she will devour a literal plate full of takeout that she knows will wreck her stomach (because it always does but sometimes it’s worth it ya know) and it doesn’t and then a couple days later she eats one of our normal typical routine extremely clean and boring meals that never upsets her and she has a terrible stomach ache the rest of the night. And she thought about it one day and realized take out Indian food night was a low stress fun day, clean home made meal night was a rushed stressful anxiety inducing day.

We’ve known anxiety will wreck her stomach for years now, but we’ve never noticed such a standout instance where a food basically guaranteed to wreck her stomach doesn’t and food that basically is guaranteed to go easy on her stomach does. The stress may be playing a bigger hidden role in her food “sensitivities” than we realized, or ever thought really.

In summary, we’ve become less certain of all the foods we’d become skeptical of with her stomach.

Check out “mind / gut axis”

 

[TheTone]

We use Dave's Killer Bread... favorite is White Done Right but their 21 grain is probably healthier. Both contain sugar.

About the only bread we have in the house also and it’s mainly for my kid. Wife and I do splurge for a nice loaf for the occasional meal compliment

 

[TOGIE]

It's been a nightmare trying to figure hers out. We went out last Friday (we probably go to a restaraunt like 3 times a year amd do take out once every 2 months at best) even with being picky she gets what she describes as food hangovers nausea and terrible headaches. Other more obvious food gives her terrible stomach issues. Doctors seem to be less than helpful she has another specialist appt next week. She's pretty tough it's not like she's having mild symptoms with this. I always thought that kind of stuff was exaggerated til lately.

Too many personal stories I’m aware of between friends and family where doctors are more than useless on these issues to the point where they’re nearly making it worse. One involving close friends 7 month old.

I’m not even sure the osteopaths and homeopaths will always help either, but when it comes to this stuff I’d rather lean on them than the MDs personally. These food problems are such a rampant widespread and growing issue in American society much like mental health is. IMO, much like tik tok and instagram are playing outsize roles in depression there is a pretty simple culprit to many of the food/gut and chronic disease issues - im beyond convinced that some horrendously high percentage of the American food supply is simply unfit for human consumption. we get so distracted by the claims about dairy, red meat, or gluten that we overlook the simple reality that this country just eats constantly and consumes a diet consisting of nearly 100% processed trash and it is causing deep widespread and slow building damage to our bodies.

 

[woods89]

Got my wife a KoMo grain mill for Christmas... for purely altruistic reasons, of course. What kind of wheat does your wife prefer to grind?

She says just regular hard red wheat berries. I think she gets them at a local discount grocery place that sells bulk.

 

[geetar]

I don’t think it’s “bread” that’s the problem. I think it’s GMO, added sugar and bleaches that’s the problem.

Look at Europe… they eat a ton of bread and don’t have the same obesity issues. Added sugar is the #1 culprit to weight gain.

The real problem beyond all those you mentioned is the pesticides that remain in the grains from being sprayed on the fields. I believe there is a legitimate gluten intolerance in some people but a lot of people who don't do well with bread are in my opinion more reacting to glyphosate than gluten.

 

[mxracer317]

The real problem beyond all those you mentioned is the pesticides that remain in the grains from being sprayed on the fields. I believe there is a legitimate gluten intolerance in some people but a lot of people who don't do well with bread are in my opinion more reacting to glyphosate than gluten.

Yep, most certainly part of the problem.

 

[LIK2HNT]

Sourdough bread and pasta are a staple. How else do I slop up my homemade venison spaghetti sauce.