Bread

hi i have discovered soda bread is this ok on this diet or i will be looking in tescos for the bread mentioned earlier. also can anyone help on which wraps to use cannot find swg ones

can anyone tell me if there is a brand name bread you can buy without making it yourself for this diet thank you

Hi, mandel76. There might be some refined flour in there (the “wheat flour”), but overall it is probably not a bad choice. Baking your own bread usually produces the best results, but not everyone has time! Here is a link to links that you might find helpful http://www.greentrademalta.com/links.php.

Experiment no. 1 – Quite late at night so had to rush this in time to taste before bed…

tip1: a 400g loaf usually wants 1 tsp salt. As this was only 300g ish I decided on 1/2 tsp salt – could have gone slightly higher

tip2: put on favourite TV soap, music or radio program before you start – remote control doesn’t like floury hands!

Used 200g wholemeal flour, 100g raw porridge oats, 1/2 tsp salt, splash of olive oil, 7g dried yeast, small handfull sesame seeds and nigella seeds to try and give flavour missing form having less salt. about 250ml lukewarm water

method: mix dry ingredients in large bowl, add desert spoon olive oil and start slowly adding water whilst squidging the mixture with the other hand – try and keep one hand clean. keep adding water until you have a firm but manageable dough. once it has stuck together enough to take out, you can clean your hand if you want to then (as it should stick to itself from now on, not much to your hands) and knead for 6 – 8 minutes. This is where watching the TV comes in handy.
What I did then was to break off a piece about the size of a small golfball, and put the rest to rise in a covered bowl(an hour would be good, I rushed it at 40 mins). While the rest was rising, I put my hotplate on to heat ( you can use a large heavy frypan etc) and rolled the lump out on a floured surface until it was about 6 – 7″ and quite thin. cook for about 1 min each side on hot plate, pressing down with something flat occasionally to make sure it gets the heat through. Should have brown spots on each side when done where bits have got hotter. cool for a minute and eat. I put hummous on one half, and some stewed apple I was dying to eat on the other side. Both halves tasted lovely. If you leave it too long it will go hard… always best to make the amount you actually want to eat.
Anyway, after rising a bit, I bashed the partially risen mixture in the bowl a couple of times on a flat surface to get rid of any big air bubbles, shaped it and put it into pre-heated HOT oven (say 230 deg centigrade) for 10 minutes to develop the crust, then turned down the heat to about 210 for another 15-20 minutes. Mine didn’t look quite done enough and it is a fairly dense loaf if you don’t leave it long enough to rise, so I left it in another 10 minutes with the oven switched off.
It was too hot really but had a quick taste before bed, should be nice with cottage cheese, humous, or similar without anything else (i.e. no butter or margarine needed).
Going to experiment next with using baking powder instead of yeast for a faster loaf, but have to finish this one first or I’ll end up with a glut of bread – and that’s asking for trouble!

Hi, Emanuel, and welcome! Wholemeal bread is generally fine. Take a look at the ingredients to make sure only wholemeal flours are used, and that there are no hydrogenated fats added.
In what country are you? Perhaps I can help you find sources of the healthy foods we recommend here.

Can you get this bread in uk? I’m in Northern Ireland and looking a bread to use just starting trim down club
Finding I’m getting information overload and upset that we cannot buy foods in local supermarkets such as Tesco?