Eggs in the diet

My loaf of SWG bead turned out very heavy and dense. The website (Rude Health) said I would need to add extra water when using their SWG Spelt Flour (1/4 cup), so I added that to my recipe when putting the ingredients in the bread maker. However I don’t think it was required… I have gone back to using the Spelt flour as that works the same s pure wholemeal flour. (Looking forward to a nice slice of freshly baked Spelt Bread at lunchtime 🙂

Hi Ossie-Sharon, Thanks for letting me know, I have been baking brown bread with pure wholemeal flour for years. I am baking my loaf of SWG bread as we speak, so I will see how good it is. I will then decide which to use, (I will at least alternate between wholemeal and Spelt bread, as I like both. The SWG flour I bought is made from sprouted Spelt grains – so should be very healthy at least 🙂

Hi Ossie-Sharon, I watched the week 2 video re shopping and it says to only buy flour which has the 100% whole grain mark. I have tried Sainsbury, Morrisons, Asda, Lidl, Holland & Barrett, and Grape Tree but it seems flour in the UK does not carry this mark. I can buy pure wholemeal flour (which has 1 ingredient, wholemeal flour) is that the same as 100% wholegrain flour in America?
Also, the prices are astounding. 1KG of Pure wholemeal flour is £1, 1KG of Spelt Flour is £4, and 1KG of SWG flour is £10!!! I have bought 500G of SWG flour, so it will make 1 loaf, but I doubt it will be 10 times nicer than wholemeal bread. Is it really 10 times better for me? Maybe the price differences are a lot less in the US?

We have a large Sainsbury’s (I get my petrol there but rarely go into the shop). I will have a look next time I fill up with petrol. I do like to bake fresh bread, I never buy brown or white bread as I make it. I also like to make fruit breads (white bread with added dried fruits like prunes, mango, pineapple, cranberries, sun dried tomatoes, etc). Am I OK to eat a slice of fruit bread if my menu says white bread? It is a similar recipe just with less water as it has one egg in it, 1 tbsp oil instead of 2, less salt, more milk powder, and 2 tbsp of dried fruit (it is a 1 1/2 lb loaf). I also make my own pizza dough, that way I can roll it out nice and thin (and home made pizzas are nicer than frozen ones from the supermarket!).

Hi Ossie-Sharon, I got the Trivia today from Tesco. I know SWG means “sprouted whole grain” I was just being lazy and typing the abbreviation. The problem is I can’t find a shop that has even heard of Sprouted Grain flour. I like the Spelt flour though. I programmed the bread maker to do a normal wholemeal bake but with a shorter rise time and it worked quite well.

We have two health food stores in town, Grape Tree and Holland & Barrett. Neither of them have ever heard of SWG flour (maybe it is called something else in Britain) but I did manage to get spelt flour, brown rice flour, pure cranberry juice, and ground linseed (which they assure me is what Americans call Flax). They also confirmed the “natural baked beans” are just Haricot beans (so I already had them in the cupboard!) Neither of them stock Truvia, but I know Waitrose stock it so I will see where the nearest one is.

Regarding eggs, pastured is more than free range, because it means the chickens are allowed to eat their natural, wild diet.