The Bread Paradox

[alias_sqbr]

I have several choices for eating bread and they all make me feel sick in different ways, it's very annoying.

They are:

• Don't eat bread. I get intense bread cravings (bizarre but true)
  
• Make my own rye bread. All the cooking and cleaning uses up too many spoons.
  
• Eat crappy commercial rye bread. The soy flour sets off my intolerances.
  
• Eat good quality rye bread, get reflux from the sourness.
  
• Eat any other sort of non-white bread, get indigestion (This makes no sense! I can eat vitabrits but not wholemeal bread??)
  
• Eat white bread, have body complain at oversimplicity of the carbohydrates.
  

So I alternate and grumble :/

Comments

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Get a breadmaker.
Make rye bread easily (I do it all the time).

[alias_sqbr]

I have a breadmaker, it's still too much effort to do on a regular basis.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

And I now realise that you didn't mean actual spoons there. *facepalm*

[alias_sqbr]

Heh. I should remember to be more careful of ambiguous spoon metaphors when talking about food :)

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Buy expensive gluten free bread?

[alias_sqbr]

Gluten free bread disagrees with me more than all of those options put together :)

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Ok, next solution is, make Cam make the bread. he has the spoons.

[evil-megz.livejournal.com]

This is also the solution I would suggest.

Though I also thought of something a bit more complicated, if you have a lazy husband: find a friend who regularly makes their own bread, give them the recipe you can tolerate + ingredients (or cash for them to do the shopping themselves) and then go halves in the bread they make with it. If I baked my own bread, I would consider this a fair trade.

[fe2h2o.livejournal.com]

I was also going to suggest finding a tame friend:-)

[alias_sqbr]

Hmm. I don't think I know anyone who bakes bread often enough (every now and then, yes, but I can make my own every now and then pretty easily) But thankyou for the suggestion.

[alias_sqbr]

Given how much he hates baking I doubt I could get him to do it on a regular basis, especially since chances are he'd do it wrong! But I may use it as a threat to get him to drive me to a fancy bakery to try getting some better white bread :) (Once I can find one within 30km of my house *mutters*)

[trs80.ucc.asn.au (from livejournal.com)]

Eat Subway bread? I noticed I'm having trouble with regular multigrain bread, but I can eat theirs fine.

[alias_sqbr]

That is not a solution that would have occured to me! Though I bet they use soy flour :/

[trs80.ucc.asn.au (from livejournal.com)]

http://www.subway.com/subwayroot/menunutrition/Nutrition/frmUsIngredients.aspx is the US ingredients, I couldn't find the Australian ones. Only a few contain soybean flour, but most contain soybean oil except Italian herbs and cheese, assuming they use the same recipe here.

[alias_sqbr]

So I have a choice between soy or dairy? :) Thanks for looking it up, anyway.

protip

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

Don't decide to have cheds because you feel too sore to go get bread.

#thingsIjustlearned

:(

Re: protip

[alias_sqbr]

Cheds?

*ponders what I have used as alternatives to bread*
*has sudden craving for pancakes*

Re: protip

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

Yeah arnotts cheds. They're a cheesy biscuit cracker thing. Soooo good. Until you realised you've eaten half the packet.

I find rice a hell of a lot easier on the stomach as a bread replacement myself. :P

Re: protip

[trs80.ucc.asn.au (from livejournal.com)]

Hah, I do the same thing with Ritz crackers.

Re: protip

[alias_sqbr]

Yes but pancakes are tastier (And I made pancakes, and they were tasty, and then my stomach complained)

[rainbow]

i never realised you had 2 different journals!

bread cravings aren't particularly bizarre -- digestion of gliadin forms an opioid peptide that i can never remember the right name of. i want to say glutomorphin, but i don't think that's right. it creates similiar cravings in some ppl as casomorphin can in some people (like, say, me, who *cannot* stay away from cheese easily even though i'm highly, HIGHLY allergic). but although i miss gluten, i don't get the glutomorphin reaction, only the casomorphin one. it's talked about soemtimes on one of the elists i'm on.

would flatbreads work for you or do you just like yeast bread? if it would, they're very quick and good for when i'm low on spoons. i make mine of brown rice flour, but it should work with rye flour (or any other). 1/2 cup flour, pinch of salt, spoonful of olive oil, any herbs or seasonings you want. mix with enough water to make a firm dough. oil a pan, pat the dough into 3 4" circles about 1/8 to 1/4" thick, bake in a moderate oven til it's either done but flexible or fairly crisp, depending on your preference. sometimes i poke dimples in the top wtih my fingers and brush with more oil. i like putting in caraway seed and dillweed. or sometimes minced garlic. I think it takes about 2 minutes to mix and put in the oven and i thnk i bake it about 15-20 minutes (during which i rest)

[alias_sqbr]

That's very interesting, thankyou!

Flatbreads can kind of work but not entirely. When I want quick easy pseudo-bread I make pancakes :)

[rainbow]

you're welcome!

isn't it fascinating? i only read about it a few months ago, and finally was able to let go of the feeling of failure that i could leave most foods alone, but not cheese. (oddly, since i know that it's the casomorphin,it's also easier for me to ignore cheese, since i know it's an actual drug-like eracting. so weird!)

[alias_sqbr]

Yes, knowing about how this stuff affects your body can be very helpful. Realising that chocolate releases endorphins made it easier to accept the cravings :)