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 by Lin Carson

Bread Bag Lady: Day 2

Goal: To not leave more than four slices of bread after 5 p.m. Plan. Plan. Plan.

The strategy today is to pace myself, and to watch the clock. Discipline, Lin. Plan now so you don’t suffer at the end of the day. Use the timer on my watch to alert me to eat bread at every hour. I must eat bread every hour, even if I am full or busy.

It’s Sunday, so it is a running errands kind of day. I had to make sure I’m on top of eating my slices of bread, so I packed a bunch of bread into a bag to bring along with me. My mom gave me a strange look, “You just created a new look: bread bag lady!”

Thanks mom, you’re beautiful too.

Good ol’ plain bread

The bread bag wasn’t the problem. The inability to plan on bringing any kind of spread made it difficult to swallow the bread. So, I had to buy water. Thank god for water. I ate the bread slices plain as I told myself, never again.

Day two went pretty smoothly without the frenzied moments I experienced yesterday. I accept the fact that I do not have enough healthy spreads to eat during the day. I believe I will give Connie, my nutritionist, a heart attack if she saw that I ate Nutella® and Cookie butter several times a day, every day. This has to change, before she pulls the plug on me.

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My pile of Jenny Lee® bread for the day.

My bread intake for the day came courtesy Jenny Lee®, in the shape of Pullman loaves. Pullman loaves are baked in enclosed bread tins, so they come out shaped perfectly round and great for sandwiches. Since they are lighter in weight, I had to consume 16 slices to meet my daily challenge. But that was okay because, thank you Jenny Lee®, your bread was so tasty!

I mixed it up so I had four slices of the different flavors: Garlic Parmesan, Olive Focaccia, Tomato Basil and Raisin Cinnamon. My favorite: Garlic Parmesan because it went perfectly with cream cheese and lox.

Cream cheese and lox.

Here’s what I ate on Day 2 of EB90:

Food Portion Calories
Jenny Lee ® Garlic Herb 4 Slices (112g) 320
Jenny Lee ® Tomato Basil 4 Slices (112g) 320
Jenny Lee ® Olive Focaccia 4 Slices (112g) 320
Jenny Lee ® Cinnamon Raisin 4 Slices (112g) 320
Philledelpia® cream cheese spread 1 Tbsp 40
Almond Breeze® Chocolate Almond Milk 1 Cup 100
Boar’s Head® Smoked Ham 2 oz 60
Nutella® 2 tbsp 200
Tillamook sliced cheddar 1 Slice 45
Orange 1 orange 45
Kale (cooked) 1 C 33
Apple 1 95
Pineapple 2 slices 84
Cabbage 1C 20
Lox 2oz 120
Philadelphia Whipped Mixed Berry 2 Tbsp 50
Candied Pecans 1 Tbsp 50
Calcium Supp 0
Bike 10M -403
Total 1819

 

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 by Lin Carson

What’s Good About White Bread? Day 1

Believe me, I was like a kid in a candy store looking at all the fresh loaves of bread that was kindly delivered to me in the first week – loaves from Dave’s Killer Bread, Jenny Lee’s, Franz Bakery, Klostermann’s Bakery and more! It was hard to decide where to start but I had to pick one. So I finally chose the innovative Dave’s Killer Bread – White Bread Done Right®.

Dave's killer bread-white bread done right

Really? What’s good about white bread?

“I don’t want white bread for my sandwich, it doesn’t have substance!“ says Dean, my beloved husband of 20 years.

“But it’s good for you, honey. It comes from whole grain white wheat. It’s as nutritious as eating whole wheat bread, but it looks white so it will fool the kids!” I felt like a sales representative for Dave’s Killer Bread. The real question is, why is Dean eating my bread, when the whole loaf was mine? Because he just might be a little envious? I think so.

My analysis of a variety of loaves revealed I can safely consume one pound of bread (454g) every day with other food items, without going over my daily intake of 2,100 calories. It comes out to 14 slices out of 17 slices, leaving three slices of bread left for my hungry husband.

Yep, that’s 14 slices of White Bread Done Right® for my first day.

How did it go?

White Bread Done Right® was delicious and surprisingly hearty. I should have eaten two in the morning, two at lunch, and two at dinner, with slices consumed at regular intervals all throughout the day. My meal plan included sandwiches, toasts with Nutella® and strawberries, cookie butter, cream cheese and butter.

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So spreading out the slices seemed logical.

But that wasn’t the case. I ate a slice with a spread every time I felt hungry (But man! This white bread really kept me full!) or when I could break from work to eat. By 5 p.m., I had seven slices left. SEVEN SLICES!!! I usually don’t eat past 7 p.m. and I needed to go for a run. So now I was faced with shoving seven slices of bread into my face within 1.5 hours? HORRORS! Bad planning, Lin. Bad planning!

Now, you all know that you have to drink water (or some kind of liquid) when you eat bread. So the more bread I ate, the more I had to drink. My first day of this bread eating challenge ended with me just feeling so bloated from shoving five slices down (with two used for a sandwich) before 7:30 p.m. By 10 p.m. I still felt like a beached whale.  Was it the bread? No, it was bad planning. Like any diet, not having a proper menu in place was bad strategy.

So to summarize, what’s good about White Bread Done Right®? It is an awesome loaf of bread. I just don’t recommend eating most of it in one sitting—definitely not a good idea.

Here’s what I ate on Day 1 of EB90:

Food Portion Calories
DKB White Bread Done Right® 14 slices (480g) 1540
Weight Watchers® Whipped Cream Cheese Spread 1 Tbsp 30
Almond Breeze® Chocolate Almond Milk 1 Cup 100
Boar’s Head® Smoked Ham 2 oz 60
Nutella® 2 tbsp 200
Strawberries 1C 47
Wild Friends® Honey Peanut Butter with Pretzel 2 tbsp 180
Biscoff Cookie Butter® 1 tbsp 85
Orange 1 orange 45
Calcium Supplement NA
Run 5K -325
Total 1962

 

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 by Lin Carson

Bread Makes You Fat

This was the immediate reaction from family and friends when I told them about my plan to embark on a 90-Day bread-eating journey. But I know weight gain from bread is a myth. This is no late-night whim. The truth is, I’ve been considering doing this for a long time. It started with a thought: “What if I can eat my favorite food—bread—every day?” Then it grew into a challenge:

“What if I can eat a loaf of bread every day?”

A quick check on the nutrition labels of my bread at home proved that this challenge made sense. I could definitely eat a loaf everyday, get all the nutrition I need to stay healthy and not put on weight. Just to make sure, I brought in Registered and Licensed Dietitian Connie Evers, MSc., to keep a watchful eye on my calorie-intake and BMI.

How much bread can you eat and not gain weight?

Basically, succeeding in this challenge comes down to input vs output. I’m in my mid 40s, size 6-8 (which fluctuates between summer and winter) and 145 lbs. I don’t smoke or drink and I don’t take any recreational or prescription drugs. I am a mother of three boys, an entrepreneur, scientist, foodie, baker, Chihuly fan and a lover of the outdoors who runs, cycles and swims at least three times a week. Other than that, I lead a normal life. My eating habits and cravings are pretty normal. Some people may even call me…boring.

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So why not challenge people’s negative perception of eating bread, while eating my fill of delicious loaves? I’m not worried about weight gain from bread, because as a baker I’ve been working with bread and researching it for a long, long time.

I contacted all my baker friends and told them about the challenge. Their reaction? Immediately sending over loaves and loaves of bread with all the nutritional labels intact! I have been so overwhelmed with their support! Not only are they cheering me on but they are also keen on providing me with my lots of bread. I feel so loved.

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I should explain how I know all these bakers. My business, BAKERpedia, serves the commercial baking industry. We provide a knowledge base that is freely available to help bakers with all their scientific questions. We also offer technical support and consulting services to bakeries who are at the tipping point of business expansion. In the short two and a half years BAKERpedia’s been in business, I’ve met a lot of wonderful people in the food industry who are hungry for knowledge. Most of them are searching for reliable information and ways to be innovative with their products.

I’m proud to say we have always done our best to help all bakers and equipment suppliers to enhance their businesses and have generally helped the entire baking ecosystem thrive. If this is their way of giving back to BAKERpedia, I am deeply touched and definitely encouraged—not only to continue making BAKERpedia a success, but to go all out on this ambitious bread-eating journey.

Taking on the challenge

Today is the very first day of my challenge, and the list of bakers who want to send me bread keeps growing. That means, I get to eat more of my favorite food for free over the next 90 days! If you run a bakery and would like to support me, send your lovely loaves to:

707 SW Washington St., #1100, Portland, OR 97205. Attn: Ms Ana Rinck, Operations Manager, BAKERpedia. 

Thank you for feeding me and helping give bread a good name!

 

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