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You Must be Cheating: Day 13

Sonoma Sun from Alvarado St. Bakery.

Sonoma Sun from Alvarado St. Bakery.

You only eat bread all day? How can you finish so much bread in a day? I don’t believe it, you must be cheating on your diet. There’s no one who can eat so much bread and not gain weight.

Honestly, these are some of the more common remarks that come at me every day. Yet when I started this challenge, I knew it would be controversial and turn people’s heads. Which brings up the real reason I’m eating so much bread: I did this to make a point! I’m showing others (the doubters and believers) that anyone can eat this amount of bread, and still not gain weight.

For those who don’t believe that I am eating this large amount of bread, just hang out at NedSpace—the co-working space where BAKERpedia is headquartered at. You’ll see me stuffing my face all day. I place a portion and calories table at the end of each blog to show all my followers that eating bread can be fun, and it can be done with a variety of bread. So no cheating is needed.

Open faced cheese and egg sandwich to launch my spring training day.

Open faced cheese and egg sandwich to launch my spring training day.

It was a beautiful day in Oregon, and we had to clear some brush (due to the windstorm that came by last week), so we started a campfire in our backyard. Today is also the start of my Spring training. As you can see, I expanded quite a lot of calories, so I treated myself to roasted marshmallows tonight.

Roasted marshmallows on a slice of Sonoma Bread.

Roasted marshmallows on a slice of Sonoma Bread.

Yes, I ate that with bread too (as you can see in the picture). Honestly, it didn’t taste that great, but some chocolate would have pushed the envelope on calories. I really did this because I had to finish the last slice of the day.

Here’s what I ate on Day 13 of EB90:

Food Portion Calories
Alvarado St. Bakery® Sprouted Wheat Coffee Pumpkin Cranberry Bread 4 slices (32g) 400
Alvarado St. Bakery® Sonoma Bread 8 slices (43g) 960
Kraft® Marshmallows 8pc 200
Egg 1 78
Tillamook sliced cheddar 1 Slice 45
Nutella® 2 tbsp 200
Nature’s Hollow Sugar Free Strawberry Jam 2 Tbsp 160
Skippy® Peanut Butter 1 Tbsp 95
Apple 1 95
Green Beans 1 C 31
Hebrew National® Beef Hot Dogs 2 340
Bike & Run -550
Total 2054

 

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Bagels, Baguette and Coffee Flour Bread: Day 8

I love bakers. Have I said that lately? Today I had the honor to try bread made for me by three companies. The first one was a bagel from Bagels on Bartow, a family-owned business dedicated to the art of perfecting and preserving the tradition of New York old-fashioned, hand-rolled bagels. I was so excited to get bagels shipped to me from the Bronx. I made a cream cheese, lox and capers sandwich with this delicious bagel. It was heavenly!!!

Hand rolled bagels delivered fresh from the Bronx, New York City.

Hand rolled bagels delivered fresh from the Bronx, New York City.

 

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Look at that gorgeous shine on this kettle boiled bagel! Awesome with cream cheese, lox and capers.

The delicious baguette came from the O-tentic line of Puratos. They used a dried sourdough ferment that gave this baguette a crispy and aromatic bite to it. It was just wonderful toasted and eaten with butter.

Last but not least was the Sprouted Wheat and Coffee Pumpkin Berry bread, a truly outstanding loaf from Alvarado St Bakery. I expected a dark roasted coffee aroma and taste, but was surprised with the light texture and fruity aroma. Like any fruit bread, it paired well with jams and jellies. It is also heavenly eaten toasted with butter.

Sprouted Wheat and Coffee Pumpkin Berry bread with butter.

Sprouted Wheat and Coffee Pumpkin Berry bread with butter.

I will buy this bread any day to support coffee flour farmers. Did you know that the fruit that produces the coffee bean is discarded? Yes, every year, millions of tons of coffee fruit is discarded because we have no use for it. Well, the Coffee Flour Company patented a process at the farm level to harvest these fruits and make them into coffee flour. It allows farmers an extra income stream and benefits the local farm economy. Coffee flour is a sustainable food ingredient, and it clearly tastes great in this bread.

Here’s what I ate on Day 8 of EB90:

Food Portion Calories
O-Tentic Baguette 2 slices (64g) 370
Bagels on Bartow 130g 318
Alvarado St Bakery® Sprouted wheat coffee pumpkin cranberry bread 6 slices (32g) 600
World of Chia® Blackberry Fruit Spread 1 Tbsp 30
Biscoff® Cookie Butter 1 tbsp 85
Lox 2oz 120
Siggi’s® Skyr Vanilla 1 C 120
Orange 1 orange 45
Sauteed Spinach 1 C 48
Peach spread 2 Tbsp 100
Capers 1 tsp 5
Walk 45 min 48
Total 1884