BBR -- Friday, 01/13

I don't eat a lot of grains but I have a piece of Dave's Killer 21 grain bread almost every day for breakfast and I eat brown rice instead of white rice. We can now order brown rice at local Chinese restaurants.

I have issues with gluten (not celiac).  I use brown rice pasta, alternate flours, etc. when cooking.  I generally try to keep starches somewhat limited; they are what cause me to gain quickly when I'm loosey-goosey with them.

Good morning everyone 

We stopped eating whole wheat breads. Hubby does not like the taste and I do not eat bread often.  I only have bread once in a while if eating French toast or a slice of sourdough with dinner. We still eat brown rice. We both hate the taste of whole wheat pasta. We only have pasta once a week for dinner and use organic regular spaghetti. 

I do eat reduced fat triscuts or wheat thins with humus or cottage cheese often for lunch. 

When I stopped eating whole wheat bread,bagels and English muffins and went back to sourdough I did not see a weight gain. It's been about a year. My weight gain is from large portion sizes of other foods. 

Trigger food for me is the fresh French bread bakery loaves of bread at the grocery store. Need to be careful if I buy that.

I have a serving of oatmeal everyday. We sometimes have brown rice but usually the starch with dinner is processed rice mixes. Whatever it is I have 1/3 cup. That amount seems to work for me.
I don't do pasta and white bread anymore and my husband doesn't like any of the alternate grains I have tried.

I count carbs as well as points, so I try to hold back on the high-carby foods.  
    > I very seldom eat crackers or chips or cookies or cake.  They are big crave-triggers for me.  
    > I use light English muffins for sandwiches.  I usually spray them with butter-flavor PAM and toast them in a toaster-oven.  They are a Power Food for Simply Filling. 
    > Sometimes I snack on dry Cheerios.  They crunch, and they are another Power Food.
    > Sometimes we have cream of wheat or hot oatmeal for breakfast.  Both are Power Foods. 
    > If I fix a pasta dish, I use whole grain pasta.  I feel that I can't really taste the pasta itself by the time I add spaghetti sauce and garlic and Italian herbs to the dish.  
    > If I fix a rice dish, I use Minute Rice brown rice.  It, too, is a Power Food.



Tammy -- That's a good point about sodium.  I haven't really done that.  I'll start paying closer attention, and see if that helps.
            

Carol: Good job with all of the power foods.

I can find Dave's Killer Bread at Walmart and Kroger.