The second ingredient is 'high fructose corn syrup.' Followed later by 'soybean oil' and a long string of unpronouncable chemicals.
You are better off eating the most decadent bread imaginable, as long as you bake it yourself. When you bake, you know what goes into it. Butter, milk, eggs, flour and salt are food. HFCS, partially hydrogenated oils, and anything with '-ate' at the end of it, not so much.
You probably don't have the time to bake every day, but get in the habit of choosing bread that at least is made with unbleached whole-grain flour, yeast, salt--and little else. You're not only doing the best for your body, it actually tastes good and holds its shape when you butter it.
Also, your house will smell AWESOME, you get a great upper-body workout kneading it, and nothing makes you feel quite so self-sufficient as baking your own, especially when you're working with starters. They're addictive. I have one that crossed the Oregon Trail, and this summer I'm getting one from a bakery in Cairo estimated to be at least seven hundred years old.
ReplyDeleteDo you have any good and EASY recipes to share? I have been wanting to bake bread for a loooong time, but have never actually done it. It's hard to change one's lazy ways! I do buy the more healthy bread, which, I guess, is a step in the right direction.
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But, but...
ReplyDeleteThey work so HARD to cram all that junk into loaves of whatever!
Heh, I love the end of a Lord's Prayer parody from back in my Mother Earth News days:
"Forgive us, O Lord, for calling this stuff bread."