Tip of the day: Bread

Eat bread on its own or use it to dip,  mop up or lift the toppings rather than for spreading onto or sandwiching.

Bagette juliennes work best for this.

This has several advantages including:

You use less bread hence cutting down on gluten and carbs.

You appreciate the flavour of the bread itself.(no need for butter if you select good bread).

You get more intense flavours from the toppings, and

you can try a variety of different toppings in one meal without going overboard on calories.

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Photographed healthy suggestions for a variety of toppings, dips and mop ups!

Compensation nutrition

Love bread. There's nothing like good quality artisan bagette, ciabatta, focaccia, pave, boule, etc etc.  BUT THEY ALL contain WHITE refined flour!

That means fast- release carbs depleted of fibre and a range of vitamins including E and B complex ( for healthy bowels, E is an anti oxidant aging and anti cancer and B is involved in function and repair nervous system.

One way round this is lots of green salad of green low calorie vegetables in general such as curly kale and broccoli, eaten alongside these delicious comforting breads.

But for breakfast 400g spinach served alongside an English breakfast or savoury breakfast, (fried in 1 tablespoon of oil) goes a long way towards replacing fibre and nutrients s

But what if you don't want a savoury meal? Then just compensate with a teaspoon of compensation mixture.

Compensation Honey:

2 parts honey by volume to 1 part peanut butter to half a part
Toasted oat bran.