A question about bread

[Guest guest]

I can eat 2 slices of homemade whole wheat bread but I have to be very active

after eating it. I make biscuits and hamburger buns using the same dough

recipe. I can eat a large hamburger bun and very little activity and get a

reading of 98. The biscuit or hamburger bun looks as big as a couple slices

of bread. Can anyone explain the difference? Thanks

Eunice

[Guest guest]

Eunice:

What other ingredients go into the homemade whole wheat bread? I have

seen whole wheat bread in the supermarket that contains honey.

Carol

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> I can eat 2 slices of homemade whole wheat bread but I have to be

very active

> after eating it. I make biscuits and hamburger buns using the same

dough

> recipe. I can eat a large hamburger bun and very little activity

and get a

> reading of 98. The biscuit or hamburger bun looks as big as a

couple slices

> of bread. Can anyone explain the difference? Thanks

>

> Eunice

[Guest guest]

I notice that I can eat a whopper with both pieces of the bun and come in

at 98 but I can only eat basically one piece of wheat bread. So I don't

know.

ERWachter@...

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05/21/2002 05:44 PM cc:

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about bread

diabetes

I can eat 2 slices of homemade whole wheat bread but I have to be very

active

after eating it.  I make biscuits and hamburger buns using the same dough

recipe.  I can eat a large hamburger bun and very little activity and get a

reading of 98.  The biscuit or hamburger bun looks as big as a couple

slices

of bread.  Can anyone explain the difference?  Thanks

Eunice

[Guest guest]

Eunice:

Another thought: When you eat a hamburger bun, I assume that you are

also eating a hamburger. The fat in the meat, from what I have read,

slows down the absorption of the glucose thus causing a lower spike.

Carol

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> > I can eat 2 slices of homemade whole wheat bread but I have to be

> very active

> > after eating it. I make biscuits and hamburger buns using the

same

> dough

> > recipe. I can eat a large hamburger bun and very little activity

> and get a

> > reading of 98. The biscuit or hamburger bun looks as big as a

> couple slices

> > of bread. Can anyone explain the difference? Thanks

> >

> > Eunice

[Guest guest]

Eunice:

Even though the meat had very little fat, I suppose it's possible

that it could be just enough to slow down the glucose absorption.

Carol

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> > The fat in the meat, from what I have read,

> > slows down the absorption of the glucose thus causing a lower

spike

>

> Hi Carol,

> Yes, I was eating a hamburger. This ground beef had virtually no

fat in it.

> Much leaner than the ground chuck we usually get. It was so good.

I'm using

> the rest of it to make individual meat loaves tonight, but probably

will not

> eat one of them until tomorrow night.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Eunice,

I have NO idea what to tell you...but maybe the milk is adding to

it? I dunno. I'm stumped. And, speaking of bread.....I shop at

Sam's Club and they have a multi-grain bread that I absolutely LOVE.

It's called Milton's...has lots of purple on the wrapper.

Anyway...I " ve been buying Arnold/Pepperidge Farm/Roman Meal...or

somesuch whole grain/wheat/berry breads....but I just LOVE this bread

from Sam's. The problem with the stupid bread is it has 28g carbs

for 1 SLICE! AIGH! How could they DO that?! ((( It has .5g of

total fat and NO saturated fat....and it's the best bread I've ever

had. I had 2 slices one morning with fat free cream cheese, no sugar

added jelly, 1/2 cup yogurt....and 2 hours later...BOOM! 191. I

only had about 6 more grams of carbs than I should have had for that

entire meal and it skyrocketed me.

Not giving this bread up, so I guess it's 1 slice at a time for this

chick.

Dang.

Lynn

>> My recipe calls for 1 1/2 tablespoons of honey, but I cut back to

about a

> tablespoon. I use whole wheat flour, bread flour, dry milk, honey,

salt and

> yeast.

>

> Eunice

[Guest guest]

Perhaps it's the density of the bread. Wheat bread, at least the

kind I get, is quite dense (very few bubbles). Your average fast

food bun is pretty light and filled with bubble holes. Have you ever

squished a hamburger bun, you can smash it down quite flat. Perhaps

there is less actual food to a bun despite it's larger appearance.

[Guest guest]

Eunice,

Then I'm stumped. ACTIVE? What's THAT? Jk...that's what I

need to do. I'm just NOT a morning person and I usually have toast

for breakfast....guess I'll either have to have 1 slice or do oatmeal

and cereal more often. Ah, well.

BTW.....I'm still taking 500mg Metformin a day....I take it with

breakfast. This morning, I had my alltime low for fasting. 115!

Woo hoo! Finally! Still want that number down around 90 or so, but

it's about 20+ points lower than it had been.

Lynn

> In a message dated 5/22/2002 1:45:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

> maleficent_md@y... writes:

>

>

> > I have NO idea what to tell you...but maybe the milk is adding to

> > it?

>

> Hi Lynn,

> I use the same dough (same amount of all ingredients) to make the

loaf bread

> and the biscuits/hamburger buns. When I want bread, I'll just have

a large

> biscuit instead of 2 slices of loaf bread.

>

> Lynn, maybe you could plan to eat the 2 slices of bread when you

are going to

> be more active after eating.

>

> Eunice

>

>

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