Comments on: I eat a lot of bread!

By: Lisa Sharp

Lisa Sharp — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:37:00 +0000

I love bread as well! And you would be so proud of me. When I went to Whole Foods a few months ago (the closest is almost 3 hours away) I got some bread and put it in an Eco Bag. :)

I like ice cream for dinner. I can eat a lot of ice cream! And donuts but that is rare now since I can’t get organic donuts. :(

By: kale for sale

kale for sale — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:13:00 +0000

I eat brown rice nearly every day. With only a bit olive oil and salt. It works for every meal and even snacks. We have two local growers – one small that sells it in plastic (we reuse the bags) and the other an organic too but commercial grower but we can buy the rice in bulk and forego the plastic. Honestly we go back and forth between the two and have talked to the small grower about selling in bulk too. More conversation is obviously needed however.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:52:00 +0000

We eat quite a lot of bread, it’s very much part of the culture here. Carrying it around without packaging is thankfully also part of the culture. Buying bread is one of the few situations where I don’t have to be insistent about not taking a plastic bag.

By: Robj98168

Robj98168 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:10:00 +0000

Popcorn for dinner is one of my faves that I do too much- that and Tuna Fish- I go in spurts on the tuna – probably because when I make tuna noodle casserole no one else will eat it!

By: Lara S.

Lara S. — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:07:00 +0000

I eat many raisins and almonds (I have to stop myself from eating too many almonds since they’re too expensive). I also love natural granola bars which have peanuts, rolled oats, quinoa, sesame seeds and honey… Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :)

If you don’t have time to eat anything but bread, really it’s one of the healthiest things you can eat (since it’s whole grain and organic). If you want a really addictive AND healthy addition to your sandwiches, try this: blend boiled eggs with boiled chicken breast (very easy to cook), add some salt, pepper and a bit mayonnaise if you want to, and voila… :) Just spread on top of a bread slice or make a sandwich.
This recipe is one of the things I miss the most since I became a vegetarian… (still eat eggs tough)

By: James

James — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:45:00 +0000

@Crunchy and Beth: I don’t freeze bread as much as I used to. I find that if I add a couple of tablespoonfuls of olive oil to the dough before before baking in my bread machine that a loaf of whole grain bread in a cloth bag will last for several days outside of the freezer. Any leftover pieces that go stale are saved and used to make salmorejo, a favorite in our home:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmorejo

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:55:00 +0000

Hahah! I love the cat in front of the bread bag. My childhood cat used to drag the bag of bread off of the counter and onto the floor while we would sleep at night. He would also attack unattended sandwiches.

By: dee

dee — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:24:00 +0000

-eggs, and more eggs (my mom lives steps away from a egg farm and she worries her weird daughters’ vegetarian family doesnt get enough protein, AND they take back their egg flats for reusing :))
-tomatoes – easy to grow year around in Hawaii
-way too much cabbage (so cheap, even the organic ones)

By: Jenna

Jenna — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:18:00 +0000

Too much of a good thing?

Let me put it this way... if we planted nothing but spinach, I don't think we could really keep up with our current consumption.

My husband would eat it every night cooked (bleack!)if he could and I tend to default most days to a salad of spinach, shredded carrots, and cashews. We currently mow through about 3 pounds a week in the winter and how ever much we can cram down in the summer. Sadly - most days it doesn't survive the trip from the garden to the kitchen door.

I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam....

By: Fake Plastic Fish

Fake Plastic Fish — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:13:00 +0000

Crunch — Probably putting bread into anything airtight will work. I don’t want plastic touching my bread. So the cloth bag inside the reused plastic grocery bag works fine for me — both in the frig and freezer. It uses less room, too. But I’ll bet I could store it the way I store pretzels… cloth bag inside airtight tin (which originally housed flavored popcorn.) I’ve had some organic pretzels stored that way (so no preservatives) for months, and they are still crisp.

One thing I know is that a cloth bag by itself will not do it. The bread gets hard as a rock. It has to be inside an airtight bag or container.