Hate is a four letter word. Have you heard that before? In our recent culture of terms like "fml" it seems that no one takes words very seriously. A friend I follow on facebook who lives off of her trust fund and is constantly circling the globe doing exciting things once had a status update that said "stuck in traffic AGAIN. FML." I'm pretty sure she was just being dramatic. If you don't know about FML, click here and ignore the first definition, although it is semi hilarious. Now that you know how being dramatic works, I want to talk about how much I hate whole wheat bread.
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| The Drama. |
So, I hate whole wheat bread. In the same ways that I hate cardio and the ways that I hate that chocolate, wine, cheese, nutella, and Hawaiian rolls are not the five major food groups. I eat whole wheat bread (begrudgingly) and tell myself "this is bread, you should just be happy to eat it and shut up." But I'm not happy. I long for the oh so bad for you plain white bread. Preferably wrapped around a ham and cheese sandwich or a PBJ.
Recently I had an awakening. I follow the blog 100 Days of Real Food. While I am not 100% real food eater, I find their posts on food interesting and like to read up. The originator of the blog and website was also a lover of white before starting to eat clean. She said she always hated wheat bread because she only ever had the typical store bought kinds. When she had real whole wheat bread it was a totally different experience. So I was on a mission to find a good whole wheat bread that was light on the ingredient list. At Whole Foods I picked up their "Basic Whole Wheat." Checked over the ingredients and took it home.
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| Basic pic from a basic internet search. |
I was making Landy a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch and took a bite of this bread and WOW. It doesn't taste like cardboard, or dirt, or particle board, or any of the other tastes I associate with wheat bread. I will now have to recall if I have ever actually eaten any of those things. Hopefully not. This bread was a revelation. I would eat this with just butter or with peanut butter. It is a life changer in my bread relationship. It's kind of like bread and I just got engaged after going through an amicable divorce. We just fell in love again guys. Sometimes you can't escape your fate.
Some food rules are easy ones to stick to, others are tedious. I know that the less ingredients listed on your food, the better, but I also don't have time to look up ingredients that I am unsure about. Here is where I change your world.... There is a free app called Fooducate. The basics of Fooducate are as follows: you enter in some personal info, sign up, activate, and then you can scan barcodes of food items and Fooducate will give your food a grade to let you know where you are heading health wise. You can also set it up to alert you about GMOs. It's my new best food friend. Not to overshadow my new fiance, Basic Whole Wheat.
Speaking of healthy eating, I wonder if the six pies I am making in the next two days would receive passing grades? I knowingly chose to not acknowledge the answer. At least they are made from scratch.
Keep Calm & Pie On,
- RT
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