Comments on: Replacing Fat

By: music

music — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 02:59:52 +0000

I enjoyed your rant Dakota! But surely you incorporate white flour in your wheat bread recipes, no? Won’t the bread turn out hard like a rock if you don’t?

By: Dakota

Dakota — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 06:40:18 +0000

Hi,
About the shortening: It’s way worse than butter and oil. Most shortenings contain hydrogenated oils and the dreaded “trans-fats.” Both have been implicated in the nation’s high rate of coronary heart disease and obesity as well as some of the other diseases of affluence.
Some oils are okay! Don’t cook with olive oil. Sunflower oil is a great baking oil. Coconut oil is mostly saturated fat but it’s okay (and so delicious! AND good for your skin!) in moderation. Saturated fat is okay in moderation. This leads to butter. Butter is okay in moderation… it actually has less fat in it by weight than oil or shortening. It has some nutrients, especially if made from pastured cattle.
Bread Lover Mommy, you are so right; cutting down on the overall intake of food is essential. Making gooooood bread is so important! Whole grains are key. Whole food is key. Real food is absolutely essential! I disagree about your appraisal of carbohydrates; they are not bad. All carbohydrates are not created equal however. White flour is horrible, it’s only a couple steps away from white sugar. White flour is one of the many tragedies of the industrial revolution. Insects and animals wont even eat it, why do we? Whole grains make you feel full quicker. Whole foods make you feel sated.
I’ll end my rant now. Dig the website, by the way.

By: Bread Lover Mommy

Bread Lover Mommy — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:23:18 +0000

@Kari- shortening is just as bad as butter or oil, but really it doesnt matter if you put those in, you have to cut down the overall intake of food, not just eat a lot of things without fat. The carbohydrates from the bread itself as just as bad, too. I managed to lose a lot of weight a while back and my best advice, simple as it sounds, is to drink a glass of water before mealtimes. It’s suprisingly effective at making the food you do eat feel more fulfilling so you wont simply keep piling it in.

Bread is part of a balanced diet, and if you eat in a balanced and responsible way there is no need to cut the fat from the bread. Good luck!

By: sheri

sheri — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:50:31 +0000

did anyone find a WW bread machine recipe?

By: fornetti

fornetti — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:23:01 +0000

I do not believe this

By: kari

kari — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:33:55 +0000

I just bought a bread machine and I am a weight watchers member and would like to know if there are weight watchers bread machine recipes. I made 3 loaves this week and I got weighed this morning and I am down 2.4 pounds. The recipes that I used do not even have butter or marg just a couple of tbsp of shortening,

Kari