Bread without weird ingredients?

[Muncher]

D'Italiano bread ingredients:
ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, YEAST, SUGAR/GLUCOSE, FRUCTOSE, POTATO FLOUR, SALT, VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN AND/OR CANOLA), *WHEAT GLUTEN, DEFATTED SOYA FLOUR, CALCIUM PROPIONATE, SODIUM STEAROYL-2-LACTYLATE, MONOGLYCERIDES, TOPPING: ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR

Dempsters white bread:
ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, GLUCOSE-FRUCTOSE/SUGAR, YEAST*, SALT, VEGETABLE OIL (CANOLA OR SOYBEAN), WHEAT GLUTEN, SOYBEAN FLOUR, VINEGAR, CALCIUM PROPIONATE, SODIUM STEAROYL-2-LACTYLATE, MONOGLYCERIDES, SORBIC ACID.

Some of my family is allergic to soya - what breads don't have soya flour? And lately now they've added potato flour as well. Are there no breads made ONLY with normal flour from wheat?

On that note, anyone got a bread machine and find it worthwhile not to ahve to eat all these "extra" ingredients?

[stealth]

we have a bread maker that we occasionally use. Tastes great, but without those "weird ingredients" it goes stale/mouldy fast. If it doesnt get finished in 3 days at the most, have to toss it.

Whats wrong with potato flour?

[jayt90]

Potato flour makes the bread slightly softer, and longer lasting.

[fakishan]

white bread is the unhealthy choice to begin with

[nalababe]

Go to a bakery.

[Muncher]

Yeah but how do I know what a bakery puts in their bread? They don't have to list ingredients unless it is pre-packaged.

[Stryker]

We buy this bread (http://www.acebakery.com/bread/granary.cfm) made by ACE Bakery. No weird ingredients and another big plus, it tastes great.

[AnnaBanana]

...and stop buying white bread. that's pretty unhealthy, and that's why you're seeing all sorts of 'other' ingredients. "enriched" means that they add stuff, AFTER they take away the good stuff (the whole grain).

[Bookpreviews]

We buy this bread (http://www.acebakery.com/bread/granary.cfm) made by ACE Bakery. No weird ingredients and another big plus, it tastes great.

Ace bakery is yummy :)

They also have some frozen mini baguettes if it is too hard to get to the store every 2 days for bread.
The "fresh" breads never keep well as they have no preservatives.

All those "brand name" breads, bagels usually have weird chemicals and preservatives.
I don't see anything wrong with white bread though- I'm not supposed to have grains...or phosphate as an ingredient.
I know that sounds weird.

Loblaws in the instore bakery section has a lot of chemical free breads.
Also the in store baked white bread might not contain weird stuff and is pretty cheap.
But I'm not entirely sure as I have not checked lately that kind.

English muffins and also regular bagels are also just as bad w chemicals.

[Bookpreviews]

Yeah but how do I know what a bakery puts in their bread? They don't have to list ingredients unless it is pre-packaged.

Why not ask the person at the bakery that makes the breads?

If the bakery is small enough it is usually the same person in the store and selling the breads :)

At one bakery I go to on their business cards they put that they use no preservatives in anything and are all natural.
Also it is only 2 people working there and very small and some days I go there is only 1 person doing everything from baking to the cash- it is a vietnamese man....

[nalababe]

Yeah but how do I know what a bakery puts in their bread? They don't have to list ingredients unless it is pre-packaged.

Ask them....they will tell you.

[Stryker]

The "fresh" breads never keep well as they have no preservatives.


That's why we store our bread in the freezer. Either defrost the slices we need in the fridge or on the kitchen counter for an hour. That way, even after two weeks, it still tastes fresh.

[nalababe]

Ace bakery is yummy :)

They also have some frozen mini baguettes if it is too hard to get to the store every 2 days for bread.
The "fresh" breads never keep well as they have no preservatives.



That's why the French/European's have it right. There are boulangeries on every corner. Fresh bread daily...perfect.

As for us, we probably buy a bagette every two days.

[NiteHawk]

Stonemill bakehouse makes bread with clean ingredients. They can br found at Loblaws or Longos.

http://www.stonemillbakehouse.com/English/030~our_products/

My favorite has to be organic FLOURLESS sprouted grain bread made my a company called Food For Life. You will only find this bread frozen since the ingredients are so simple:

http://www.foodforlife.com/our-products.html

They have it at Loblaws for $5/loaf.

[duckdown]

Dimpflmeier's rye bread is my "plain toaster bread" of choice... made with all natural ingredients and natural spring water

[Bookpreviews]

That's why the French/European's have it right. There are boulangeries on every corner. Fresh bread daily...perfect.

As for us, we probably buy a bagette every two days.

I probably go to the bakery 3 x a week to buy bread.
Maybe 1 baguette a week,but for 1 person and no car.....kinda hard sometimes.

But I do keep some bagels and breads in the freezer usually.
And the place I go to they have french rolls- the same flour as a baguette but shaped like a bun and around .50 ea.
good size for 1 person :)

the annoying thing about the bakery I go to is cash only and open 8-5pm mon-sat
it is an extremely small place.

[0xffff]

the annoying thing about the bakery I go to is cash only and open 8-5pm mon-sat
it is an extremely small place.

This is a good thing. It means that they spend their off-time resting and preparing and being creative as opposed to counting their money due to all the extra hours opened and necessary preservatives they use to get that money.

Totally the truth. 100% honest about that.

[Cheap Cat]

If allergies are really a concern, get a bread machine and make your own. When my allergies were really bad, that's what I did. I was making bread for myself only and had no problems with bread going bad. Fresh bread is so yummy that it won't last long enough to go bad.