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Originally Posted by matingara

no. it is not a dud thread. it is the weekend. everyone is resting.

Oh Pehw... Thankyou Joel. For a while I had an un interesting thread.

i haven't eaten bread in well over a year. now that i have started using fast acting insulin, i am adding in very small amounts of bread into my diet.

Joel I find that a lot of folk here are extream low carbers and why because exercise will get most people low and so bread is an exelent low GI factor that will carry energy in the long term.

i choose burgens seed and nut bread. it has 17.7g of carbs for 2 slices.

This sounds nice.

i have 1/2 a slice or 1 slice sometimes. i toast it and spread it with a TBSP of peanut butter. so 7-14g of carbs. 1-2u of NR and it works real well.

YUM!! Just now I am having some Peanut Butter on a wholemeal bread toasted and the other slice some vegimite and now I am out of bread. Must get some more.

on friday night i cooked bbq chicken burgers. i had a burger with 2 slices of burgen bread, onions, ketchup etc. before dinner i was 4.8 (86). 2 hours after i was 6.4 (115). i bolused with 3u of NR.

I have counted 50 carbs for my toast and with a 1:5 I:C Ratio and used 10U of Novorapid.
There is nothing wrong with bread, I think that people don't get to exercise or match the carbs that's in bread.

Originally Posted by Subby

Peter talking low GI/not getting spiked by bread, Matingara's suggestion is great - some of the the Burgen's breads are great for BG (compared to vast majority of breads).

A few of the Brugen varieties have "low - moderate GI" 40- 50, like the seed and nut one, the pumpkin seed one. Unlike a few of the other breads claiming low GI out there like "performax" bread, I find burgen to really deliver the goods for slow release energy.

The best for me is the "Burgen Soy Lin" which I really like toasted and a piece or two will not spike me at all. Try it, it should be in all coles/safeways.

Unfortunately so many breads are spike-city.

Yes Subby and that is the other problem as my love for the tipical white breads are very spikey but take that into an account to go and bolus properly and work it off. Sadly in our modern life we do little of.