Basic Breads for pink and blue

[suregena]

Yes, obviously I was interrupted halfway through writing it and haven't been able to start back up again, my husband began a new work schedule which is not so conducive to computer time. Had to get up at 3:30 am to get caught up today!!

Low protein means your day's tally of protein is 40 grams or less - you don't need to go overboard and get NO protein, just aim for 40 grams. Low sodium means that you are taking in only 700-1000 mg of sodium a day which is VERY challenging for people, esp. if you're trying to eat a lot of dairy because dairy has tons of sodium. So keep a tally, either mentally or by using a site such as Fitday.com to track your intake.

The Nimble Bread actually seems fairly high in salt to me, it contains .19 g of salt per slice which is the equivalent of 190 mg - that's a pretty big chunk of your alloted salt in one slice of bread. (not sure why they have sodium and salt listed as two separate ingredients??)

Ah, see... I wasn't sure how to know what would be considered *low* or too *high*, so thank you for clearing that up! My research continues.

[CeeCee]

I can't wait to try the recipes. Yum!

[atomic sagebrush]

More recipes! Finally!!! These are for quick breads, for that horrible moment you realize dinner is in an hour and you were on Gender Dreaming talking about swaying all afternoon.

Pink swayers, you will want to find the low sodium baking powder from Hain for these.

For blue -

For pink -

Food Processor scones - 4 cups flour, 2 T. baking powder, 2 t. soda (scones will still have some sodium), 6 T. cold unsalted butter, 2 T sugar or Splenda, egg white equivalent to 2 eggs, 1 1/4 cup plain fat-free yogurt, and 1/2 cup of Craisins. Mix together the dry ingredients and then cut them (using a pastry cutter or your food processor) until it looks like coarse meal. Put this into a separate bowl. Combine yogurt and egg and mix into the dry ingredients - mix as little as possible. Then gently mix Craisins into this and drop by the 1/4 cup onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 400 for 10-12 minutes.

Irish soda bread - 4 cups flour, 1 T baking powder, 2 t. baking soda (the soda means this will still have some sodium), 2 T sugar or Splenda, egg white equal to 2 eggs, 1/4 c. melted unsalted butter, and 1 1/3cup plain, fat free yogurt. Mix the wet ingredients and the dry ingredients, then mix wet into dry (take care not to overbeat.) Bake in a 10 inch round pan (like a cake pan.) Bake 40-50 minutes at 350.

Baking Powder food processor biscuits (the low sodium baking powder means that these can be a welcome part of a girl meal!!) 3 c. flour, 1 T baking powder, 6 T unsalted chilled butter, 3/4 cup plain, fat free yogurt. Blend dry ingredients in your food processor or with a pastry cutter, with the butter until it becomes like coarse meal. Put into another bowl and then stir in the yogurt until just blended. You can either drop it with a spoon onto a cookie sheet or roll it out and cut with a biscuit cutter or jelly glass. Bake at 400 for 10-15 minutes depending on how thick they are. Or, you can also use them as dumplings on soup, by bringing your soup to boiling and then droppping on the biscuit dough by the spoonful, then covering the pan and letting it simmer for 10 minutes or so.

[Another princess]

Atomic, thankyou soooo much x

[SugarSpice&EverythingNice]

Thank you very much for all this info!!! *subbing* lol

[zanacal]

UK pink swayers - Weight Watchers White Danish bread only has 50kcal/2g protein/90mg sodium per slice, the most girl friendly bread I've found yet. If you fancy a wrap for a change the Tesco Healthy Eating wrap has 170kcal/4.5g protein/200mg sodium.

Atomic - sodium and salt equivalent are always listed separately here, it's quite confusing actually!

[mandicane]

Thank you!

[Hobbermittens]

Why is the IG diet against whole grain bread? I am confused as to why they say NO if it is actually better for Blue...?

[atomic sagebrush]

The FGD has no whole grain bread for boys because it doesn't have the right mineral makeup.

[swish]

I never ate anything but whole grain bread before swaying and I have 2 boys