While out forking off, I avoid bread as a rule of thumb.
We just ate at a diner in Independence, MO. While ordering, we asked that the waitress hold the toast. She commented that she'd been holding the toast, and avoiding all bread going on 14 years and 225 pounds ago.
I can relate. Not to the 225 pound weight loss, but I know my body bloats with bread. It was hard initially to stop eating it. So much of the American food experience is based on sandwiches or bread baskets as appetizers. It was awkward and sometimes messy to try to eat a sandwich with out the delivery system of bread or bun. But as we started avoiding fast food places as we got healthier, it became easier. When in most restaurants, you can find entrees that don't need the bread in order to eat it. Or you can just use your fork and knife and eat the meat or whatever is the goodie inside.
Regardless, it became more important to me to avoid bread than to acquiesce to the American sandwich fixation.
My usual exceptions to the no bread rule are when I need to eat it to be polite, or just to experience what looks like a great taste, or for pizza!!! If it is cruddy pizza I will often scrape the goodie stuff off and leave the ugly mess of icky sticky doughy yuck-muck despite disapproving looks. If you don't want to do that, cover it up in extra napkins.
If it is good pizza, you bet your bloated ass (or mine) that I am going after that dough as well as the toppings.
We just ate at a diner in Independence, MO. While ordering, we asked that the waitress hold the toast. She commented that she'd been holding the toast, and avoiding all bread going on 14 years and 225 pounds ago.
I can relate. Not to the 225 pound weight loss, but I know my body bloats with bread. It was hard initially to stop eating it. So much of the American food experience is based on sandwiches or bread baskets as appetizers. It was awkward and sometimes messy to try to eat a sandwich with out the delivery system of bread or bun. But as we started avoiding fast food places as we got healthier, it became easier. When in most restaurants, you can find entrees that don't need the bread in order to eat it. Or you can just use your fork and knife and eat the meat or whatever is the goodie inside.
Regardless, it became more important to me to avoid bread than to acquiesce to the American sandwich fixation.
My usual exceptions to the no bread rule are when I need to eat it to be polite, or just to experience what looks like a great taste, or for pizza!!! If it is cruddy pizza I will often scrape the goodie stuff off and leave the ugly mess of icky sticky doughy yuck-muck despite disapproving looks. If you don't want to do that, cover it up in extra napkins.
If it is good pizza, you bet your bloated ass (or mine) that I am going after that dough as well as the toppings.
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