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What's a serve of bread?

5 October 2022 by Catherine Saxelby

What's a serve of bread?

By bread, I mean any starchy carbohydrate foods such as breakfast cereals; grains such as rice, pearl barley, quinoa or buckwheat; and pasta and noodles. Here’s my easy guide to which and how many starchy foods you should eat each day. It’s divided into food types: bread and bread substitutes, grains such, and pasta. These foods are grouped together because they share similar nutrients – namely starchy carbohydrate, B vitamins and fibre – and are low in fat. The serve size is often...

Product review: Alpine Lower-carb bread

8 July 2020 by Catherine Saxelby

Product review: Alpine Lower-carb bread

If you love bread but need to shed a little weight; or perhaps you’re trying to eat a diet lower in carbs; then this might be the...

Product Snapshot – Macro Linseed and Sunflower Low Carb Loaf

13 November 2019 by Guest reviewer

Product Snapshot – Macro Linseed and Sunflower Low Carb Loaf

In the recent Healthy Food Guide Magazine Awards, I noticed a new product by Macro - a “Linseed & Sunflower low carb loaf”....

The sourdough revolution

3 July 2019 by Catherine Saxelby

The sourdough revolution

It’s no secret that I love bread! It’s my favourite carbohydrate, way ahead of potato, rice or pasta. So, it breaks my heart when...

Read on - here I take a look at these cute mini-pots of fresh growing herbs for your kitchen. Are they worth buying? Are they easy to look after?

17 April 2019 by Catherine Saxelby

Product Snapshot - Protein Bread

As we’ve now reviewed TWO low-carb breads, I thought this loaf, baked by The Protein Bread Co, would make a good third review. It...

Read on - here I take a look at these cute mini-pots of fresh growing herbs for your kitchen. Are they worth buying? Are they easy to look after?

15 November 2017 by Catherine Saxelby

Product Snapshot: HermanBrot Low-carb Bread

I stumbled over this loaf in my IGA supermarket at Drummoyne in Sydney's inner west. I don’t go there all that often. There it was,...