All about bread today, from "Feeding your Kids" Upgrade Basic Pantry Items It is time to check out what kind of bread you have in the house. Let’s read the ingredient label. What kind of flours does it contain? What kind of sweeteners? How much salt? What preservatives and colors? The term “enriched wheat flour” means the bran and the germ containing essential nutrients as well as the fiber that aids digestion have all been removed to increase shelf life and prevent bugs. Today · Go to the store and choose whole grain bread instead to increase the nutrition and fiber in your child’s diet. See if you can find one with different grains (oat, rye, spelt) added or experiment with seeds on top of the bread. See if your choice has less sugar and salt added? Stores carry a full spectrum of breads, from lowest quality to highest. You can choose less and less refined, until your family enjoys the healthiest kind! Bread comes in many shapes, from bread sticks to pita, as well as types, from banana bread to raisin bread to walnut and sunflower seed bread. Once your children enjoy these, there is no going back. They will wonder how they could have ever eaten the old type. If you are thinking: My child will only eat bread if it’s white. Period. Try this instead: If I make toast or French toast out of the bread, it’s harder to tell if it was white or had color when I started :-) Upgrade Basic Pantry Items One likely shortcut to better bread without baking it yourself is to see if you can choose bread made in a local bakery. Sometimes toward the end of the day, bakery prices are reduced. Some grocery stores will operate their bakery on site. The bread freshly baked there will probably have fewer preservatives than the prepackaged ones. Buy a half loaf first to taste. from "Feeding your Kids"
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 07:25:50 +0000
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