Low Carb | Low Carb Bread Recipes

Low Calorie Diets

In order for most people to be successful with a low carb diet, some good low carb bread recipes are essential.

Bread is what most LCers miss most, and it is good to be able to have some bread once in a while without blowing the diet. Here are some recipes that should work well for you.

Low Carb Bread Recipes 1: Quick and Easy Low Carb Bread

Quick and Easy Low Carb Bread Ingredients
1/4 cup flax seeds -- meal
2 tbsp pecan flour
1/2 cup soy protein Isolate -- plain or vanilla
2 lg eggs
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup seltzer water

Quick and Easy Low Carb Bread Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 F, or180 C. Generously butter a standard loaf pan. Beat all ingredients for 1-2 minutes using a food processor or electric mixer.

Pour into pan and bake 25-30 minutes until middle of loaf springs back to the touch. Enjoy.

Quick and Easy Low Carb Bread Macronutrients

Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 65 Calories; 6g Fat (73.9% calories from fat); 2g Protein; 2g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 45mg Cholesterol; 144mg Sodium. Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 0 Non-Fat Milk; 1 Fat; 0 Other Carbohydrates.

Low Carb Bread Recipes 2: Cheddar Cheese Bread
"This is a nicely flavoured bread. Quite dense and similar to a biscuit in texture. I have also made it using cottage cheese and some herbs for a different flavour. The cottage cheese version is good for use as a "true" bread for a sandwich! (Way better than revolution rolls as a bread substitute!)" -- Gopher

Cheddar Cheese Bread Ingredients
1/3 cup soy flour
1/3 cup soy Protein Isolate
2 lg eggs
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp sour cream
2 tbsp olive oil
1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese
2 tsp oregano

Cheddar Cheese Bread Instructions
Preheat the oven to 375 F, or190 C. Generously butter a loaf pan, 8 1/2 x 2 1/2. 220x65mm

Combine the soy flour, soy protein, eggs, baking powder, sour cream and oil in a bowl and mix well. Fold in half of the cheddar.

Pour the batter into the pan and sprinkle the remaining cheddar on top.

Bake for 25 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.

Serve immediately or store, wrapped well in plastic wrap, in the refrigerator for up to 2 days or in the freezer for up to 1 month.

*NOTES : This recipe can also be made using whey protein in place of the soy protein. I suspect you may also substitute Atkins bake mix for the soy flour but your carb counts will vary depending on the products you use. My soy protein has 0 carbs.

Cheddar Cheese Bread Macronutrients
Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 53 Calories; 4g Fat (74.4% calories from fat); 2g Protein; 1g Carbohydrate; trace Dietary Fiber; 30mg Cholesterol; 48mg Sodium. Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 1/2 Lean Meat; 0 Non-Fat Milk; 1/2 Fat; 0 Other Carbohydrates.

Low-carbohydrate diets or low-carb diets are dietary programs that restrict carbohydrate consumption usually for weight control or for the treatment of obesity. Foods high in digestible carbohydrates (e.g. bread, pasta) are limited or replaced with foods containing a higher percentage of proteins and fats low calorie diets(e.g., meat, soy products) and often other foods low in carbohydrates (e.g., green leafy vegetables).

The American Academy of Family Physicians provides the following definition of low-carbohydrate diets.

Low-carbohydrate diets restrict caloric intake by reducing the consumption of carbohydrates to 20 to 60 g per day (typically less than 20 percent of the daily caloric intake). The consumption of protein and fat is increased to compensate for part of the calories that formerly came from carbohydrates.

This definition is typical of most sources although no universally recognized definition has been established. Such diets are generally ketogenic (i.e. they restrict carbohydrate intake sufficiently to cause ketosis) for example, the induction phase of the Atkins diet.Some sources, though, consider less restrictive variants to be low calorie diets low-carbohydrate as well.

Apart from obesity, low-carbohydrate diets are often discussed as treatments for some other conditions, most notably diabetes and epilepsy,although, other than for intractable epilepsy in children, these treatments still remain controversial and lack widespread support.

As a general rule, a low-carb diet is synonymous with a high-fat and moderate protein diet. Those on low carb diets should get at least 60-70% of their daily calories from fat. Carbs should make up less than 10% and in some cases, less than 5% of their daily calories.

As is turns out, dietary fat is not necessarily converted into body fat. Carbohydrates, on the other hand, are readily converted into fat by insulin. When you eat high carbohydrate foods, the increased blood sugar stimulates insulin production by the pancreas. Insulin is the hormone that allows blood sugar to be used by the cells. However, a side effect of insulin is that it also causes fat to be deposited, and it also stimulates your brain to produce hunger signals, usually causing you eat more carbohydrates.

Restricting the intake of carbohydrates puts a halt to this cycle. When you restrict your carb intake, your insulin levels fall and the levels of glycogen increase. Glycogen is a hormone that causes body fat to be burned and cholesterol to be removed from deposits in the arteries.

If you severely restrict carbs, your body is put into a state of ketosis - burning fat with the subsequent production of ketone bodies in the bloodstream. The result of ketosis is that your blood sugar levels stabilize, your insulin level drops, and because your body is burning fat, you lose weight. One of the side effects of ketosis is bad breath. Many people using a low carbohydrate diets try to drink more water and and use sugarless mints or gum to counter this. Most low carb plans, include long-term "maintenance" phases.

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