Friday's Bread Pick: Flourless Sprouted whole grain Ezekiel Muffins

Ezekiel English muffins - I have to say I've been looking forward to trying these all week because I love English muffins, however I know they are typically full of garbage and not good for you at all.... Even the whole wheat ones. 

Check out what's in these english muffins I had in my freezer from Christmas...

Can you say YUCK!!!  Sure they are 100% whole wheat but the rest of the ingredients leave me wondering what I'd be putting into my body.  I actually googled a few of the items on that list... again....YUCK!

Here are the ingredients in the Ezekiel ones:

Nothing there I need to google to figure out what it is!  Phew

Gord and I both tried the Ezekiel English muffins this morning since he is off on Fridays. I left them on the cutting board for about 20 minutes to soften in order to make them easier to cut, but the package does say they can be stored in the fridge so you could always take one out the night before and put it in the fridge if you had the forethought! 

Cutting into them was easy and they toasted up nice, very soft! The flavour was nice and I felt like it stuck with me longer than had I had a typical English muffin. 

I will be buying these again! And I can't wait to make eggs Benny tomorrow morning with them using dairy free hollandaise sauce! 

**An Update** We now use these Muffins all the time and always take them camping with us for Breakfast sandwiches and eggs Benny too!  

Thursday's Bread pick: Carrot Raisin Manna Bread

This is another bread from the freezer section. However unlike the Ezekiel loaf this one is not sliced.

I chose this bread because it had the fewest ingredients of all the loaves I looked at! 

Sprouted wheat kernels

Filtered water 

Carrots

Raisins

No salt, leavening, yeast, oil or sweeteners.

Pretty amazing! But does it taste good?

The instructions say to store frozen or refrigerated, to slice either thaw or dip a serrated knife into water and use a gentle sawing motion. 

To avoid cutting any fingers off I chose to thaw in the fridge over night. This made cutting a breeze! 

The slices were pretty small so I had two.

It actually toasted up quite nice and I just used a bit of butter on this bread rather than my usual peanut butter. 

Now for the taste test.... I have to say I enjoyed it, however there wasn't much depth of flavour. When first you bit into it the flavour is good but it kind of fell flat after that. 

But for a loaf with very few ingredients I was impressed! 

Not sure I would buy this one again but you never know!

Last up I'm reviewing Flourless Sprouted Whole Grain Ezekiel Muffins.  These are an english muffin with MUCH better ingredients in them, see what I think of them here!

Tuesday's Bread Pick: Ezekiel 4:9 from the freezer section

Here is my review of Ezekiel 4:9 100% sprouted whole grain loaf.  

I chose this bread from the freezer section because after doing some reading on the benefits of sprouted bread and beans I thought I'd give it a try! It also had a very clean ingredients list! 

Organic sprouted whole grain wheat
Filtered water
Organic sprouted whole grain barley
Organic whole grain millet
Organic malted barley
Organic sprouted whole lentils
Organic sprouted whole soybeans
Organic sprouted whole grain spelt
Fresh yeast
Organic wheat gluten
Sea salt

Now this bread came from the frozen section so I wasn't sure how it would toast but surprisingly it was quite soft!

I did have a bit of trouble separating two pieces of bread and ended up taking a chunk off one piece trying to do so! But the next piece I tried to pry away from the loaf came off easily.

The toast on it's own had a nice flavour and it was quite soft too!

I'd certainly purchase this bread again!!

Check out my review of Bond Bond's Bakery High Fibre Bread!

Which bread is best?

I loaded up of a variety of whole wheat and sprouted breads which can be purchased locally. Each day this week I will be trying each type and sharing with you the ingredients list, my thoughts and my review of the particular bread! 

Have you ever considered shopping for your bread in the freezer section? 

Well many loaves of bread sold on your grocery store shelves contain several types of preservatives, chemical dough conditioners, added sugars, artificial flavorings or coloring and GMOs. These ingredients are unnecessary in the bread making process but are used purely to extend shelf life and make the bread soft and fluffy!

Remember, it only takes 4 ingredients to make bread – flour, yeast, water and salt, there’s really no need for all that other nonsense.

Even if your buying a 100% whole wheat bread, check out that ingredients list it may not be just as healthy as you think!

In the bag of store bought bread from thrifties pictures the ingredients list contains:

Canola oil or soy bean oil

Sodium Stearoyl-2 lactylate (dough conditioner)

Calcium propionate - Preservative linked to ADHD

Monoglycerides (dough conditioner)

Caramel colour - These ingredients are made from petroleum and are linked to several health issues like hyperactivity in children, allergies and asthma. Ingredients like Caramel colouring can fool you into thinking it is real food but most industrial caramel colouring is created by heating ammonia and it is considered carcinogen when created this way.

If you have ever made bread from scratch you know it will only last a couple of days on the counter, same should be true for any bread you purchase from the store unless it has nasty preservatives in it. If you check out the freezer section next time you are at the grocery store I encourage you to try a loaf of bread from there and see what you think!

Check out my first Grocery Store Bread Review here on Silver Hills Steady Eddie Bread.