Whole Grain Bread

United States
January 16, 2007 12:20pm CST
Sigh, trying to eat whole grain bread and I just am not used to it. I need white for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! What kind of sandwiches are best on whole grain bread? Today I did toast a slice and put tomato on it. That was pretty good.
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AxranraRose82
@AxranraRose82 (1120)
• United States
16 Jan 07
I converted to grain a few years ago and I love it. For about 20 years I ONLY ate white bread. I was annoyed when it wasn't available- in my opinion everything else tasted bad, especially with grilled cheese or peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. But then my boyfriend went on a diet and one day I was out of white bread and I tried the whole grain (which I had never used before...I had only used wheat) and I ate a bologna and cheese sandwich with all of the other stuff I like to put on and I was like, "this is pretty good". It took a while for me to use it on everything- I still liked white for my Pb&j and grilled cheese but all other sandwiches got 12 grain. Now, I despise white bread! My favorite is 12 grain and my least favorite (besides white) is wheat. I took a vacation and stayed with family this past summer and they only had white bread. I ate one sandwich with it and to my boyfriend I said, "we have to go get bread now!" My son also helped with my conversion. We would make him pb&j and he wouldn't eat it. It just happened that the first time we made him one it was with wheat bread! Every other time we used white and he would just pick at it and we got mad at him b/c he would ask for one then throw it away. We figured it out when we were out of white one day and had to use wheat and he ate it again! Boy did I feel mean and dumb. I apologized for always yelling at him and we discussed why he liked them now and didn't before. He never eats white bread. We don't even bother buying it anymore! It might take a while but after you convert it is hard to go back! White bread is so brittle to me and so pasty. I just can't handle it anymore!
AxranraRose82
@AxranraRose82 (1120)
• United States
16 Jan 07
sorry for the double post! Mylot has been annoying like that today for me! Anyway, I forgot your main question: some things that go well with whole grain- if you eat meat then try meats like turkey, ham, bologna. Also, another helpful thing to do is toast it first! That way you can't tell as much that it isn't your usual. You can also add lots of condiments to flavor it, though in my opinion the whole grain breads have so much more flavor to them than do the white breads. Put on lettuce and tomato and cheese. The last thing you should eat with whole grain is peanut butter and jelly. That one tastes the weirdest. Though to fix that, why not try a honey whole wheat? That would go great with it! I like to put chips in my sandwiches too. I like it for the extra flavor but it would help if the grains in the bread weird you out. Extra texture will make it less noticible. Hope this helps!
sweetgirl_k1
@sweetgirl_k1 (3972)
• United States
16 Jan 07
I don't really like eating whole grain bread so I don't know what kind of sandwich to tell you to make with it. There is bread called Whitewheat and it is pretty good. We get it sometimes at our house.
AxranraRose82
@AxranraRose82 (1120)
• United States
16 Jan 07
I converted to grain a few years ago and I love it. For about 20 years I ONLY ate white bread. I was annoyed when it wasn't available- in my opinion everything else tasted bad, especially with grilled cheese or peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. But then my boyfriend went on a diet and one day I was out of white bread and I tried the whole grain (which I had never used before...I had only used wheat) and I ate a bologna and cheese sandwich with all of the other stuff I like to put on and I was like, "this is pretty good". It took a while for me to use it on everything- I still liked white for my Pb&j and grilled cheese but all other sandwiches got 12 grain. Now, I despise white bread! My favorite is 12 grain and my least favorite (besides white) is wheat. I took a vacation and stayed with family this past summer and they only had white bread. I ate one sandwich with it and to my boyfriend I said, "we have to go get bread now!" My son also helped with my conversion. We would make him pb&j and he wouldn't eat it. It just happened that the first time we made him one it was with wheat bread! Every other time we used white and he would just pick at it and we got mad at him b/c he would ask for one then throw it away. We figured it out when we were out of white one day and had to use wheat and he ate it again! Boy did I feel mean and dumb. I apologized for always yelling at him and we discussed why he liked them now and didn't before. He never eats white bread. We don't even bother buying it anymore! It might take a while but after you convert it is hard to go back! White bread is so brittle to me and so pasty. I just can't handle it anymore!