Sitting here eating ciabatta bread...

it is ******ically good and I am thinking that I was right to give it up for lent. This stuff is like crack for me. I can't eat one piece. Didn't give up all bread, just the stuff I can't control myself around...like ciabatta or homemade pita bread. For some reason my english muffins for breakfast don't rouse any insatiable urge for more bread.

I've been reading thin commandments. When he talked about one chip having 500 calories because you never just eat one, you inevitably eat the whole bag (in his scenario) it really hit home with bread. I have been really good at rationalizing my relationship with bread. I started thinking that there was not one day that I had ONE pita...it is always 2 or 3 pitas. Granted, I have stayed within my allotted calories. So until I can have better control, I have allotted to stay away.

Hubs laughed when I told him that I gave up bread for lent, because I have never given up anything. It was really just a convenient thing, since it is that time of year.

mary

i gave up "lent"......for lent!   I have that book on my kindle.   Bugles for me..... equal 800 cals!  I will eat the whole bag....then invert it and lick the salty goodness off too! 

I lasted a good two weeks, though! Back on the band wagon again, just needed to remind myself that it was a good choice, LOL!

MMM, I love a good crusty French baguette with good European butter slathered on it.  Oh, but it fills me up so darn fast.  I almost think I like the butter the best and that the bread is just a vessel to stuff butter in my mouth....yumm!!  Ok, fantasy over now...I can put my tongue back in my mouth and stop drooling.

Laura

Yeah, I think that it is more the bread/real butter combo...

I'm the same way with lobster.  Do I really love lobster, or is it just all the yummy butter!