Ezekiel 4:9 Bread Info / Fooducate App / Food Log

Let's talk about bread.......

There is an app on my phone that I have been using for at least a year now. It is called Fooducate. While you are at the grocery store you can scan barcodes and it will tell you about the ingredients in that product and give you a rating of the food. (Be prepared to be turned off from almost all packaged foods!) There is also a website you can search for products.

Have you ever looked at the ingredients that are in the sliced breads that we buy at the grocery??

Here is a list of ingredients in Aunt Millie's Multigrain Bread: (sounds healthy right?!?)
enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, ferrous sulfate (iron), thiamine hydrochloride(vitamin b1), riboflavin (vitamin b2), niacin (vitamin b12), folic acid), sugar, wheat bran, wheat gluten, whole grain oatmeal, soybean oil, yeast, molasses, salt, rye flour, barley flakes, yeast nutrients (calcium sulfate), monocalcium phosphate, sweet dairy whey, monoglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate, vinegar, citric acid, azodicarbonamide, ascorbic acid, calcium peroxide.

Bleached flour? (Read "Why Bleaching Makes White Flour Even Worse". Toxins that cause diabetes?!) Doesn't sound very healthy!

Here is a list of ingredients in Sara Lee Honey Wheat Bread:
enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate (vitamin b1), riboflavin (vitamin b2), folic acid), water, honey, whole wheat flour, high fructose corn syrup, yeast, wheat gluten, contains 2% or less of each of the following: wheat bran, calcium sulfate, salt, soybean oil, dough conditioners (may contains one or more of the following: mono- and diglycerides, ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate, calcium peroxide, datem, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, enzymes), calcium propionate (preservative), distilled vinegar, guar gum, yeast, nutrients (monocalcium phosphate, calcium sulfate, ammonium sulfate and/or calcium carbonate), corn starch, vitamin d3, soy lecithin, milk, soy flour.

There's that bleached flour again! They also both contain azodicarbonamide.
From Fooducate: "Azodicarbonamide is a popular dough conditioner. It also bleaches the flour (makes it whiter). It's considered safe in the US at up to 45 parts per million, but is banned from use in Europe because studies showed it could cause asthma or allergic reactions."


Here are the ingredients of Ezekiel 4:9 Sprouted Whole Grain Bread:
Organic Sprouted Wheat, Organic Sprouted Barley, Organic Sprouted Millet, Organic Malted Barley, Organic Sprouted Lentils, Organic Sprouted Soybeans, Organic Sprouted Spelt, Filtered Water, Fresh Yeast, Organic Wheat Gluten, Sea Salt.
(they also have gluten free options)
Oh and it tastes just as good, if not better than other breads.

What would you rather put in your body!?!

Please look before you buy!

And if you are curious... here is what Ezekiel 4:9 says in the bible: "Take also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils and millet, and spelt and put them in one vessel…"


Today's Food Log....

8:30am   - Mocha Shake: Coffee, banana, protein powder, oats, vanilla, almond milk, ice. Check out the recipe here. I added protein powder to mine.
1 Slice of Ezekiel bread w/ Earth Balance spread
9:30am   - Bear Naked granola (1 serving)
11:30am - My Super Bowl day splurge: organic cream cheese w/ Tastefully Simple Salsa (just add the seasoning to a can of organic diced tomatoes! Quick&Clean!!) and tortilla chips. My splurge was 10 chips w/ the cream cheese/salsa mix :)
12:30pm -  Leftover BBQ tofu from dinner last night
3:30pm   -  Banana w/ peanut butter and granola sprinkled on it
5:30pm   - "Dessert" for dinner. My all time favorite meal! 
(1) Make a balsamic vinegar reduction (google it if you've never done it before!). (2) Toss strawberries in the balsamic reduction. (3) Spread coconut oil on 1 side of 2 pieces  of Ezekiel bread. (4) Spread goat cheese on the opposite side of each slice. (5) Put strawberries on top of the goat cheese. (6) Put slices together and grill like a grilled cheese sandwich on a griddle. (7) Eat (8) Feel like you have died and gone to heaven!
6:00pm   - EXERCISE: 11 minutes of BeFit Lower Body Workout. 14 minutes of BeFit 24 Day Fat Burn.5 minutes of stretching. **If you think that you don't have time to workout, or that you need a gym membership to do so, that's not true! There are a ton of workout videos available online. My workout today was from looking up Lionsgate BeFit on YouTube. You will get your heart rate up and break a sweat! There is also a great phone app called Nike Training that will give you daily circuit training exercises.