Ezekiel Bread

I refuse to eat anything biblical.

I’ve tried it. Got it at Whole Foods.

No bueno. Will not buy it again. Taste like crap

You had to add a lot of butter but I assume the bread is better for you than the processed stuff on shelves

It's wonderful! I've been eating it for years. It's great for you! Low glycemic and made from sprouted grains. Keep it in the refrigerator. You can get it at Trader Joes's, too (at least in CA you can).

To R1-You don't know what you are missing. Some Biblical foods taste DELICIOUS, like confused young priests or 20-year-old seminarians from the old St Charles Seminary off of City Line Ave in Lower Merion.

Some of them are ever more delicious when they are crying at the private altar in St Charles Seminary asking God why he has abandoned him& their tears taste yummy while you are performing the most horrible acts on them knowing they are "being touched for the very 1st time".

BTW-I booked into HELL early!!

You all seem fat.

I love it. I found it a good choice over most other breads when trying to lose weight. For some reason I thought it was made by a cult.

Flourless bread is better for you since it has more fiber. I buy this from time to time but it's pretty crumbly.

[quote]I refuse to eat anything biblical.

I'm heartbroken!

It's all good.

[quote]To [R1]-You don't know what you are missing. Some Biblical foods taste DELICIOUS, like confused young priests or 20-year-old seminarians from the old St Charles Seminary off of City Line Ave in Lower Merion.

Agreed, Mother Theresa's beef curtains had the taste and texture of a finely marinated and dried biltong.

My mother turned me on to it. She got into eating more natural foods a few years ago. I really like it. It's great for sandwiches.

Sounds like an old hippie I used to know

Seems like hippie bread I made fun of in my youth. Turns out the hippies were right

It's better than Dave's Killer Bread - that shit is so goddamn sweet. If I want sweet bread, I'll buy challah or cinnamon bread. It's not my favorite bread, but it's a decent choice for off-the-shelf.

I like bread with "stuff" in it - seeds, wheat berries, etc. And when you get bread with "sprouted grains" it has a higher protein content because of the fact that it IS sprouted.

Back in the 70s and 80s, Orowheat (or Arnold in some areas of the country) honey wheat berry bread was what my parents bought for our family and it was really good. It's not so good anymore, but the idea of it still is good. When I get a hankering for it, I will make it from time to time, usually in the fall and winter. It's delicious toasted with melted butter or peanut butter in the morning.

^^and yes, my parents were hippies.

I buy the Low Sodium version. I put slices of seasoned tofu with lettuce 🥬 tomato 🍅 and Vegenaise and a bit of horseradish mustard on three slices of the Ezekiel bread for lunch on Friday- so tasty and healthful.

I'm fine with bread made from white flour but look up how flour is treated in the US and how bread is made here. Read the ingredient lists, they go on forever.

I refuse to eat that stuff. I lived years in Europe and am used to good bread.

My town's supermarket (ShopRite) has a wall of shelves with all kinds of bread, except bread that's simply made. Even the Dave's bread has sugar in it.

So I buy the Ezekiel brand.

First I tried the bread and found it dry and tasteless, but passable if well toasted.

However, their English Muffins are a whole other thing. They're not dry and they have a nice texture. I find the flax seed version to the the best.

And that's practically the only bread I eat. There's a guy near me who makes his own handmade sourdough bread, and I'll sometimes buy that too.

Anyway, if you're not happy with the Ezekiel bread, try the English muffins.

r18 you're absolutely right about the flour in the U.S. It's why there is an uptick in gluten intolerance...it's because some people's guts can't tolerate the shit for flour we have here.

Is that like Scripture Cake?

Brought a loaf home yesterday, thanks to this thread. My partner is a very bitter, recovering Catholic and atheist. I was raised with zero religion and am ignorant of biblical/XTian stuff. We're old hippies who sometimes wake N bake. I made toast. He took one bite and said "well, Christ on a cracker, this isn't bad!". I spit coffee through my nose and just giggled. I really like it. As someone mentioned above, it isn't sickeningly sweet. But I wonder if the bakery is Mormon or MAGAt owned?

It’s great for avocado toast

Couldn't find much about the owners. They seem to be intentionally vague.

We'll stick with our local hippy bakery

Does it have sugar in it? That’s the main reason I buy plain old white, it’s not sweet like so many grain and whole wheat bread. I don’t want my bread sweet.

Veal jerky.

^^^I love Veal, I would have to try it first^^^

Is the Alvarado Street Bakery by the Pioneer Chicken stand, r23?

r27, this worker-owned, organic, solar powered bakery is in Petaluma, CA. Petaluma used to be "the egg capital of the world". It is not all fake Jesusy.

Maybe you're thinking of the famous Alvarado Street in LA? And the Pioneer Chicken chain, which I think is LA-based? That's a different can of worms. A different kettle O' fish.

Thank you, r28. But try this:

[Quote] My mother turned me on to it.

That’s SICK!

I like not to follow frau-y fads. Besides, where I like there's a fresh bread bakery on almost every block, with ample options for variety in type of bread, and all natural and without preservatives as everyone has the habit of buying bread daily

r31 don't you think if that was an available option, many on this thread would do just that?

By and large, that's a rarity in much of the U.S. (having a fresh bread bakery available near people, much less one "on almost every block."

Yes, R32, relative the options in the U.S. where fresh baked healthy bread takes some hunting down, and some opening of one's wallet, I'm aware that mine is a perspective of bread luxury.

It's crazy that the U.S. can't celebrate quality in mundane things. Bread, coffee, fresh fruits and vegetables, for example... these things have to be made into expensive, faddish "luxuries" and gloried with odes to the virtues of a good farmer's market, or a good strong coffee, or a good bread that tastes of its good ingredients, not despite them. And the cost must be enough that the customer know the pain of caring about flavor.

I used to get something called vollkornbrot (?) when I lived in Germany. omg it was so good with German butter. It looked like seeds and grains pressed together, I don’t know how it stayed in one piece. It came thinly sliced. I used to find something similar, imported from Germany, in the supermarket but I haven’t seen that for years.

^vollkorn means whole grain

Sprouted grains are indeed more nutritious. It has less overall starch while also containing more good starch.

I love it. I'm eating it right now.

Lol, r35, I thought it meant corn and I didn’t see any corn in it.

I always jeep a loaf of Ezekiel bread in my freezer as backup. Ezekiel is great because it is organic, but also sprouted. Sprouted bread is not only easier to digest but also your body absorbs the nutrient better.

What bread I have been eating mostly these last 3-4 years is Dave's Killer Bread - Powerseed (red package), which has only one carb of added sugar that is from fruit juice. I prefer this to Ezekiel only because Ezekiel it can only be bought frozen.

All the gluten issues seem to come with American processed flour. It has stabilizers that keep it fresh for a long time on store shelves.

European bread is made to be eaten that day or else it hardens.

What about this stuff? A few of the fancy grocery stores in my area sell it.

R41, I had bread similar to that and it tasted like cardboard

I love Mestemacher breads. Made in Germany, top quality ingredients, no GMOs. Nutrient dense food, great to have a slice with breakfast, or with a salad or for a sandwich. Europeans know how to make good quality breads, they've been doing it the traditional way for centuries.

Terrible stuff. The original recipe calls for cow 💩.

I don't know what r39 is talking about with Dave's Killer Bread.

As I said WAAAAY up at r15, every loaf of Dave's Killer Bread I've ever had has been sickeningly sweet. I don't need to look at the package to see how much added sugar they CLAIM to put in...it's disgusting how sweet it is.

[quote]As someone mentioned above, it isn't sickeningly sweet. But I wonder if the bakery is Mormon or MAGAt owned?

Wait, there’s only one bakery that makes this? I thought it was just a type of bread that many bakeries make, like wheat bread.

R45, I share your opinion on Dave's.

(Why the hell am I torturing myself with this thread. I'm off wheat these days)

The red packaged Powerseed is the one to get from Dave's Bread. It only has one added carbohydrate of sugar, and that is from fruit juice. The rest of their breads have have all that added sugar.

R27 finding Carmelita lyric-dropped in a random thread about hippie Jesus bread is exactly why I keep coming here for the last however many damn decades.

Wasn't that great? J'adore R27.

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