Re: Spelt flour/bread

[Guest guest]

Hi Diane, I'm not sure about what Dr Shoemaker would say, but mold free

diets in general leave out grains. Reason is that they are stored for

long periods which give rise to mold in storage, due to moisture and

food kept for long periods. It seems spelt is popular with people

sensitive to wheat gluten as it is lower in gluten than other wheat. I

haven't done enough reading on spelt to be sure but sounds like it may

be lower in gluten than other grains in general. If this is the case,

it may also be likely to be less moldy since the gluten in grains would

be the starch and is what mold would feeed on, so perhaps lower gluten

spelt may be less conducive to mold growth than other grains, but still

would have less mold than fresh veggies, fruits, meat and dairy.

So if you want to have something to make a sandwich it may be better

than other grains. I know I miss bread as it is easier to pack a

sandwich for work than to take a salad bowl, etc.

Here is some reading on spelt. Amoung the things it says is it is high

in fiber and high fiber diets lowers cholesterol. Dr Shoemaker said

that he has found that the same things that lower cholesterol, also

helps to lower toxins in body. If you read about half way down it

describes *insoluable* fiber as binding with bile acids and since it

isn't absorbed by body, carries bile acids out of the body, which is

what CSM does. (However oats have shown in study to lower cholesterol

best of the grains, and it has been believed that it was due to the

high amount of insoluable fiber but perhaps it is the combination of

soluable and insoluable fiber in oats does a better job of removing

cholesterol, and bile acids).

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice & dbid=143

Of course there are insoluable fibers in fruit, vegetables and nuts

also, and meat also has fibrous material in it that isn't digested.

I don't know about the low amylose part.

--- In , " dianebolton52 " <dianebolton@...>

wrote:

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> Hi Folks: I was wondering if any of you knew if spelt flout/bread was

> allowed on the mold diet or Dr. Shoemakers low amylose diet. Having

not

[Guest guest]

I might add that I miss grains and Jeanine had a good idea regarding

rice. If you don't soak and rinse off rice, you get 'sticky' rice

which has more starch and is sweeter; however if you soak and rinse off

rice you get unsticky or less starchy rice, and the good there is that

it should also get rid of quite of bit of mold spores and perhaps

toxins (?) clinging to the shaft of the rice, so I added some brown

rice back into my 'okay' once in awhile column.

Also if you have the time and ambition you may be able to make your own

bread with almond floor. Again nuts are something that is stored and

can get moldy in storage but I would imagine less moldy due to fact

there would be alot less moisture in storage of nuts than in grains,

since grains would hold alot more moisture just by their nature.

I have to add back into diet some of these things, otherwise I go too

long without adequate diet and I'm on the thin side.

You can make bread with rice flour but apparently using 'rice flour',

so I don't know how one would do that. You'd almost have to soak

briefly, doesn't take long, rinse off and then redry rice and then turn

it into flour...lol.

Then there is issue of yeast. I don't know what is wrong with yeast,

or if you can make bread without it. I know unlevened bread but that

is flat bread. Perhaps you can make bread with baking powder?? Does

anyone know what is wrong with yeast? or if you can make bread without

yeast??

--- In , " dianebolton52 " <dianebolton@...>

wrote:

>

> Hi Folks: I was wondering if any of you knew if spelt flout/bread was

> allowed on the mold diet or Dr. Shoemakers low amylose diet. Having

[Guest guest]

I keep thinking of things on this subject. You can also just

have 'less bread' by slicing bread into thinner slices and then using

just half and stuffing whole sandwich content into half a sandwich.

For that you need a gadget that you put slice of bread into that allows

you to put a knife through the center of it and you get two very thin

slices of bread. I had one of those gadgets and it is buried somewhere

right now.

Oh well, I can't find a thin bread cutter anywhere on the web. I guess

with most people eating bigger and bigger servings, what was I

thinking??

However I did find a bread cutter that you can set to alot of different

thickness and so could buy bread not already cut. The picture of it

closed in background is actually what my thin bread cutter looks like

so perhaps you can put a slice of bread in when it is closed and put

knife through it to get two slices from one but I don't see any

directions on slicer that says that:

http://tinyurl.com/4dpg8f