Crispbread - How do you eat yours?

[Kristine..]

G'Day

The recent thread about rice cakes, and the innovative recipes posted by loulou and others, has got me thinking about crispbread and the uses we can put them to

During 2006 I used crispbread as snacks eg ate 2 Vita Weat mid morning with an apple, ate another 2 during the afternoon, managed to eat another 2 somewhere else during the day, usually as accompaniment to a meal – but still as crispbread.

Unless I used the Premium Lite as a base for the mini-pizza, I can’t recall using the crispbread as part of a meal ie as part of a recipe

My program lists these crispbread:

Vita-weat – original or cracked pepper
Paradise Lite – white, wholemeal or cracked pepper
Provita (kosher)
Rice cake – thin
Ryvita – plain

Salada Lite has since been approved

This covers wheat, rice and rye cereals


I want to be a bit more adventurous with all the foods on the shopping list,

So: How do you eat your crispbread?

I:
Eat Vita Weat by themselves or with a cut up apple

Eat rice cakes as ‘rice’ in the bowl with a stew poured over (the rice bubbles literally ‘snap, crackle ‘n’ pop’ and the grains separate so there really is ‘rice’ in the bowl

Eat rice cakes or Salada as the base for a mozzarella mini-pizza



What about Ryvita – does anyone use these? Ryvita is not salted and has a nice, nutty flavour but is very dry to eat by itself. Would Ryvita be good pulverised and used in desert type dishes eg stewed apple crumble, the cakes which loulou makes, or the cheesecake recipes?

I don’t think that I have ever eaten Provita – does anyone eat these and what do they taste like? Are they similar to Ryvita?


Given that some people are on a 5 crispbread per day program, and others on a 6 crispbread per day allowance, sharing how we use them may provide a bit of variety rather than just eating them as a snack or as an accompaniment to a meal


Cheers
Kristine
By the way, I have weighed the products I have:

2 x VitaWeat = 13 gms
4 x plain Salada Lite squares (one whole crispbread) = 14 gms
1 x plain rice cake = 6 gms

[Cheryl z]

Hi there Kristine

Are the rice cakes by Healtheries?

regards

Cheryl

[zanne]

i like to eat my crackers crushed up on soft fruit in particular mango and kiwi fruit. Just gives it an extra crunch.

It depends on the meal as to when i eat them.
One of my treats is cheese, tomato and crackers with apple. Yum.

It is best to eat them when you need them.

[Faithy]

I LOVE a cracked pepper vita~wheat broken up into natural yoghurt & cinnamon or even a rice cracker in the yoghurt is nice, with cinnamon of course.

[maria1969yellow]

I sometimes use ricecake allowance in my soupy dishes like my prawn and chilli concotion with a crushed up rice cake gives it some density.

I love also to have it for breaky a rice cake or salada with melted allowance of cheese on top.

My favourite though is keeping it simple with my lunch of cheese and salad allowance. Yummo! Specially now in summer...

[fornight]

I like to eat them plain but with a cup of hot coffee or tea. I love to savour them for the longest time in my mouth.

[Belnatjas]

I like to crush my 2 crackers and sprinkle them over my salad for added crunch ... its like a Cohen's crouton!!

[Linlou]

I mainly have them as snacks, crush them to cover my chicken fillets and as a mini pizza base.

[jaayne]

I love my crispbreads and I too savour the flavour by taking my time eating them.
i usually have them on the side of my plate along with my meal, it makes the meal look bigger.
jaayne

[fornight]

Originally Posted by Kristine..

What about Ryvita – does anyone use these? Ryvita is not salted and has a nice, nutty flavour but is very dry to eat by itself.

I like dry crispbread! Maybe I will try Ryvita the next time.

[firefox]

Ryvita is good with scrambled egg on it.

[fornight]

firefox - REALLY!!! Great! I am going to try it then!

[Aerolite]

I like vitaweats. For a snack or meal accompaniment, I give them a light spray of olive oil and sprinkle with salt and fresh ground pepper. Then I use one of my flax seed oil capsules (from allowance) to squeeze over the top. I find them delicious! I don't know if the light spray of olive oil is too much of a deviation. If so, just the flax seed oil would be nice, if you like the taste.

[EEEE]

I only use Salada - my allowance.

I have mine as:

1. Mock Up Cake / Doughnut
2. Coating (crushed with herbs) for my meatballs or chicken balls
3. Thickening in my Spicy meatball sauce
4. Crackers with kiwi instead of crackers with Jam
5. Base for my apple slice / apple pie / cheesecake

I use my mortal & pestle to make it a very fine, almost like flower substance. This helps a lot with coating and thickening in my foods.

[AudreeS]

Originally Posted by EEEE

I only use Salada - my allowance.

I have mine as:

1. Mock Up Cake / Doughnut
2. Coating (crushed with herbs) for my meatballs or chicken balls
3. Thickening in my Spicy meatball sauce
4. Crackers with kiwi instead of crackers with Jam
5. Base for my apple slice / apple pie / cheesecake

I use my mortal & pestle to make it a very fine, almost like flower substance. This helps a lot with coating and thickening in my foods.

Wow you have reareally gotten creative! Where did you get all those ideas?

[EEEE]

If you want to loose weight, there is sacrifice, commitment and most important DISCIPLINE.

For the 6 months that I committed to this lifestyle change, I might as well enjoy the ride and make my own yummy goodies.

I read a lot of recipes all day long, so the ideas was born out of boredom and "what if's".

[BAYDOUNEH]

are we allowed rice cakes? which kind?

[EEEE]

We are allowed 1 rice cake (Counts as 2 crackers) which is obviously unflavored.

I take my yoghurt + cinnamon + 1 sweetener and mix it. I then put the rice cake in a bowl and add the yoghurt over the rice cake and leave overnight in fridge. Tomorrow morning you have rice pudding.

[allie_82]

the rices cakes we are allowed are the plain thin ones... and yes, 1 rice cake = 2 crispbread

[sunshinyday]

I like to get 1 crispbread (2 squares) and a drop of stevia on my finger spread it over the the crackers and I have a lovely sweet biscuit with my cuppa.
SSDx