You could potentially eat bread at every meal. You may have toast with breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, and a roll with your dinner. If you are lowering your daily intake of carbohydrates, you may opt for a low-carb bread during your meals. You can purchase these already made in stores, or have them shipped to you. You can also make your own reduced-carbohydrate bread.
Carbohydrates
Your body uses carbohydrates as energy. Most breads are made of flour, and flour contains carbohydrates. Nutrition labels on breads list carbohydrates in grams. You will also notice on the label that carbohydrates are broken down into sugars and fibers. If a bread label shows a net reading for carbohydrates, this number is the total carbohydrate grams minus the fiber grams.
Zero-Net
Healthwise makes a zero-net bread. Total carbohydrates on the loaf of plain bread are 7 g, and the fiber content is 7 g. This low-fat, low-sodium, sugar-free, low-calorie, no-cholesterol bread can be shipped to your home. Zero-net carb bread is not inexpensive, so choose your meals well so you don't waste your food.
Low- Carb
Healthy Life Bread offers many low-carbohydrate bread choices. Healthy Life's whole wheat, whole grain bread contains 8 g of carbohydrates and 3 g of fiber, reducing your net carbohydrate to 5 g. Healthy Life also offers white and Italian breads with 6 g of carbohydrates.
Baking
You can bake your own low-carb bread by replacing flour with soy flour or a product called Litesse, which contains soy flour and oat fiber. If these products are difficult to find, select whole wheat flour to reduce the sugar content in your bread. Eating grains daily is recommended by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and low-carb breads offer a solution if you are restricting your sugar.
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