This is an easy and fun basic sandwich bread recipe for anyone who's looking to incorporate flax into their diet, or wants the heart healthy benefits of oatmeal (without eating a bowl of oatmeal). I like it because I don't keep loaves of bread in my house...just too tempting to reach too often for a sandwich.

Ingredients:
1/4 cup skim milk...25 cals
1 tablespoon milled flax seeds...30 cals
1/4 cup oats...75cals
1/4 cup whole wheat flour...+ 1 tablespoon 100 cals (can also use soy/corn/rye flour for variety in taste/texture)
1 egg white...20 cals
1 pinch baking powder

It's about 55-60 calories per slice and no saturated fat.

Dump every thing into a mixing bowl...it seriously does not matter the order...and mix together until it starts to form a clump, add water a tablespoon at a time until mixture has the consistency of thin cake batter. cover and stick in the fridge for 30 mins....unless you've used soy/rye/corn flour, then don't bother ('cause there's no gluten).

Preheat oven to 350 and place a piece of tinfoil over a cookie sheet. Pour a teaspoon of olive oil on the foil and spread it out in a thin film, yep you have to use your fingers!. Take a tablespoon of flour and shake lightly over the oiled sheet.

Dump the contents of the bowl in the middle of the cookie sheet and, using a spatula spread the mixture out from the center until it forms a large, uniform "square" in the middle of the cookie sheet.

Place in oven for 12 mins., remove and cut into four slices.

That's it. You'll have four nice warm soft slices of sandwich bread - chemical free, preservative free, additive free - but taste and nutrient rich! After you play with the basic recipe a couple of times, it's easy to start customizing it with different spices and ingredients...garlic, oregano, dried tomatoes, etc.

It takes about 2-3 times of practice to get it "just right" - and once you do I bet you'll never buy another loaf of sandwich bread!

Thanks for sharing the recipe, choochoo. It sounds really good. Could you please include the ingredients? Thanks! :)

My thoughts exactly! Actually i wondered if i was missing something...read through it a couple times!

sorry guys....I thought I had the ingredients bolded, but I guess I deleted them instead.

Thanks :D I'll try it sometime.

Hey Choo ,
I'm very insterested in this recipe , what's the texture of this bread like ? seems odd not having any yeast in it .

I am considering buying a bread machine so I can make healthier , preservative free bread.

Hey Noleen:

Texture/consistency/color is like a really soft piece of pita bread. But, once you get the basics down of making flatbread, you can signicantly change the texture/consistency to suit your taste by playing around with adding vital wheat gluten, triple sifting flour, etc. You're right, though, you can't get that super fluffy, airy texture to bread without yeast...but yeast and I don't get along so well, and yeast requires sugar - and sugar and I don't get along real well either.

Ah ok Choo , I might give it a go , I could use it as pizza bases , instead of pitas??

Ohh, if you want to make really good pizza bread without a lot of "extra" I've got a great basic recipe (this one does include yeast so it's more something I make for others...but I'm told it's yummy...)

The only ingredients are:

4 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 T salt
1 package active dry yeast
1 t sugar
3 T extra-virgin olive oil
1 T coarse kosher salt

Let me know if you're interested and I'll post the full recipe under it's own thread in the recipe section.