By bread alone?

Mom gave me a bread maker some years back. I used it occasionally, but not particularly often. Part of the recommended diet for diabetes control is lots of whole grains. Diabetic diets often encourage whole grain bread, especially for breakfast. I've learned lots about using lots of different grains that I've never eaten before like millet. I've also become a really big fan of barley. Recently I found a couple of whole grain bread cook books for bread machines on Amazon and I've been testing the recipes. This is a delightful occupation because it is wonderful to fill the house with the smell of bread baking. And indeed, eating whole grain breads helps to keep the blood sugar regulated. Shoppers, which is the grocery store I can walk to, carries a line of Bob's Red Mill flours and I can get all sorts of flours that are generally not avilable in the run-of-the-mill grocery store. For Thanksgiving I made Autumn Harvest bread, which uses pumpkin, carrots, applesauce and whole wheat, and Zuni Indian bread which uses whole wheat, cornmeal and molasses. Usually, I only need to make a loaf of bread every other week or so. I cut it into slices and freeze two slices in sandwhich bags that I can take out and toast for breakfast. It is wonderful to have fresh homemade bread rather than store bought. Actually, I've made home made bread alot even before Mama gave me the bread maker. But now I can enjoy the scrumptuous flavors and beefy textures of whole grain breads and have it all just by measuring ingredients into the bread maker. It can be done any day or night of the week - how convenient! It makes it easy to take home made bread when invited to dinner too! But, again even with my advancing age, I am learning to use whole grains in bread as I would have never imagined. All with the additional pleasure of an aromatic house and eating with gusto! And for years I always skipped breakfast because it made me sick. No more!