White Carbs Poll: 2 questions

In My Humble Opinion
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  1. If you had to permanently give up one of the following for life, which one would it be?:

Rice
Pasta
Bread

  1. If you could only consume one of these for the rest of your life, which one would it be?

Same options

2

As for me, on question 1, as hard as it would be to lose pasta, my love of Indian food makes bread and rice impossible.

For question 2, it’s gotta be bread. Sandwiches are involved in the majority of my meals. But I’d never get to taste that perfect biryani ever again!

3

  1. I’d give up rice

  2. I’d keep bread

4

I can do perfectly well without pasta.

Rice would be a bit harder: rice goes with Indian and Thai food, and other stuff I love.

But no way I can do without bread. How do you do a PB&J or a BLT without bread? How do you do a grilled cheese sandwich? One can eat hot dogs and hamburgers without the bun (which is bread), but it just isn’t the same IMHO. Gotta keep bread.

5

I’d give up bread.

I’d keep rice. Must have this.

6

Hey, low-carb diabetic here.

I’d give up pasta first (I kind of already have; I’ve eaten pasta maybe twice in the past year). If you take the pasta out of a pasta dish, you have a little sauce, but if you skip the rice in asian food or the bread in a sandwich, there’s still something to eat. I’d give up bread for life because it’s a lot harder to gauge how many carbs I’m eating when it’s bread, but rice is a bit more consistent.

7

Not diabetic, but a long-term low white carber here.

I’d give up rice. I’d keep bread.

Quinoa makes a decent rice substitute. Soba noodles make a decent pasta substitute.

Bread, well… can’t really substitute for that. There are some pretty acceptable bread substitutes – but only when they’re not compared to the real thing. I have it rarely, but I still make all my own bread.

8

I’ve already given up all 3, for health reasons.

Rice was the easiest to give up, bread the hardest.

9

I never much liked pasta, so the first one was easy.

And I eat bread routinely but rice only occasionally, so the second wasn’t hard either.

However – maybe my votes don’t count, because I don’t eat either rice or bread as “white” carbs; at least, unless I’m eating out, which I do only rarely. I eat brown rice and mostly-whole-grain bread.

10

I’ve never been a rice eater whatsoever. When I started low-carbing it wasn’t even a matter of giving it up, just avoiding it the 1 or 2 times a year it might come up.

I eat pasta but very infrequently. Ok, I take that back - I do have the occasional mac & cheese. But I’ve never been a “I live on pasta!” kind of gal so I’ll be ok to let that one go. Also, like rice, it’s usually just a carrier for other flavors and foods, so it’s fairly easy to get by putting those same flavors/foods on something else like squash, zucchini or cauliflower.

Bread is just too functional to let go. Plus it’s readily ready-made unlike rice or pasta. It’s a grab-and-go snack!

So, I’d give up rice (I kinda already have?) and I could eat nothing but bread for the rest of my life.

11

I’m a carbaholic. I’d fight the hypothetical.

12

Am I giving up only the white-carbs version, or the whole thing? Not that it changes my answers much, but I only eat white-carbs pasta or rice when I’m sick. Bread I can absolutely do without.

13

Question 2 was a tough one. I wanted to select pasta, but thinking about it I chose bread. Sorry pasta, you’ve been awesome, but sandwiches, burgers, dogs, rolls etc. won the day.
(ETA: Giving up rice would not be a problem. I like it just fine, but I don’t require it.)

14

We pretty much gave up pasta, but recently found versions made of chickpea/lentil flour.

I eat a PBJ every day at work - have done so for 33 years. Would be messy w/o bread. I tend to get the nuttiest, highest fiber brand I can find.

15

I could easily give up rice and pasta because I often use bread as a substitute for either. A couple of slices cut into cubes and fried in olive oil for pasta dishes, or coconut oil for rice dishes suits me as I am mostly cooking for one. And generally speaking, fried bread is toast’s far smarter half brother.

And there are a lot of different tasting breads while rice and pasta are very bland without something on them.

16

I’m pretty low carb already - I wouldn’t eat any of those Monday-Friday. But that was really tough, and I kinda screwed up my answer.

I already frequently substitute out rice in favour of homemade flat breads with indian food, as my wife isn’t fussed about rice, but then I chose pasta as my keeper - which kinda screws up my flatbread thing.

But I don’t eat sandwiches anymore, and I just love pasta so much - it would really spoil a major cuisine for me if I couldn’t have it.

17

I do not like white bread, and only eat the whole grain stuff.

I could live on pasta for the rest of my life.

18

It would pain me dearly to give up bagels, but you can live on so many varieties of pasta. Lunch would be very different.

19
  1. Bread
  2. Pasta.
20

You can have my refined-flour pasta when you seize it from my cold pudgy hands.
Brown-only rice and bread, I can live with.