The lesser known flaw of the whole food-plant based diet: foods that taste too good!

I have been cooking whole wheat bread and I frequently will eat a surplus of calories when I do so. I use a bread maker and the recipe is normally: 600g of whole wheat flour, 500g of water, teaspoon or 1 packet of yeast, 20g of granulated sugar. A key in the whole food-plant based program is no oil.

This gives about 2200 calories of bread and sufficient calories for the day. Adding raw spinach and one will get almost all nutrients required, the only being calcium, a little less than I want my average to be (525 mg).

It is easier to cook my usual meal of pasta and black beans with spinach on the side. I can get my sugar fix from my cacao powder / sugar cube drink, and blueberries. I have in the past used fruit. All of these are very satiating: the reason they are so good when most others do not like is the acclimation to the amount of sugar by never eating the super rich foods.