The best bread ever “COBS” Fresh Bread Okotoks

Cobs Okotoks just won best bakery in Alberta second place in the Regional Bakery Competition May 2/2014, also second place for their French Baguette and first as the most improved bakery in Alberta.

All the Okotoks folks are happy to have them here, they are a great asset to our community!
“Conveniently located on Southridge Drive, COBS Bread prides itself in being our Local Baker. Each morning their dedicated bakers are up early making bread from scratch for us to enjoy. their breads contains no added sugar, colour or preservatives and are made from 100% whole grain flour. At the end of each day, all their leftover is donated to local charities.”

What a wonderful idea, amazing products and helping the local charities,
 Their commitment,
 COBS Bread is committed to providing healthy and fresh breads for you and your family. All of our breads…
• Are baked fresh daily
• Use quality ingredients
• Are made from scratch
• Contain no added sugar, dairy, colour or preservatives
• Are locally made
• Are made with 100% Canadian Wheat
All of our Whole Wheat Breads use 100% Whole Grain Whole Wheat Flour.

I enjoy going to Cobs, my favorite loafs are,
Cape Seed loaf made with 100% whole grain flour, this loaf is packed with the goodness of nine grains and seeds. Very high in dietary fibre and preservative free,  

CHIA Fruit Loaf is delicious and full of goodness; a source of omega-3 ALA, high in fibre, no added sugar, no preservatives and a source of magnesium, iron and thiamin it’s my favorite breakfast slice, it’s almost an addiction,   

German Rye Loaf has a distinctive rye flavour and colour great for a different tasted lunch, and finally,

Wheat Spelt Sour Dough Vienna hard to describe that amazing tasty loaf, all their loafs are amazing, and their scone and croissant OMG I can go on and on, if you want great taste, great healthy products amazing customer and friendly services, this is it, Cobs is the best!

I took all the shots with my little Panasonic Lumix Fz200.

Healthy breakfast help me lose 25lbs

The perfect breakfast, Canon 5D Markiii, Canon 100mm Macro, f7, 1/125sec, ISO 100

14 months ago, I decided to drop some weight, but I didn’t want to change my diet, I am a healthy eater and I had to find ways to reduce my calories intake without changing my life style.

Writing down a week of intake make me realized why I wasn’t able to  lose my excess weight, the culprit was my breakfast, “cold cereal” even healthy choice can be deceiving, and full of sugar, like my favorite granola.

When I calculated the calories from my mix cold healthy cereal bowl, I found that the total was around 700 calories including milk, way too much, and an easy one to fix, to be able to reduce by more than half I decided to try oatmeal and fruit "only 300 calories", and to my surprise I found this new breakfast very satisfying. 

Another change I made, I cut my intake of nuts, even if very healthy I was consuming way too much of it, my favorite were raw almonds, taking out another 200 calories per day.

The last change I did was dropping  beer and drink wine instead, drinking way less and saving 600 calories per week, 

It doesn’t seem much, but dropping my intake by 4800 calories per week, I began to lose the weight, and after 8 months I got where I wanted to be, total weight lost 25lbs.

Every morning, I microwave haft a cup of old-fashioned rolled oats, 6 ounces of water, for 4 to 5 min at high, add fresh or frozen fruit, like mango, blueberry, raspberry…

To add some variety to my breakfast regiment, in week-ends I indulged a bit more, smoothies, low sugar granola bar, Greek yogurt with fresh fruit, always healthy and low sugar, never exceeding 400 calories.

The perfect breakfast, Canon 5D Markiii, Canon 100mm Macro, f7, 1/125sec, ISO 100

Week end indulgence, strong espresso coffee, piece of 85% dark chocolate, fresh fruit and nature Greek yogurt, Canon 5D Markiii, Canon 100mm Macro, f7, 1/4sec, ISO 100

Week end indulgence, smoothy and low sugar granola bar  , Canon 5D Markiii, Canon 100mm Macro, f3.5, 1/80sec, ISO 320

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