Bake Your Own Whole Wheat Bread

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The healthy choice in choosing your bread is going whole wheat. Whole wheat breads not only provides more fiber, it also makes you feel satisfied with your meal longer. While wheat bread is my choice for sub, whether I buy them or make them myself. When I do make my own sub, I usually buy the whole wheat loaf, usually at Carrefour.
However, sometimes you just have to do things yourself. Well, making bread is not easy for the non-cook but not entirely impossible. Think of that smell you smell as you go into a sandwich shop. The smell of freshly cooked bread. Now think about smelling that warm, fresh smell at home.
This is very well-made instructional video on making Whole Wheat Bread from delectableplanet.com.

The full article at delectableplanet.com contains more details and the recipe for whole wheat bread. I recommend trying this out yourself because the video shows the small details like clearly how much the bread should rise. This usually gets me, so I appreciate that very much.

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New Sub on the menu: Chicken Tandoori Sub

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For a limited time, Subway is offering a Chicken Tandoori sub.  This is in conjunction with the National Day celebrations. This is also the first time a new sub is being introduced on the menu. The chicken Tandoori sub is a new meat option for a sub.  You would add veggies and sauces like you would a normal sub.
Since tandoori chicken in traditionally a spicy dish eaten with bread, you could add peeper and chili sauce for the hot experience.
But in some places, the tandoori chicken is eaten with naan bread and sour sauces. You can try to emulate this with the tandoori sub in a wrap with generous amount of mayo and a dash of honey mustard on lots of onions, cucumbers and lettuce. Hold the tomatoes.

Wheat bread at Carrefour

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A nutritional alternative to white bread is whole wheat bread. Just by choosing whole wheat bread instead of white bread, the sandwich becomes that more nutritious. Whole wheat bread contains more nutrients because it is made from grains that have not been as processed. To get white flour which makes white bread, grains go through a bleaching or whitening process. In this process, nutrients are lost. The bran and germ are removed from the wheat to get the white four that is used to make white bread. Whole wheat bread means that the bran and germ remain.
Whole bread are more nutritious because they have

• Fiber - fiber regulates the digestive system, lowers cholesterol and may reduce your risk of heart disease. Fiber also keeps you feeling full until your next meal or healthy snack. 
• Vitamin B - this is important for a healthy metabolism. Metabolism is how the body access and use the energy from other foods that you eat. Vitamin B is contained in the bran and germ.
• Iron - carries oxygen in the blood that circulates the body. They partly give blood it's red color.
• Protein - Like fiber, it also keeps you feeling full. It also plays a part in building muscles, skin and bones. 

A great place to buy whole wheat bread loaves is at Carrefour. The loaves are the right size. It can be sliced to make slices to a normal sandwich. Since it comes in loaves, it can be cut to any thickness. Thick slices for sandwiches with more sauce or thinner slices to make tall sandwiches with pieces of bread in the middle of the sandwich. To create a sub, you can cut the bread length-wise but leave the two pieces connected one side. This makes it easier to put the two halves back and hold the sub together. This works for subs made up from sliced deli meats. You could also cut a v-shaped trough from the top of the bread. The trough makes it easier to spread in tuna or chopped fish sticks / crab meats. If there is a lot of sauce or mayo, just line it with lettuce first.

I'm getting hungry just writing this.

Subway Ramadhan Meal Special

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Subway is offering a Ramadhan meal special all throughout Ramadhan. This offer runs from 21st July to 18th August 2012. The meal consists of a choice of 6in sub, a drink (16oz) and a cookie. All for RM 9.90! Now you can find a subway on the way home or close to home and get one when go to the local Pasar Ramadhan. You can choose from either a BMT, Chicken Slice or Chicken Teriyaki sub.
Everyone can enjoy this because the offer runs all day long!

There is a catch though. Since the offer is not good with any other offers, including Sub of the The Day, you can't have the Ramadhan meal with

• a BMT sub on Monday
• a Chicken Slice sub on Friday
• a Chicken Teriyaki sub on Sunday

Who cares! It's still a good deal all week long, all month long.

Red tomatoes

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Tomatoes are best eaten fresh. Cut them just before preparing your sandwich. In fact, they should be the last thing to cut. If you have to prepare them beforehand, refrigerate them immediately after cutting but don't freeze them. When ordering a sandwich, look at the tomatoes before you add them your sandwich. If they look too soft or has started shriveling around the where it was cut, give it a pass.

Some people don't put them in sandwiched because they don't like tomatoes. But really, tomatoes are good for you. Three antioxidants are present in tomatoes: beta-carotene, Vitamin E, and Vitamin C. It also has four major carotenoids: alpha- and beta-carotene, lutein and lycopene. A lot of it is in the skin or peel. Tests have shown that the human intestinal cells absorbs more carotenoids with the peel on. When tomato paste was tested with tomato peels, it absorbed more compared to when tomato paste was without peels. So freshly cut tomatoes are better.
Tomatoes also have lycopene. Our body does not produce it naturally. While other fruits and vegetables do contain lycopene, no other fruit or vegetable has a higher concentration of Lycopene than tomatoes. The human body needs Lycopene in order to make use of those powerful anti-oxidants. 
Lycopene has also been proven to lower the risk of cancers such as prostate cancer, rectal cancer, and cancers of the stomach if taken in high levels. It is thought that men who eat two or more servings of tomato or tomato products will reduce prostate cancer risk by an average 35%. So not only eat tomatoes, eat lots of them.
The next time you have fresh, tasty tomatoes in your sandwich, enjoy it knowing your doing yourself a favor.

What you may not know: Tomatoes are a fruit, not vegetable. But is often used as a vegatable or served and cooked as a vegetable.