are bagels good or bad?

ianbar

bagels seem to get a lot of plugging in training diets for pretty much most sports from what i have seen. what is it that makes them good to have? i am currently looking for something a bit different and still very good for me to have either when i get up or in from work(i work nights so these times are a little odd) so i have thought hmm a bagel, but googling them they seem high in calories so maybe not best idea?

rolf_f

Forget them - they are just a trendy (=expensive) way of eating stale bread!

team47b

They have more calories.

If this is a concern you would better off making your own bread then it can be as interesting as you make it. You can add herbs, spices, garlic, honey, potato, any type of flour etc.

If you make it sweet you have to post in The all new Cake Stop

nferrar

Not great as a regular part of your diet (like every breakfast), they're fairly high calorie and the carbs will trigger a blood sugar response (with the whole fat conversion and hunger stuff following). That's white bagels anyway, wholemeal ones are probably better. As a pre or post exercise snack they're not too bad though.
You want something higher protein as a regular part of your diet for breakfast (omelettes etc.)

Hoopdriver

Rolf F wrote:

Forget them - they are just a trendy (=expensive) way of eating stale bread!

You don't really get proper bagels over here in the UK

MichaelW

Hoopdriver wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

Forget them - they are just a trendy (=expensive) way of eating stale bread!

You don't really get proper bagels over here in the UK

The ones from Brick Lane are OK.
As for their aiding and abetting sporting prowess, I refer you to the Bumper Book of Jewish Sports Stars.

Zoomer37

New York bakery bagel with peanut butter = unmeasurable awesomeness

New York bakery bagel with spinach leafs and scrambled egg on top = life changing

Tom Dean

Rolf F wrote:

Forget them - they are just a trendy (=expensive) way of eating stale bread!

spoken like a true yorkshireman

t.m.h.n.e.t

<Consumes at least 1 bagel per day and I'm not dead or obese yet.

giant_man

Wholemeal or seeded bagels are fine and not full of calories imo. Just don't have butter or spread and put something healthy on the top.

neeb

A bagel is just bread in a particular shape, so whether it is good or bad depends on the same criteria that apply to bread. Fresh & wholemeal = good, processed & white = bad.

Bread is a high-carb food, but you need to eat carbs, and if you are really hungry it's better to have a big lump of wholemeal bread or a wholemeal bagel (which contains nutrients and fibre and releases energy slowly) than to have a salad and then end up pigging out on cakes and crisps later on because you are still hungry. The trick is to eat the correct amount of good quality high carb foods to match your energy expenditure.

rolf_f

Hoopdriver wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

Forget them - they are just a trendy (=expensive) way of eating stale bread!

You don't really get proper bagels over here in the UK

Something that simple that can't be replicated over here really has to be a bit demented. Anyway, I've tried them in New York and the texture was just the same as they are here - like half set araldite

klep

Why would you pay for a bread that has been taken a hole out of? And they even make it more expensive for less bread? Amazing how people fall for this...

Hoopdriver

klep wrote:

Why would you pay for a bread that has been taken a hole out of? And they even make it more expensive for less bread? Amazing how people fall for this...

Bagels are not just donut shaped bread. They are entirely different - different recipe, different process to make. As I said before you don't really get proper bagels here in the UK

DesB3rd

As I said before you don't really get proper bagels here in the UK

I expect London's the various E.European bakeries might be at odds with that...

Hoopdriver

DesB3rd wrote:

As I said before you don't really get proper bagels here in the UK

I expect London's the various E.European bakeries might be at odds with that...

Who cares?

Tom Dean

Hoopdriver wrote:

DesB3rd wrote:

As I said before you don't really get proper bagels here in the UK

I expect London's the various E.European bakeries might be at odds with that...

Who cares?

KILLER PUTDOWN!!!!!!!!!11111!!!!1!11

t.m.h.n.e.t

giant man wrote:

Wholemeal or seeded bagels are fine and not full of calories imo. Just don't have butter or spread and put something healthy on the top.

Unless you've already stuffed yourself beyond your intake for the day, there is no panic. My first breakfast of the day is 800cals worth. Bagel,banana and yoghurt is second breakfast. Two other meals after than + what I eat post swim/run and/or on the bike.

neeb wrote:

A bagel is just bread in a particular shape, so whether it is good or bad depends on the same criteria that apply to bread. Fresh & wholemeal = good, processed & white = bad.

Bread is a high-carb food, but you need to eat carbs, and if you are really hungry it's better to have a big lump of wholemeal bread or a wholemeal bagel (which contains nutrients and fibre and releases energy slowly) than to have a salad and then end up pigging out on cakes and crisps later on because you are still hungry. The trick is to eat the correct amount of good quality high carb foods to match your energy expenditure.

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