nutritious junk

There may be things that we are lacking in life, but vessels for carbs are not one of them.  We’ve got bagels, muffins, bread, buns, cookies, cakes, and all in a zillion different sizes, flavors and more.  If only we could create world peace with baked goods…I don’t know how that could happen but it’s an interesting idea.  But today I will be focusing on only one bread type.  The English muffin.  Having been born in English I have had some damn good English muffins, or crumpets as it were. So when I decided to try Nature’s Grain Lite English Muffins, expectations were high.  From the outside these muffins of English decent look exactly like every other e. muf on the shelf, they weren’t smaller and to the touch they were just as dense.  But taste wise, it just didn’t cut it, I mean I was able to cut it, it just didn’t CUT it.  The first thing that tipped me off was the smell of the muffins.  It didn’t have that baked good smell, and not even the slightly sour sourdough smell.  It just really smelled like old bread.  I checked the expiration date and knew that I was dealing with some age appropriate English muffins.  Now I understand that English muffins are notoriously bland and really only perk up when something else is added to them or slathered on top.  But these just tasted wrong alone.  It almost tasted like someone had accidentally put too much baking soda in the mix.  That’s really the only way I can describe the taste.  I tried again and toasted it and then put sugar free jam on top, and then it was good.  But all that I could taste was the jam, but the texture from the English muffin was right on.  Each muffin is 80 calories, .5g of fat, 5g of fiber and 7g of protein.  Not bad at all.  If you get these though just make sure at the same time you pick something else up to cover any flavor they may give off.