I'm just going to throw it out there; I love bread. Yep that may be a weird thing to say, but over the past couple of years, we've seen lots of bad press towards carbs and in particular bread. It's not something I paid much attention to, but as I've started to get more into fitness and looking at what I ate, I often came across food plans or diets that were either low carb or no carbs. Bread was almost like a naughty word, and I could never quite understand why.

I was invited down to a special pop up cafe last week in London which was held by the nation's bakers to celebrate bread and why bread should be eaten as part of a balanced diet. I was intrigued to find out more, and to see if bread was really good for us.

The Toast or Hands cafe was situated in Shoreditch, and was giving away free unicorn toast (more on this later) and it was pretty busy full of other toast lovers like myself (you just can't beat a good old slice of toast can you")
As well as enjoying unicorn toast at the cafe, I got the chance to speak to Lily Soutter, a nutritionist who was on hand to talk all things bread. I took this opportunity to ask her some questions about bread, and why there is such a misconception about it. When I asked her 'was bread good for us"' Her answer was yes, and said how bread is a great source of fibre, especially wholemeal bread. She explained that fibre is essential for us to be eating, and many of us aren't eating enough, she said on average most people are ...