Many months ago a lovely girlfriend shared this recipe for a seed loaf, called ‘The life-changing loaf of Bread‘. To be honest, I thought it looked really dry, dense and heavy. Memories of my childhood school sandwiches made with my mother’s homemade brick bread came flooding back. It wasn’t pretty.

So I thanked her and quickly pushed the recipe aside.

Since then, there seems to have been a love affair with seed loaves on the interwebby.

Everywhere I look people are popping up with their version of a seed loaf. I started to feel like I was missing out. What better thing to do when this happens, than to join them! I started by making that life-changing loaf and OMG-blimey it was good. Like surprisingly good. Perhaps not life-changing, but it was goooood!

Then low and behold this month’s Recipe Redux asked us for some lunch inspiration.

Since I’d recently been inspired by, and have been eating this loaf for my lunch ever since, it was too good an opportunity to miss. I decided to make this healthy, life-changing loaf healthier (if that was at all possible). The only thing I could think of was to add a vegetable. After a quick look in the veggie drawer, carrot it was.

I also wanted to ‘lighten’ things up a bit, so added some quinoa as well. It’s always a gamble when doing this sort of thing, but thankfully it worked first go!

My favourite ways to serve it (either toasted or untoasted when it’s still fresh) is topped with hommus and dukkah…

Or with avocado and dukkah….

Perhaps it won’t change your life, but I hope at least you try it, cause it’s pretty damn good!