Bread Machine Recipe for 100% Whole Wheat Bread with Oats, Bran, and Flax Seed

This is one of my favorite bread machine breads, perfect for a cold February day!
(This favorite bread machine recipe was revisited and added to Recipe Favorites February 2011.)  I spent weeks on a quest to create South Beach Diet friendly bread using my Oster Bread Machine, and  this is the recipe I came up with! Previously I'd made South Beach friendly bread in the bread machine using a mix, but this time I wanted to make bread from scratch using all whole wheat flour, very minimal sugar, and a fair amount of fiber. The bread you see above is the winning recipe, after seven earlier versions and a lot of helpful suggestions from bloggers, relatives, and a parent from school!

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