The cheapest loaf of bread

amethystdove

Asda have fresh baked hedgehog bread at 2 for £1.00, sliced or unsliced, it's lovely.My dh calls the cheap bread blotting paper!!

chuckley

bread is one thing i don't scrimp on. i have no problem paying £1.50 for a wholemeal loaf.

i would'nt touch cheap cardboard bread with a bargepole.

meanmum

I found organic malted or white bread mix in B&M bargains at 29p for a 500g pack - makes a large loaf in the breadmaker (or without a breadmaker almost as easily). Really tasty, I'd highly recommend.

alemild

all depends what you mean by 'bread'.

most of the stuff sold in supermarkets at any price is cotton wool as far as i can taste.

Now I pay just 50p for a European Rye Bread loaf, full of flavour and texture. How? Three years ago i bought a good Panasonic bread-maker and fill it with ready mixed German flour blends (just add water), of which are available 5 different varieties....all stocked by Lidl.

The payback time for the breadmaker is just 6 months!

Save money and gain taste at the same time.

buxtonrabbitgreen

I have a breadmaker but none of my family are keen on the loaves. They do like rolls that are made in the breadmaker then cooked in the oven. I don't do them everyday though, because the time in the breadmaker plus the proving and cooking is about 3 hours at the end of a working day. We get through a loaf a day for sandwiches and the kids breakfast etc and I find Aldi's white is usually nice. I go in on the way home from work and if it feels nice and fresh I buy about 5 loaves and put 4 in the freezer. It is 49p at my Aldi and is the nicest cheap bread i have found. There own seeded batch 99p is just as good as Warburtons in my opinion.

A_fiend_for_life

baccyman wrote: »

the trouble with the cheap bread is that it is like chewing cottonwool,

White bread tastes like putty to me (says he who eats bergen which does contain linseed)

A_fiend_for_life

valk_scot wrote: »

I bought a pile of these from Tesco when they were about the same price. Got white and wholemeal and use a 50:50 mix, kneaded in my old Kenwood Chef and then prooved for 2 hours, 30 minutes in the oven. Fantastic bread, 25p a loaf and the family eat every scrap. Trouble is they also eat twice as much, so it doubles the cost!!!!

Have to say though that home made bread is almost always cheaper and invariably much better, so if there's an unused Xmas 2006 breadmaker sitting in the back of the cupboard, get it out asap.

Bread is at the bottom of the 'food pyramid', it is recommended people need to eat more of their food from the bottom of the pyramid. Sounds like their on to a good thing.

kevinheb

Bread typically has about 50 ingredients in it, only about 5 of them are classed as ingredients and the rest of them can be classified as "processing aids" and don't need to be listed on the label. If you think that some of the ingredients look bad, you should see what some of these processing aids do!

Bread is the staple food of our diet, and skimping on bread which is relatively cheap when you look at the nutrient/energy content is a false economy in my mind.

There are bakeries that do bake bread properly, but unfortunately 99% of the bread eaten in this country is poor, hence why so many people think that they are intolerant to wheat.

So, you can't compare the price of a loaf to the cost of either making it in a breadmaker with simple ingredients or buying from an artisan baker.

ampersand

kevinheb wrote: »

Bread typically has about 50 ingredients in it, only about 5 of them are classed as ingredients and the rest of them can be classified as "processing aids" and don't need to be listed on the label. If you think that some of the ingredients look bad, you should see what some of these processing aids do!

Bread is the staple food of our diet, and skimping on bread which is relatively cheap when you look at the nutrient/energy content is a false economy in my mind.

There are bakeries that do bake bread properly, but unfortunately 99% of the bread eaten in this country is poor, hence why so many people think that they are intolerant to wheat.

So, you can't compare the price of a loaf to the cost of either making it in a breadmaker with simple ingredients or buying from an artisan baker.

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50..........!?!?!?
Seedy bread made yesterday had flour, sunflower/pumpkin/poppy/sesame/linseeds, lard, yeast(free from Mr T) salt and water.

The one that's baking now has flour, salt, honey, olive oil, yeast, red and green peppers, white and red onion, rosemary and sunflower seeds.

There's eggwash brushed on both.

kevinheb

Thats fantastic ampersand, I wouldn't use lard myself being a veggie, but any hard fat does the job. I'm sure you can enjoy it safe in the knowledge that you know that you only use quality ingredients.

You've got one up on most commercial bakers who I can promise you haven't got a clue what they are putting in their bread, they just chuck in a scoop of something called "improver" and don't give it a second thought.

Check out http://www.puratos.co.uk/products_solutions/bakery/bread_improvers/default.aspx as an example of the crap that goes into most bread, unfortunately the worst offenders are just listed as "enzymes"