Freezer Fresh

bargain_carly

Hello

This is my first posting and I really hope I'm doing it right and its placed in the correct forum! I think this site is amazing and I'm completely hooked!

Recently I have been trying to plug up the holes in my finances as I'm due to give up work in 2 months as I'm doing a career change course.

I have stopped buying lunch at work and instead take sandwiches. I realised that we would often buy a loaf of (quality) bread and towards the end of the week it would be on the way to being stale and more often than not have mold spots on it.
I now buy cheap bread in brown and white and freeze them. Whenever we want to make sandwiches for lunch we take out 2 slices of whatever colour bread we want and make them with the frozen bread. In an hour it is completely defrosted. It keeps the bread and filling much fresher and it means we dont waste any bread. Also as we run out less often it stops having to go shopping earlier than usual (well it will once I start freezing spare pints of milk as well). If we want toast we'll toast from frozen. We dont really make sandwiches to eat straight away so it suits us. I would imagine this would be useful for homebaked bread due to the lack of preservatives.

My b/f was quite sceptical when I first suggested this but this morning he told me he really liked the new system and that I should post it on here!!
Next shop, I'm going to buy a spare milk and freeze it too so that I'm more likely to succeed at the storecupboard challenge.

Hope this is useful to someone!

foreverskint

Welcome to the boards bargain_carly:j

That is useful, thanks.

You will learn lots of ways to make your money go further on here, and there's lots of lovely people here if you ever need a question answered.

With regards to the bread, watch out cos you'll soon be after a breadmaker:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

bargain_carly

Thanks!

I already have a breadmaker but it has sat in the corner of the kitchen for a while now unused. Is it worth making bread- taking into account ingredients, electricity for the oven, effort etc when supermarket bread is as cheap as 29p?? Also found it doesnt last as long as we find it hard to slice thin enough or else I end up hacking it to death!!

When we first got it we were using ready mixes (almost as expensive as posh bread)for convenience, but thats out of the question now!

comping_cat

I very rarely buy bread now, i love my bread machine. I find that the bread is cheap to make, if you are buying cheap value/own brand bread it would be cheaper, but in your HM bread, you know exactly whats in it!!!! After the bread has cooled, i often slice it and freeze it, much as you suggest, so it doesnt matter it hasnt got the artificial preservative in it to keep it fresher for longer!!!!

frosty

My family love fruit bread but it costs quite a bit to buy,so I make it in my bread machine.I also buy bread mixes when they are on a buy one get one free offer,then if i am in a hurry I can just throw it in the bread machine and set the timer,I just add 2 tsp of mixed spice,and a cup of dried fruit,I add it at the start because I think the bread is nicer when the machine has chopped up the fruit.