Trying to source baking materials cheaper than supermarkets?

DocHants

Im looking to buy baking ingredients in 10kg - 25kg amounts, and to be honest, was astounded to find out that most wholesalers were actually more expensive than my local supermarket!!

Its cheaper for me to buy it in the 1kg or3kg bags at my local supermarket than anywhere Ive found on line....

Cheapest if found:

Icing sugar: 3kg £3.60
Ready to roll icing: 1kg £2.59

Also, most wholesalers wont deliver in residential areas due to them using 18 tonners, but anyway, theyre still more expensive!

Any suggestions??

Seakay

do you want to buy in these amounts on a very regular basis, as for a business, or are you wanting to save by buying a large amount and then use it at the usual domestic rate?
If the latter, then you may want to have a look at online retailers such as https://www.ApprovedFood.co.uk; https://www.halfcost.co.uk; https://www.foodbargains.co.uk
They won't have what you want all the time, but if you look regularly then you should be able to take advantage when what you want becomes available.

DocHants

Fairly regularly, for a small home business...

I was just amazed that wholesalers were more expensive than supermarkets!!! I do use some of the links you provided, so ill keep an eye on them.. thanks

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moonpixiewitch

sugar paste (roll out icing) - 2.19 per kilo if you buy 25 kilos - http://www.cake-stuff.com/

cocoa powder and icing sugar i get from here http://www.hbingredients.co.uk/

caster sugar and wheat free flour- because i use a specific type , it is cheaper to buy from supermarkets

wheat flour - i don't use but - doves farm do large sacks if you have storage

dried fruit - makro or hb ingredients or cake stuff or supermarkets , or try suma if you want organic http://www.suma.coop/

chocolate baking chips http://www.plamilfoods.co.uk/catering/

HTH

Callie22

It depends on the quality of ingredients you want, how much you want and how often, but tbh sometimes it's much cheaper to buy value stuff from the supermarkets than it is to buy from wholesalers, particularly if you don't want big, regular orders. My mum's a baker and quite often she'll stock up on supermarket special offers as it can work out cheaper than her wholesalers. She has a similar problem in that she can no longer buy flour direct from the millers as she's 'too small', so she has to buy through a middleman. It's still cheaper than the supermarket but only because she buys twenty plus sacks a week.

frugal_shopper_2

Have you joined the local cash & carry yet? if not then I suggest you do.
Approved Food, Foodbargains BigBrandsForLess etc... do regularly have cheap baking ingredients however it would not be appropriate to use them for a business as they are usually long past the best before date so it would be considered misleading to sell products made from them unless you make your customers aware that the ingredients are out of date.
Have you tried approaching a local bakery, most will quite happilly add a few extra items onto their own orders if you want to buy in full packs of goods as the mopre they are buying from the wholesaler the more favourable the prices.

Violetta_2

Do you have a local ethnic store, a lot of their dry good can ve very good value. Also brilliant for spices. I always get bag's of cinnamon from my local Chinese supermarket , about 6 times what you get in a spice jar from the supermarket for 50p.