HM Bread cheaper ? and flour costs

Bella79

Hi all,

Me and dh have been making our own bread for a while, however just been to sains and the bag of flour was 1.40ish which will do 2 loafs, however they had allison breadflour on offer 2 bags for £2.00 so i brought 4 bags, but with the added cost of yeast is it really cheaper ? or jst better for you ?

And does anyone know of anywhere cheaper for bread flour ?

xxx

Justamum

Bella79 wrote: »

Hi all,

Me and dh have been making our own bread for a while, however just been to sains and the bag of flour was 1.40ish which will do 2 loafs, however they had allison breadflour on offer 2 bags for £2.00 so i brought 4 bags, but with the added cost of yeast is it really cheaper ? or jst better for you ?

And does anyone know of anywhere cheaper for bread flour ?

xxx

I get three loaves out of a bag of flour. Which yeast do you use? The sachets are horrendously expensive. I use Doves Farm yeast in the orange packet which costs £1.25 and you get about 40 loaves out of it (I was sad enough to count once :rotfl:). You should compare your homemade bread to the best quality you can buy, not to the cheapest loaf in the shops. Homemade is definitely cheaper, and better for you.

I make 4 loaves at a time so that saves electricity costs too - if you make it in bulk it will be cheaper.

kaydn

Bread flour is 68p in Lidl, I make 3 loaves from 1 bag hth

ragz_2

Ditto Lidl bread flour. I like to mix it with slightly more expensive wholemeal as well though to make it more nutritious.

aliwali

I ordered a load of flour from shipton Mill. I don't think it is the cheapest around but I worked out it is about 70p a loaf including the yeast. Obviously you don't get quite as many slices and I haven't factored in the electricity cost, so I suspect it is on a par with the £1 a loaf type bread. and homemade is nicer than that and more filling.

Flee_2

I cannot believe how some shops have almost put the price of bread flour up by double. Morrisons were selling bread flour for 50p beginning of the year and last couple of months it has gone up to 89p.

Tesco were over £1 beginning of the year and they have reduced it to 68p currently. So Tesco and Lidl seem to be the cheapest. I use Morrisons Yeast and it is just under 70p for 8 sachets, which makes 16 loaves.

Allinsons is £1 in Tesco atm.

pauleyc

Do aldi do any bread flour?
I used to buy asda's bread flour but we werent that keen, hows the Lidl one? Have been buying bread but think i will get the bread maker out again
Any advice appriciated - a nice recipe would be good as i think the one i was using wasnt the best

Thanks

valk_scot

I use the Lidl flour as well and use it 3:1 with wholemeal flour for my basic loaf. I add oats or sunflower seeds or cracked grains, depending on what I have. Or dried onion and grated down ends of dried up cheese, or honey instead of sugar, milk powder with 100% white flour, golden syrup and sultanas. I buy yeast in tins (can't remember the brand) and it works out a great deal cheaper than sachets. I get 3 loaves out of the average 1.5kg bag of flour, plus extras, so that usually works out between 40p and 80p a loaf, depending on what I put into it. Value honey and Value oats are not expensive and you don't need much of either after all. Compare that to supermarket premium bread at around £1.20+ a loaf and you can see I'm much cheaper making my own.

foxgloves

We always make our own. We make 70% wholemeal loaves in our Panasonic machine & I use Waitrose Essentials wholemeal bread flour which I think is £1.29 a bag and the other 30%, I use the Lidl white bread flour. The Lidl white does make lovely bread on its own but we are doing healthy eating (weight loss!) plan at the moment so making wholemeal in preference. Lidl flour is 68p a bag & sometimes it's been as low as 55p when they've had it on offer. I've never seen bread flour in Aldi. Wish they'd start doing it as Lidl seem to do well with their's. All the bread making people seem to know about it & it does rise well. For yeast, we use the orange packet too. It lasts a long time. One standard bag of flour does us 3 loaves or 2 loaves & a batch of bread rolls.

linnet384

I'm another one who uses the bread flour from Lidl and the Doves farm yeast. My mother who has been making bread for years and has tried all the different brands of strong flour and bread mixes is adamant that the Lidl bread flour is the best. She makes the bread using a ratio of three quarters white from Lidl mixed with one quarter wholemeal from tesco. I personally use a ratio of less wholemeal.

Bitsy_Beans

I use Lidl flour now for my bread (not mixed with anything else) and I find it perfectly fine. HM bread is far more filling and tasty that shop bought or indeed the instore bakery stuff.
I do use the sachets of yeast because I couldn't get on with Doves Farm yeast (even with added Vit C) so I take a large quarter teaspoon out of the sachet and save it and over the course of a week or so I have enough yeast to make another loaf or cinnammon buns etc