How much do you spend on bread every year ?

quintwins

Boodle wrote: »

Ladies, to be frank, I wouldn't recommend the method. I understand you wish to try improving the outcome. I just don't want to be held responsible lol

:rotfl::rotfl:if it's naff it'll do for breadcrumbs :money:

honeythewitch

quintwins wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:if it's naff it'll do for breadcrumbs :money:

I will torment the birds with my failures. :rotfl:

pigpen

We use 2-3 loaves a DAY.. I dread to think how much we spend. I do buy reduced wtuff when I see it and freeze it if I have room.. I couldn't possibly keep up with my breadmaker so gave up.

anniemf2508

Alot......my husband is a coeliac so just his bread costs about £300 a year (hes not entitled to it on prescription and we've making it in the breadmaker but hes not keen).
For the rest of us its about £100 a year, not including other bread products (muffins, bagels etc). I can't eat homemade bread, its too crusty for my dentures, so i sold my bread maker last week.

aliama

You don't need a breadmaker to make bread (although that might work better for sandwich-sized loaves). Do you have a food processor with a paddle attachment? If so, I'd suggest trying to bake bread by hand rather than buying a breadmaker, at least at first.

Using a food processor, it really doesn't take that much of your time. Rising time can be considerable, but crucially you don't have to do anything. You can often also rise bread in the fridge overnight, so you can make it the night before, leave it to rise and have freshly baked bread in the morning.

And I bet your toddler would also love to have their very own bit of bread which they shaped themselves.

As for ingredients, you'd need to spend about 70p for 1.5kg strong bread flour, £1 for 6 sachets of yeast and, er... that's it. Maybe a couple of loaf tins, other types of flour when you're ready to branch out from white bread.

nightsong

anniemf2508 wrote: »

Alot......my husband is a coeliac so just his bread costs about £300 a year (hes not entitled to it on prescription and we've making it in the breadmaker but hes not keen).
For the rest of us its about £100 a year, not including other bread products (muffins, bagels etc). I can't eat homemade bread, its too crusty for my dentures, so i sold my bread maker last week.

Please could you post what bread your DH eats? I've just stopped eating anything with gluten (celiac runs in the family and I'm pretty sure I've got it too). I've tried Genius, but not keen. Other suggestions gratefully received!

anniemf2508

nightsong wrote: »

Please could you post what bread your DH eats? I've just stopped eating anything with gluten (celiac runs in the family and I'm pretty sure I've got it too). I've tried Genius, but not keen. Other suggestions gratefully received!

His favourite is Genius. Warburtons have just rebranded their Gf bread range (to Newburn) and seems to be getting good reviews...plus its on offer at Tesco at the moment. Waitrose own brand one is pretty good too.

Popperwell

I sometimes buy the better quality bread and might get back to making my own again. I try to get reduced yellow stickered if I time it right. But often it is the cheap stuff under 50p:obut a loaf lasts me ages and takes ages to go stale or mouldy. Probably because the kitchen is quite a cold room...

If there was room I would freeze some but I may have to consider a second freezer...perhaps from a charity shop to keep the price down...

SailorSam

I think it costs me about 50p to make a loaf and probably make 2 a week, so that's about £50 a year. On top of that i may make a pizza but not every week. Of course i only use white flour for the pizza base so that's a lot cheaper than making a loaf.

FireWyrm

We make at least 1 full loaf a day (every day of the week) and a round of 8 white rolls every other day. We buy bags of strong flour at 68p per 1.2kg. I usually stock up with 3kg of flour bags when they are on offer and never buy less than 6 bags per month. We make bread overnight in the breadmaker so it's ready for the morning and rolls early morning sometime so they can be set on the radiator to prove. My weakness is Tiger bread in that we've never been able to successfully make this, but otherwise, I havnt bought commercial bread for 7 years or more. I dread to think how much that would be in commercial prices daily. I think we've replaced the original breadmaker twice more in that time and so far this current one has been a trojan for £30.