Is homemade bread REALLY cheaper?

lynneee

blueberrypie wrote: »

But they did sell it to me this morning...

i stand corrected!:rotfl:
maybe its just a Morrisons policy?

Fat_Fairy

i stopped baking bread - what with the cost of the ingredients, the electricty, and the occasional 'disaster' i didn't feel it was working out too well. When a loaf worked really well it was eaten in no time so another one was needed straight away :rolleyes:!.

I have 'downgraded' from Hovis to Tesco wholemeal and save around 60p per loaf by doing so!. I do agree about the chemicals though, they're taking over the world :eek:!

Ben84

I think home made bread is cheaper.

I use 675g flour (strong white is 36p) to make a big loaf or two trays of rolls. The extras like warm water, yeast, two tbsp of sunflower oil and a tsp of salt are pretty insignificant to the cost. I'm not sure how much the gas costs, but I try to fill the cooker and usually put the bread in with lunch, so it would normally be lit for a while anyway.

wogglemaker

Hubby invested in a car boot breadmaker a few weeks ago and as 1.5 kg of white bread lower will make three loave, the lowest price I've found is 65p, the extras are negilagable previously stated.

The quality of home made is also much better, everything does not depend n price

mama67

I'll also add to my previous post in that my 2 boys won't touch shop bought wholemeal or brown bread of any variety but they will eat and love the half & half loaves which i make.

I use 20oz flour in each loaf and split it 8oz w/m and 12oz white.

The other thing I do is when making pizza bases I use the Dove's farm pasta flour as it gives a better dough.

phizzimum

blueberrypie wrote: »

Having written what I did yesterday, I asked again in Tesco this morning. At first the person I asked said, "Oh, um...how do they usually do it?", and I said, "oh, they usually just put a little bit in a bag and give it to you!" (well, they do for other MSE posters LOL) :j

good for you blueberry! maybe I'll ask tomorrow now you've been successful.

MicheH

My daughter and I (she's 5) made a loaf of bread a couple of days ago. You know what, it was beautiful. The problem I have though is trying to justify the electricity of having the oven on for 35 minutes each day. Would I be better off just buying a loaf for £1.25.

Also, breadmakers, are they large electricity consumers. We use about 5 loaves a week. Thats £25 a month.

I would like some help working out how much homemade loaves would cost. I'm so new to money saving and i'm thrilled a friend from another board told me to come here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Miche

anguk

How about batch baking the loaves? You could do a couple of loaves a couple of times a week or even 5 in one go then freeze them for the week, that would keep electricity costs down.

Or make the bread when you'd have the oven on anyway for dinner?

I don't think breadmakers use lots of electricity, certainly not as much as an oven, but personally I don't think the loaves are as nice as oven baked.

thriftlady_2

I see a lot of comments about how expensive it is to have the oven on. Is it? I've no idea how much it costs to run an oven. I use mine every day -for cooking food and stuff- am I unusual?

I bake four loaves at once and freeze the extras. I bake about twice a week.

MicheH

Hmm, yeah, freezing the loaves. I could do, i'd need a couple more tins but thats not a problem, could do breadbuns too for now while I save for tins.

You know I don't actually recall anyone telling me the oven is expensive to run I just have it in my head and shudder with horror if I have to use it.

I had an idea about cooking my own haricot beans and putting them into my own tomato sauce so my children could have healthy baked beans, when I read on the packet, cook for an hour I recoiled in horror and they're still sitting in the cupboard! I wonder if haricot beans would freeze? It seems that batch baking and the freezer is my new best friend.