Is homemade bread REALLY cheaper?

Justamum

mrssnowy wrote: »

Afer many years of not liking my HM bread DH has been converted-reasons being that we live in rural area and local shops expensive for bread,£1 for carp sliced and over £1.20 for fresh bread:eek:

Locally made bread from locally grown wheat is about £1.40 a loaf:eek: - and it's the cotton wool type.

I make 4 loaves at a time, slice and freeze them.

Tbh it's the taste too which makes me prefer hm bread - hm has taste, bought doesn't.

Tesco bread flour has recently been 63p a bag (could possibly be cheaper for you - our prices are slightly higher I think).

pepsimax62

According to my energy moniter(new toy)it cost me 3p to make a loaf,I buy asdas flour and yeast so its got to be cheaper.But I don't really care because my daughter gave me a sarnie in hers today with shop bought bread and all I could think was yuk.I'm converted.

jonni3000

I've been baking my own bread for a while now. I gave up with the Panny Breadmaker as it turned out just too many bricks (they didn't get wasted I just blitzed it down to make rusk for my HM sausages).

I make it in the mixer with a dough hook, but I also grind my own wheat as I have an attachment on the mixer for doing this.

You really cannot beat it, and it is so simple. It also goes really well with my HM bacon too!!

I believe you have to look at the Protein content on the flour packet to give an indication of it breadmaking capability. You may notice that "strong" breadmaking flours have a higher protein content. It may assist with the gluten formation when being kneaded which in turn helps it to rise.

Lookingtothefuture

I was just wondering, is making your own bread really cheaper than buying it when you take everything into account? My OH although fabulously MSE in every other way will not have any other bread than fresh from the bakery!

So does anyone have any good recipes? :beer:

freyasmum

Compared to buying fresh bread from the bakery? No contest! It's MUCH cheaper to make your own - not to mention having the smell of freshly baked bread wafting through your home :drool:

There are loads of threads on here with recipes :j

Gimme a minute



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Erme

Bread recipe (magimix) - 2lb loaf x 1

10oz (?9oz = 250g) flour (or 8 depending - still to test)
1 tsp dried yeast in hand hot water (150ml)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar (just under)
1 tbsp sunflower oil

Tip flour, oil, salt and sugar into the bowl fitted with metal (large) blade
Switch on
During this time mix the yeast with water and a little sugar, stir until small balls form
Slowly put down feed tube until mix forms ball
Put in plastic bowl

Repeat x 1 depending on amount of flour used
Kneed together for a few minutes to mix (add a little flour if necessary to make it dry otherwise it's rather sticky)
Put in loaf tin with cling film over - allow rise


I'm still to fathom exact quantities of flour...I find 12oz a disaster in a 2lb loaf tin so obviously it needs to be more than that but is 20z too much? I figure I might be able to get away with 18 seeing as that's 500g. I mean with 12oz or less you can leave it all night to rise and yes it doubles but it's only half a loaf!

Anyhow to be continued

Half - 1/3 risen in 1/2 hour so far in room temp room. I think I'm going to put these loaves in a mid hot oven (so that's 200c for folk like me..don't know the other conversions sorry) for 1/2 hour min or till I think it's done..

Am using poundland loaf tins with old lakeland liners (cos they fit fab)...
The second one I made using 20oz of flour is looking just champion right now...here's hoping

E
PS. You could make this cheaper by 1/2-part subsituting strong bread flour with the cheap stuff. Learnt off my frugal board

Doom_and_Gloom

Well I say it's cheaper and we make ours in a breadmaker. A 1.5kg bag of flour will make around 3 2lb loaves (95p for wholemeal). It takes just over a sachet of dried yeast for those 3 loaves (about 14p). A little bit of salt (3p if), some water (no idea but not a lot - say 2p?), sugar (6p), oil (6p), 11hours electricity (approx £1.23 - this is a big spend but the cycle is 3hours 40 each), vitamin C powder (10p).

So that's £2.59 for 3 loaves of wholemeal bread or aprox 86p for 1.
The loaves I would buy would be £1 each. So to us this is a saving of 14p a loaf (if my calculations are correct). If you buy the basic/value/smart price than it won't save you anything at all. Saying that though home made isn't basically air so they fill you up better costing you less in the long run. I also like knowing what I am eating.

White bread is a lot cheaper to make. The flour is only 42p for 1.5kg (the basic works fine my partner found), there is no need to use the vitamin C powder and the cycle is less (3 hours for each o 9 hours total) meaning the electricity goes down to £1.
That makes 3 loaves for £1.73 or 1 for aprox 58p. Again though it's not basically air you are eating!

I'd rather eat no bread than eat shop bought now. Home made tastes better, fills you up better and you know exactly what is in it. It also doesn't shrink down as soon as you touch it to cut it!

Just notice you said you buy bakery.Yes homemade will be cheaper as like me you would be spending at least £1 on a loaf otherwise!

rachbc

I'd say def yes - esp if you don't use a bread machine -I do 3/4 loaves at a time sand the oven is only on for 30-40 mins, I don't use sachets of yeast as they work out v pricey and add no sugar or oil either

Erme

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

Well I say it's cheaper and we make ours in a breadmaker. A 1.5kg bag of flour will make around 3 2lb loaves (95p for wholemeal). It takes just over a sachet of dried yeast for those 3 loaves (about 14p). A little bit of salt (3p if), some water (no idea but not a lot - say 2p?), sugar (6p), oil (6p), 11hours electricity (approx £1.23 - this is a big spend but the cycle is 3hours 40 each), vitamin C powder (10p).

So that's £2.59 for 3 loaves of wholemeal bread or aprox 86p for 1.
The loaves I would buy would be £1 each. So to us this is a saving of 14p a loaf (if my calculations are correct). If you buy the basic/value/smart price than it won't save you anything at all. Saying that though home made isn't basically air so they fill you up better costing you less in the long run. I also like knowing what I am eating.

White bread is a lot cheaper to make. The flour is only 42p for 1.5kg (the basic works fine my partner found), there is no need to use the vitamin C powder and the cycle is less (3 hours for each o 9 hours total) meaning the electricity goes down to £1.
That makes 3 loaves for £1.73 or 1 for aprox 58p. Again though it's not basically air you are eating!

I'd rather eat no bread than eat shop bought now. Home made tastes better, fills you up better and you know exactly what is in it. It also doesn't shrink down as soon as you touch it to cut it!

Just notice you said you buy bakery.Yes homemade will be cheaper as like me you would be spending at least £1 on a loaf otherwise!

I'm quite curious on the costings here and will have to make rolls next week cos that's what I was on before and I used to get them for like 20 or 30p (no more than 55p) for 6 depending at reduced time and freeze. Obviously if you've a good quality supermarket nearby this is useful for sos but it really doesn't take long to make bread....and there's loads of help on this thread

rachbc wrote: »

I'd say def yes - esp if you don't use a bread machine -I do 3/4 loaves at a time sand the oven is only on for 30-40 mins, I don't use sachets of yeast as they work out v pricey and add no sugar or oil either

I prefer oil and sugar but nothing fancy..just sunflower or whatever I have in...it's not expensive. Only a tsp or tablespoon per loaf...I think the biggest cost here is flour and elec but yes I believe (and I haven't done my costings yet) it does work out cheaper to bake by hand rather than BM....

Btw my second loaf this am was delicious - scrapped breakkie porridge in favour of two slices with lemon curd ...

I think I have this just about sussed now :j...onto next BM challenge...:)

E

elf06

I love homemade bread but it took me ages to find a recipe that worked for me!! I now use this one because it can be whacked (yes the technical term ) together the night before and baked in the morning which is then rather hard to resist until lunchtime :rotfl:

heres the link for the recipe i use

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2060/easy-white-bread