silly tip thats working for me ..

Shropshirelass

I also freeze sliced bread. OH likes white and I like brown, so I buy 1 of each and make up 4 mixed loaves. This will often last us the week out.
I also buy LL milk, get 3 X pack of 6 every month. This makes up the cost of a delivery to over £40, so I get a cheap grocery delivery - never pay more than £1, which is cheaper than driving to the supermarket.

GreenQueen

We freeze our bread and take out as needed. Like Islandmaid, sandwiches made on frozen bread are fine by lunchtime - also have the advantage that the butter spreads more thinly on hard bread than fresh that pulls into holes.

We have a milkman who delivers three times a week, which is a bit more expensive per pint, but takes away the excuse to go to the shop - and has the environmental advantage of reuseable bottles.
GQ

arbrighton

I just freeze the loaves and take it out as needed, and as long as they go in unsquashed the slices separate fine. Rewrap properly and it doesn't go stale. Make sandwich on frozen bread and it's perfecy by lunch time.
Toast from frozen.

Long life milk though. Just NO. It's awful.

C_J

Linda32 wrote: »

Hi, sorry to ask but you are not aiming to freeze each slice separately are you? It might just be the way I have read it That will take ages.

I was planning on freezing each loaf in small batches of a few slices each, separated by baking parchment from the pound shop. That way I can just take out as many or as few as I need each day for toast or sandwiches. I imagine if I freeze a whole sliced loaf it will stick all the slices together and it'll be all or nothing - right?

arbrighton

No, as long as it's not squashed the slices separate fine (or a knife wiggled between does it)

Linda32

No, the slices don't stick together. I know you would think they would but honestly they don't.

I wondered why you said you were waiting until the weekend which is why I thought you were separating each slice.

Frozen and then defrosted bread lasts about as long as it would if not frozen in the first place. I like bread very soft so I take out about three days worth. (Whatever that amount is in your home) It is about 1/2 a loaf here. So I freeze half at a time.

I promise the slices separate without baking parchment between each slice.

arbrighton

I'm in no way organised, so i just take it out as and when- it defrosts for a bacon buttie in the time it takes to cook the bacon for example

Redlady.....

I buy my milk and bread for the week whichever day I do my shop on.

I bought 3 fresh milks today which will take us up to next week-end. I search through until I find the longest date (only takes a couple of minutes). Today's had 30th May on them. Being doing that for years.

Lindlou

I buy milk and bread for the week too. Bread is frozen, milk lasts fine. The only problem I can see for a larger family is the storage space in the fridge...

Apodemus

Rule of thumb for milk is that it should last for ten days at refrigerator temperatures, but take a day off that for every hour that it is at room temperature. So if you have sufficient fridge space and can get it home from the shop without it warming too much or for too long, then a weekly fresh-milk shop should be do-able.

For long-life (uht) milk, which is the norm in some other countries, while it lasts for a very long time unopened, once it has been opened it is often only good for about seven days. The lactobacilli which help milk stay fresh (but eventually turn it to yoghurt) are killed off by the heat treatment along with the bacteria that cause spoilage, so in many cases, opened UHT will actually go off quicker than fresh milk.