9p Loaf? How do you do it?

bumblebeeandboy

Hi Everyone,

I've been making HM bread for a while but mainly for bread mixes as this was cheaper than buying a shop bought loaf.

In the last week i've been trying to make my own from scratch as cheaper still but with the price of bread flour at Mr T's (80-90p) a bag i can only make a loaf for about 30-35p which is cheaper but still not down to the 9-10p i've seen some people quoting.

So please tell me how do you do it and what do you use. I even tried making it with value plain flour it tasts ok but more like cake!

Going shopping in an hour so can get ingredients then.

Thanks

thriftlady_2

9p ? I certainly can't make bread that cheap and quite honestly can't see how anyone can. An average loaf needs about 700g of flour which is about half a bag. So, when you've added the cost of yeast plus salt and maybe sugar plus fuel you need your flour to cost less than 18p a bag

Where are the posts which claim you can make a loaf for 9p ?

Olliebeak

Is it perhaps where people have mentioned getting bread for 9p per loaf - as in getting really good whoopsies at the end of the day?

thriftlady_2

I notice the cost of a Tesco value loaf is 35p, so you're doing really well to make a loaf for less than that because your hm loaf will be so much better without all those weird ingredients and tastier too

bumblebeeandboy

definitely seen it somewhere i shall have a hunt and find it.

Penelope_Penguin

I've found this thread - is it worth buying a breadmaker? The cheapest loaf quoted there was 15p (unless someone sees one cheaper ).

I don't see how you could get away with 9p/loaf, unless it's a small loaf, using a proportion of value soft flour :rolleyes:

Btw, thriftlady - I've seen several people use half soft and half strong flour. What do you use?

Penny. x

Bella56

We buy the strong bread flour at Lidls for 48p per bag and it works just as good/better than the posh brands. So that would save a bit of money I suppose.

thriftlady_2

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

I don't see how you could get away with 9p/loaf, unless it's a small loaf, using a proportion of value soft flour :rolleyes:

Btw, thriftlady - I've seen several people use half soft and half strong flour. What do you use?

Penny. x

I use all strong flour Penny. I vary the proportions of white to wholemeal and I replace some of the flour with oatmeal.

I don't see how you could make a loaf for 9p even if you used value plain flour as that now costs 36p.

Maybe the 9p loaf was from a very old thread ?

thriftlady_2

Bella56 wrote: »

We buy the strong bread flour at Lidls for 48p per bag and it works just as good/better than the posh brands. So that would save a bit of money I suppose.

Same price as Tesco

Penelope_Penguin

thriftlady wrote: »

I use all strong flour Penny. I vary the proportions of white to wholemeal and I replace some of the flour with oatmeal.

That's interesting Do you replace weight for weight? And, is oatmeal the same as porridge oats?

Thanks, Penny. x

getting-sorted-sarah

Weezl74 can make meals out of air - if anyone quoted 9p a loaf it would be her.