Day Old Bread

They don't have them in my areas anymore. I just moved from a more major town to a smaller town and neither had day old bakeries. Back in the day they did tho, and I went twice a month. Not just bread, but baked goods and snack cakes etc. A huge savings. Hostess had one near me the last place I lived, and then it closed down...don't know why it was always packed! Good place if you can find one. I look in the back corner of my store and they often had a couple carts of racks of day old stuff...I don't like bread that is so soft it sticks to my mouth when I take a bite, so day old is good for me! And often if you just wrap it with a napkin and sprits it a tad with water, then nuke it a few seconds, it comes out just fine.

We used to have two bakery outlets that sold "day old" bread, but they both moved out, too. Now, the grocery store that I go to the most has bread marked down quite often so I always check their mark down racks before buying any. Last time I found several loaves of their brand, which is decent bread, for 49 cents a loaf! I made myself leave a couple of loaves for others. [em]wink[/em I like the higher priced bread and sometimes find that marked down, but not often, so I make my own that has different grains and/or seeds and nuts in it.

We used to have a bread store here in town but it closed. The brands were name brand...like HOlsum but that might just be common in our area....but they had good deals! Very good deals!

We don't have somewhere that specifically sells yesterday's bread, but I will use every scrap at home rather than throw it out. Toasted, older bread is fine. And if it's beyond that I'll make bread puddings with it or fry it with a breakfast or as croutons. Yesterday I added so chopped up older bread to omelettes to bulk them out and use it up.

I wish. That just doesn't happen in my country. Bread is kept on the shelves and when it is past the sell by date then it goes back to the company where it is usually sold to an outlet that makes bread pudding that is sold again in the same shop. If I have left over bread then it is also saved in the freezer until I have enough to make a pudding too. Or lese, I make french toast for my grandchildren's breakfast

I do buy day old bread when they have some. We go through bread so fast and those that I get are still quite fresh. We do have a bakery outlet here but I have never been to it. I remember mom going to one when I was at home. We loved it cause she would always buy a bunch of cupcakes.

When the kids were growing up I shopped the bakery outlet all the time. I bought bread and occasionally some bakery treats for them when I didn't feel like baking but they liked mine better than ready made. Now that I live alone I don't eat enough baked goods to make the special trip but it's definitely a great way to save money.

Our bakeries here do not sell day old bread. They normally donate the unsold bread to charities, such as orphanages or homes for the aged. I think that is good gesture on their part, but it means we do not have the opportunities to buy cheap bread that is still good to eat.

We usually buy our bread at the supermarket,. The expiry dates are longer than those from bakeries. Not as freshly baked but its longevity sort of makes it cheaper than freshly baked breads. But once in a while we still buy from bakeries when we crave for bread that's not sold in bakeries.