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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forumswhy's bread so expensive?
don't we grow tons of wheat in this country? why?
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)low wage countries.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)applegrove
(118,696 posts)year.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)badhair77
(4,218 posts)Ive seen them for less than $5 in Goodwill-type stores. I use flour, sugar and yeast and butter - minutes to measure. It takes about 90 min to bake. Without the baking it takes less time than to walk into the store.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Flour, water, salt and yeast are the only ingredients. If you are making sourdough you don't even need commercial yeast.
Buzz cook
(2,472 posts)If you buy at an outlet store the cost per loaf is much lower.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)considering farm costs, storage, grain processing, baking, transportation, store overhead and profits....plus that lost due to out-of-date product.
In most areas of the US, the most outrageously priced and most extravagant item at the grocery which also has a high environmental cost is bottled water.....
Ohiogal
(32,006 posts)and we were on WIC, I learned to shop at the bakery outlet stores. Good quality whole wheat bread 75 cents a loaf. It was a lifesaver for us, especially when they got a little older and I used to pack 4 lunches every morning (3 kids and my hubbys). I still buy bread there sometimes.
UTUSN
(70,711 posts)Kaleva
(36,312 posts)Response to IcyPeas (Original post)
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Kali
(55,014 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)A loaf of generic white bread at Aldi is about 99 cents. A load of Pepperidge Farm at other chains can be $4.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)and whole wheat and theyre both ridiculously cheap. Try a different store?
Its easy to forget bread pricing has to account for a fairly high degree of loss for out of code product. Additionally, that short shelf life means bakery and bread distribution companies need to have daily merchandising of the product to maintain rotation and pull for codes. Those costs all need to be baked in, as it were.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)And they have to be paid.
yewberry
(6,530 posts)Bread is expensive here. Whole grain or seeded breads are routinely north of five bucks. Dave's Killer Bread (organic) is $6.89 at the Safeway up the street. Store brand organic is $4.09. Store brand multi-grain is on sale for $2.29.