Who actually buys grocery store bread and why?

[Anonymous]

Fresh bread just isn’t great for PBJ or fluffernutters or grilled Pb/banana (the Elvis).
Plus like another PP I have a teen boy that can wipe out a loaf pretty fast.
We get the Pepperidge farm home style at Costco which isn’t bad, taste wise. There used to be another brand at Costco that was really good but the company apparently stopped making it. It was a white whole wheat and was more solid than most store bought brands so really stood up well to the PB. I hate the cheap grocery brands that rip so easily!

As another plus, most of the store brands are Union made by employees with decent pay, benefits and pensions. That’s not true of most small local bakeries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s bread. It’s just a serving platter for my peanut butter. And if I’m making grilled cheese, it has to be Sunbeam White Bread. We get fresh Italian bread once a week from a local Italian restaurant. $3.00 a loaf. It’s delicious. But I don’t use it for sandwiches.

+1. Agree on the Sunbeam. Make tons of sandwiches for the kids.

[Anonymous]

I do occasionally go to a local French bakery and buy a single baguette for about $1.50, cut it into several portions and freeze all but what I want to eat that day. Quite tasty!

I also buy bread in the bread aisle at the grocery store. Also quite tasty!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The BEST bread for pbj is the 99¢ safeway brand white loaf.
I sat this as someone who regularly makes homemade sourdough, ciabatta, pizza dough, whole wheat sandwich bread, focaccia. For real, I love making doughy stuff but that 99¢ loaf is something I just cant duplicate.

https://www.safeway.com/shop/product-details.960055254.html# This shows as $1.49 for me. I don't see any $0.99 bread at Safeway. In spite of OP, this has no high fructose corn syrup and 1 g sugar. Can you post a link, PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s bread. It’s just a serving platter for my peanut butter. And if I’m making grilled cheese, it has to be Sunbeam White Bread. We get fresh Italian bread once a week from a local Italian restaurant. $3.00 a loaf. It’s delicious. But I don’t use it for sandwiches.

Which restaurant?

[Anonymous]

I rarely eat any bread at home except for what I bake myself, but I buy grocery store bread because that is what my SN kids with ultra picky tastes will eat. I tried for years to feed them only "good" bread until it was clear they wouldn't eat it. And when you have kids who have a narrow diet, you do anything to expand it. Even buy food you'd never eat yourself, like grocery store bread.

Please don't judge others for their food choices. Be satisfied with your own superiority.

[Anonymous]

It is definitely is a stupid question alongnwith who buys cool whip and stouffers frozen lasagna.

Are you new to the USA? People eat garbage food here.

[Anonymous]

Interesting fact about frozen white bread that’s thawed or toasted, the glycemic index is about 30% lower than white bread that wasn’t previously frozen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fresh bread just isn’t great for PBJ or fluffernutters or grilled Pb/banana (the Elvis).
Plus like another PP I have a teen boy that can wipe out a loaf pretty fast.
We get the Pepperidge farm home style at Costco which isn’t bad, taste wise. There used to be another brand at Costco that was really good but the company apparently stopped making it. It was a white whole wheat and was more solid than most store bought brands so really stood up well to the PB. I hate the cheap grocery brands that rip so easily!

As another plus, most of the store brands are Union made by employees with decent pay, benefits and pensions. That’s not true of most small local bakeries.

Yea and as par usual union employees churn out a sub par product.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting fact about frozen white bread that’s thawed or toasted, the glycemic index is about 30% lower than white bread that wasn’t previously frozen.

That's interesting! Thanks for posting.

Some of us don't live anywhere near a bakery that sells fresh bread OP, so I think we are the target audience. We do have a bread machine we use as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We buy a loaf of two of fresh sliced bread from our neighborhood bakery and freeze it immediately. Then just toast the slices we want to use throughout the week. But every time I'm in a grocery store the bread section is MASSIVE. It sort of grosses me out. Why buy that crap for $3 to 6 when a good bakery loaf is maybe $5 to 8?

Me. The closest bakery to me is Paris Baguette which has so much sugar you can taste the sugar crystals in it and I have insulin issues. Frozen bake at home saves space in our fridge, so this https://www.walmart.com/ip/Rhodes-Bake-N-Serv-White-Bread-Dough-5-CT/10805114 is fresher than a bakery, lower sugar than a bakery, non-gmo and tastier than a bakery, and there is never any stale or leftover, and it saves a massive amount of time and fuel (1 bag 1 time vs 5 trips which is more carbon emissions).

[Anonymous]

I certainly buy bread from the grocery store, but when i want a loaf of artisanal sourdough or specialty bread, why is it such a rarefied creature? We live in California and in our town we rely on a specialty bread delivery to Barons market from a city 60 miles from us. I mean flour, water, salt and starter? They don’t seem like rarefied items. I get that butter, cream cheese, etc. are expensive and have low expectations of grocery baked goods, but why does French bread at grocery store bakeries taste like sawdust?

[Anonymous]

So you're not on your church/school/neighborhood's rotation to make 40 sandwiches for Martha's Table or another shelter every 2 weeks? Because nothing beats the convenience of pre-sliced bread. I do try to buy it with the freshest date but get it in 2-loaf size from Costco. Forgive me.

[Anonymous]

We do - cost, we don't mind it for some stuff and lower carbs/sugar. Some of the cheap store brand wheat have lower carbs and sugar and one adult tested pre-diabetic and making diet changes really helped.

We also buy nicer bread too.

[Anonymous]

I buy from a local bakery that I ride to and from on my bike while my fresh baked bread sits nicely in the bike basket.