We typically do our own stuffing, but this year we did an all-Ina menu that included a turkey roulade that called for a stuffing with a pre-made base. The recipe specifies Pepperidge Farm, but we bought the Williams Sonoma base and really enjoyed the stuffing. Not too salty compared to what we’re used to (and again, we’re used to homemade).

I buy plain dry bread cubes with no seasoning but i’ve also cut up and dried my own bread. I like it really dry to start, not just stale.

If you get the plain bread cubes with nothing added, there’s no difference other than time.

Thanks, I always use regular bread (whatever we have, homemade, farmers market loaves, store bread) but was wondering if there was anything to the packages.

I just make my own cornbread. I agree with the poster above who said thr mixes are too salty. I did use store bought challah one year and it made a very interesting stuffing.

My mom always buys the mixes so it’s what I think of when I think of stuffing. The year we did not go, I made my own stuffing from bread. I still dream about that stuffing. So much better.

Pepperidge Farm Stuffing:

Ingredients
MADE FROM: ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, SALT, SUGAR, YEAST, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: VEGETABLE OILS (CANOLA AND/OR SUNFLOWER AND/OR PALM), MOLASSES, SPICES, CELERY, ONION POWDER, CALCIUM PROPIONATE TO EXTEND FRESHNESS, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, ROSEMARY EXTRACT AND ASCORBIC ACID TO PROTECT FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN.

https://www.pepperidgefarm.com/product/herb-seasoned-classic-stuffing/

I mix a bag with crumbled homemade corn bread plus onion celery etc to replicate my grandmothers cornbread stuffing . But a bag alone does not taste good to me (although I’ll eat stove top in a pinch ).

Anonymous wrote:Are the bread crumbs you buy that are marketed for stuffing any better than bread you cube and dry out in the oven yourself? Or just more convenient?

As mentioned, they are already spiced and usually taste awful, over seasoned and over salted.

Use bread and cornbread mix for best stuffing. All bread stuffing makes a very pasty glue like stuffing.

Pretty nasty stuff comes in those bags.
So easy to make yourself! I always have the kids tear or cut up the bread the night before then let it sit on racks overnight to get stale. Any age can do this, and it’s fun.

Stuffing mix usually has seasoning - lots of salt.

Store bought likely had preservatives.

Are the bread crumbs you buy that are marketed for stuffing any better than bread you cube and dry out in the oven yourself? Or just more convenient?