You can go to the grocery store and buy a half-gallon of milk or a half-dozen eggs -- sizes that work well if you're living alone. But you can't buy a half loaf of bread.
I don't particularly like to cook, so I have a pretty limited "repertoire" of foods in my place, all of them extremely easy to prepare. Sandwiches would be a great entry in that short list, except that even if I had a sandwich every single day (and even I'm not that boring with my food), there's no way I can get through an entire loaf of bread before it goes moldy.
It's not that bread is a super expensive shopping item or anything. It's just really wasteful to just buy a loaf of bread knowing I'm going to throw out half to two-thirds of it in a week or two.
I've had some people suggest trying to freeze the unneeded portion of the loaf and using it a little at a time. So I'm giving that a shot right now; there's about two-thirds of a bread loaf in my freezer right now. We'll see how that goes.
But why couldn't just one of the many bread companies make my life easier by selling half loaves?
I'm a big toast fan with breakfast, so I don't typically have trouble going through bread. I've also found that some brands stay fresh (or at least non-moldy, if a bit hard) longer than others. While a bit pricy, Sara Lee's always been good to me, even after 3 weeks or so.
ReplyDeleteI find the fridge works good. I toast all of my bread for sandwiches and have found a good setting on my toaster oven to get a good burn on the chilly bread.
ReplyDeletebut I totally know what it's like to eat the same sandwiches for a week straight and then I'm sick of them for a while...
and I guess we have ducks around the apartments here for the old bread. so it's not a "waste"?
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So when bread gets hard do you put a cookie in there to soften it up again?
ReplyDeleteJust don't go to the store and get arrested for breaking the loaf up, a la Steve Martin in Parenthood.
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