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Author:  JJW009 [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:18 am ]
Post subject:  Bread
Bread is fantabulous stuff. How do you eat yours?

I use the cheap sliced stuff for toast and sandwiches, white and brown in equal measure. My sandwiches usually have so much salad in that the bread merely serves as a transport medium. My most frequent lunch is a white and brown triple decker with ham and cheese. Toasted nice and dark with plenty of Marmite on is fine, and it's good in the sandwich toaster.

I buy "tiger" bread for a treat. It makes door-stop sandwiches which taste great but are difficult to eat, and it's great with soups and stews. It's twice the price of the cheap stuff, but it's worth it now and then - especially when it's on special offer. It makes rubbish toast though; it dries out and ends up as a kind of crunchy crumb bomb.

I also buy rolls of various types, but the big cheesy ones are a favourite. They're great with my home-made quarter pound lamb burgers, or with BLT. They also freeze well, so a substantial snack is only ever 2 minutes away.

Finally, there's home-baked. I don't have a machine for two reasons: Firstly, I just don't have room for one! Secondly, I never make "loaves", I always do something a bit fancy with the dough. Usually I'll make focaccia, pizza and something like the curry-bread I'm always raving about. It's like pie, but it's bread.

Vote for all kinds of bread you actually buy, and share any bread related stories you may have :)

*Makes a little bit of Toast*
Author:  HeatherKay [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:22 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bread
We like the fresh-baked stuff, and recently switched to granary long tin. We get it sliced in-store.

For my workday lunch, I have granary or wholegrain baps. Occasionally, we get a Tiger or similar loaf. In fact, we used to have nothing else, until BB had a digestive problem recently and we decided to give his diet some extra fibre.

I don't go much on the fancy breads or rolls. I'd like to try home baking one day, but being fundamentally lazy it will be a difficult choice, I think.
Author:  saspro [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:23 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bread
I can't stand cheap bread. Why spoil a perfectly good meal with cheap ingredients?
Author:  John_Vella [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:25 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bread
We used to buy Warburtons, until I introduced the rest of the family, (as in, I went out and bough a loaf and told them to like it or lump it) to Hovis which is now the preferred brand.

We do occasionally make our own using a breadmaker, but as Heather pointed out, laziness can be a problem with that kind of thing.

Edit to add: When I bring my own lunch to work it's with cheap granary rolls.
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:28 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bread
as I have said in another thread:
Cheap sliced for when I want reams of hot buttered toast and the rest is home made (well with the helping hand of a breadmaker)
Author:  JJW009 [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:29 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bread
saspro wrote:
I can't stand cheap bread. Why spoil a perfectly good meal with cheap ingredients?

Economics. Posh food is fine if you're wealthy enough not to worry about the cost.

I eat 3 loaves a week. Upgrading from 47p to £1.10 would increase my annual expenditure by approximately £100 a year, which by pure coincidence is what my holiday in France usually costs.

So I have a choice. Economise on bread and visit my mum, or eat posh bread and never see her.

Besides, it doesn't spoil the meal. You just have to make the best of the ingredients available.

*edit*

Nice to see that "home made" is currently winning :D
Author:  adidan [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:31 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bread
Cheap sliced white, multigrain, fresh loaves of all varieties really. You can't beat chemically enhanced sliced white for toasting though. :D

I makes some from time to time too.

I also make my own pizza bases, so much nicer than buying frozen crap.
Author:  HeatherKay [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bread
koli wrote:
Hey guys, have you heard about Rage against the machine for Xmas n.1 campaign? What do you make of that? ;) :lol:


Nice one. Touché!

:D
Author:  JJW009 [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bread
koli wrote:
Hey guys, have you heard about Rage against the machine for Xmas n.1 campaign? What do you make of that? ;) :lol:

I think the campaign is toast ;)

That's why I started this thread; my passion for bread vastly exceeds my interest in the charts so I thought we needed a place to express :P
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:36 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bread
I usually alternate on a weekly basis between white bread (usually the 50/50 stuff or farmhouse) and granary/multiseed type bread. I stick to this. Occasionally I like crusty bread and crusty rolls. Either go great wih soft-boiled or poached eggs. Yum!
Author:  saspro [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:38 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bread
JJW009 wrote:
saspro wrote:
I can't stand cheap bread. Why spoil a perfectly good meal with cheap ingredients?

Economics. Posh food is fine if you're wealthy enough not to worry about the cost.

I eat 3 loaves a week. Upgrading from 47p to £1.10 would increase my annual expenditure by approximately £100 a year, which by pure coincidence is what my holiday in France usually costs.

So I have a choice. Economise on bread and visit my mum, or eat posh bread and never see her.

Besides, it doesn't spoil the meal. You just have to make the best of the ingredients available.

*edit*

Nice to see that "home made" is currently winning :D


I'm not wealthy but as we can't afford to go out to dinner, go on holiday abroad or things like that we spend our money on good ingredients for cooking our own food at home. S'pose it's the foody in me (I like cooking)
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:40 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bread
JJW009 wrote:
koli wrote:
Hey guys, have you heard about Rage against the machine for Xmas n.1 campaign? What do you make of that? ;) :lol:

I think the campaign is toast ;)

That's why I started this thread; my passion for bread vastly exceeds my interest in the charts so I thought we needed a place to express :P


its all about the dough and the amount of bread Sony BMG can slice off from the artists who really only get crumbs.

:lol:
Author:  big_D [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:44 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bread
Mostly I buy fresh bread. Sovital mostly, which is lovely, Weltmeister or Roggen if I can't get the Sovital.

For breakfast, we usually get fresh rolls from the bakery over the road. Often Cheesie (wholemeal, with pumpkin seeds and baked with grated cheese over the top) or pumpkin seed. Sometimes we just buy a big bag of fresh plain rolls (white, wheat rolls, 8 for 1,69€).
Author:  onemac [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:56 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bread
The boys don't like brown/bran or health type bread so we buy the 'mixed' half and half stuff although I do like the Asda date and Maple Syrup bloomer :D

I've always promised myself a breadmaker but despite our 4m sq kitchen, there's no room apparently... :roll:

Al
Author:  tombolt [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 12:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bread
I buy all sorts apart from cheap sliced. I always have a few wholemeal pitta breads in the freezer. You can just put them in the toaster then fill them with bacon or sausages. I also eat a lot of part baked baguettes. (Well, they're part baked when I buy them, but I finish them off before eating them.)
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