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jaybmiller 
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Posted: 22 Jan 2025 at 7:29am |
OK, seems fair, there's an 'egg' post.....
Currently a 'loaf of bread' here in Ontario is $4 Cdn.
Curious as to price 'south of the 49th'.
HAS to be HUGE 'markups' on bread, considering the millions of loaves a plant could make in a day. NO way the farmer's getting his 'fair share' ! So what's a bushel of whole wheat sell for, how many loaves can it make ?
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DMiller
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Posted: 22 Jan 2025 at 7:37am |
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Bu of Wheat will barely make expense to plant it here. Been a raw deal and considered a Cover or Amendment Crop for a long time now here. Friend in Walla Walla WA noted the Farmers there are struggling as they attempt to keep fifty year old severe slope Combines functional, new ones are essentially out of the equation anymore.
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Posted: 22 Jan 2025 at 7:42am |
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Wife says a loaf of bread is close to $5 here.
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Posted: 22 Jan 2025 at 8:12am |
Holy $$$$$ $5 US is $7 CDN !!! Ain't no way I could afford to buy bread at THAT obscene price !
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Posted: 22 Jan 2025 at 8:58am |
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Yeah but it's extra special Sara Lee bread Jay. 😁
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Posted: 22 Jan 2025 at 11:20am |
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In the area I live, a loaf of generic or ‘store brand’ white bread is almost $3.00 to $4.00, name brand is a buck or two higher, the more ‘specialty’ brands, like ‘Killer Dave’s’, or some keto style breads are north of $7.00 depending on the store. Wifey generally makes our own bread, we purchase non-gmo bread flour(supposedly according to the packaging) and Turkey Red bread flour.
Edited by Lars(wi) - 22 Jan 2025 at 11:22am
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Posted: 22 Jan 2025 at 6:01pm |
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My wife wants to start making bread. Her mama used to but I don't remember eating it. I hope she gets good at it. PB&J needs to be on Sunbeam or something damn close
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Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 4:17am |
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Worked at Seimer Milling a short time as truck mechanic. The mill recovered every small component from wheat and made awesome flour, Gold Medal, wheat germ the green cretens love as so healthy tales a truckload of wheat to make a couple 25# sacks, we snacked on it during mill maintenance raw and still warm. Over four million in German Milling mechanisms where end result was minimal Waste and superior flour. Even hulls were captured and recycled. Wheat at that time 1980 was similar in price as is today.
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Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 6:37am |
We buy most of our bread as "homemade" at a local Amish store. Their bread is baked Monday to Saturday and is sold by weight and is usually $4.50 to $5 per loaf. We can buy it sliced for a little more, but I prefer to slice my own.
Their bread is delicious (which is why we buy it), but if it's not used in about a week, it starts to mold.
A while back, we bought a loaf of "store bread". Since we primarily use the Amish bread, the unused portion sat on the kitchen counter for almost a month and had absolutely no mold on it. It makes me wonder what is in that stuff!
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Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 6:56am |
the ONLY problem with homemade bread is.. it doesn't last nearly as long as the store bought stuff !!! It's usually gone in 1-2 days for some, YUMMY reason ! 
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Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 8:20am |
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Dollar General has a generic loaf for $1.50- and of coarse the brand name stuff gets up there, I like the Lewis half loaf but its crept up to $2.50 and only sells at the grocery store
Edited by DougG - 23 Jan 2025 at 8:21am
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Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 8:29am |
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Yes,I’m the only one in my house and I like the Lewis rye bread.
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Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 8:41am |
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We alaways buy wheat bread because there isn't as much sugar and it don't afefect my sugar
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Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 12:12pm |
Wow, that's pretty unacceptable IMO. Just asked the Mrs & the dearest she could see (Gluten free, super soft toastie white) was £2.75 for a half loaf. Store brand white about £1.75.
What's causing this disparity between here and the US I wonder?
Eggs are similarly lower here, about £2.70/doz. free range... Certainly can't be "economies of scale"...
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Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 3:19pm |
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Home made bread with strawberry jam or homemade bread lightly toasted so it's just a little crisp outside and soft inside with melted butter. About as good as it gets.😃 You can get the frozen loaves you can bake yourself if you can't get someone to make some. Better then nothing.
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Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 4:12pm |
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We do tend to purchase Home Made loaves at a local Bakery, also sell Donuts and Sweet treats, I just buy the bread anymore.
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Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 6:03pm |
 DMiller wrote:
We do tend to purchase Home Made loaves at a local Bakery, also sell Donuts and Sweet treats, I just buy the bread anymore. |
Also, guilty!
For some reason, I know they make Fry Pies on Wednesday's and glazed donuts on Friday and Saturday.
I buy a dozen glazed donuts (their donuts are about twice the size of Dunkin Donuts) for $15 / dozen. When I get home, I put the donuts (the ones that made it all the way home without getting eaten in the truck) in ziplock sandwich bags and freeze them. When I get up in the morning, I take it out of the bag, stick it on a plate and microwave for 30 seconds. They taste like they were just made!
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Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 7:19pm |
Something is greatly wrong when a loaf of bread costs as much or more than a bushel of wheat. And much of the good wheat stuff is left out of the bread. Maybe we'll have to start baking our own bread again; nothing like a warm piece of fresh bread with some jam or butter. I always mixed the bread in a bread maker then baked in the oven. There used to be an old fellow that came to my dad's repair shop when I was little. Quite a philosopher. One time said that "store bread was just water and wind".
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Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 8:50pm |
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Found a recipe years ago we really like and the stand mixer makes it easy. In a bread baking dish or piled on a pizza stone, it all tastes great. End pieces of the loaves seem to disappear as soon as the bread cools some from exiting the oven. Homemade jam and some butter are great toppings! Kids and grandkiddos really love to have homemade calzone night every couple of months and have a blast putting their own fixing mix together. Son-in-law and I figured out a modification to the recipe to make a flavoring like graham crackers so besides the normal calzone there is dessert calzones too. Left over dough winds up being used for cinnamon rolls, bread twists, rolls, etc.
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Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 10:20pm |
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A bu of wheat produces about 42 lbs of white flour. If my math is correct you can make about 72 1lb loaves of white bread from a bushel of wheat. So at $8.50/bu cad that works out to 11.8 cents of wheat per loaf of bread.
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Posted: 23 Jan 2025 at 10:31pm |
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All you need to see is the ingredients list on a typical loaf of bread that doesn't mold for two months.
So much glyphosate is used on wheat to dry it down at harvest that is a risk.
Figure out how to grow and grind your own so you really trust the bread you make.
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Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 10:30am |
ekjdm14 wrote:
Wow, that's pretty unacceptable IMO. Just asked the Mrs & the dearest she could see (Gluten free, super soft toastie white) was £2.75 for a half loaf. Store brand white about £1.75.
What's causing this disparity between here and the US I wonder?
Eggs are similarly lower here, about £2.70/doz. free range... Certainly can't be "economies of scale"... |
I have not heard anything of bread going up over here on the left coast. The excuse for egg prices is bird flu. To combat it if sick bird is found the whole flock is killed. The green/animal welfare groups have pushed "Free Range" growing of poultry. With them out of building they are exposed to wild birds to bring them the bird flu.
The store shelf was mostly bare a week ago except the $9/dozen free range large eggs, according to my personal shopper.
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Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 10:35am |
It’s hit and miss around here if you can get eggs. Now I just heard this morning (unverified) that our genius state government just passed a law that all eggs sold in this state have to be cage free. Yeah…..that’ll help! 
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Posted: 24 Jan 2025 at 2:41pm |
Tbone95 wrote:
It’s hit and miss around here if you can get eggs. Now I just heard this morning (unverified) that our genius state government just passed a law that all eggs sold in this state have to be cage free. Yeah…..that’ll help! |
If everything but US is cage free, then we'll be the ones living in a cage! 
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