With the rise in agricultural costs over the past year, the price of bread and bakery products can cause sticker shock. Here are 7 great tips for saving on bread products.
Try the store brand. Store brands have made significant improvements in quality over the past decade. Now store brand products are on par or exceed the quality of their name brand counterparts. Store brand bread, hamburger and hot dog rolls can be significantly less expensive than name brands.
Stock up at sales and freeze your bread. Supermarkets will sometimes feature sales on bread at steep discounts. This is when you should stock up. You can easily freeze bread in your freezer for a long lasting supply of cheap bread.
Check out a bakery outlet. Bakery outlets are a great way to pick up bread at a 50% to 75% discount over store prices. The bread and bakery products are fresh but are sold at the outlets because they are reaching their sell-by dates. Savvy consumers stock up at bakery outlets and freeze the extras for a consistent source of cheap bread and bakery products.
Try a deep discounter like Aldi’s. Aldi’s is a deep discount grocery store which focuses on cutting operating costs. Customers, for example, bag their own groceries and rent shopping carts for a quarter. The store does not accept coupons or credit cards saving on processing costs and store hours are more limited saving on heating and electricity costs. All of these savings are passed onto the consumer in the form of rock bottom prices. Consequently, Aldi’s is a great place to get cheap bread.
Consider frozen bread and bagels. You can save money by choosing frozen bagels over non-frozen. A national brand of bagels at a local Western New York supermarket costs $2.89 per pound. A national brand of frozen bagels in the same store costs $2.12 per pound, a savings of 27%.
Bake your own bread. Home bread making machines have made making your own bread easy. You can save money especially when you purchase yeast at warehouse clubs like Costco or Sam’s Club. The taste and smell of freshly baked bread simply can not be beat.
Check out discounted store bread. Grocery stores often have a section of the store where they sell day old bread and bakery products. This can be a great source of cheap bread and bakery products. Ask your grocery store manager when and where bakery products are discounted.
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I love our local bakery outlet. I’m able to buy bread at a 70% discount to the supermarket. When I go, I buy about a half dozen loaves and freeze them. They come out of the freezer like new. Many bakery outlets offer senior citizens discounts and have special manager’s promotions. Ask the staff about their promotion schedule.
Hey Ray,
Thanks for your comment. I do the same thing. My freezer is like a mini bakery. Whenever I need bread or some baked product I just look in the fridge and de-thaw something.
For some reason, my not very good dollar store sells a very good bread that is usually almost $3 or more in the local supermarket for $1.29. I buy two loaves of the whole wheat extra fiber – freeze one and make sandwiches for my son’s lunch and toast 2 slices for myself when I eat breakfast at home on the weekends or when I make eggs for dinner.
I don’t eat a lot of sandwiches, but I do like to have bread to go along with soup. But in an effort to be more frugal lately, I’ve been trying to bake my own bread. Unfortunately, I haven’t been very good about actually letting the sponge set, etc, so the timing works out to bake the bread and have it alongside soup. My answer? Biscuits and muffins! Baking powder biscuits are cheap and a cinch to whip up while the soup simmers. Muffins using pureed fruit or squash make a hearty, savory side for a thin soup, and again, they usually don’t take long to make (especially if you’ve got some applesauce on hand.)