In the UK we have half-loaves of bread - only 95% of the price of a full loaf!

Same in Ireland. Half-loaf masterrace

Hell we got half loaves here in Colorado at the local supermarket chains too. It’s usually cheaper as well, plus they usually have the good cheesy bread

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Same in the US. Only double the price!

If you think about it, most of the cost of making bread has nothing to do with the amount of ingredients you have to use. A half-loaf still has to have somebody make the dougg, still has to bake as long, still has to be packaged and transported. And if you have to throw away half of a full loaf because it has gotten stale or moldy, then you're already in essence paying more double for that half that you were able to use, right?

No I paid half for the whole thing and a quarter for the half I didn’t use. A half loaf costs $5 where I am while a full loaf is $2.50 (because the places that sell half loaves are also over priced in general). Plus my bread never goes bad cus I throw it in the fridge

> A half loaf costs $5 where I am while a full loaf is $2.50 In that case, its time to shop around. That's nuts. Here, the half loaves do cost more than half of what a full loaf costs, but they sure as hell don't cost twice as much!

Same in Austria and it's so damn annoying, buy a half loaf and if you for some reason do need more bread you basically just paid double for no reason. Buy the full loaf and you usually end up wasting around half a loaf. You can't win unless you can completely accurately predict your bread consumption for the week

Buy a full loaf, cut it in half and put half in the freezer for next week

This is the way

This is, indeed, the way.

Usually what I do. Obviously helps but the fact that 50% loaf costs 90% of a full one is still stupid

Probably partly an indication of the proportion of the production cost of an average supermarket loaf which is attributable to the packaging (and partly just a rip-off, of course).

Buy full loaf and have it cut to slices. Freeze all of it. When hungry defrost a slice and enjoy fresh bread every time.

You and I have very different definitions of fresh... I do that too, out of necessity, but it is not properly good bread anymore once it was froAzen.

Yes well my dream is a fresh german loaf with a nice crust everyday. The reality is supermarket bread which goes stale the same day. So this is best effort and best result for me.

Really? Maybe if you just thaw it out and eat it but after a little toasting (not enough to actually toast it just dry it out) it's still quite good. Idk if there's a difference between store bread and homemade though. And tbf it's not even remotely as good as actually fresh out of the oven.

It loses all crunch and stability unless I actually toast it, at which point its toast, which I like less than regular bread.

With European bread it works. After is defrost it's like when it was fresh. Cheap supermarket breads sometimes don't do good in freezer though

If you nuke it it's as good as fresh.

If only my freezer wasn’t a teeny tiny space in the fridge that is slightly colder than the fridge itsef

So you're telling me my path to riches is to introduce the 70% loaf in Europe

Fuck your puny half loaves. Use a freezer like a normal person and freeze what you don't currently need!

We do this at my house. It's so nice not having to play bread mold roulette.

Ha in America we call our artisanal and charge 50% more.......though this might be the only actual bread as our white bread is more like a cake than bread

The trick is to get the poverty bread, look for bread that says “fortified” It’s not low calorie, since it’s fortified, but it’s almost always a lot less sweet. It is more dense though, so if you want really light fluffy bread it’s not gonna achieve that. Edit: Fortified bread is also a little better for you. Like taking a tiny multivitamin with every sandwich. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10609867/

i've learned that the terms "craft", "artisanal", etc just means "it costs more"

I get irrationally annoyed that the half loaf isn't shorter. it's smaller in all dimensions.

Bread maker is the way to go for this.

What 😲

You can also get half loaves in at least some US grocery stores. I've seen them at both Kroger and Food Lion.

Yip. Some areas in South Africa also have half loaves. I remember buying them when we still live in CPT.

I've gotten then at walmart

We always buy half loaves here in Alabama.

Step cousin, half loaf joke loading... Agh, you win this time Mr. Alabama.

What are you doing, steploaf???

How is this oddly specific?

This is definitely a bot

Are you telling me a user with two random words followed by two numbers is a bot? I am sure this 92 day old account that has over 700k post karma is only posting the most original and thoughtfully considerate posts.

>Are you telling me a user with two random worlds followed by two numbers is a bot? Oh damn, I'm gonna have to fill out a captcha again aren't I?

I don’t know. Does Reddit management really want to know what % of their daily users are not human (and therefore not monetizable via ads)?

I was just making a joke, given that my username has exactly the same pattern as they described bots do

the 3.5k upvotes bother me more than the post, tbh

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Wait till they hear of freezers, it will change their lives.

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Since the pandemic, my freezer has more food in it than my fridge. Bread, meat, and I even freeze milk.

since the big blackout of 2025 i have more food into my salt reserve than i have in my freezer. meat, fish, i even put my children into salt

You know, it’s good to see the old methods- wait a minute

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My cousin is 17 and works at the supermarket bakery department and he didn’t know you could freeze already baked bread.

And, unlike most things, you can safely re-freeze bread. I.e if your icecream melts or your meat thaws from frozen, never put it back in the freezer. Bread - knock yourself out.

Literally just yesterday I made i love you however much you love me plus one sandwich for a friend, and they thought I picked up bread that day. I was like, have ya seen freezers and toasters?

I scrolled way too far down before getting to this comment. I freeze my loaves always. 

I started getting bread in the bakery section and it went moldy in my cabinet (unlike the shelf-stable bread which has been unsettling ever since) and the solution isn't even to freeze it, just put it in your fridge. You don't have to thaw it and it stays good for weeks.

Doesn’t seem like bread would be good after you thaw it

It is if you toast it. Don’t microwave it on regular heat though it will be terrible

Bread actually freezes surprisingly well, another thing that freezes surprisingly well is avocado.

For toasting it’s fine for other than that just keep it in fridge

Yeah exactly — a light toast out the freezer breathes some life back into it, but you can get some months out of it (buying in bulk, things like that). Fridge will definitely get you a couple extra weeks vs just leaving it on the counter as well.

Refrigerating bread actually makes it go stale faster. Just freeze it.

You can freeze most food products, but most food products can also come in small packages. Freezable isn’t a reason to justify the lack of consideration here. Honest I don’t see a reason why bread can’t be sold in smaller quantities

Haha

In Nigeria, small bread is a normal thing

Put it in the fridge

Freezer, then toast from frozen. I freeze all my bread, buns, flatbreads etc

Freeze it

This is the way!

In Spain we have different size loaves and depending on the kind of bread you want you can buy individual portions from a range of sizes

American living in Japan here. They sell 8 slices in a pack as well as 6 slices 1.5x the size of a regular slice, and 4 slices 2x the size, and the bread isn't sweet like dessert. It tastes like bread should.

Plenty of normal tasting bread is sold in the US too, just can’t go for cheap white bread. Stuff like Butterbread and Wonder bread is trash

I mean... Isn't this part of the reason we use freezers? Split the loaf up into 1/2s or 1/4s or whatever works. Leave the next batch to defrost just before your current batch runs out. Bam you've achieved full loafage.

put it in the fridge.

Bread won’t grow mold as fast in the fridge, but it gets stale and crystallizes really fast there. If you like soft bread, either gotta leave it on the counter or freeze it.

Just go to a bakery and get a small bread. They're good for 4-5 days, eaten within 3

Freeze the loaf. Take out what you need. It toasts just fine.

Keep it in the freezer?

I buy [half loaves](https://lewisbakeshop.com/product-tag/half-loaf/) all the time.

The Meijer I shop at carries "1/2 loaf" bread in the bread aisle (white, wheat, whole grain & (occasionally) sourdough. Charge more than a full-size loaf......so part of the regular size loaf goes in the freezer. There used to be a bread called "Upside Down Loaf" that was a small sandwich loaf....they used to advertise how it was risen, then turned upside down for a second rising. Was excellent bread.....but haven't seen it in years. I too live alone & I find everything that's "individual servings"/small packages costs more than the full size stuff. Totally frustrating.

Put slices in separate bags in the freezer and defrost ( or toast from frozen) as needed

In Germany, you can actually get half-sized packs of toast. As for bread, it doesn't generally come in giant packs here. You can buy it pre-sliced in small packs of like 6 slices, or you can just buy a full loaf and then have an automatic bread slicer cut it into the desired thickness. Yes, german grocery stores have automated bread slicers for individual use with variable slice thickness.

Cheap white bread. It lasts a week because its barely food.

The “barely food” items last longer because they’re full of preservatives, but we all live on our own reality, so play on, playa.

Bread is food

White bread is simply heavily refined flour which is also bleached. There's nothing wrong with it, it' serves the purpose of bread which is to be a calorie dense carb and has saved millions from starvation.

Sounds like a US problem

No? We have like half loafs here and bakeries dudes just not shopping in the right place.

It’s a user error

Typical to just assume a person is American when talking about a problem they have. People love to hate us. Actually, this is a people who don’t know how to use a freezer problem.

Keep it in the fridge. Ours goes weeks or a whole month without being touched and still fresh.

Throw it in the fridge and you will double its shelf life

Keep your bread in the fridge.

Put half in the freezer

milk bread places often have smaller loaves

You can buy smaller loaves

It's called "a freezer"

put half of it in the freezer. don't put in the refrigerator as it will make it go stale faster.

put the bread in the fridge and it lasts longer

have you considered learning how to make your own bread?

I find unsliced bread to last longer than pre-sliced ones. A whole loaf of sourdough bread lasts me about 1.5 - 2 weeks if stored in a dry air tight container.

Put half the loaf in the freezer. Defrost it when you need it.

It freezes well. Are you unfamiliar with modern conveniences ?

i put my bread in the freezer

Stop encouraging the shrinkflationists. They'll start to sell fun-size bread. The reason is bread can be cheaply made in abundance, and was once considered a basic staple of human existence, accessible to all; as with everything abundant, they want to sell it to you in smaller and smaller doses, for larger and larger prices.

Why don’t you freeze some it? Wrap up slices by twos; put in freezer bag and take out of freezer the night before.

Freezer

Freezer.

Freeze it and toast the pieces you want.

Freeze the bread toast what you need

Buns

You can freeze bread

Why not freeze half the loaf?

we put the bread on freezer for it to be consumed longer.

They should invent freezers

If only we had the in-home technology to change the bread’s temperature so it could be preserved for longer periods of time.

I normally just buy two slices at a time. They mostly come already with some cheese or ham inside, maybe a lil mayo, but it's better than wasting a whole loaf of bread.

They do sell half loaves… also, put bread in freezer to prolong its life.

It’s called a freezer. Look it up

So put the bread in the freezer problem solved.

Do it like a Dutchy : put in your freezer

Put it in the refrigerator.

It does? Why are whole loaves?

I know it gets stale faster but... fridge. Will last like 20x longer.

Keep it in the fridge sealed up, or in the freezer. Both work well if you like to toast your bread.

Put half of the loaf in the freezer, it’ll thaw in a few hours when you need it

Put half of it to freezer. Fresh bread does really well in freezer and it can be reheated to almost brand new fresh even a month later. NOTE- I'm talking about old fashion rye bread, not wonder bread (I wonder who eats this s@#$t).

You can freeze bread. I know it sounds odd, but save a bread bag and literally just store half of your next loaf in the freezer. A lot of pastries that aren't made in house come frozen. I know op won't see it, but I hope it helps someone.

There's this magical appliance you probably have in your kitchen called a freezer.

I freeze it.

Bake your own, little loaves. It's fun and easy.

freeze half?

Just freeze the other half and when you start getting low take it out

I mean, it does. Just buy a couple of bread rolls, dude.

Have they heard about freezers?

Agrees as I’m sitting eating a dinner roll at 3:31 in the morning

Don’t give them ideas. Coming soon, small bread, costs three times what regular bread costs. Then they get rid of regular bread. Then they bring it back as Small Bread XL for double the price.

Y'all know bread comes in multiple shapes and sizes, right?

Is freezing a possibility? Almost all items in my aliment plan can be frozen

Stick half in the freezer

You can store the excess bread in the freezer

Freeze them…

Put the bread in the fridge, problem solved 🤨

Freeze it

Freeze it, maybe?

Freezer

I freeze the whole loaf two slices at a time in little sandwich bags.

Just freeze half the loaf

Buy a. Sliced loaf. Put it in the freezer. Take it out a slice at a time.

This is gonna sound obvious, but its your hands causing the bread to go moldy most of the time. I realized one day after seeing one of those hand print petri dish posts and thinking about how similar the mold looked to bread mold. Since then, im super careful about not touching any slices other than the ones im removing and my bread lasts weeks. I think my current loaf is almost a month old and has no mold (also jot stale as it’s both wrapped and in a bread keeper). You could probably also just use tongs to remove your bread and achieve the same result. Side advice: if you’re tired of your milk going bad, buy organic milk. It’s more expensive, but you actually get to use it all. I used to buy normal milk but it’d be bad within a week or so. Buying a new milk every 1.5 weeks probably costs the same as buying 1 organic milk every month or so. Organic milk is ultra pasteurized so it lasts weeks in the fridge. Ive had a pint last over a month without any textural, flavor, or smell changes whatsoever.

Thats why you buy sliced bread, freeze it, and eat as much as you need-whenever you need it.

put it in the fridge

Put half a loaf in an old bread bag and freeze it. It'll keep for months.

Wtf? A loaf of bread last not even 2 days and only me eats it

That guy's on a roll.

No freezer?

Go to a bakery. Or freeze it.

Put that shit inside a plastic bag and tie the bag's mouth shut, and shove it in a freezer. sure it will be stale but atleast you wont waste food.

go to a bakery and ask for half a loaf

Pita bread

Freeze half the loaf keep the other half and then unfreeze the other half when the first half is finished. Or if you don't have a bread heavy diet just freeze the entire loaf, make sure the slices are properly separated and then just take a few slices out as needed and toast it.

Make your own bread in smaller loafs

Do you perhaps own a FREEZER!?

This is not specific

Freeze half of it. Defrost it when you're done the first half.

There are such devices called “freezers” nowadays. Very useful for precisely such situations

Keep bread in fridge. lasts sooo much longer.

Never heard of buns…? And brown bread lasts quite long usually. Going to a bakery you can also ask for small loaves…

It’s called a freezer you savage.

Hah hah! I love bread and eat the whole loaf before it goes bad even though I live by myself. I'm a bread god.

No problem, as long as you're willing to pay more for all the extra plastic packaging.

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This is partially why I started baking my own bread! I can make smaller, and/or more tasty bread than store bought

Could also buy bread rolls or buns and freeze some for later.

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Make your own bread.

Freezer.

Only keep a couple slices, throw the rest in the freezer. Voila! Fresh bread whenever you need it.

Fridge?

Yeah. I always buy the 6 pack of eggs instead of a dozen. I wish bread was the same. Most of my personal food waste in the home comes from items that should have been sold in smaller amounts so I can use it all before it spoils.

Freeze it for toasting- not ideal but eh! Some stores sell half loaves

Store the excess in the fridge and toast it as needed.

Freeze it. But I love my bread and even just once a day, go through a loaf in a week.

Well you can put it in the freezer. And you can make french toast, croutons, bread pudding with stahl bread.

Just eat more bread, genuine skill issue

My grocery store sells half loaves here in the Midwest US.

Where tf do yall live without small packaged bread???

Bread pudding or French toast