"Small" Loaves of Bread

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I can't eat a whole 800g loaf of bread in a week. Freezing it is fine for toast or toasties. I can't stand the food waste, though. God forbid it goes mouldy.

Small loaves, as I understand it, are 400g but NOT half the amount of slices - but smaller loaves? Just tiny slices of bread?

I really want a half-800g loaf of toastie bread. Toastie bread lasts ages but not two weeks, and frozen is just fine. If I could get it in 400g form, but the same size as normal bread, I'd buy it twice a month probably. Anyone want to do a Bread Share?

For what its worth I find the Mumsnet AI generated thread titles absolutely repulsive and I absolutely reject using them. Do please fuck off with your AI crap.

Jackson’s do a half white bloomer sliced and there’s Warburton’s Old English white.
I thought it was going to be about actual miniature loaves that we used to get from a local bakery when I was a child. Like a doll sized loaf!

Can't you just buy a full sized loaf and split it into 2 or 3 freezer bags, keep one out, freeze the others and take out to defrost when each one is nearly finished?

OMG the tiny Hovis loaves! My Nana used to by me them and spread them with salted Lurpak. Amazing. You’ve just reminded me that during lockdown I wanted to find some baby Hovis tins and now I’m on a mission to do so and make baby loaves. I’m not sure Hovis do wholemeal bread flour now but I’ll se what I can find. I usually use Waitrose wholemeal bread flour.
Sorry to derail your thread OP. My advice: make your own bread. Far better than that additive and preservative filled stuff on the shelves.

you dont have to use the ai title option

I hate these loaves with the tiny slices of bread. They are an abomination.

This…seems obvious

Just came on to say Why TAF can't you buy thin sliced bread any more? (Sorry but no one else wants to talk about bread with me and I saw you lot and thought "bread people!!")

I would do this. If you want toast, use the freezer bread, even if you have fresh bread, which should be prioritised for sandwiches.

Unless you have fresh bread that's going stale, when obviously it should be used for toast. I suppose it depends on your personal toast/sandwich ratio.

You can sometimes get halves of full sized loaves but they often cost nearly as much as a whole loaf so seem to be a bit of a con.

Same with milk. The cost per pint if you buy it one or two pints at a time is far more than 4 or 6 pints so I always buy 4 pints and freeze some if I'm not going to use it all quickly enough.

She knows that but was saying she doesn't like the AI crap. I wholeheartedly agree with that sentiment.

And why are so many medium slices so thick? Awesome toast but makes sandwiches very hard going. I would like to use the Sainsbury's TTD multiseed wholemeal farmhouse load but the slices are like doorsteps.

In North Wales thin sliced is the norm, certainly from the regional bakers (as in commercial, supplying many shops, prepackaged). I love it, but sometimes is too thin to make toast, ending up crisp and brittle.

Oh, this thread jogged my memory of being sent around the shops by my great-aunty back in the 1990s to find and buy her a Hovis Hearty Wholemeal Half-Loaf.

...I ended up in the bread aisle at Waitrose with a very helpful assistant, but neither of us could get our tongues around the phrase "Hovis Hearty Wholemeal Half-Loaf" and we were almost sobbing with laughter by the time we found it.