To spend £2 on a loaf of bread.

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BIL face-timed while we were making tea (cheese on toast).

Apparently our bread looks posh, he asked how much it costs, madness according to him. It costs 4 times as much as it should, he says.

Well, fair enough, but we all like this one, and don't mind paying for something we enjoy. And it keeps the local bakery in business.

Now he keeps sending DH incessant supermarket links to cheaper loaves of bread. (He's nearly 50 by the way, not a teenager).

AIBU to think buying the cheapest product available isn't actually morally superior? It's not like I'm asking him to buy expensive bread.

What an odd reaction

That sounds fairly cheap to me actually

How bizarre.

Remind him that cheap bread is often full of shite and that there’s a good reason for paying a little bit more to have something with no preservatives etc.

The bread we buy is £3.50 a loaf. Yours sounds like a bargain.

What a strange thing to fixate on.

£2 seems fairly standard for a good loaf of bread, I've paid double that

Weirdo. He’s putting you in your place. Nicest bread I know costs £3.75.

Mine regularly costs that, we tend to buy from our local baker rather than the supermarket because we prefer bread from the bakers. I am pretty sure the bakery's overheads mean their bread costs more than a mass produced supermarket loaf so it seems a fair price to me.

A loaf of just warburtons is £1.05 and shops own "nice" bread is £1-£1.50 a loaf. Can you even get a 50p loaf?

£2 doesn’t sound expensive but really who cares. It’s very odd that he’s that invested in your choice of bread to the point where he’s googling bread and sending you link after link. I’d be inclined to ask him if he’s ok and what else is going on.

£2 for a loaf of bread is a lot and more than I would pay, but that’s fine. There will be stuff I will spend my money on that you will think is ridiculous.

Ignore him.

Why would you buy 50p bread, if you can afford not to!! It never goes off so god knows what's in it.

Your BIL is cuckoo! Out of interest does he challenge any of your other purchases? House? Car? Very strange behaviour! Just ignore!

@KilljoysDutch Morrisons own toastie loaf is 55p!

He'd have a fit at our local delicatessen

I genuinely have no idea how much a loaf of bread costs! We just buy the ones we like and I never look.
If you aren’t on a budget who cares what is costs? Weird. He sounds unhinged!

How strange. I don’t think that’s particularly expensive, we do however go through stages of buying the cheap loaves as DC prefer it for toasting but my favourite loaf I buy when I’m passing my local shop is probably near £3 for a loaf which I’ve never thought nothing of tbh.

He would absolutely freak out at the price of gluten free bread .

Depends whether you think food is just fuel or something to be savoured.

However there has been number of threads on here about spending the absolute minimum on food (not just people who can't afford it, just people trying to pare everything to the bone)

I regularly spend £3.50 on a sourdough. There's no point comparing it to a 50p supermarket loaf. They're completely different things.

£2 sounds a pretty reasonable price to me for decent bread. Fancy bread round where we are costs £4 - £4.50 (it is good though and they make their own flour)

I’m also a bit embarrassed by the fact you can buy loaves for 50 p. Generally I pay between 1£ and 1.50 for The generic sliced packaged stuff.

For decent stuff like something from gails bakery I pay about 3.50.

I can’t understand why anyone would get their arse in their hands about what kind of bread someone was eating.

50p is literally the shittest bread you can buy. £2 is pretty standard for a decent loaf, its cheap for a bakery Id say

Its 1.50, how is that a waste of money? If you cant afford it fair enough but you obviously can

@KilljoysDutch

A loaf of just warburtons is £1.05 and shops own "nice" bread is £1-£1.50 a loaf. Can you even get a 50p loaf?

Yes you can get a 50p loaf.

It costs me about 50-80p just for the 8ngredients for a breadmaker loaf so £2 for good bread that someone else has made isn't bad.

The only sub 50p bread I ever buy is the stuff the local coop marks down in the evening!

You can taste the quality of nice bread. I don’t mind paying extra for a loaf as I’m a big fan!!