AIBU how can people eat cheap white bread

[Njuy]

Recovering from a stomach bug. One of the first things to eat is dry white toast.

My neighbour bought me a loaf of white bread. The stuff that costs 55p-80p, which many people buy based on the gaps on the shelf.

How can anyone buy this stuff normally? There’s nothing to it. No taste, weird texture.

I thought that it was just me from recovering from the bug. I have a few slices left. Again no taste, weird texture and just awful.

I do have bread - wholemeal. With white bread, it has to be a decent bread

You're obviously using cheap spread on your toast not real butter if you think it's tasteless. And to the posters talking about crisp sandwiches, the only appropriate crisps for a crisp sandwich are Tayto or King cheese and onion. Walkers are the worst crisp ever invented! 🤢

Nissan drivers definitely can’t afford anything but plastic bread, it’s the fuel consumption gives it away

I barely eat bread of any kind these days but white bread tastes of childhood, that's why I eat it.

I dont eat it all the time, I like most types of bread, but i love egg mayo sandwiches, or marmite sandwiches on basic white bread, so nice.
And the texture is easier to eat if you've not been able to eat for a few days

It just means made using a normal process instead of complex factory processing

Whilst I don’t eat the white bread described, I am allergic and intolerant to the word ‘artisanal’! it make me cringe so much. Where I live, it’s a descriptor beloved of pretentious food snobs!

Cheap white bread, the best either for fish finger, chip or Pek tinned meat sandwiches. Also great for bread pudding or breadcrumbs for stuffing.

I love coops own white toastie bread does that class as cheap?. for toast. I grew up with cheap white bread. I’m not dead yet. So cheap white bread as a previous poster says it does make great crisps butties. That’s prob a bit to carby and UPF for mumsnet.

However i do also regularly seeded wholemeal m&s and even sourdough on occasion. Its almost like we can have a bit of everything in a balanced diet even cheap white bread.

I couldn’t eat it because:
a) My digestive system wouldn’t like it (heartburn and constipation) and I would be hungry again about 20 minutes after eating it.

b) I am lucky to be able to afford granary bread from my local bakery so I buy that instead because it tastes much better and my body prefers it.

I wouldn’t start a thread about it though or talk to people about it in real life because it’s probably the best that some people can afford.

how can people be so ignorant
to criticise people's bread choices.

i love it toasted with marmite
or with nutella
each to their own

Yes. I have come across the word before. I live in a very middle class area and that word adorns most food outlets.

I remember your thread about popping to the supermarket and hearing babies crying which made you buy alcohol when you weren’t going to?
Is this why you sent your neighbour to pop to the shop for you?
I think you can make alcohol from bread if you don’t want to eat it.
Kind neighbour though.

I grew up on cheap white bread. Changed to wholewheat as an adult once I learnt a bit more about diet. Now I'm with you OP and I can't stand it. As you said - it's like there's nothing there but a nasty texture.

With you OP. It's pointless pap. Might as well eat cardboard. Also makes me feel quite rough quickly as it's high GI. But your neighbour was kind.

With you OP. It's pointless pap. Might as well eat cardboard. Also makes me feel quite rough quickly as it's high GI. But your neighbour was kind.

Nuts -they are an unnecessary food group and with the amount of allergies in schools and clubs I would rather keep a nut and seed free home when packing lunches

Nuts are really good for health. Lots of research shows that eating nuts regularly reduces the risks of nut allergies. It's our go to snack.

OP-A little bit of everything is good including white bread. All breads have a place! A white loaf can be a hero for many people maybe not as privileged snobby as you.

It depends what you are looking for from your bread. Sometimes you don't want a lot of flavour. Sliced white is great for a proper, greasy bacon buttie - it soaks up the grease so the whole thing tastes of bacon (and HP if you're like me).

Also works better than anything else if you're making toasted sandwiches in a Breville type toaster.

If you're wanting to eat the bread on its own or just with butter, you'd probably choose something higher-end, but sliced white has its place.

i don’t buy it as it has no taste and is fairly awful. Don’t like sandwiches when I’m out made with it either. But it does make the best bacon butties. Guess people buy it because it’s their budget or they like it….

Crisp sandwiches are great! With salad cream and cress. Have to say only on granary for me...i hate any white bread, artisnal or cheap.

It has its uses!!! My boss in Australia took me to catch fresh prawns from the river and we ate those with bog-standard white bread. It was amazing, much nicer than with "proper" wholemeal bread.

I don't particularly like any regular sliced white, I'd rather have wholemeal or home made.

Perhaps that's the answer. @Njuyshould have a gin still installed.
Oh she could make "artisanal" gin!

i am very disappointed i dont have white bread for my boiled egg this morning.
brown bread soldiers doesnt hit the spot

I am gluten free. Would love a piece of toast with cheap white bread- happy days