Bread Prices

[Minsky]

Another increase for bread has hit. A year ago we were paying £3.25. It then started going up and before Xmas was sat at £4.50. Today? £5.00 a loaf.

Anyone else seeing basics shooting up?

[TheInternet]

Tell me you're on PH without telling me you're on PH.

[Dingu]

I would struggle to describe a £5 loaf of bread as a basic.

[QJumper]

What bread are you buying at a fiver a loaf?

Probably falls outside of the "basics" category.

[Minsky]

QJumper said:

What bread are you buying at a fiver a loaf?

Probably falls outside of the "basics" category.

Only sourdough. It is exceptional sourdough but still.

[QJumper]

Minsky said:

Only sourdough. It is exceptional sourdough but still.

Well I can see why you're sour at having to cough up more dough but, whichever way you slice it, you either have to roll with it, or use your loaf and look for an alternative.

[Minsky]

QJumper said:

Well I can see why you're sour at having to cough up more dough but, whichever way you slice it, you either have to roll with it, or use your loaf and look for an alternative.

[Jamescrs]

I pay less than £1 a loaf, i'll hand my PH membership card in on the way out of the door

[dudleybloke]

I didn't realise prices had risen so much at the cheaper end of the market.

[Cotty]

Everything is going up. Just noticed the cheap beef mince that I buy just jumped by 25p

[21TonyK]

All joking aside decent flour has gone up by 50%, add in increased energy costs and £5 for a good sourdough loaf from an independent bakery isn't mad.

[soad]

That is expensive.

I recall visiting Paris once, locals loved their freshly baked baguettes etc. Cheap as chips also.

[tomsugden]

Minsky said:

QJumper said:

What bread are you buying at a fiver a loaf?

Probably falls outside of the "basics" category.

Only sourdough. It is exceptional sourdough but still.

It's easy enough to make yourself - I bake 4 loaves once a month and freeze them, and take one out at the weekend.

[Shuff4]

£5 for a loaf?! Obscene. But this is Willy waving country isn’t it. (And this just shows more so the whole ‘powerful director’ crap slung around)


At the more ‘normal’ price point, I noticed a seeded batch go from around £1.15 upto £1.90 but then decreased back to a bearable £1.40.

[Whoozit]

Minsky said:

QJumper said:

What bread are you buying at a fiver a loaf?

Probably falls outside of the "basics" category.

Only sourdough. It is exceptional sourdough but still.

I bake sourdough two or three times a week. The cost of the energy involved has gone from too small to measure accurately, to around £1 a go.

The increase in costs for any sort of commercial bakery are unreal. One newish bakery I follow on Instagram said that their energy bills plus increase in the London living wage plus doubling of the price of ingredients means their costs have gone up by £10,000 a month. That's a lot of loaves.

[troika]

It’s like comparing a Lada with a Bentley. My local baker makes everything themselves and charges £3.50 for a rye sourdough and £4.25 for a seeded one. Of course that’s not cheap, it’s never going to be but worth every penny IMHO.

[droopsnoot]

Jamescrs said:

I pay less than £1 a loaf, i'll hand my PH membership card in on the way out of the door

Me too, 80p in Tesco for a wholemeal toastie, and that's a recent shift from £1 in Iceland for the same thing. Tesco do a loaf at 39p (or maybe a bit more now), but I've gone off "medium" sliced bread as it's now the same thickness as "thin sliced" used to be.

[ZedLeg]

I tend to notice the price more with supermarket bread tbh, I'm not sure I could even tell you the price of the loaf I get if I fancy something nice

[Electronicpants]

Proof it.

[Whoozit]

Electronicpants said:

Proof it.

Don't you starter it.