My price is for like 12 grain type of bread, not the Wonder Bread which is a little cheaper, the bottom shelf bread might be $250 to $3 at a big box store if not on sale, the better factory stuff is like four or five.
I was baking bread for a couple of years not even because of price specifically but because this factory bread is kind of garbage.
I hardly eat bread anymore or I still would. I cut out all added sugar as well. Almost any kind of processed food. Now if I eat something like factory bread it is a shock to my taste buds tasting all of the sugar and salt they load it up with.
Yeah, American bread shocked me when I got there the first time. Sugar in bread is wild to me. WILD!!! I was genuinely, deeply shocked at sweet bread.
The stuff you get for a euro here is a basic white sliced pan (no sugar). It’s…fine. The kids like it for toast and sandwiches and I’m not averse to it. They have multigrain or freshly baked (that day) brown soda bread and a slicing machine which would be my preference and that is around the $3 / €2.50 mark but I can’t justify buying it just for myself. Nothing costs anywhere remotely near $5.
I recall the US being cheaper for groceries and food in general when I was living there but that was only for 4 months in the late 90’s. I wonder if you’ve been harder hit by inflation in the intervening years than we have in Europe.
edit: I was curious so went off to look. The answer is yes. For groceries you guys have had higher inflation since I was there (roughly +110% versus roughly +70% in the EU). Interesting stuff.
I get auntie mills carb smart bread and checked, it doesn’t have any perceptible amount of sugar in it. I didn’t know sugar was common in bread in the US.
My price is for like 12 grain type of bread, not the Wonder Bread which is a little cheaper, the bottom shelf bread might be $250 to $3 at a big box store if not on sale, the better factory stuff is like four or five.
I was baking bread for a couple of years not even because of price specifically but because this factory bread is kind of garbage.
I hardly eat bread anymore or I still would. I cut out all added sugar as well. Almost any kind of processed food. Now if I eat something like factory bread it is a shock to my taste buds tasting all of the sugar and salt they load it up with.
Yeah, American bread shocked me when I got there the first time. Sugar in bread is wild to me. WILD!!! I was genuinely, deeply shocked at sweet bread.
The stuff you get for a euro here is a basic white sliced pan (no sugar). It’s…fine. The kids like it for toast and sandwiches and I’m not averse to it. They have multigrain or freshly baked (that day) brown soda bread and a slicing machine which would be my preference and that is around the $3 / €2.50 mark but I can’t justify buying it just for myself. Nothing costs anywhere remotely near $5.
I recall the US being cheaper for groceries and food in general when I was living there but that was only for 4 months in the late 90’s. I wonder if you’ve been harder hit by inflation in the intervening years than we have in Europe.
edit: I was curious so went off to look. The answer is yes. For groceries you guys have had higher inflation since I was there (roughly +110% versus roughly +70% in the EU). Interesting stuff.
Inflation had ticked up considerably by 2020, 2021 it just started rising and never stopped.
Especially beef at the moment. But in a year 2003 prices seemed about half of what they are now.
Vegetables and produce are probably twice what they were just in 2020, salad dressing was 88 cents at Aldi and now is like $2.
I get auntie mills carb smart bread and checked, it doesn’t have any perceptible amount of sugar in it. I didn’t know sugar was common in bread in the US.