£5 for a loaf of bread

I would do anything rather than have to eat a supermarket loaf, full of chemicals and ingredients never found in traditional bread. One loaf I picked up recently had over 10 ingredients in it compared with 3 in a basic home made and artisan loaf.

Food in Britain is far cheaper than many other countries and always has been and you only have to look around or talk to people or read the reports coming out of government and universities to know that it is doing the health of the country no good at all.

Longevity is rising but years of healthy life are not. Too many of us are chronically ill before we retire and then live for another 25 years unable to enjoy our retirement because of our health problems.

The main cause for this is the way manufactures are adulterating and contaminating our food with chemicals and denatured products to make them cheaper

I recently rediscovered my breadmaker, inspired by a news article about the additives that go into mass-produced bread, and I can make healthy and tasty loaves with very little effort. There’s an excellent choice of bread flours on offer nowadays and at least we know what’s in the final product. The breadmaker was a charity shop find as well, so even better.

I love bread and we eat quite a lot of it, I will spend a bit more on an artisan loaf occasionally but £5 is steep imho and we are by no means well off enough to pay they kind of money regularly just for bread as well as everything else we have to pay for.

I wouldn’t be bothered as I rarely eat bread, but an awful lot of people would be.

We’ve made our own bread for about 20 years now. Only occasionally buy from a local artisan baker.

I make my own bread and can honestly say for the ingredients time involved and electricity/gas £5 is a not a bad price.
Obviously baking on a commercial scale is cheaper but it takes time and skill.

A sourdough loaf takes me 24-36 hours to produce.

Five quid? Nah.

I would do without before I paid that.

When/ if enough farmers adopt his farming and milling process the price will come down.
Now that the powers that be have accepted that we are at the beginning of a period of global warming our farmers will not be able to farm with the seeds we have been using for eons.
So it looks very much like future generations are going to have to pay more for a loaf. At least it was very good quality.