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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 128659 10-21-2012 07:33 AM

how much does a loaf of bread cost you?

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 128659 10-21-2012 07:38 AM

seriously, no one....

Im not teh gooberment, i dont want a damn urine sample

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 128659 10-21-2012 07:44 AM

Whatever lol anyways

Im guessing its around $1.50...?

this is a german Mark from 1920

link to image: http://www.joelscoins.com/images/p1mk.jpg

It cost about M1.20 for a loaf of bread in 1920

by 1923 a loaf of bread in Germany cost M80 billion

ya get me....

All this noise about $10,000 gold pffff

you aint seen nothing yet

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 118596 10-21-2012 07:46 AM

Canadian, here. $3.00-$4.00 for a loaf of normal bread, nothing fancy.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 128659 10-21-2012 07:47 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Canadian, here. $3.00-$4.00 for a loaf of normal bread, nothing fancy.

wow really? Where in Canada?

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 128659 10-21-2012 07:48 AM

Heres the site btw:

http://www.joelscoins.com/exhibger2.htm

**Ixebeche** · (This post was last modified: 10-21-2012 08:12 AM by Ixebeche.)

I bake it myself, mostly. So this is is a (very rough) estimate using the cheapest prices available.

$11 for 20 lbs of organic flour from Costco, plus $7 for a 8-oz jar of yeast (if memory serves which it may not). $5 for a pound of organic butter. A little bit more for spices, I add a lot of garlic and salt to my bread and sometimes rosemary, oregano, etc.

To bake 4 roughly two-lb loaves of bread it costs me about 1 lb of flour (I'm guessing based on how much I dip out of the bag), 3 T of yeast, and 1 c of butter. Hell, I'm already lost b/c I don't even know how to calculate 3 T from 8 oz, but it's not a lot. Then factor in your propane. I don't turn the heat up for the rising, but of course you have to do so to bake. I'm just going to wildly guess based on rough monthly rates.

Here's my best estimate: Flour $.55, yeast $.05, butter $1.25, spices $.25, propane $.75 = $2.80 for four loaves.

Okay I just blew my own mind. I had no idea it was THAT cost effective, considering that a decent store-bought loaf will cost you at least $3.00 on sale. Even if I'm being generous, if I double all that and make it $5.60 for four loaves...

Of course, if you add in rye flour, that yanks the price up a bit, b/c that is expensive. Then, if you calculate your time, that changes things considerably. I choose not to because I am baking my bread for myself and my friends for pleasure and not as a business.

Have I overthought this, and are my figures completely snatched out of my ass? ....ummm, probably.

But you did ask...

**Frigg Stuyvesant cli** lop guest User ID: 69118 10-21-2012 08:10 AM

Food has gone through the roof!

**Ixebeche** · (This post was last modified: 10-21-2012 08:29 AM by Ixebeche.)

Frigg Stuyvesant cli Wrote:

Food has gone through the roof!

I often still see cans of beans for about a buck apiece on sale. Stock up now. I always do. No matter how broke I am, I always get at least a couple of cans of what's on sale.

And check the sale rack in the back of the store -- but do not get dented cans. I made the mistake of doing that for refried beans and when I opened them, they were black where the dent was, so naturally I threw them out. Never buy dented cans of anything.

Check places like Big Lots and Grocery Outlet. When major brands are changing labels, they'll often send the product with the old labels to places like this where you can get them cheap.

And here's a handy tip: you can freeze blocks of cheese (and of course, feta and blue too). It does just fine. The texture will have changed when you unfreeze it, it will be very crumbly; so not so good for slicing, but still very good for melting. So you can buy them on sale and store them.

You can also freeze eggs if you scramble them raw and store them air-tight. I've also heard you can preserve them on the shelf for months if you coat them with mineral oil. I'm a little suspicious of this. Mineral oil is a petroleum product and shells are porous, and I'm also not certain it would work. Does anyone else know about this?

Glean. I am not ashamed to mark where I see unattended fruit trees and pick a few apples. When houses are abandoned, why not?

Work a trade -- my roommates and I had pounds and pounds of grapes which we couldn't possibly eat in time, and didn't want to try to process into juice, wine, or jelly due to unfortunate past experiences and lack of time. I mentioned this in passing to someone I work with and she has a dehydrator. So she collects half the harvest and we get the other half, as raisins. Grapes don't go to waste. We all win.

DIY food! Yay!

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 127273 10-21-2012 08:39 AM

Between 2 for a dollar and $3. Depends on brand and store. And trust me, we aren't Germany, you can't take our wealth. We have all the jets,tanks,guns,resources,land mass we need bud (and holy shit, you have any idea how much farm land we have?? We aren't a frozen tundra). We could tell the IMF to eat a fat one, stop dealing with outsiders and build up our internal workings if we really wanted to.

Which I think you will be seeing, don't know if you noticed the current state of the American people... They are a bit rebellious right now.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 128085 10-21-2012 08:46 AM

I don't eat bread. I spend that precious money on crack.

**Ixebeche**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Between 2 for a dollar and $3. Depends on brand and store. And trust me, we aren't Germany, you can't take our wealth. We have all the jets,tanks,guns,resources,land mass we need bud (and holy shit, you have any idea how much farm land we have?? We aren't a frozen tundra). We could tell the IMF to eat a fat one, stop dealing with outsiders and build up our internal workings if we really wanted to.

Which I think you will be seeing, don't know if you noticed the current state of the American people... They are a bit rebellious right now.

The jets, tanks, and serious guns aren't controlled by me and you. They're controlled by corporations like Monsanto. So is most of the land.

They want us to eat their corporate agri-farmed genetically modified crap, and nothing else. And we are, and we will. Even if Prop 37 passes in California, it will be tied up in courts for so long as to make it functionally irrelevant. It's a total travesty.

Fascism isn't enforced by guns anymore... it's all lawyers now.

**Earth Child**

LoP Guest Wrote:

how much does a loaf of bread cost you?

Cheap, but why would I eat bread?

~~Jackinthebox~~

$1.49 store brand. $3.99 name brand. $6+ for any multigrains, raisin bread, stuff like that.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 98922 10-21-2012 09:15 AM

I will usually make my own bread, not loaf bread but dinner rolls. I bake a honey sweet dinner roll that I like with my meals, they are half the meal. Yum with everything, from gravy to jams.

What does it cost? I really haven't a clue what it costs me to make my own nor do I care. I don't think I ever look at the prices, food isn't that expensive for one, just me. If I want it, in the cart it goes or CLICK and it shall be delivered as I command!

I sometimes buy bread and if I recall it's around $6.50 for these huge kosher loafs I like that take me about 3 days to eat. I like to simply break off a big piece and toss it onto the plate of whatever I'm having for lunch or dinner.