How much is Bread?

[hotzcatz]

Cooking at home, hmm, let me re-phrase that - preparing meals from basic ingredients at home (as opposed to reheating premanufactured food) is one of the ways most folks manage to eat well within their budget in Hawaii. We've been getting a lot of our vegetables lately from a new nearby farmer's market which has all locally grown veggies so we are not only eating cheaper, we are eating fresher and better food AND the folks who grow it are also getting more for their efforts. When a farmer sells vegetables to the grocery store, he (or she) gets about one quarter of the amount the grocery sells it for. So if I'm buying organic, red ripe tomatoes from a farmer at the farmer's market he's getting $1.50 to $2 a pound for them instead of the forty or fifty cents a pound he'd get from a grocery store. There are several bread sellers at the farmer's market and their bread is from $3 - $7 a loaf but the $7 a loaf stuff is pretty fancy.

[Tomsjem]

and it tastes better too!!!!

[melaniej65]

Commissary prices: Prices depend upon brand
White bread $1.00-$2.00
Brown bread $2.00-$4.00
Whole grain $3.50-$5.00
Bakery loaves $2.50-$7.00

Gotta love the Comm!

[Kit624]

Hmm...that's still kind of a lot. Plus, I do appreciate the comm but there's no brand competition usually. I think I'll buy a breadmaker. :-)

[KAILANI]

Price of bread:

tree mangoes and one small bag of poi!

Island Style!

[feebee]

Loves Bakery has a discount store that you can get cheap bread, rolls, cakes etc at. Not sure if there is one in town, but I used to go to the one in Kaneohe. Much cheaper than the supermarket.

[hotzcatz]

True, there are discount bread stores and one of the biggest is over near the airport area, isn't it? We used to have one in our neighborhood but it closed when the owner died. It is still for sale if anyone wants to bake bread on the Big Isle.

A bread machine heats things up with electricity and that is really expensive around here. If you have a gas oven, then making bread in a Kitchen Aid type stand mixer and baking it in the oven is cheaper especially since you can also bake several other things at the same time. You can also use the Kitchen Aid mixer for many things and a bread machine only does one thing. Hawaii kitchens have a tendency to be very small in size so bulky machines which only do one thing generally end up at garage sales pretty quick. I mix up two or three loaves at a time in the Kitchen Aid. When you start making your own bread it seems to get eaten much quicker than the store bought stuff. Generally at least half a loaf is gone before it even cools down. Hot bread with honey and melted peanut butter is a favorite around here on baking days.

[KoaKine]

Nuttin better than homemade bread!!!!!