Bread.

Submitted by pale on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 19:18.

Wines and Spirits

I made homemade hamburger buns today for the first time.
I make bread sporadically. (used to make it every other day, I do slack off) F'n bread, (Foccacia) regular loaves, scissor buns, cinnamon buns (My mums coronary on a plate variety)...My kids and L'hommevert all scarf, and its usually gone within seconds (ok, not seconds, but pretty darned fast)

I have always bought hamburger buns. I think I will only buy them when in a REAL hurry now. lol.
Man. What A DIFFERENCE!

Geeeeeze. Im a make werk project all by myself.......*sigh*

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Smells good

Submitted by willy be frantic on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 22:43.

Ya can't beat hand made bread, you have to knead it. Bakery humour. We recently acquired a breadmaker and the lady of the manor is experimenting and getting better on the bread and cinnamon buns. I'm liking it. The kids and L'hommevert are some lucky.

There was a diary on dkos yesterday ( sorry, no link - I couldn't think how it might be tagged, or remember the title or author ) about the rising price of bread. ( no, honest, that pun was unintentional ) It cited higher fuel transportation costs and a tripling in the price of wheat as reasons. Some time was spent on citing a declining acreage planted to wheat with additional corn acres being devoted for the ethanol market.

I didn't jump in to point out that there is about a nickels worth of wheat in a loaf of bread. Triple the price of wheat and the cost of a loaf goes up by ten cents, not 50 percent. May futures for wheat on the Chicago exchange are $11.26 US. That would be at least a doubling from two years ago.

My point being that farmers can get a vast increase in the price of their grains without the consumer being hit that hard, as long as the middleman doesn't gouge just because he can make the producer the scapegoat.

Ahh well - what are you goin' to do.

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The price of a bag of flour has gone up dramatically

Submitted by pale on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 23:25.

Organic whole wheat? YIKES. Can't do it all with that, have to mix em.
A loaf of good bread, (I consider good bread to be 100% whole wheat, or flax bread etc) is like 4.50.
It will only get worse...Oil is now over 105 a barrel. Sheesh.

The 2 year old lets me wash her hands, and then loves to knead the dough with me. Too cute. :)

Bread machines are great.....Just never makes enough for all of us....For small families, they are fab.
(the one year old Loves bread. She has toast for breakfast every day, with a banana or an apple. No sense changing her over)

If you believe you can tell me what to think, I believe I can tell you where to go......

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Yeah. Call it 'victual' reality.

Submitted by Dr.Frink on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 23:55.

Pay Rent and Eat Too? You mean we might have to choose?

it's important to note that 10.9 percent of U.S. households, representing 12.6 million families, already qualify as "food insecure" by USDA standards. For these folks -- and for people in the global south who have been rioting in response to being priced out of the food market -- spiraling costs may be impossible to accept... They will be forced into wrenching decisions -- what to eliminate from their budgets to keep the food coming.

h/t Profitrules

Even cheap eats are getting harder to find.

If you’re looking for a sure sign the U.S. economy is headed in the wrong direction, all you need to do is look at the skyrocketing price of “recession-proof” foods: pizza, hot dogs, bagels and beer.

For many Americans, the credit crunch and the mortgage mess have left their pocketbooks – and their cupboards – bare. These same consumers, many living paycheck to paycheck, have relied on these cheaper foods to keep their expenditures down. Not anymore.

<snip..>

Pizza makers have seen their cheese costs soar this year from $1.30 a pound to $1.76 a pound. Even worse, the flour used to make the dough has gone from $3-$7 dollars a bushel to $25 a bushel in less than a year.
Beer makers have been forced to raise their prices because of the skyrocketing price of hops – one of the principle ingredients. The price of hops has gone from about $4 a pound in September to $40 a pound. The price of barley, beer’s other main ingredient, has nearly doubled.
Bagel shops have struggled to hold the line on prices and keep their customers. The exploding wheat prices have made the $1 bagel a fact of life in big cities such as New York. Donuts are averaging $1.50. And many shop owners fear a wheat shortage will drive prices even higher.
Even the lowly hot dog is getting more expensive. Gray’s Papaya, a New York hot dog institution, will be jacking up the price for its $3.50 “Recession Special” – two hot dogs and a 14-ounce drink. Nicholas Gray, owner of the frankfurter chain, has yet to set the price increase, but he indicated it is coming soon.

Forget cheap beer and slice of 'za.

2nd tip o' the tam to Profitrules.

Everything's cheaper than it looks.