One Frugal Thing — Bread!
by Katy on January 18, 2025 · 8 comments
I’ve been meaning to get myself to a Franz Bakery outlet store, as they’ve been advertising $1 loaves of bread on Saturdays throughout the month of January! This is an insane bargain considering how much the cost of bread has been rising, just like everything else.
I assumed the bread would be somewhat picked through, as I didn’t get there until after 2:30, but such was not the case.
Behold!
I ended up buying eleven loaves of bread for $10, as you get a free loaf with a ten dollar purchase. Plus, I pulled out my punch card, which only takes five $10 purchases to earn additional free bread. I have a chest freezer in the basement, which is how I’m able to stock up to such an extreme, but you could always buy less.
Here’s what I bought:
• Four loaves of commercially packaged multigrain bread. (I gave one loaf to a friend.)
• Two eight-packs of pub rolls.
• Two loaves of garlic bread.
• One sleeve of pizza bagels.
• One sleeve of whole wheat English muffins.
• One loaf of “Naked” organic great seed bread. I would have bought more of these, but this was the only loaf.
The Great Seed bread loaf normally sells for $7.99, currently on sale for $5.49 at Safeway.
Is this post sponsored? Nope, nyet, absolutely not! I just like a bargain.
Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.”
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Wow! That’s fantastic! I can see where having a second freezer would be super beneficial for deals like this.
I’m jealous of the bread deals!
1. I loaded Safeway coupons on the app and got 1 chobani yogurt for free, $2 off a $4 lettuce (first time I bought one this winter), and a 29 cent bread. I rode my bike to get there.
2. I have some less than desirable GF pasta that I can’t bear to eat anymore. I replace 1/4 cup of regular pasta with the GF when I make macaroni and cheese for my husband. He doesn’t taste the difference (he would if it was ALL GF pasta) and I use the food I paid for.
3. I bought command picture strips to hang 2 pictures. I used our abundance of Staples points (from recycling ink cartridges there) and only had to pay the tax.
4. I found some free PVC pipe on FB marketplace to use on a garden project, which whittled the amount of pipe I needed to buy down to 8 ft.
5. I got a $5 off $5 Michaels ‘reward’ in my email today (I don’t know why I get them since the only time I shop there is when I get them and then I will only spend the $5). I got online and ordered the rubber cement glue I already had on my list. I paid 26 cents out of pocket. Pretty good for something I already needed.
When you freeze the bread do you wrap it before putting in the freezer?
Curious too – we put bread et al in a Ziploc bag (out of our reuse stack) or in a plastic grocery bag.
What a deal! Wish we had something around here that was similar. Years ago we had a New England area bakery Nissens that had a day old bread store. Like your bread store there were phenomenal deals. It was years ago but I really miss it. I also miss the smell of their products baking whenever I drove through their neighborhood. It was near my exit on the highway through the city so I frequently drove by. Yum!
You have to spend money to save money. May not be possible for some, may be a stretch for some, or may be no impact for some.
Freezer space beyond the frig is a game changer. My vote is to spend less (way, way less from what I read) on a wedding and use the money for long term financial well being. I suspect some pay more for the dress alone than I paid for my entire wedding.
Adjust for inflation of course. Inflation in the early 80s was way the hades higher than any time during the pandemic. What is different is the number of middle class, living wage jobs. Mortgage rate of 7% is nothing compared to 18.6% like it was in 1981.
What an amazing deal on bread — way to go, Katy!
This morning I cooked marinara with Italian sausage and mushrooms to go with some gluten-free spaghetti for my husband. There was a pot of yellow rice he mostly had not eaten still in the fridge, so I used it as the base for some freezer meals for myself.