Bread Brands: Like/Dislike

I have hated shopping for breads for the entire time I've been here, anytime I try a different brand, I'm disappointed. I've wondered how others are getting on with the bread.

Like: the store brands 7 day fresh white loaves, they're the most like Wonderbread as I remember it.

Dislike: Kingsmill, don't like the smell or flavor.
Allinson wholemeal, gets moldy the day after you open it, though it tastes alright.

We like the Hovis brand here- although I dont know if you should try what I recommend cause I actually like Kingsmill Golden!

We usually get Hovis "Best of Both"  It's white bread with "all the goodness of whole"

and all the breads will go mouldy ( about 5 days) I have found unless you get the "long life" ones.  I have seen them offered as Asda and Tesco.

we eat a lot of PB & J sandwiches though- so thats not a prob for us!!

duh-- you said you  liked the 7 day fresh loaves- sorry Leah- can't read!

l enjoy the Hovis bread. l usually adore wheat bread but for some reason it tastes different here and l haven't been able to find any here that l really like.

We buy pan bread here too it reminds me of wonderbread back home!

Do you still touch the top of the bread to make sure it's fresh here? l get some strange looks when l do it!!  

We eat the Hovis one with the baked beans on the packet-medium sliced.  I'm not a fan, but the  kids like it.  

I like teh 7-day stuff as well, just because I hate having to buybreak every 4 seconds! I like the taste of Hovis though, I prefer English bread to US bread on the whole though. But my super-favorite is Tesco's whole loaves they make in the bakery that you cut up yourself with the crusty outside... yum!

Hovis medium sliced.....I actual eat less bread here bkz I think it taste sooo heavy...well it definitely feels it anyway, LOL.  

I buy Organic brand wholemeal bread and then I put it in the freezer.  I just don't eat enough bread for me to go through a loaf within a week so I have to keep it on ice lest it go bad.  Frank on the other hand is a bread-freak and will buy anything that looks good and have it consumed within a day or two.

I find all the whitebread over there almost identical to ours. Never been a huge fan myself but when my kids were younger it made economic sense. I do like ASDA's french bread and usually buy well-fired rolls from the local shop when I'm there but here I stick with Pita bread from the supermarket or fresh baked from the little bakery down the corner. Don't know if the Bakers Oven is a franchise over there but there's quite a few up around Northamptonshire and their breads are baked daily.

Fresh bread (all sorts) from the bakery section of Sainsbury's for the weekend when we're all home and it will get eaten.  "Long life" wheat bread (usually Sainsbury's) so it lasts the week making sandwiches for work/school (buy two at a time and freeze one).  Sometimes I buy the Hovis thick or extra thick square white bread for weekend brunches.

I was the only kid growing up whose mother bought wheat bread instead of white.   :-/

Apart from fresh bread, I'm a Hovis girl.  I like the thick sliced baked bean one.

I was the only kid growing up whose mother bought wheat bread instead of white.   :-/

Nope..my mom did too and we hated it.

I had to laugh the other day though because now that I'm grown I like wheat bread and I've been buying that White-Wheat bread..I think it's made by Nature's Own. Well my son refused to eat it the other day because it's wheat bread. He said it's just wheat bread disguised as white and he wasn't having it. So I've turned into my evil wheat bread-buying mom.

"I was the only kid growing up whose mother bought wheat bread instead of white."

No you were'nt Peedal  

Growing up in small-town USA with a large family, we were cursed with only home-made bread (it was cheaper I suppose).  Oh!  I loved to go to my friends house--her mom bought bread at Safeway--and it was WHITE bread.  

Now, as a grown up, I wish I had the time to make it fresh like my folks did!  I eat out mostly, but like to get a loaf or thick-sliced bread at the news agents for toast on occasion.

My favorite bread of all time is my grandmother's home baked.   I can almost get it right on when I do it, I'd do it on a weekly basis if I had the time, but it's one of those things where you have to clear a day for it.