Why is bread so expensive?

[CarverFan]

Today I splashed out and bought a bag of brown sliced Fargo bread with seeds. The price? $16.70. Why has bread become so expensive??
Looking at www.inflacionverdadera.com I see that pan lacteado has more than doubled since I moved here (2007) whereas sugar has quadrupled in price. But sugar started out cheaper and is currently about the same as UK, whereas bread is now double the price of what I would pay back home.

 

[Davidglen77]

The price of bread is outrageous I agree! I actually started baking my own bread again, I used to bake bread with grandma back in my youth and I decided to start doing it again! It's not that hard and the bread comes out deeeelicious:
1KG Whole Wheat Flour
1 Envelope 10gr yeast
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon sea salt
3 tablespoons sunflower seeds
3 tablespoons sesame seeds
400 cc water
Proof yeast in a small glass of water, add 1 teaspoon of sugar after yeast disolves and proves
Mix all dry ingredients and then add the yeast mixture and water slowly mixing with a wooden spoon until you have a nice slightly sticky ball of dough
Knead Knead Knead for 10-15 minutes!! Keep some flour aside if the dough gets too sticky, add a little bit to the dough.
Place in a bowl covered with a cloth and let dough rise for 1 hour
After dough has risen, beat down and cut dough in 2 pieces
Place in slightly greased loaf pans and let rise in pans for 1 hour
Brush top of loaves with egg whites and sprinkle with sesame seeds and sunflower seeds
Bake for 40 mins in medium oven until crust is golden brown, you'll know they're done if you stick a knife in the middle and it comes out clean.
Take out of oven and let cool for 1 hour before removing from loaf pans
Enjoy!!

 

[HeyBA]

Thanks for the recipe.

Where can you buy sea salt in BA?

 

[PhilipDT]

They sell it at my coto but in my experience rock salt works just as well for baking

 

[mcaffa]

You can get sea salt (sal marina) at any dietética.

 

[fred mertz]

When the price of something goes so high, very often one must stop buying said product. Bread, considering the "health" factor and price should be the first thing that one would give up.

 

[CarverFan]

Now do people on a low peso wage cope??? Working one hour to buy 1 or 2 (cheapest) loaves of bread??? How can people say that things are improving if this is the case. There would be an outcry in UK if a cleaner had to work one hour to buy a loaf costing 6 or 7 pounds sterling!!! Imagine....

 

[ReemsterCARP]

Stop buying pan lacteado and start buying pan francés

 

[angelskywalker]

Sliced bread has always been expensive in Argentina. It used to be considered luxurious, so that explains it all.

 

[CarverFan]

But if we all start buying pan frances won't that bring the price of the sliced stuff down? Or will they actually increase cost to cover fallen sales!! Yes, that's really what happens here.....