Why is bread so expensive?

[TheBlackHand]

learn to make and eat tortillas.

 

[Davidglen77]

I am waiting for Cristina to say "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche"!

 

[allcraz]

Can't tell you why Fargo's sliced bread is so expensive but I can tell you that it has always seemed expensive to me since way back in 2007. When in doubt, shop around. You can find great wheat bread for 1/3 the price. My local bakery in San Telmo sells "pan de molde" for 5 pesos. And it's excellent. And if they don't have it, I just buy the "pan negro" rolls. 2 pesos lasts you at least 2 days for toast in the morning! Rule of thumb: if you feel like you're being ripped off, don't buy! But look around to be able to prove to yourself that you were , in fact, about to pay an overly-inflated price. Nothing worse than waltzing huffily out of a store only to realize that the price you were so upset about is what everyone else is charging.

 

[Davidglen77]

Can't tell you why Fargo's sliced bread is so expensive but I can tell you that it has always seemed expensive to me since way back in 2007. When in doubt, shop around. You can find great wheat bread for 1/3 the price. My local bakery in San Telmo sells "pan de molde" for 5 pesos. And it's excellent. And if they don't have it, I just buy the "pan negro" rolls. 2 pesos lasts you at least 2 days for toast in the morning! Rule of thumb: if you feel like you're being ripped off, don't buy! But look around to be able to prove to yourself that you were , in fact, about to pay an overly-inflated price. Nothing worse than waltzing huffily out of a store only to realize that the price you were so upset about is what everyone else is charging.

I always comment on these posts to my partner who is Argentine to see what his point of view is. He confirmed that sliced bread in packages from the supermarket here has always been somewhat of a luxury item as forever people have been buying rolls from the panaderías and other types of bread were and still are to some extent a specialty item. I sometimes buy the "Orowheat" sliced bread which costs around $20 pesos for a 600 gram loaf. If you compare pricewise the standard "milonga" rolls from the panadería cost $10 pesos per KILO, you can see that there is a huge difference in prices for bread around 300% in this case.

 

[CarverFan]

I still don't see why it's so expensive....what makes it a luxury item, why are the costs to produce it so hight that it should cost 4 dollars a loaf.....
I think the panaderia bread is cheap because it's subsidised by the government. And it's not that cheap any more. Last time I bought a pebete negro at my local, it was over $2 while a factura is now $1.40. I remember those costing 40 c each....And no, I don't normally buy this expensive sliced stuff, it was the first time in YEARS! Sometimes it's good to have it for the sandwich toaster....

Fred, I usually eat rice cakes, the bread is for the rest of the family. But rice cakes have gone up too and weight by weight are as expensive as bread now.

 

[mini]

I am very surprised to be able to say this, but the bread from one bakery in Punta Alta is almost as good as the best I ever found in Paris or San Francisco (crust, texture, and flavor weighted equally).

As for price...$1,50 per loaf.

I don't believe you! Please send proof!!



Anyway, bread is just empty carbs. Don't eat it!

If you have to, this is the bread I make sometimes. Set it up Friday night & bake it Saturday for brunch:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/dining/081mrex.html


Oh, and you can make your own butter too with a jar. You'll even get buttermilk for your pancakes!! Skip the vanilla.
http://www.nickleplated.com/butter.html

I love this back to nature, urban lifestyle.

 

[Godiva.]

How do you make a living down there Steve? Do you live off the land?

I'd love to be able to move out to the country but finding work seems to be the issue.

And yes, sliced packaged bread is expensive.

 

[Jagman]

Here is your solution!

http://www.wondermill.co.uk/

This company supply domestic mills! Buy your own grain and make your very own flour

 

[Ashley]

The price of everything (food-wise) is now ludicrous here. I find that loaves of bread from Haus brot or some other such store are now (in many cases) cheaper than the pre-packaged varieties. I get French-style bread from my local bakery (about 3 pesos a 1/4)

 

[Napoleon]

Or if you're not quite as industrious as David, buy a breadmaker. I bought one a month or so ago at Makro for a little under 400 pesos. It is ATMA and I got the bigger one as I needed to bake larger loaves.

[insert "I thought that you've always HAD larger loaves." comment here]