January bread

It occurs to me that last year I said nothing of bread – the staff of life. Thats because its a tricky one.

We do have a local baker but they are open bakery hours – 9 to 5 which is of course when we are at work.

Now I am lucky in that I do get to choose my own hours so can occasionally go shopping in the week. I do go to the bakers but there is a problem. They put their bread in plastic bags. They do have paper bags for the buns but they dont like using them for bread. Each time I ask, they tell me the bread doesnt fit in a paper bag. It quite clearly does and has been proven to do so on previous occasions. It is for whatever reason an issue with them so I dont push it.  

That leaves the Co-op – its open when I can get there but theres is not much in the plastic free bread line. 

They sell two types of bread – factory  bread made off the premises and stuff from their instore bakery.

Their factory made bread comes in degradable plastic packaging   degradable plastic  is better than normal plastic in that it breaks down more quickly but it is still plastic.

The instore bakery sell  their loaves pre- wrapped in normal plastic.

The buns and baps and little french sticks do come naked and I can use my own produce bags. Its plastic free bread but on a limited scale and expensive

So I bought a bread maker which is great – the bread is fantastic but it doesnt always get made.

For the last few months it has been a combination of buns from the co-op, a run in with the bakery when I have the time and the stamina,homemade and the occasional plastic wrapped when absolutly necessary.

This year I will be cutting out the plastic wrapped all together.

Lets see how I get on.