Do you have a bakery bread outlet in your area? We do, and it literally saves me sometimes more than fifty percent off of the price of what I would usually pay at the grocery store. I’ve been shopping at the bakery outlet for our bread for a couple of years so I am a little spoiled to the prices I find there. I was a little apprehensive about shopping there initially, for basically a fear of the unknown. I wasn’t sure of the quality, and like everything else in life, I don’t like change.

My mom actually told me about the bakery, but I honestly didn’t believe the incredibly low prices. The bread is marked down, simply because it is day old bread. The quality however is just fine. I have never purchased any inferior bread over the  two year period that I’ve purchased it. The store is about thirty minutes from my house, but I drive to that area about once a month, and when I do, I stock up on bread for the entire month. Check Bimbo Bakeries website to see if there is a location near you. I’m sure their are other bakery outlets out there if there isn’t a Bimbo location near you.

For everything that is pictured I paid a total of $14.63 ($13.50 bread + $1.13 tax). That’s $1.33 for every package of bread. I can not even come close to this price at the grocery store. I purchase this much since I only shop there once a month, and it wouldn’t be cost effective for me to drive there every week or every two weeks. This will last somewhere between four to six weeks. We store our bread in the freezer until needed. Each time I take a loaf out of the freezer I put an extra one in the refrigerator so that it is completely thawed when we run out of the loaf we are using.

This is what’s pictured: 6 packages of Oroweat Sandwich Thins, 4 packages of Mrs. Baird’s Honey 7 Grain, and 1 package of Oroweat 7 Grain bread. The Oroweat Sandwich Thins are priced 3 for $5 dollars, the Honey 7 Grain is about $.90 a loaf, and the 7 Grain bread (short loaf) is about $1.09  a loaf. Because I purchased more than $5 in merchandise, I receive one item free, and the cashier gave me the 7 Grain Bread ($1.09) as my free item.

I could probably find some of the bread for around the same price at the grocery store if I watched the sales, and was able to combine a coupon with the sale. We don’t receive bread coupons in our inserts often enough to keep me stocked up on bread. I don’t even bother looking for good deals at the grocery store on bread, because it saves me more time and money by purchasing everything I need at the bakery outlet.

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