My price is for like 12 grain type of bread, not the Wonder Bread which is a little cheaper, the bottom shelf bread might be $250 to $3 at a big box store if not on sale, the better factory stuff is like four or five.

I was baking bread for a couple of years not even because of price specifically but because this factory bread is kind of garbage.

I hardly eat bread anymore or I still would. I cut out all added sugar as well. Almost any kind of processed food. Now if I eat something like factory bread it is a shock to my taste buds tasting all of the sugar and salt they load it up with.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yeah, American bread shocked me when I got there the first time. Sugar in bread is wild to me. WILD!!!! I was genuinely, deeply shocked at sweet bread.

The stuff you get for a euro here is a basic white sliced pan (no sugar). It's....fine. The kids like it for toast and sandwiches and I'm not averse to it. They have multigrain or freshly baked (that day) brown soda bread and a slicing machine which would be my preference and that is around the $3 / €2.50 mark but I can't justify buying it just for myself. Nothing costs anywhere remotely near $5.

I recall the US being cheaper for groceries and food in general when I was living there but that was only for 4 months in the late 90's. I wonder if you've been harder hit by inflation in the intervening years than we have in Europe.

edit: I was curious so went off to look. The answer is yes. For groceries you guys have had higher inflation since I was there (roughly +110% versus roughly +70% in the EU). Interesting stuff.

[–] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I get auntie mills carb smart bread and checked, it doesn’t have any perceptible amount of sugar in it. I didn’t know sugar was common in bread in the US.

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