Read this to decide whether or not it's best to be making your own bread!!

[goldfish]

Just read this - it's not the first time I've heard of the "big boys" doing something like this . . .

http://www.smh.com.au/business/coles-baked-today-bread-made-in-ireland-court-told-20130612-2o3ye.html

[achookwoman]

Thanks GF.  i have just finished reading this in the Melbourne Age.  Those of us who make our own bread, using the very best of ingredients,  know how much profit they are making.  To be able to bring it from Ireland just confirms this. 

[BeezeeBee]

That is downright dishonesty! Makes you wonder about the validity of their other claims.

[cookie1]

It is disgusting.

[deedub]

No wonder I've always hated supermarket bread!

[Cuilidh]

I can't always bake my own bread, on those occasions that I haven't been able to do the baking I buy from small bakeries that bake in store.  I simply cannot stand the smell of the commercially baked breads in the supermarkets - it really turns my stomach.  It is interesting to read that Coles are going to "vigorously defend the action brought against it ..." What a hard neck they have got.

[kezza]

Unbelievable. Thanks for posting.

[judydawn]

Let's hope they come unstuck on this one, it's a con and it's great to see it being exposed.

[Debbiebillg]

Absolutely crazy ! You can't trust any of them ! There was a story tonight on one of the current affair shows about MSG. And how it's hidden under another number that the public don't recognise ! The manufacturers and the supermarkets can't be trusted !

[Bonsai]

Such a waste and what a huge carbon footprint this produces.  I read recently about the enormous amount of food wasted each year, and a lot of it is bread!
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/1544461/bread-waste-too-much-to-handle-for-food-charities/

[Cuilidh]

The whole question of food wastage is a scandal.  You used to hear about "food mountains" a couple of years ago, although you don't now.  The food mountains seemed to comprise produce that was mostly over supplied which the marketing boards could not get a high enough price for so the food was left to rot or go off - whilst millions starved around the world.  It was deemed preferable to let the food stay in situ and take the financial loss than loading it onto aircraft and distributing it to those that needed it

There was also a very interesting thread on this forum, probably 1 1/2 years ago, on the subject of food waste, I think in NSW.  It's not just bread, its the entire food supply chain and ethic that is completely wrong and needs to be looked at.

[droverjess]

It is global. I went to a large supermarket with a bakery and asked for yeast.... They said they had none!
Perhaps their bread comes from Ireland too!

Make your own everyone! I made another sunflower and honey one today.... Yum

[Aussie Brenda]

Just finished breakfast with my yummy home made toast, what is the world coming too.

[cookie1]

When we were away we ended up using the bread machine to make bread for lots of our friends who didn't have bread machines with them.
The baker has changed and the new one can't make bread at all. It is inedible.
Imagine the stupid market saying they had no yeast. 

I am so glad that I am able to make things from scratch as you really don't know what you are getting and where it is from. I was looking at frozen berries this morning and the WW select ones were from Chile. A lot,of my shopping time is spent reading labels. When I find something that fits all or most of my criteria I always buy it. That is until the stupid market takes it off the shelves. 

[Bonsai]

There is an interesting article in the latest Choice magazine about additives in bread and how long it takes some "zombie bread" to go mouldy - 10 days due to preservatives, acids and higher salt content.