Mar
11
“I like toast and jam”
Yesterday while going through some papers to toss I found something that was a bit interesting to me. I get newsletters every couple of months from the county home extension office and a paragraph about colored bread ties caught my attention. I don’t buy a lot of sliced bread anymore unless it’s 100% whole wheat and recently I learned that some of it has high fructose corn syrup in it so that’s just about halted me from buying it at all! But here’s a snippet of what I read:
“When you go to buy bread in the grocery store, have you ever wondered which is the freshest? Did you know that bread is delivered fresh to the stores five days a week? Each day has a different color twist tie. They are: Monday=blue, Tuesday=green, Thursday=red, Friday=white and Saturday=yellow. The colors also go alphabetically by color to make it easy to remember.”
I poked around online a bit and most of what I found seemed to agree with this. I don’t know why but for some reason it’s never occurred to me why bread had different colored ties! So if you are shopping on Thursday you wouldn’t want a loaf with a white tie because it would be almost a week old. Some stores may have a chart at the back of the counter for the delivery person so they know which ones to put to the front. However I also read that bread isn’t kept on the shelves long anyway and this system just makes it easier for them to know at a glance which ones are older and need to come off. You’ve probably all heard this before but somehow this is sorta new to me!
We don’t use bread as much anymore and I think I’m going to look into a bread machine this week so that maybe I can make some that doesn’t have that corn syrup stuff in it! I’ve been looking at labels and it seems to be in everything so I’m on a quest to see if I can eliminate it as much as possible.
So do you buy bread and do you check the tie to see how fresh it is?
March 11th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
This is news to me, but I will be checking those ties from now on!
March 11th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
I knew that the different colored ties meant which day it was delivered, but I could never remember which color was which day. Knowing that it’s alphabetical makes it easier to remember.
I don’t buy white bread any more. I usually only buy light bread. I just started getting a double fiber bread (Nature’s Own I think) that’s tasty and super low in WW points. My all time favorite bread though is a good Jewish Rye with seeds. Yum!
I have a breadmaker, but I hardly ever use it. It just makes a little squat loaf – I’d like to have one that makes a regular size and shape loaf.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
I never knew this. Who’d a thunk??? I even have a friend who delivers bread and he never told me.
But as you know … I am no longer buying bread. In fact, at dinner last night, the Butler asked me what we were going to do with the half loaf that we still had of store bought bread. I said, “Well, I think we can finish it off.” He said, “YOU can finish it off.”
This … from a frugal Butler who does not like to waste a thing.
March 11th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
That’s a totally new one to me! And you can find some brands of bread with no high fructose corn syrup (I think Earth Grains makes one kind without it and I get a couple of local brands at the health food store that are made without it). It can be hard to find, but it is out there! I also used to make a lot of my own bread just using my Kitchen Aid mixer and a loaf pan that makes bread the size and shape of store loaves. Only problem we had with that is the homemade stuff gets harder faster than store bought (what a difference additives make!) and we couldn’t get it eaten in time. I did freeze it, but it loses something in the process. Still better than a bunch of high fructose corn syrup, though!
March 11th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Wow…that’s a new one on me, too. Never once gave a thought to all the pretty colors…except of course which color twist tie I might want for a scrapbook layout. 🙂
March 11th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Good stuff! I’ve heard of this before but never wrote it down and never could remember it. Good tip that it’s in alphabetical order. I need to add this to my PDA so I’ll have it with me.
We’ve talked about the HFCS and I was shocked and appalled that the “healthy” 100% whole wheat bread I was buying had that stuff in it. I will have to buy the more expensive ones that don’t have that. I never even thought to check the label on 100% ww bread. Since we’ve talked about this, I’ve pulled my bread machine back out and am making a couple of loaves of bread. I do mine on the dough cycle and have frozen loaves before. But Tim goes through stages with having bread for sandwiches and stuff, and I do like having it on hand. Anyway, good post! 🙂
March 11th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I was all set to start only baking bread last year…we purchased a bread maker…then one part of it wasn’t working right…then hubby fixed it but I got out of the habit by then and really need to start baking homemade bread again!
But I didn’t know this about the bread ties! So good to know!
March 11th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Learned something new… I guess it’s ok that my Sunday bread has white ties then.
March 12th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Very interesting!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Fascinating Gail! I had now idea there was any method to the bread tie mystery! Thanks for the enlightenment.
🙂
Kim
March 24th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I learned this while in the military. Very good info to have though.