What's green and fuzzy and in my cupboard drawer?

My husband takes sandwiches for his lunch to work each day and sometimes I will eat a little bread through the week and same thing with my son so very seldom does the bread get green and fuzzy here. Now sometimes we have bought a brand new loaf of bread and it is already getting a little moldy which is bad.

i only buy bread that is enough for a day or two or even less,,since i usually buy the healthy bread such as vegetable bread and the whole wheat bread and the likes.. that its costly that the usual white bread ...and tend to buy just enough for specific day...have you tried this..i mean the vegetable bread? so tasty and delicious..

Hi Jill, I did start buying cheaper bread when everything went up in price but false economy as it does go off really quickly so I buy the best now and find I do tend to use it up especially as we have to feed the ducks often too so any going a bit stale goes to the pond. I do always have a back up loaf in the freezer anyway but it sounds like maybe you should start freezing again if you are not getting through it. Ellie @:D

Lol!!! I also live alone. I made my own bread and i keep unused protions in the freezer. One day i was shopping at Big Lots and found tiny loaf pans like the little cornbreads at Boston Market. Lots of time i make my bread in those. Its like little hoggie breads. If i make a full size loaf i slice it before putting it in the freezer. Anyways yes i would strongly urge you to keep your bread in the freezer.

Jill, As you said, keep it in the freezer and take out what you need. My mom always did this, even though there was nine of us kids. There was always a couple different types of bread on the table. Also, she would go to the day old store. So the freezer keeps it fresh. You can also keep it in the frige but it won't stay as fresh. It's a good way not to waste. leenie

Hi jillhill No I don't have that problem. Only when they guy's descide to not eat bread. Which only happened once. I hardly ever get the bread. lol. have to be fast here. I think they should sell half loaves like the do eggs. that would be great.

When I first read the title of this discussion thought maybe you were keeping Kermet the Frog in your house. We do keep the bread in the fridge since it's not eaten very fast. Just two of us here and my husband rarely eats bread. I have a loaf of wheat bread in the fridge right now that's been there a few weeks. It's still fresh and tastes good. Years ago we kept it out at room temperature since the kids were always eating something so it went fast.

In our house, no. Because my kids loves to eat whatever they see in the refrigerator or even in the food basket. It will only turn green if I forgot to put it in the basket and then no one realize that we have a bread. But it seldom happen. I think just have to buy a small pack of loaf bread. Here in my place, a half loaf bread is available but I dont buy those because if I do, I have to buy 4 packs... and it would be wiser to just buy 2 whole loaf.

No, I don't have that problem because I keep the bread in the refrigerator and that seems to keep it well perserved for a while. I only use bread for the occasional fried bologna sandwich or for french toast in the morning.

My husband and two boys barely lets a loaf of bread in the house before it is gone and they are asking for another loaf!LOL

i really don't like bread kept in the fridge. what i do when i buy a loaf of bread since i don't use much bread i divide it u in smaller bags 4 or 5 pieces , put it in the freezer& take it out as i need it. works for me.

Sometimes my family goes through a loaf of bread in less than a week, and sometimes, half of it will start to get a little stale before it gets used. I make cinnamon toast or bread pudding or something before it goes green, though.

Don't you just hate that smell? I often find it in the crispers in the frig. you know way in the back, out of sight, out of mind. I try to keep up but often there are just to many things to do and that space doesn't get cleaned as often as others. I do keep bread in the frig so it lasts longer, two people can only eat so much, I may even freeze it if it's the natural type with no preservatives in it.

i got some barms the other day that went off in 3 days which i was annoyed at i shopped online and obviously whoever sent them didn't check the date how they expect someone to eat 24 barm cakes in 3 days???? It isn't often that my bread goes mouldy cos ste has bread with everything i wouldn't buy it otherwise. A friend at work used to say he saved his mouldy bread for toast apparently it tasted better *shudders* urgh!

That is one of the reasons that I don't even buy bread. I have always wondered why the stores haven't sold half loaves for people like us who don't eat as much bread as others do. I also live alone, but because I am a diabetic I just don't eat very much bread, either, but I would like some once in a while. I do not like it after it has been frozen unless I am making toast, so that doesn't work. I was throwing so much of it away.....being green and fuzzy or only gray and black and white around the edges..........that I stopped buying it.

Oh, that is just too funny! In FL, when the bread gets moldy, it just has small white dots on it. Well, I guess that could be due to the kind of bread I buy, which is whole wheat. Anyhoo, yes, my bread occasionally goes moldy. But ever since the prices got so high, I use a ziploc bag and just take out a few slices at a time and put them in the ziploc bag. I leave the whole loaf in the freezer. Something else I've done is put the loaf in the fridge, but my husband doesn't like "cold" bread. The other way just works better for us.

We keep our bread in the fridge most of the time. It gets left out on the counter for a day or two, but after that it goes in the fridge to keep it from molding. We also have extra loaves in the freezer. When it is hot out I will take frozen bread and make my son sandwich for his school lunch with the frozen bread and it thaws by lunch time and keeps the rest of his lunch cool too.

I don't eat very much bread either and neither does my daughter so we put ours in the freezer, like you talk about, and just take it out as we need it. That way it doesn't get to go bad. I have thrown out more bread than we have eaten and since the price of bread has gotten so high here in Calgary, I am tired of wasting it. So now we put it in the freezer and only take out what we want to eat that day. Since I usually only eat bread toasted, this works good for me. I can just put the frozen bread in the toaster and not have to defrost it first. Alrighty then, talk to you later my friend, Have a good day, Chris

we eat bread so fast it dont have time to go bad,but we buy like 5 loaves at a time and freeze what we dont need

Molds. I learned in my Biology of Algae and Fungi class that it takes three days to grow molds on bread.. If the bread is moist, growth is faster. :) We keep our bread here sealed.. Sometimes my parents store our bread in the ref. :)