Free bread.
By deebomb
@deebomb (15304)
United States
November 28, 2008 4:51pm CST
We are so lucky that my granddaughter works in the bakery of a large chain grocery store. The store closed for Thanksgiving and that night they cleared out all the baked goods. Since my granddaughter was working that night she was given 2 loaves of five grain bread, 2 bags of bagels, a loaf of breakfast bread (it has all kinds of dried fruit in it) and a sweet potato pie. It would have cost us about $15.00 to buy all this. Usually all day old bread is donated to a food bank but there wasn't any one to pick it up. So that is one thing I am thankful for.
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@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
29 Nov 08
My daughter is also working at a bakery. Everyday she is allowed to bring some bread home. We don't actually eat that much bread so we asked her to only bring it every other day so it won't go bad. IN our case we don't usually spend much money on bread even when we have to buy it, but still it is nice.
@deebomb (15304)
• United States
29 Nov 08
Usually the breads are sent to a food pantry but since it was the day before Thanksgiving no one was coming to pick it up. Usually she's not allowed to get bread unless she pays for it. We don't eat a lot of bread either but I do like this bread toasted. I do like my bread at least once a day.
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@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
29 Nov 08
Where my daughter works they also send some bread to the food bank and other places, but on top of that each employee is allowed to bring home a certain amount of bread. It is nice of them, and very helpful for people that use bread daily for sandwiches and stuff.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
16 Jan 09
The price bread is nowadays, you must have felt lucky to get that free bread. We have the second hand bread counter but it is not the same. I gather you really enjoyed not having to buy it. And you saved fifteen dollars. Hope you enjoyed it. 
You are sure one lucky lady.
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
16 Jan 09
Yes it was nice and the saving was great too. My granddaughter working there I get to know when the bread is on sale too and she can pick it up for me. It was very nice not having to buy the bread and the opportunity to try some new ones too.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
18 Jan 09
When I go shopping, I pick up the regular white bread for my husband and I will go to the day old bread section and they sell the bread there for half price. So if a loaf normally costs around $5.00 because whole grain and multi grain are more expensive, I can get it for $2.50. And since it is so filling so I eat less then I would eat of white bread, it lasts longer as well.
@Polly1 (12644)
• United States
29 Nov 08
Free is really good. It all sounds so good. When I was a kid, my cousin worked at a donut shop. He brought boxes of donuts to my grammas house. Us kids would go over there and bring some home. At first I thought I was in Heaven, it didn't take long for the thrill of having free donuts, go away.
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@KrauseHome (36445)
• United States
2 Dec 08
This sounds like a Great deal especially the day before a Big dinner. I hope you enjoyed these, or found people who could benefit from these as well.
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@mssnow (9484)
• United States
28 Nov 08
Always nice to get a little freebie huh?? That was wonderful now you can make sandwiches for weeks. My son used to work at arbys and every year they gave him a turkey for Thanksgiving and a ham for Christmas. I was sad when he stopped working there. lol
@sassygirlanne007 (4517)
• United States
29 Nov 08
That would be very cool to be able to get free bread. Some bread is getting expensive.
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@missybear (11391)
• United States
29 Nov 08
That's great my friend works at a gas station and all the bags of chips or donuts that are old she takes home and brings them to me.
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