Using up bread before it goes bad

Here's a link for a recipe for Bread pudding, also white bread is actually bad for ducks!!

Bread pudding, not bread and butter pudding
I've read that in American you call "bread and butter" pudding "bread" pudding but here in the UK they are two different things.

There's also a bread sauce, but I not keen on it myself.

a reply to: Ameilia

One word...stew.

You have mentioned the croutons, and the pizza idea is brilliant. Another idea is to put the stale bread into a cheese grater and slowly grind it into the stew-It makes the stew more gooey.

a reply to: verschickter

muskat = nutmeg, can´t edit!!!

The croutons sound delicious! I love making bread crumbs and then using the homemade crumbles in my black bean burgers! a reply to: Ameilia

Bread crumbs. My folks used to freeze the bread until they had enough to make them.

Bread pudding of various sorts.

If you are into aquarium fish, you can also culture a certain type of worm with slices of bread soaked in milk too. It's been a long time, so I'd have to look it up.

a reply to: Ameilia

I always keep my bread in the fridge and it never gets mold. If I kept it out it wouldn't last 5 days. My place is very humid inside due to crappy sealing of windows so most things I keep in air tight containers or the fridge. IF I happen to have bread left my son feeds the squirrels with it out front. One was a neighbors pet squirrel so he will come right up to you and take it.

a reply to: Ameilia

before they get moldy, dry them, crush into crumbs, and then freeze.

i have a breadcrumb bag that is just refilled with new stale bread every week or so that i keep in my freezer for stuff like chicken parm.

Thank you for you advice. Next time I will use the leftovers.

a reply to: Ameilia

Haha! This is a rather good advice!

Those who struggle with moldy bread:

What type of bread do you buy (processed, local) and how, where and in what do you store it?

Because I only once had moldy bread and that was after I used a bread-container to store it (Tupperware). Never used it again.

I store it wrapped in the thin paper it´s wrapped in at the bakery, in a kitchen drawer. I cut the amount I need with a cutting machine into slices and the rest goes back into the paper and drawer. Fresh bread will only last you 2-3 days and then it should be consumed away anyways.

If you have to drive long ways to get to a bakery and need to buy more then freeze it. Or bake fresh bread, it´s actually cheaper and really not a big thing.

If bread has time to get moldy, some of those factors played a role, two of them have to do with processed bread:
- moisture agent
- cool down time too short before packaged
- wrong storage


Think about changing to local bakery if you can and you will safe money or at least even out, even if the fresh bread is more expensive. You won´t throw away bread because it get´s moldy, too. It will get hard at worst and then you can use it for other stuff (see this thread)