I find myself giving away a loaf or two of bread a week, and I’m always at a loss as to how to package it. Plastic would ruin a crispy crust, right?
So I end up tearing off a sheet of parchment paper and making a messy envelope of sorts for the bread, sometimes involving rubber bands too! Not pretty.
I looked on amazon for paper bread bags and the most attractive choice size and design-wise was 30 bags for 12.99, which was too expensive for me.
I’m now looking at getting a case of 500 bags for $52. This seems like a ridiculous number of bags (2.5 yrs to use up at my current rate). Here’s the site/product I found:
Before I make this huge purchase…does anyone have any other ideas for transporting the bread, or source of fewer cheap bags?
(My husband jokingly suggested I buy multiple cases, repackage them smaller, and sell them to my internet bread buddies. …Maybe the breadtopia store would consider doing this instead of me. :))
I just use white lunch bags that I buy at Smart & Final. If I want to pretty them up then I use a full sheet of parchment paper and secure the paper in place with red & white baker’s twine.
Hi! I use the bottom of a grocery paper bag. I put the loaf in the bag and trim about 2 inches above the loaf. Then I tie around the bottom with twine. I figure once they get it home it’s up to them. Not perfect but an idea. I’d split the case with you if we were neighbors
I don’t give away nearly that many loaves but still, to plan ahead I always put grocery produce in paper produce bags and then, when I get home I transfer the produce to something else and carefully fold and store the paper bags. I always seem to have enough. I also have delivered loaves of crusty bread naked in my hands. It always gets a big “WOW!” when I do that probably because it’s so pretty just like that.
Not sure what size you need but Amazon has white Halulu bakery bags with tin tie tab locks 50 for $11.99. This brand has several other options as well. Hope this helps!
Thanks! Those bags are probably big enough, but to be safe I went with MrTakeout… large, 15x8.5x4.5. My boules, when all goes well (haha), are approx 8×8x4. This gives me room to fold the top (a lot).
The box is not as big as I feared.