I tend to go through a lot of flour these days. Between bread, cookies, other sweet treats or just normal cooking flour is a hot commodity in our house. The sizes of what is offered in the stores does not help either as they make it tough to keep enough on hand for long periods (a month being long). In comparison to a US size bag these ones are small to me plus if you can imagine you can go smaller! I know you are saying but Megan you are in the UK so everything is smaller but I still don't accept if for food always! The same sizing of bags is consistant for sugar but I have been lucky in that on occasion I am able to go to Costco or send Alan on his way home and get a fairly big bag at 5kg's. It is pretty funny to me that I think this is a big bag! I do have to store it outside of my cupboards as it won't fit but I will take that any day over having to keep running to the store for a tiny bag of sugar that barely will fill the recipes I have for a week.
Flour on the other hand is a different story. The big bags at the store are only 1.5kg's. After awhile every time Alan would take me to the store I was buying 4-5 of these bags to be able to last a few weeks for all the bread and testing on other recipes I am doing. It would last a bit longer when we travelled but it was funny how much flour was costing (£3-4 a small bag depending on what store/quality), not only in cost but in the factor of having to bring it home on my shoulder from the store or wait for Alan to drive me to the store for a stockpile. One day at our local market I noticed a woman purchase a very large bag from the guy we sometimes would buy flour, hot sauce and garlic from, yes a strange combo but he makes Alan's favourite hot sauce. Several weeks later I went up to him and chatted about getting big bags of flour for both bread baking and regular baking. He is a funny guy with a big heart. We speak to him every week we are there and he drives up from the Isle of Wight each week with his truck for deliveries. He really does have some good chutney's and hot sauces all made on the island. He brings the products out to the other areas and Barnes is one of his spots. We have grown rather fond of the guy and make sure to talk to him every weekend even if we don't buy anything. He assured me that my flour order would be there the following week and so I planned with Alan to drive down as there would be no way we could get it on the bus with other groceries from market. Sure enough the following week our two VERY LARGE bags of flour were ready for us 16kg's for each bag at £19 each a great deal in my book! It is awesome to say the least. I have not worried about having flour or running to the store in the past month and a half. The cool thing when we picked up the bags from him is that he told us the plain flour had just been milled the day before and was very fresh and ready to use. He is the miller for the flour!
So when my bins run a bit dry in the kitchen I had upstairs to the guest room and fill up! I have sadly no other real good dry/cool storage other than in the house. No guests for awhile otherwise they might be sleeping with flour!
Check out the picture for the size comparisons between what you can actually buy in a grocery store and this includes a big supermarket shop vs what I got at the farmers market from the local miller.
Flour on the other hand is a different story. The big bags at the store are only 1.5kg's. After awhile every time Alan would take me to the store I was buying 4-5 of these bags to be able to last a few weeks for all the bread and testing on other recipes I am doing. It would last a bit longer when we travelled but it was funny how much flour was costing (£3-4 a small bag depending on what store/quality), not only in cost but in the factor of having to bring it home on my shoulder from the store or wait for Alan to drive me to the store for a stockpile. One day at our local market I noticed a woman purchase a very large bag from the guy we sometimes would buy flour, hot sauce and garlic from, yes a strange combo but he makes Alan's favourite hot sauce. Several weeks later I went up to him and chatted about getting big bags of flour for both bread baking and regular baking. He is a funny guy with a big heart. We speak to him every week we are there and he drives up from the Isle of Wight each week with his truck for deliveries. He really does have some good chutney's and hot sauces all made on the island. He brings the products out to the other areas and Barnes is one of his spots. We have grown rather fond of the guy and make sure to talk to him every weekend even if we don't buy anything. He assured me that my flour order would be there the following week and so I planned with Alan to drive down as there would be no way we could get it on the bus with other groceries from market. Sure enough the following week our two VERY LARGE bags of flour were ready for us 16kg's for each bag at £19 each a great deal in my book! It is awesome to say the least. I have not worried about having flour or running to the store in the past month and a half. The cool thing when we picked up the bags from him is that he told us the plain flour had just been milled the day before and was very fresh and ready to use. He is the miller for the flour!
So when my bins run a bit dry in the kitchen I had upstairs to the guest room and fill up! I have sadly no other real good dry/cool storage other than in the house. No guests for awhile otherwise they might be sleeping with flour!
Check out the picture for the size comparisons between what you can actually buy in a grocery store and this includes a big supermarket shop vs what I got at the farmers market from the local miller.
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