What to do with stale bread
Our house always have loaves of bread in stock. My husband needs to have his daily “baon” of ham sandwich and I usually bring egg or tuna sandwich with me to the office. My kids also love cheez wiz on bread and if anyone of us at home feels hungry in between major meals, bread would be the first we look for.
My grocery list would have bread listed always and most often than not, we have replenish our stock in the middle of the week. This is not to say though that we never ever come to a point where the bread goes stale. There are times when there’s just too much food at home that the bread is simply pushed aside. Like this week for example. Since we celebrated my 2 year old’s birthday, there was just too much leftover food for bread to play such a major part of our meals.
This morning, I found about 4 slices of bread leftover and confirmed from the package that it had expired a few days ago. Since I was hungry and I really did not want to let the bread go to waste I decided to come up with a plan to make the stale bread palatable.
- I looked over each piece and removed the parts where there was mold. These usually start at the edges of the bread.
- Then I spread each side of the bread with butter.
- I put a pan over medium heat and placed each slice on it.
- I let it cook until the bread turned brown or toasted. This took about 1-2 minutes per side, depending on how burnt you want your bread to be.
- Eat with eggs cooked sunny side up.
My breakfast was such a hit to my two kids, I did not notice that they finished everything before I even had my fill. 
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You shouldn’t really eat moldy bread, even if you take off the moldy bits, there could be spores left behind that could make you seriously sick.
Same is true for moldy rice. You just cannot take off the moldy bits in rice because the “mold” could be Bacillus cereus, which produces spores and toxins that could send you to hospital.
Any food that has grown a fuzz should end up in the garbage bin.
I suggest you freeze the loaves of bread and left-over rice. Defrost as needed.
Nina - Tsk tsk. I didn’t realize all that. I am not sure though if its the type of mold that affects bread as mold on cheese is fairly safe to eat. But yeah, better be safe than sorry. Thanks!
You’re welcome ApplesH but you should also be careful with moldy cheese, black mold on cheddar cheese is a no-no but mold on blue cheese, brie or camembert I think is acceptable as long as it’s the same mold that normally grows on that cheese. I love blue cheese.
We cannot be too careful with food nowadays, food poisoning kills people.
My husband is quite susceptible to food-borne illnesses specially when he eats out (for lunch at work) although I think I’ve made him sick on three occasions because I didn’t realise the ingredients I used were not fresh anymore. I bought fresh chicken on a hot day and I didn’t have a cooler with me. The chicken probably went off on my way home which is about 15 minutes walk from the shop. Now I take a cooler bag when I shop on a hot day. I also bought frozen bangus and tilapia from an Asian store and they were still frozen when I got home. Defrosted it in the fridge and cooked it properly. My husband was violently ill after eating it and cannot, up to this day, eat bangus nor tilapia. His doctor said it was the toxins present in the fish that did him in. Maybe the fish has been in and out of the freezer, who knows? The fish was not imported from the Philippines but from another Asian country.
Anyway, have a good day!
Nina - Good thing that the bread we actually ate is not moldy - MOLDY. More of slightly moldy and hardly noticeable if you were really hungry and was not actually looking (which sometimes happen to me).
At least now I know not to think that mold is not harmful even if they do have it on some cheeses. Really appreciate it Nina.
where can you go wrong w. bread butter and eggs ~
Thanks for the ‘friends’ request!
happy foodbuzzing!
taste memory girl - I love all three and Im sure many other people like us like them too.
Youre very much welcome.
Stale bread was used by my mother in 2 ways when I wasa kid: one was by making a delcidous bread pudding and the other was by makeing a bread soup which she called “sopa de ajo” which, though simple, was delcious, with its inclusion of ham, and a poached egg.
Your isea is wonderful and creative in its simplicity, and i will certainly try it; perhaps a variation wuld be to fry some bacon first, then fry the stale bread in the bacon fat, rather than using butter.
quiapo - Hmm bacon… thats such a better idea than mine! Why didnt I think of that. Yummy. Thanks!