Making beer out of old bread and other useful tips for stale bread

We are guilty of this every day. We throw out old bread without a second thought. There are so many useful things you can do with stale bread. Toast Ale cleverly makes beer out of stale bread. They will gladly take it off your hands. It’s their main ingredient.

According to Toast Ale, we waste almost 900 000 tonnes of the stuff a year, or about 24 million slices every day. In terms of calories, that’s enough to pull 26 million people out of malnutrition. Half of this is wasted in our homes.

And that’s just in the UK. Globally we are wasting so much bread. It’s a shame.

Here is a list of 17 things you can do with stale bread.

1. French Onion Soup
2. Easy Soufflé/Quiche
3. Stuffing/Dressing
4. Breadcrumbs
5. Meat Loaf
6. RefreshedBread
7. Cinnamon Toasts
8. Bisques and Bread Soups
9. Bread Salads
10. Bread Pudding
11. GrilledCheese Sandwiches
12. Open Faced Sandwiches/Bruschetta
13. French Toast
14. GourmetCroutons
15. Potato/Rice Substitute
16. Bread Dumplings
17. Bird Food

Fun Fact: Napoleon gave a common bread its name when he demanded a loaf of dark rye bread for his horse during the Prussian campaign. “Pain pour Nicole,” he ordered, which meant “Bread for Nicole,” his horse. To Germanic ears, the request sounded like “pumpernickel,” which is the term we use today for this traditional loaf.