We are bread snobs. We've lived in Vegas for seven months and have been unable to find (and the search has been extensive!) bread that we like. Because the boys all take lunches this year--the school lunches here "look gross"--we must have good bread. And so periodically we travel approximately 128.4 miles, across three states to buy bread in St. George. I also throw in some good salsa because I am picky about that too.
Ok, judge away. It's white bread. And not only is it white bread, it's like candy it is so yummy. If I leave a loaf out the kids will eat it all up in an afternoon. I've tried the whole wheat version and they just don't eat it. And I have a thing about my boys actually eating the lunch I pack so it's a compromise. I am not a totally bad mom, there is a little nutrition in their sandwiches: Zack eats organic peanut-only peanut butter with low sugar jam. Ben & Noah eat lean ham.
Like I said, the kids love this bread and there is only so much room in the freezer so I have to ration it. They are allowed to toast the ends for a snack, but otherwise there is no bread consumption outside of lunches. I figure these six loaves will last 4-5 weeks, depending on the number of times I let Noah spend $3(!) for pizza at school. By the way, I can't find decent whole wheat bread here either, hence the two other loaves of bread.
Before Mike & Di moved, it wasn't so complicated. We could have them bring bread when they were visiting or I would grab some when we visited them. But those days are over which meant that Monday was the first ever trip we've made just to get bread.
Since the kids were out of school, we did some fun things:
and ate burgers that we also can't get in Vegas.
It ended up being a long day. Someday I will need to purchase a big freezer so I can make fewer trips and store more bread because I don't see us settling for inferior bread any time soon. But it's also nice to have an excuse to go to St. George.
