Bread rationing for living alone

Buy 2 or 3 very small loaves of bread (some shops sell half loaves. Divide all your bread up into 4 slice piles. Keep the heels aside. Put each group of 4 into a separate freezer grade container (I use silicone bags, but ziplocks also work). Squeeze out the air as much as practical. Then put all the bags into a large container and put it into your freezer. As you need bread, get out one packet. Two slices for breakfast, 2 for a sandwich, or breakfast again the next day — you’ll never have stale bread.

The heels: keep all your bread heels in one bag in the freezer. When you have enough to make it worthwhile, you can run them through the food processor still frozen and put them back into the freeze for soft crumbs. Or you can dry them in the oven after you’ve cooked something in it, using up that ‘dying heat’. Then run them through the food processor for dry crumbs. Store in a glass jar. If you like, you can add seasoned salt to the dry crumbs.