Got bread? Turn it into a fabulous meal with these easy recipes. Create delicious dishes using any kind of bread.
Extra Bread?
Have you recently learned how to make sourdough bread? Are you loving it?!! (These are a few of my favorite sourdough bread recipes – white, honey oat, multigrain).
Making your own bread is fun, fulfilling and fabulous! However, fresh bread and butter can only go so far…I mean pretty darn far especially if it is fresh out of the oven. 🙂
However, when it comes to meal time, bulking up that healthy loaf of bread with more nutrition is also a good idea. And it doesn’t have to be sourdough to use these recipes. Any kind of bread will work, even store bought!
Ideas Galore
If you are looking for ideas to turn a fresh loaf of bread into a meal, look no further. Here is a list of some breakfast and lunch/dinner ideas plus a few bonus ones.
When you have an extra loaf or two of bread staring at you with those “eat me” sort of eyes, find an idea from this list and get food on the table fast.
Breakfast
French toast ( 4 eggs, 2/3 C milk (we use coconut), 1 t cinnamon, 1 t vanilla, 6-8 slices bread)
Fried or scrambled eggs on toast
Peanut butter and Banana Toast (Toast your bread, spread with peanut butter and slice bananas on top)
Breakfast Sandwich (Bread, Fried Egg, Tomato, Avocado, Sprouts, Mayo and Mustard if desired)
Avocado Toast – So many recipes and options everywhere online
Sausage Gravy on Toast
Lunch/Dinner
PB and Jam or Honey Sandwich
Egg Salad Sandwich
Open Faced Melty Ham or turkey and Cheese Sandwich – melt it in the oven and then top it with a delicious tomato slice and some lettuce and avocado
Bread with Dipping Sauce – we love extra virgin olive oil, crushed basil, red pepper and salt
Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup
Tuna melt (This is my favorite recipe)
Mini Pizzas – Get fancy with your toppings or let kids make their own!
Chicken Salad Sandwich
Bruschetta on Bread
And a Few Others, Just for Fun
When I have loaves of bread that don’t turn out super well I always use the bread any way in one of these three simple ways. I burned a loaf so bad one time and so I just cut off the outside and chopped it up into cubes and made croutons. I have over risen loaves that have big bubbles and are wonky shaped or had bread not rise very well and so they are flat and dense. Use them anyway! Bread is bread – especially in these forms!
Croutons
Breadcrumbs
Garlic bread
Here are just a couple of my ugly loaves that have been loving turned into one of the above items! I wish I had a picture of the very middle loaf before I cut all the burned outside off! It was bad.
How else do you use a loaf of bread for a meal?? I’d love to add your ideas to my “meals to try” list!
