Do you always have heels left on your bread? Do you have to cut off the crust for your kids? Do you have homemade bread that is going stale? Here’s some thrifty ways to use up the extra leftover bread and save some money at the same time.
3 Ways To Use Stale Bread
1. Make Your Own Homemade Croutons
Cut stale slices of bread into half-inch cubes. Melt three tablespoons of butter in a skillet and add spices of your choice. (I like garlic powder or seasoned salt.) I use a teaspoon for each two cups of bread cubes I have. Stir until lightly browned. Serve with soup or salad. Store these in the freezer.
2. Make your Own Seasoned Bread Crumbs.
Place the bread in a food processor and grind into crumbs. Stir in one teaspoon Italian seasoning for each cup crumbs. Use in meatloaf or anything calling for bread crumbs. I store the leftovers in the freezer.
3. Make an easy Breakfast casserole.
This is a super simple recipe for an easy breakfast idea that my family loves. Prepare in advance and store in the fridge overnight. The casserole can put in the oven as soon as you get up and it will be ready for a lazy brunch.
- 8 slices bread, cubed or just torn up
- 8-10 eggs
- 2 cups milk
- 1 C cooked meat (your choice bacon, sausage, ham)
- 1 C sauteed onions
- 1 C shredded cheese (cheddar)
- 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- salt and pepper to taste
- Grease a 9×13 pan. Place bread on bottom of pan. Place meat, veggies and cheese on top of bread. Blend eggs milk and spices together thoroughly. Pour over top. Cover and refrigerate overnight. The next day uncover and bake at 325 for about an hour or until center is set.
How do you use leftover bread?
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I also use stale bread to make bread pudding! I’m gonna try your breakfast casserole one of these days.
I love making my own croutons!!! I just started to do this a few months ago and hubby and I are hooked. So much better than store bought!
Since you left us a wonderful Casserole recipe here, I have to put my legs down from the bed and start gathering my ingredients and some left-over bread. You got my tummy sense tingling!
I’ve used tips 1 and 2 plenty of times. These are great suggestions. I see nothing wrong with using day old bread for recipes.
I will have to try a breakfast casserole with my bread. It would be a delicious breakfast in the morning.
This leftover bread casserole is indeed an awesome idea and recipe. I will have to try this and share it with my sisters. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Your breakfast casserole looks delicious! I hate wasting food and that’s a great way to use stale bread that’s sneaky enough that my family won’t notice! 🙂
Love this recipe idea. I love casserole, can’t wait to try this recipe
I love croutons . I never made my own before.this would be good idea for stale bread
A casserole!! Perfecto. Babushka has done the bread crumbs and croutons many times- although had no idea you could freeze the bread crumbs. Gracias for the tips.
I always make homemade breadcrumbs with stale bread. That and of course bread pudding. Yum! Great ideas.
These are good ideas. I find I always end up with the ends and I should stash them in the freezer and then make one of these! Especially gluten-free bread (which I know YOU know) is pricey.
These are great ways to use stale bread. I love to make bread puddings out of them. The bread casserole sounds good. I will save your recipe for later.
This would really put left over bread into good use. It may even be a lot tastier than regular bread.
I love recipes that utilize food that would otherwise be wasted! I am a firm believer that we should be good stewards of all our blessings.
I love using stale bread for croutons or bread crumbs. It’s so easy and works so well, such a great idea!
Great ideas! I often make croutons or crumbs.
This is a great way to use leftover bread, I honestly never thought of making a casserole like this but am totally willing to try!
Thanks for the useful recipe. My husband HATES stale bread; maybe this info will come in handy 🙂
I try to be as frugal as possible so finding ways to use stale bread is great. I usually make bread crumbs from it but I’ll be trying croutons soon.
These are great ideas for stale bread!! I never thought to use to make a casserole out of it.
Our leftover bread was given to the birds and ducks. Now I will be also making these yummy ideas
I always use leftover bread for bread pudding or as breadcrumbs. It’s so easy to make your own breadcrumbs and I use different seasonings. These are all creative ideas.
What a great idea, loving this creative idea. Never thought of using leftover bread like this.
I get the idea behind it, but I just can’t get past the smell of old bread. It has this stench that I just can’t get past.
I never thought to do anything with stale bread other than toss it. I’m going to try my hand at homemade breadcrumbs soon!
We always have leftover bread! Our problem is buying too much or it getting moldy. You made the casserole sound easy to do. I’ll have to watch our loaf and when I know it’s at the end and we need to use it somehow, instead of the garbage I’ll make this!
Ohh these are some awesome ideas, we always seem to be left with a few slices so I am totally going to have to try this! x
YES! I always use my stale bread to make homemade croutons! I hate wasting any food! I’m going to try the breakfast casserole this weekend.
These are all great ideas! Our stale bread usually just goes in our compost. While that IS a good way to add to our garden, I’d rather use the bread for a breakfast casserole.
This is great! I always seem to be throwing out stale bread. Now I can have a use for it.
Oh I almost forgot you could make croutons out of stale bread! Now I know I should save them for a fresh salad one day!
HAHA sometimes things that should be obvious aren’t. I end up throwing the “butt” of the bread away since no one eats it. Bread crumbs!!!! Thank you!!!
A breakfast casserole is a great way to use leftover bread! I also love to make French toast with stale bread. It really soaks up all the yummy stuff.