A couple months ago I wrote a post in my Home Pride Update series while on vacation in Nebraska. In Vacation Bread I covered some of the local bread offerings in Omaha.
This weekend I am in Missouri for the celebration of my parents’ 50th Anniversary.
I decided to check out what breads are available here, but not back home.
We were at Wal-Mart today doing some shopping for the anniversary lunch on Sunday, and of course I headed to the bread aisle.
They had a lot of interesting breads to look at. They had a variety of Bunny brand bread choices. Above you see Bunny Whole Grain White and Bunny Sandwich. I really like the colorful packaging.
Another Bunny choice was Soft-Twist bread. It had an interesting look to it. There were also two Sunbeam choices. The first is above and is Sunbeam White bread. I have always liked the Sunbeam logo with the little girl eating bread.
The other Sunbeam choice was Sunbeam King. I thought that there was another Sunbeam variety, but on closer inspection found an interesting variety of bread.
I had never heard of Mary Jane and Friends bread. Above is the Giant variety. I did find out that Mary Jane and Friends is owned and distributed by Flowers Foods and is one of their regional brands.
Even though I have made the choice of a temporary replacement bread for Home Pride Wheat Bread, I decided that I should try one of the choices available to me here in Missouri.
I decided to go with the Bunny Honey Wheat for my test here in Missouri. I have had my first piece of bread from the loaf, and it is a good bread. I did not have any doubts that it would be good as Bunny is also a regional brand of Flowers Foods.
Another interesting loaf of bread was the Bunny 1/2 Soft-Loaf pictured with the Honey Wheat above. The bread was just that. A half loaf of bread. I sometime wish that I could buy only half a loaf of bread. Especially if I am about to go on a trip and can’t use a full loaf before I leave. My freezer sometimes fills up with partial loaves 🙂
I did make a quick check of my news sources and didn’t see anything new about the return of Home Pride Bread. For the latest, see my post about Flowers Foods’ latest conference call.
Steven
Braman's Wanderings 
I’m surprised that they have Sunbeam bread in Missouri. I always think of it as a Pennsylvania brand.
Congratulations to your parents! I hope that they have a wonderful anniversary.
I hopped and skipped through some of your old Bread posts just because! I took time for this kind of play today! I like your comments and all the colorful pictures of the bread brands. It is such a big choice to navigate! I do love breakfast toast! Our ‘favorite’ bread at this time is an Italian Pane loaf from Aldi’s. It reminds us of Europe breads that we love. It makes incredible toasted sandwiches, and breakfast toast to eat with eggs or jelly! It is much heavier than these soft sliced bread varieties that we generally don’t eat anymore.