And yet American muffins are really popular here lol!!! Crazy!

12 grain, 6 grain, flax, rye, ancient grain, wholewheat, brown, white, Italian, French, local chains, national chains, store bought, farmers markets: there's lots of choice.

Many stores have their own bakery and make it right there.

Better than the UK and more choice, especially if you stay away from the white bread. I do, however, sometimes crave a good crusty loaf like they used to make years ago in the UK. Haven't found a good one on my trips back there in recent years.

Apparently, not. Checked their website for availability:

http://www.naturesownbread.com/NAT_A...lity/index.cfm

I know that my in-laws outside of Montreal and my husband when he lived in Ottawa (and I would visit) all bought the same crap bread that we have in the states. The only difference is that both families tend to my whole grain/multi grain breads which I don't care for.

I make my own and/or buy it fresh from a bakery in New York City.

I love fresh bread from the bakery and usually it is good quality bread both in Canada and the US. It's the stuff off the supermarket shelves that tends to be crap.

I love multi grain bread...I miss the UK's Granary bread.

Perhaps it depends on where you are in Canada but there is a great variety of breads available in the GTA supermarkets including high quality from independent bakeries. It is only reasonable to say that if one has been eating foods from one country for 20-30 years the "same" foods in another country are going to taste different. Baking your own bread is fine, and no doubt better for you, if you have the time and inclination to do so, but if both adults in the household are working it isn't always feasible.

I am shocked at how many people bake their won bread! It must be really simple if so many of you are doing it!!

I guess a bread maker is the key!!

I could never buy a bread maker 'cos I'm a carb junkie...I'd be stuffing me face with fresh crusty bread all day.

We make our pizza dough in it too!

A breadmaker simplifies it down to measuring out and adding the ingredients in the correct order, setting the timer and waking upto the smell of fresh bread. It's pretty much idiot proof.

We only use it for a weekend treat though as even that is too much hassle for the week. We buy wholewheat / multigrain bread from the Supermarket. Forget the brand but it's good enough for Sandwiches. White bread is the occasionaly treat - partiuclarly when Mrs AX's Grandmother bakes it. Best toasted with marmite. (thus combining the Canadian - Grammies homebaked bread - with the British!)

Thin crispy pizza dough with a thin crispy edge...it's the best part of the pizza IMO.

North America is a big place. There will be some national brands found in all supermarkets, but you'll find that the market for baked goods is very regional/local. Just because you found a particular variety in Florida doesn't mean you'll find it in Georgia, much less Canada. I've never seen anything called Nature's Own Butterbread in Ohio, for example. The best advice is to avoid supermarket national brands, look for offerings from local or regional bakeries. Or bake your own.

When we arrived we tried a diffrent bread everyday! Until i came across dempsters plain white sandwhich bread, it tastes the same as white bread in the UK (not sweet) they also do one which is mixed grain, again white which is good Cosco do it $5 for 3 loafs, Bargain

We never get bread from supermarkets now (in fact, we hardly ever seem to visit supermarkets now we're settled here!); we are well served by a local Cobs bakery, of which there are plenty (at least around Vancouver). Can't say as I'm missing any particular type of bread from the UK, in fact the range here seems to be great and they have new things to try regularly! There's a cracking crusty farmers loaf!

Also, as with a lot of staples (e.g. veg markets), their hours are terrific so you don't really need to keep stock, just buy when you need.