Bread tags

Bread tags are one of the ubiquitous things in life. Apart from closing bread bags, you will also find them on tons of various supermarket items. How many plastic bread tags have you thrown out sin…

Find out what the different colored bread tags mean. These tips will help you pick the freshest bread at your grocery store.

Those colorful tags and twist ties don't just keep your bread fresh — they also have an important meaning.

They actually mean something.

Pay attention the next time you're grocery shopping!

Those colorful tags and twist ties don't just keep your bread fresh — they also have an important meaning.

Because looking for the expiration date on the bag takes way too long: WiseBread tells us that a commonly used (though not legally binding) system among bread makers allows consumers to figure out the day of the week that a given loaf of bread was baked by glancing at the color of the twist-tie that wraps it. Blue is for Monday, green is for Tuesday, red is for Thursday, white is for Friday, and yellow is for Saturday. (Apparently, by custom, fresh bread was not delivered on Wednesdays and…

What to do with those bread tags? Here are 40 thrifty and surprising uses for those little items you have knocking around your junk drawer.

Follow along as we decipher the grocery store's secret code.

Want to buy the freshest loaf of bread at the grocery store? Look at the colored plastic bread tags on the bag—they're like a secret code.