Many families have survived difficult times purchasing "day old" bread.
This is the bread that has passed the normal one or two-day shelf life limitation for grocery store bread.
Store deliverymen usually brought new bread on regular days of the week and placed the fresh loaves on the front of the shelves. They placed the day-old bread on the back of the shelf.
Smart shoppers always picked their bread from the bottom or back of the stack, knowing that the fresh bread is always farthest from the front.
For some home economists, there is nothing worse than day-old bread. It is not as fresh, gets hard and the older it gets has a tendency to mold.
Many of the local bakers stocked fresh bread on the first of the week, and some restocked near the end of the week. Anything purchased in between is "day old."
"Day old" wasn't good enough.
We thank God that the Bread of Life doesn't have a shelf life and doesn't mold. Jesus says, "I am the bread of life."
The bread of life won't grow old and certainly won't mold.
