<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> On May 2nd, I sent out a question about Udi's Bread and if anyone was finding it to be drier or even stale than in the past when it first came out. The response was overwhelming!! I had about 55 responses so far, and some are still trickling in. For the most part, everyone agreed that the bread was not as good as it used to be, finding it drier or even stale. They could no longer just thaw it and eat it, as toasting was the only solution. This is kind of a setback to the days when the only way you could eat GF bread was to toast it. Many suggestions came in, from buying it fresh to buying it frozen. Or perhaps it was frozen, thawed and refrozen. There were quite a lot theories and quite a lot of suggestions on what to do with it. My own personal choice was to buy a panini maker and make my sandwiches that way if the bread was stale. They were good, but I don't always want a grilled sandwich. Very, very, very few people stated they had good luck with the bread, finding it fresh every time they buy it. One lucky person lives near the bakery..... it is always fresh for her. Another also lived somewhere else in Colorado and found her purchases to be stale. I called the company. I could not push my way through to the owner. Apparently he doesn't take these kind of calls. So I settled for Emily, the customer rep, and we talked. She guaranteed me that they had not changed anything in the product, and that it was shipped frozen. She did state that the bread had a shelf life of 7 days. It has always gone through a distribution center, but who knows what happens to this bread when it hits the store, or even at the distribution center. Is it thawing out??? Some stores stock it on the shelves unfrozen. GF products do not stand up to sitting out, we all know that. Perhaps a better education is needed for those who distribute it. Now....here is one for ya.... she said the plastic piece that closes the wrapper has a date on it. Not a date we can all easily read. The numbers were 11024. That meant the bread was made in 2011, on the 24th day of the year. That is JANUARY!! I purchased this bread on May 1st! I suggested a date everyone can easily read including the store manager. We shouldn't be buying old bread. Emily asked me to forward the emails to her, which I did. I hit her with a huge barrage of them, and I hope everyone doesn't mind. They need to see that this is from all over the U.S. and something needs done. If they contact me further, I will put that out on the listserv also. I hope this has been helpful to everyone. Bev Mansfield, OH Visit the Celiac Web Page at Http://www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/index.html Archives are at: Http://Listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?LIST=CELIAC