I don’t actually use these for cooking. I crush them up and sprinkle them around the kitchen to keep the ants away. They work really well. But I’m sure they’re great for flavouring food too.

Bay leaves are a staple in many of my Winter recipes and I like to buy Hoyts bay leaves and store them in a jar ready to add to my recipes.

Don’t have much if this left its seems to last us a while although great for soups and roasts and more and you don’t need much for each meal

My mum always had bay leaves scattered through her tin cans of flour. I do very similar, though my flours are stored in airtight plastic storage containers, always bay leaves in with them. Plus scatter the leaves around on pantry shelves. Useful in some cooking also.

Apart from using this to add to soups I find a bay leaf will help keep weevils away from grain food. When I buy flour etc I open the packet and throw in a couple of bay leaves and I haven’t had weevils since I stated doing this.

These are easy and has a good amount in the package.
these add a great Suttle flavour.
I use them when cooking meats in my slow cooker.