Baking Bread

Today is bread day for me. I've just finished baking 4 loaves of bread..2 of plain white and 2 banana bread.

I was shopping yesterday and noticed the price of the breads. The plain prepackaged mass produced stuff was cheap, however I noticed that many shoppers were hovering over the better quality bread, here they would look over the ingredients, nod their heads in agreement with each other, look at the price being charged, then sadly put down the good breads and toss a cheap, no flavor loaf into their trolley
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finished product..yum

I also noticed the cost of foccacia  breads and any type of bread that had bacon, olives or dried tomatoes on it, most were around the $5 mark. Incredible.

I've worked out that my loaves cost less than a dollar to make, have no preservatives, and I can customize them by adding any flavor I want.I can choose to do savory or sweet, grainy or full of fruit. So long as I use the basic recipe....the rest is easy.

Using a basic recipe also allows us to make our own pizza base, as well as pizza turnovers.(basically a pizza with the toppings on the inside....Yum) This for me is a really great way to use up any left overs in the fridge.

Doing your own cooking from scratch is definitely a lot cheaper as well as healthier as you get to control what goes into your food. You also get more control over what you buy, how you spend and what you spend it on.