Tuesday, February 19, 2008

#35 Make Your Own Bread

With the cost of wheat going up, it seams that my $1 a loaf at the grocery store is no longer $1!! I am fairly disappointed that a lot of the fresh foods we eat (to stay healthy) are now so much higher. Eggs went up another $1 in January to $2.99. And milk doesn't seem to be going lower any time soon. We are at $4.29 a gallon. Now, the grocery store baked bread I buy is going up 25 cents a loaf. It wouldn't be an issue if we didn't eat so much bread! So, since I don't have a cow or any hens to curb the cost, I am going to make my own bread!

My parents have a 2 cup bread machine that they have not used in years. I have asked to borrow it to start making and freezing loaves. I am a little intimidated by making bread by hand, so I opted for borrowing a machine! I also found some bread machine recipe books on PaperBackSwap that I requested since I had 2 credits. The great thing about the machine is that you spend about 10 minutes measuring and pouring ingredients and then 10 minutes cleaning at the end. The machine does all the work, and I get a fresh loaf of bread at 1/2 the price!!



So, try making your own bread to curb the rising prices at the grocery store!

Happy Saving!!

2 comments:

Marva said...

Great tip Melinda! You are doing a great job with this. It is so informative. keep up the good work! Blessings!!!

Anonymous said...

I used to make bread from scratch, but stopped during my last pregnancy when I was just too tired. I haven't gotten started back since - I have had really good intentions, but haven't followed through. I can say that I have used my bread machine a few times since then, but not consistently. Either way, I have no excuse! Thank goodness we don't pay sales tax on groceries here. Prices are going up enough without having to tack that extra bit on!!!