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Store Bought vs. Homemade Bread

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Hot bread with butter How does a fresh, out-of-the-oven slice of homemade bread with butter sound right about now? Would you prefer an end piece or soft middle piece? Many folks believe that homemade foods are much better than store-bought ones. In most cases, this is true. Homemade foods are generally better for our health and budgets. How rewarding to realize we can produce healthy and budget-happy foods for ourselves and others! Even our family members can get involved with homemade bread-making. Children enjoy helping and reaping, umm…eating, the rewards as much as we grown-ups do.

Start here to save money The price of making bread at home is worth an honest look as the rising cost of groceries is a hot topic these days. Homemade bread can be made with a few ingredients that are not hard-to-source and may be kept in bulk in our pantries or larders. A trip to a grocery reveals store-bought bread ranging in price from $1.42 to over $7.00. The lowest price is for white bread which is full of refined ingredients, unhealthy preservatives and tastes like cardboard. The higher priced loaves are better quality breads that still may contain ingredients we’d rather not consume like soybean oil or preservatives. And, when were these baked? Certainly not in the past couple of days. Bread fresh from the oven

Better health is on the way It is very important to do our own health-related research and a good place to begin is to learn the effects of consuming preservatives. Many commonly used preservatives are known to cause a variety of health issues. Too often, the bread itself gets the blame for digestive discomfort when, in fact, it is a certain preservative that is the culprit. Knowing what is in our food is not just a cliché these days, our health is on the line. Sandwich bread

Look, I made it myself! What if we could make a loaf or two of healthy homemade bread for $1.75 each? It is possible in today’s economy and with only six commonly-sourced ingredients. Loaf of homemade bread