does bread maker save u $$?

[Belle0101]

I'm thinking ours doesn't really save us any money. We've a number of stores nearby that run sales on bread quite frequently. Name brand too - Sunbeam, Aunt Millie's (my favorite) and another that I forget the name of. Generally they run about 99 cents a loaf for sandwich loafs which is what we use the most of. We've also a number of day-old type stores nearby.

DS11 takes a PB&J sandwich to school for lunch everyday and he has toast once a day. He doesn't like the bread machine bread because, like a PP, I can't find a nice recipe for sandwich bread.

When I do make bread it's not just a plain white bread. The extra ingredients raise the cost of the bread. Then there's, while minimal, the electricity. That and the whole loaf is devoured in 24 hours time.

 

[Amii]

I've made the artisan bread and it was so easy and very good. But I want to make a regular loaf of white bread for sandwiches. All I can find are hard recipes...I want an easy one like the artisan bread. Does anyone have a easy white bread recipe?

Did you use the Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day recipe for the artisan bread? You can just use that dough to make a regular loaf of bread also. Just grease and flour a loaf pan, form the dough into a roll and put it in the pan and let it rise. When you bake it you can add the water in a pan like when you make the artisan bread and it will have a crispy outer crust. You can also leave the pan of water out and the bread will have a softer top crust. The loaf bread is also really yummy.

 

[Soarin_04]

I don't know exactly how much we save -- I know it has to be a decent chunk -- but what I like best is that I know what's going into the bread I'm making sandwiches with for my kids. I'm not uber-healthy, but I'd like to keep as many preservatives out of their systems and mine as possible, and this is a pretty easy way to do that, and save some cash too.

 

[The Princess]

After reading this thread yesterday I ordered the book to make artisan bread. Cant wait till it gets here!!!!

 

[Teresa Pitman]

My family doesn't eat much bread, but after reading some research about the benefits of sourdough bread I got some starter from a friend and have been making sourdough whole wheat bread in my bread machine for about six months. I have the machine mix up the dough and I bake it in the oven (either loaves or rolls) most of the time (once in a while if I'm really busy, I'll let it bake in the machine, but it's better done in the oven).

Teresa

 

[DCLbrideSept2009]

I have started making my own bread but not with a machine. Mainly for the nutritious value, not to save money. When I read that all the "good stuff" is taken out of wheat when made into store-bought flour, I decided I wanted to start milling my own flour. So I bought a blendtec blender from Costco (was just going to get a grain mill until I saw that this could do that plus so much more) and ordered a 45-pound bucket of hard white wheat online and made my first loaves of bread last night! I'm sure it will take a LONG time to recoup the cost of the blender and wheat, but like I said, I did it more for the nutritious value than the cost savings. I would like to one day get a machine or maybe find an easier recipe, cuz kneading the dough wasn't exactly easy! But this works out fine for now...