Right now in my area, (I really study the prices) I am NOT making bread from scratch. Right now (not to say in 2 weeks I will) I am buying the Always Save brand of 5 frozen bread dough loaves and baking them myself. The bag of preshaped frozen loaves is $2.98 and it contains 5 loaves. It normally cost me around 89 cents to bake a loaf.
Our local grocery wants $4.18 (as of last week) for ONE loaf of GENERIC bread. I have been baking my own bread since we moved here for this reason.
I also buy my flour in 25 lb bags (we well as my sugar and salt and cornmeal) and keep them in a nonworking chest deepfreezer. It keeps the critters and moisture out. I get my yeast in 5 lb containers at an Amish Store (that I have heard has since went out of business...) and keep it stored in the working freezer. That yeast will last me around a year and since I keep it frozen it is always good.
We do use a bread machine for speciality breads or I buy the mixes and use them in the machine when we are in the RV camping. Our RV oven is smaller and sometimes heats unevenly and the bread machine comes in handy then.
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