My White Bread Recipe Using Bosch Mixer

The Frugal Addict's White Bread

• 1.5 Tablespoons active dry yeast
• 1/4 cup raw honey
• 2 3/4 cups warm water
• 6 cups unbleached flour
• 1.5 Teaspoons salt
• 1/4 cup Canola oil

In the Bosch mixer, put the yeast, water and honey and let sit for 5 minutes.

Add in 3 cups of flour evenly around on top of the water mixture.  Then, add oil and salt evenly around on top of the flour.

With lid on, turn the Bosch mixer on to the first setting and let it incorporate the flour into the water.  Continue adding flour until the dough licks the sides clean.

Turn up to highest setting of 3 and let knead for 4-5 minutes.

Remove dough from Bosch onto a floured surface and divide dough in half.  Place each half in a greased bread pan and press down.

Warm oven for a minute or 2 to just get it warm, then turn off.  Place both bread pans with dough in oven and let rise for 45 minutes or until the dough is 1/2 inch above the pans.  Then, bake for 30 minutes at 350.  Remove pans from oven and then bread from the pans and let cool.

Update On Food Costs; Baking Bread; Freezer

We did it for a week on $65 for groceries and it was so stressful and not fun at all, so we quickly reverted back to our $90 a week plan with a sigh of relief.  I'm still not giving up though on striving to spend less on groceries despite all the food sensitivities.  I started baking my own bread again after learning about Calcium Propionate.   They put propionate in most bread products to preserve it and scientists now believe it is possibly being the CAUSE of Autism.  Not only is it that they possibly found the cause of Autism but they already KNOW that this stuff damages our brain - so why in the world are they putting it in bread products!?  After reading the facts about it, I could no longer give it to my children, much less myself and my husband!  So, I started baking bread again like I used to years ago and you know what, it is really easy and tastes a lot better anyway.  We were spending about $16 a month on bread, now, after accounting for cost of ingredients, we are only spending somewhere in the ballpark of $8 a month.

We purchased a small freezer and stocked up to cut our Aldi shopping trips down to twice a month, instead of weekly.  Aldi is about 20-25 minutes away and going there, shopping and coming back is tedious every week.  Kroger is just down the road, so we decided to get our fresh vegetables there and other things and save Aldi for bi-monthly trips.  We stocked up the freezer with frozen pizza, chicken nuggets, hot dogs, kielbasa, beef and chicken, vegetables, fruit and some other misc. things.