Investment Cooking - Baking Breads & Rolls

 

At the beginning of the year I decided with the rising prices on pretty much everything I'd implement a lot of cost cutting measures which included making my own bread products.  The cost of a loaf of low carb bread is now up to $6 a loaf, it seldom goes on sale and I haven't seen it at the dollar store lately.  Plus, if you read the ingredients list, it probably isn't all that good for me anyway.

 

I know that making homemade bread is a time consuming process so when I do it I usually will make a lot of it at one time and then freeze it.  I'll plan a baking day so I'm not only efficient with my time, but I also make efficient use of the oven I'm heating up.

 

I use a bread machine to make my dough which is a great time saver and will run two batches through it.  I will also plan out a meal like a lasagna or a sheet pan meal and some other baked goods like muffins or a pan of brownies to go into the oven between batches so I'm not wasting the oven heat.

 

I always make too much stuff, but that is okay because I can share it with my friends.  That is really the best part about it.  Who doesn't love a loaf of homemade bread fresh out of the oven?