I Make Bread

For Mormons and Non-Mormons alike, many of their eyes bulge when I tell them I make bread. I not only make my own bread, I grind the wheat to make the bread. No, I don't use a bread machine, I use my Nutrimill and Bosch. Nothing tastes so good as fresh baked bread with homemade frozen strawberry jam (which is super easy too, check out the recipe on the back of Ball's Freezer Jam packet). It's better than candy.

I sat thinking the other day. I've now had my Nutrimill and Bosch for one year. Has it paid for itself in that time? I think the two cost $650. Now for the facts. Do you know that wheat loses 90% of it's nutriets in the first 3-5 days after being ground? Yep. So that whole wheat flour you are buying at the grocery store will take a little longer to digest, but will offer you little else. What is the closest comparable commercial product to homemade bread, that gets frozen within 1 hour of cooking so that I retain as many nutrients as possible? I believe it would be Ezekiel bread. It's found in the freezer section at the grocery store and runs between $5-6 a loaf. My family can eat 4 loaves a week. I lose most of them on baking day. So I figure at that rate, my Bosch and Nutrimill have definitely paid for itself, including the wheat, oil, yeast, gluten, dough enhancer, and salt I purchase for the bread. THAT is worth it for me.

And, as a bonus, I get to grind my own barley into flour and just about any other grain I need. Yes!