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Still cooking my own beans in a pressure cooker, and making bread in a bread maker. Those two things have saved a ton of money.
If only I can convince my family to use a bidet, then we'd probably save $40 a month on toilet paper!
omg, getting others on the bidet train would really help me. My roommates plow through TP like Bolsonaro plowed the rain forest.
Upvote because of random Bolsonaro burn.
I was under the impression that bread makers don't actually save money, they just make better bread for the same money.
When I did the math, it comes out to a substantial saving. Not just bread, but pizza dough, too!
But, there's a nuance. If you're buying small bags of bread flour and those tiny jars of instant yeast, you're going to overspend like crazy.
Large bags of all purpose flour and big bags of active yeast are key. When I compared results using instant yeast and bread flour, nobody in my family could tell the difference 😂
Edit: clarity
When you say bread dough do you mean bread flour?
Yes! My bad. Corrected now.
Unless you're making 5 leaves a day, give makin g sourdough a shot. No more need for buying more yeast.
I was thinking, "Isn't it usually more expensive to make your own bread?" But then I realized with how inflated grocery prices are now, there might very well be a savings esp. if you can buy flour in bulk or something.
Yes, once bread reached a price that no longer justified the convenience, that was my final straw.
Bulk flour and yeast SIGNIFICANTLY reduce costs, and my machine paid for itself very quickly.