"Greenify" Your Home: Make Your Own Bread

This may be my favorite way to save money, reduce my carbon footprint, and feed my family delicious and nutritious food. Oh, and it makes my house smell delicious.

One loaf of home made bread made with organic flour, local honey, local butter, local milk, local eggs, costs.... are you ready for this? 65 cents.

I purchased my bread machine from a garage sale several years ago for 25$ It has paid for itself several times over.

So lets review all of the ways this loaf of bread is a better choice than store bought bread.

1) Local ingredients: Don't use as much fuel in transportation to the store. Come from farms using sustainable practices, which in turn produce better quality food.

2) Reduction in packaging: The flour and yeast were purchased in bulk and the flour was brought home in my own grain bags. Milk comes in returnable glass bottles.

3) Re-used bread machine: saved all of the fossil fuels it requires to build, package, and transport a new bread machine to the store. Not to mention the space in the landfill.

White Sandwich Bread Recipe

1/4 cup water
1 package dry yeast
3/4 cup whole milk
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 tablespoons honey
1 large egg
1 and 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
3 cups all-purpose flour

Add all of the ingredients to the bowl of your bread maker. Add the yeast to the yeast cup. Use the light crust bread setting. 4 hours later, tada yummy bread.

Have you made your own bread before? What is your favorite recipe?