This week our local frugal support group is going to get together to make bread mixes. Bread mix is the dry ingredients, pre-measured and packaged together so you can make bread in a machine in less than five minutes. Making bread mix isn't expensive, actually, it is far less expensive than almost any other bread choice, if the ingredients are shopped for carefully. Yet, how many people own bread machines and don't use them? Because there are so many people who have tried them and not used them, you can find a working bread machine in almost any thrift store or yard sale for $5-20. Well worth the money if you are going to use it.
Our bread mix day included making mixes for basic white bread, pizza dough, Hawaiian bread and two kinds of rolls. The ingredients were measured into 5c plastic containers (a detail that matters- baggies are a pain to fill, 4c is not quite big enough for some mixes), the containers were labeled and the recipe was written on the lid. (Detail that matters- looking up your recipe to add liquid ingredients each time is an extra step that will make you less likely to use them when you are in a hurry.) Label the front of the containers as well that way you can see them easily on the shelf.
Here is what I currently have left in my pantry. Butterhorn rolls are a good recipe to use up extra eggs. I was not on the ball this year putting timed lights in my chicken house and they stopped laying for the winter, so I haven't used up my supply of those mixes.
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