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How Do You Save Money On Ingredients For Homemade Bread And Pizza?

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How Do You Save Money On Ingredients For Homemade Bread And Pizza?

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Everyone loves homemade bread – there’s just nothing like eating fresh hot bread with butter melting on it. But with the high price of flour and other ingredients, you’re wondering if you’re actually saving by using the bread machine instead of just buying it ready made at the store. Here’s how to make it affordable. The biggest cost-savings measure that I can offer for making bread, focaccia, and pizza dough at home is where to buy yeast. You need to use one packet for each batch – if you buy it at the grocery store, three packets can cost $3! That’s a dollar a batch! On sale, sliced bread costs that much. On a great sale, you may be able to find the packets for 50 cents each, about the cost of using yeast in a jar. Here’s what you do – go to Costco (or other wholesale warehouse store) and buy the 2 lb brick of Red Star yeast for $3.39. Let me do math for you – less than 3 cents per use vs. 50 cents or more when you buy the packets. Even if you never use the whole brick, which would b

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