Money-Wise Monday - home baked bread.

   Few years back I became very conscious of reading labels on the food that I bought. The more I read the more I disliked what I was learning. For ages I have been buying store-bought bread (you know, the one packed in plastic bags with words like Healthy, Whole grain, and Nutri-something or other) and never once looked at the ingredients list on the package. When Girly Monkey was born and we found out that she had a dairy allergy, I became very diligent about reading the ingredient lists and seeing for myself what we were eating. To my shock, bread was no longer made with flour, salt, and water (maybe yeast sometimes or butter and eggs for breads like Challah). Now the ingredient list read like something from a science class at the local high school.