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Is Home Baked Bread a Healthy Choice? What You Need to Know to Eat Healthier!

The Breadmaker buzz is getting louder these days. Some are passionate about home baking, and are claiming to be much healthier as a result of their efforts.

Baking your own bread may not be just a great choice to help you stay healthy... You will likely see some savings in your grocery budget as well. Home baked bread costs are much lower than that of store bought bread, but still this really is not the main reason for baking at home.

Food processing industries are using many more additives than they did in times past, which makes it more difficult for us as consumers to know what we are actually eating. Even though food industries are controlled by government agencies in their respective countries, indications are that the quantities of additives to processed food (especially Breads)keeps growing.

Ingredients are added to make the bread stay fresh longer, and to make the crust crunchier, as well as ingredients to make fermentation faster. By baking your own bread you can choose what to put into your mixture.

Many people nowadays are baking their own bread because it simply tastes better, its much healthier, and less costly. Many find that baking is a source of relaxation, and have turned healthy baking into a hobby.

With a Good Breadmaker, (or bread machine), You can bake more of the varieties of baked goods that you may normally find in your local market.

there are numerous books on the subject, and Bread machine baking is so popular, that the internet is buzzing with new recipes. With the awareness that White Breads are less healthy than grain breads, more good home recipes for healthier bread recipes are shared everyday.

Many who never used a Breadmaker or bread machine before... thought that they may soon grow tired of using it and it would just sit on the shelf. This is partly true but not for the obvious reasons. The Biggest reason that some grow tired of using their Breadmaker is that they have made a bad choice and purchased a breadmaker that does not work well or is not easy to clean. But... once you buy the right bread machine... you will soon find your favorite bread is a joy to bake!

Once again... there are lots of good reasons for baking your own bread, but many bake at home because of the healthy results home baking offers and because it tastes so much better. A great idea is to make many loafs of bread. Its not any harder to make several loafs than it is to make one loaf of bread. and baking a bunch of loafs will not only fill your freezer, it makes an excellent gift for people you like. Its no secret that most Everyone loves homemade bread.

Just make sure you use good quality ingredients for the best results. If you use cheap flour and yeast, You may be disappointed. Better to find a good store, offering healthy ingredients of high quality. Then, you will be baking bread that is so delicious your friends and family will love it!

For people trying to stay healthy and loose weight, there are many recipes of bread without all the bad carbs associated with poor quality bread. Most dark bread is much better when trying to loose weight, but some are far better than others. There are numerous of websites, books and other sources of information on this topic.For more detail click Baking Ingredients for Healthy Baking

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Why You Should Learn To Bake Bread

Why would you ever want to bake your own bread when you could just go to the grocery store or the local bakery and pick up a loaf? I mean it's so easy and convenient right? Plus it tastes good enough. So why bake? Let's Take a look at some of the great reasons to learn this skill.

1. Nothing Beats Homemade Bread.

If you've never experienced taking a freshly baked loaf out of your home oven and smelled the aromas wafting out of the loaf then this alone is reason enough to try it. Freshly baked bread is just that good. Even if your loaf barely rises and resembles a brick the flavor will still be like nothing you've ever had from the grocery store. Those of you who have baked bread at home before know exactly what I'm talking about and probably need no more explanation on this point.

2. The Challenge

Bread baking can be surprisingly challenging. Or maybe not all that surprising considering one of the main ingredients in bread(yeast) is a living organism that the baker must try to coax into doing what he or she wants.

Making your bread perfect can be quite difficult. This is part of what makes bread baking so rewarding however. The bread practically begs you to come back and try again to make it better. As a baker you will always be in pursuit of the perfect flavor, shape and texture and you will probably never get there. The challenge of achieving the perfect loaf is addicting and when you do make a breakthrough it is an extremely rewarding experience.

3. Beats the Grocery Store

The bread you can bake at home will trounce most any grocery store loaf. First off, you can control the ingredients in the bread you make. At the grocery store, even many of the higher quality and expensive loaves are loaded with preservatives. Things like calcium propionate, monoglycerides, calcium sulfate, soy lecithin, potassium iodate and artificial colors are common. Just look at the labels of some of these grocery store breads. They read like a chemistry textbook. Bread doesn't need all these ingredients to be bread. You just need flour, water, salt and yeast. At home you can make your loaf as healthy or as unhealthy as you like. You have full control.

In addition to full control of what goes in your bread, your loaf will be straight from the oven fresh. At the grocery store you don't really know how old the bread you're buying is. Often times the loaves can be days old by the time you get them(why they need so many preservatives).

Also, because of shelf life considerations, grocery store bread sacrifices flavor in favor of a long lasting bread that takes weeks to go bad. At home, you do not have to make this sacrifice. You can bake great tasting, nutritious bread without a concern for shelf life(because it will probably be devoured within an hour of leaving the oven).

4. Save Money

Bread from the grocery store or a bakery can be expensive! To get a loaf somewhat comparable in quality to what you can bake at home you may need to spend five or six dollars. With one four or five dollar bag of flour you can make five to six full sized loaves of bread.

5. Bake once, have bread for a month

If you have a freezer, large mixing bowl and some loaf pans you can easily make all your bread for the month in one bake day using the skills you learn here. Just mix up a big batch of your favorite bread, enough to make four loaves or so, and bake them all off. After the bread has cooled, simply freeze three loaves in plastic bags and keep one at room temperature. Every time you need another loaf, pull one from the freezer and allow to thaw at room temperature. The bread will be surprisingly fresh tasting and you won't have to bake bread off again for quite awhile.

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Easy Whole Wheat Bread - Ready in 90 Minutes