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My Bakery Stockpile

This past weekend, I made a visit to our friendly neighborhood bakery thrift store. You may have read some of my earlier blogs all about this wonderful store. It is a place where I can get breads and other Pepperidge Farm goods for deep discounts. I like to keep baked goods and the ingredients to make baked goods well on hand. This means that I am always seeking ways to add to my stockpile. I do this through that bakery thrift store, but also through buying baking ingredients in bulk and with sales and coupons. Sometimes, I can even stock … Continue reading →

Five Bread Prices for Five Families

Bread is one of those great staples in life. And, despite all of the bad press that it has gotten in these low carb days, I still think bread is a wonder. I thought I would take a look five fictional families and see what each of them might spend on a loaf of bread. I’m going to assume that all of our pretend families like to be healthy, so they all eat a whole grain bread. None of them stockpile or freeze their bread, but they might purchase two loaves a week to get them through until their next … Continue reading →

A Frugal Secret: Bakery Thrift Stores

Finding out where your closest bakery thrift store is located is definitely worth the trouble. Here is why. What is a bakery thrift store? Don’t worry, it isn’t a place where used second-hand bread is sold! Instead it is a great place, where you can purchase high quality, fresh bread and bakery products that are generally 50 percent or more off of the prices for the same products that are sold in the stores. What is sold at a bakery thrift store? Basically, you can find any fresh baked goods that you would normally find at your regular grocery store. … Continue reading →

Tiny Biscuits

Breaking away from commercial biscuit mixes is not that difficult to do. Yummy biscuits made from scratch require only an extra ingredient or two. The taste (and the cost) are well worth it! I finally found a great scratch biscuit recipe. I think you will really like it. These biscuits are light and tasty. Best of all? You can make them as a drop biscuit, eliminating the rolling and cutting steps. Drop biscuits are formed by “dropping” spoonfuls of dough onto your cookie sheet and then baking. For this recipe, I like to form tiny little biscuits, using a scant … Continue reading →

Make Your Bread Last Longer and Save Money

Forget the bread boxes and specialized containers, storage bags and other devices designed for storing bread that is supposed to last longer. First, they cost money and typically do not do what they say they are going to do. And second, there are much easier ways to prolong the life of your bread, saving you money in the long run. There is nothing worse than needing bread for a sandwich or toast, or a bun for a hamburger or hot dog, and opening the bag to find a rather unsightly looking green fuzzy patch growing on it. Many a bag … Continue reading →

How to Save Money on Bread

In our house, bread really is the staple of life. We are huge carbohydrate freaks, even in a world where going low “carbs” is normal and expected. Of course, we try to eat mostly the good stuff, the most nutritionally dense, such as enriched pastas and whole grain breads. Perhaps it is my Italian heritage, but there is no way I could see a life without lots of bread. Don’t cringe, but we probably have some sort of bread at most every meal. One of my favorite things to have is a slice of french or italian bread with a … Continue reading →

Orange Bread With Cranberry Butter—Perfect for a Holiday Breakfast

This bread is delicious. I’ve made it several times and I hope you will, too. For the Orange Bread you will need: ¼ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature ¼ cup granulated sugar ¼ cup packed brown sugar 2 large eggs ½ cup orange juice ½ teaspoon vanilla extract 2 Tablespoons grated orange zest 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon salt Confectioners sugar, for serving For the Cranberry Butter: ½ cup dried cranberries 1 cup orange juice 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature 5 Tablespoons confectioners sugar To make the bread: Preheat your oven to … Continue reading →

Is A Burrito A Sandwich?

Believe it or not the question is garnering national attention. Not only is the query at the center of a legal food fight between two well known restaurants, it happens to be the question I was sent out to answer on a cold winter day during my stint as a television news reporter (more on that later). The current sandwich controversy brewing in Massachusettes involves two of my favorite eateries: Panera Bread Company (which serves sandwiches, soups and an assortment of baked goods) and Mexican restaurant, Qdoba. According to court documents, Panera argues that owners of the mall where it … Continue reading →

Mango—Popular In Many Cultures

I grew up in Hawaii where mangoes are so plentiful you could be standing at a bus stop and actually reach up and grab a few to take on your ride. Mango is a fruit that is not only popular in Hawaii, but also in Mexico, the Caribbean, Africa, South-East Asia, Australia, and right here in the continental U.S. (especially in Florida, New Mexico and California). We could all benefit from a little multicultural thinking, so here are some mango recipes that are culled from different regions around the world. The recipes are simple and… simply delicious. Salad of the … Continue reading →

Five Foods That Can Add Spice To Your Love Life

My skinny cousin always says he has no time to eat. (He clearly doesn’t get the same joy from devouring donuts that I do.) Rather, he says he simply “eats to survive.” But, you don’t need to be a “foodie” to know that food has so many other powers besides sustaining life. Certain foods have been proven to boost brainpower. While others assist athletes in their quest to become the best in their fields. And then, there are those foods, which dieticians claim can give you a boost in the romance department. Here are five foods that experts say can … Continue reading →