I have been making bread at home for about 3 weeks now. There is not a favorite recipe yet, but I have tried several different kinds of basic breads. Needless to say we have not bought any bread from the store in over a month.

For the last year when I have buying bread from Sunflower Market. No other commercially available bread compares. This bread is made in a small baker and they use only a few ingredients, none of which are preservatives or corn syrup (you wouldn't believe how many 100% whole wheat breads have corn syrup in the list of ingredients). In fact before my homemade bread extravaganza I refused to buy any bread that wasn't Sunflower Market bread.

Yesterday I was out of homemade bread and happened to be at Sam's Club for a few items. LittleRoq, BabyGirl and I stood at the massive rows of "factory made" commercially available bread at Sam's Club. I looked at it all and thought, "Ugg, I can't eat this nasty stuff. It is going to be all light weight and full of additives. Let me see what the boy thinks." So I ask LittleRoq "Would you like to get bread from here or should I make bread at home?" He gives me an extremely firm "Make the bread at home."

So there we have it. No nasty factory bread in our house. I have to keep homemade bread in the house from now on. No substitute will do. (Well except in a crunch and then I would definitely still be all over Sunflower Market bread, but no other.)