It is absolutely the best smell in the world

I don't have the luxury of time I guess.  Plus my oven just sucks. It's not self-cleaning so it's not well insulated and it heats up the house.
A bread machine would be ideal.  

In my bread machine I use Fleischmanss's Instant Yeast, in a one lb. vaccum sealed pack.  I can only find it at Sam's locally.  It is MUCH cheaper than regular yeast.  Uses only one third of the normal amount and only costs about 2-3 cents per loaf.

is thrift stores in affluent suburbs, because everyone gets them for wedding presents.

another added bonus is that you get free of the high fructose corn syrup when you add the ingredients yourself.

they do exist.

Dave's Killer bread and my husband does just take bread for lunch because it was so filling.  It is great bread and a fascinating story behind how the company started.  Unfortunately they are just getting off the ground and last week there was a story in the paper about how the increased prices might put them out of business.

If you aren't vegie I learned a lesson from a neighbor years ago, a Mormon mother who was a lovely person.

She started with two basic recipes, whole wheat bread and oatmeal cookies, she combined the dry ingredients to make a basic start. She added nuts, cheddar cheese and cooked and crumbled bacon.

She used the ingredients as a bread, or sweetened w/brown sugar to make "Breakfast Bread or Breakfast Cookies", just by adapting to a bread or cookie recipe. Both were really good and my daughter used to race to her house when she smelled the bread baking.

The combination tasted wonderful as a sweet and savory cookie or as a dense bread, and her kids got their grains, fiber and protien all in one. This was a woman who raised nine children. My daughter became a vegetarian in her teens but still uses the recipe for her husband and kids, she just leaves out the bacon in her portion.

I'm a good cook, but a baker I'm not. I can not follow a recipe to save me, I always have to mess with it and screw it up.

great grandmother would do hers, and it tasted wonderful. Ah, the memories!

Don't own a car, don't want one. I ride a bike or take the bus.

I was joking about obesity, but I do see the connection between the price of food and obesity rates.

Actually the recipe of the day on my site is going to be about lentils.

I try to incorporate all of the food groups into my diet. Fruits, veggies, grains, protiens, etc. But it is getting too expensive to do that.

I never met my great-grandmother, but I imagine her diet was similar to my grandmother's, who was a rice farmer.  Her diet was mostly steamed rice, stir-fried vegetables, slow-cooked beans, and yogurt from the neighbor's cow.  Meat and fish was a once-a-week thing.

relegated politics at the bottom of the pile!!

The "lump" on McCain's face and Hillary's wardrobe!

also said that she might want to sell them on the open market.