Living Within the Means God has Provided for you.

I have been a stay at home mom since 2003, although living on one fairly small income has been challenging, God has always provided for our family. With a Gross income of aproximately $20,000 we own our own home, actually have two running vehicles and want for very little. Lots of people complain about not having enough money to pay their bills. I have a hard time understanding why. On a monthly basis, we make a mere $1, 356, I had no clue til recently how low that really was. Its funny, but being Poor is more of a mentality than an actuality for most of us.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

The Cost of a Loaf of Bread

How much do you pay for store bought bread?
Here, it cost about $2.19 for whole wheat bread (and thats the cheap bread)

Using Expensive whole wheat flour at $0.82 per pound 4 1/2 cups per pound
Yeast $1.93 lb 112 teaspoons per pound
Powdered milk $0.55 quart
Sugar $0.72 lb 2 1/4 cups per pound 108 teaspoons per pound
Bread Flour $0.82 lb 4 1/2 cups per pound
Butter $2.50 lb 32 Tablespoons per pound
Salt $0.33 lb 113 teaspoons per pound

At that rate,
Going through the recipe for a 1 1/2 lb loaf
1 cup of Milk $0.13
3 Tablespoons of Water (free from the drips)
4 Teaspoons of Sugar $0.027
1 Tablespoon Butter $0.078
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour $0.273
1 1/2 cups Bread Flour $0.273
3/4 Teaspoon Salt (do we really need to figure this one out?)$0.0029
1 teaspoon active Dry yeast (bought in bulk) $0.017

Now to add it all up, 80.09 cents per loaf
compared to 2.19 on sale, 1.49 is the Aldi price. so I think I better get to work making a loaf of Bread, since I can get the ingredients Cheaper than the prices I used in the example

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