"Fortify" Your Life with a Good Bread Recipe
Here is a healthful bread recipe that's also easy and cheap! AND I made a mnemonic to help remember how to do it. (Full recipe for paid subscribers.)
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The Problem
There are a lot of bad ingredients in our food supply, slowly poisoning us and making us sick. It’s hard to keep up with them all, while still having a life! But cleaning up your diet is a worthy endeavor, especially when battling chronic health conditions.
One of my favorite foods, which brings much joy and comfort to my life, is bread.
But it’s amazing how difficult it has been to find bread I can a) afford, and b) eat without worrying about the ingredients. For example, I have to avoid bromated flour, due to my thyroid. That pretty much means I have to eat organic bread.
The cheapest organic bread I could find was at ALDI. It had a lot of seeds, which I don’t love, but oh well. I usually prefer simple, easy to chew, plain bread, but OK, whatever. I settled on the ALDI brand for awhile.
But alas! One day I looked at the label, and I was dismayed by the very high sugar content! 12 grams of added sugar! That’s 1/4th the recommended standard daily allowance! (And I actually recommend eating less than the daily allowance.) Worse, this added sugar was in the form of fructose, one of the worst forms of sugar for the liver. UGH. Even organic brands are not safe!
I could get organic bread at a different grocery store, with ingredients that are acceptable, but it’s almost $7 per loaf. That is too expensive.
In general, I have three goals for my diet:
Healthful (Obviously)
Convenient (I have a lot going on! I don’t have time to fuss with food!)
Cheap (I’m the sole… ahem… breadwinner for my family, and I don’t make a lot of money. I have to be thrifty and careful.)
Unfortunately, sometimes it seems like you have to “pick two” from the above list. But it’s always great when I can attain all three! That’s what I’m going to share today! Drumroll, please…
I figured out how to make bread that is healthy, cheap, and easy! YAY!
(Healthy, cheap, and easy. Just like me. 🤣)
Normally making bread is a long, involved process. (I don’t use a breadmaker, because of the chemicals in the nonstick coating on the pan.) But I found a way to cut out the worst parts! No kneading required. And even better, I figured out a helpful mnemonic, so you can memorize the recipe and not have to look at a card.
Caveat: this bread is not “the best you’ve ever had.” If you are a bread connoisseur, you will be appalled. Just turn away now. But if you, like me, just want something tasty to make toast and sandwiches out of, this is good enough!
Memorizing the Recipe
First of all, there’s no shame in consulting a recipe while you bake, of course! But my goal is to make this as convenient as possible, by cutting out as many steps as I can. One of these steps is the process of pulling out the recipe book, finding the index card, and tacking it on the fridge… For me, I appreciate saving that time, but it’s totally fine if you need to consult a card!
The key is to my mnemonic is to remember the word “Fortify.”
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