How to Save Money Making Your Own Wheat Bread

There are a lot of good people out there who chose to buy wheat bread because of the added health benefits. What they fail to realize is that what they think they are buying is not what they are getting. Ninety-five percent of wheat bread bought in the stores is not wheat bread at all. Most store bought wheat bread is just white bread with molasses added for coloring. Real whole wheat bread will have whole wheat as the first ingredient. Real whole wheat bread is also marketed as one hundred percent whole wheat bread not just whole wheat bread.

The health benefits of making your own bread for one is, you won't have all those harmful chemicals in your bread like the ones made in the store. In addition store bought bread lacks the nutrients you are suppose to be able to get from breads. They don't have a significant amount of calcium. Good wheat bread has at least ten percent calcium. Most store bought wheat bread has two percent. They also lack a good amount of vitamin a amongst other vitamins. The reason that store bought bread lacks so much in nutrition compared to real wheat bread is because most wheat bread is strip of it's real nutrients, then they just add some coloring and maybe a little wheat grains so they can at least have the word wheat some where in there ingredients list.

Here is the ingredients to make your own wheat bread. You don't need an electrical bread maker. All you need is a bread making pan.
Ingredients you'll need:
2 cups of warm water
1 (1/2) teaspoons of yeast
(1/3) cup of honey
(1/3) cup of olive oil
2 teaspoons of salt
(1/3) cup of gluten flour
5 to 7 cups of freshly grounded whole wheat

Combine the water yeast and honey into a large bowl or mixer. Allow it to sit for five minutes to allow the yeast to start working. Then add the rest of the ingredients. Knead 7-10 minutes in a mixer or 10-15 minutes by hand.

Next you let the dough rise till it doubles in size, then you hit the dough and divide into two pieces for the two separate loaves of bread.

When you put the bread in the oven turn the heat on for 2-3 minutes then turn the oven off. Put the bread in the oven for 15-25 minutes to allow the dough to rise an inch above the pan. Last you turn the oven to 350 and allow bread to cook for 30 minutes.

This bread taste so good especially with the added honey to make it taste better since alot of real whole wheat bread doesn't taste good because they don't add a sweetener. That's one of the reasons white bread taste good. But the difference is that honey is a natural sweetener that is good for you at healthy amounts.

You will save money by making your own homemade bread because each loaf of bread I estimate to be about sixty-five cents.

For those who don't have time to do all this there are some brands out there that do sell real wheat bread with the added health benefits and nutrients. Some examples of companies that sell real whole wheat bread are, Trader's Joe's, Wild Oats or you could just go to the whole foods store. But for those who can try this recipe, give it a try. You won't regret it.