Sandwiches are my kind of grub. I'll eat damn near anything if it's wedged between two slices of bread. In fact, bread makes up a HUGE portion of my diet. The past year and a half has brought major changes to the way my family eats. In baby steps. Bread was a impenetrable steel fortress. We MUST have bread. But bread has industrialized chemicals in it. Don't believe me? Just look for yourself:

Whole wheat flour, water, wheat gluten, high fructose corn syrup, contains 2% of less of: soybean oil, salt, molasses, yeast, mono and diglycerides, exthoxylated mono and diglycerides, dough conditioners (sodium stearoyl lactylate, calcium iodate, calcium dioxide), datem, calcium sulfate, vinegar, yeast nutrient (ammonium sulfate), extracts of malted barley and corn, dicalcium phosphate, diammonium phosphate, calcium propionate (to retain freshness).

This is the ingredient list for a popular brand of bread straight from the supermarket shelf. We'll call it Blunderbread. When was the last time you went out to the garden and ate dicalcium phosphate off the vine? And look! There's our old friend high fructose corn syrup! See my predicament?

So what's a guy to do? Bake my own bread? Are you crazy? Nobody does that shit anymore. Right?

After a long talk with my loving wife explaining the problem and trying to find a non-hypocritical solution to get my bread fix, she agreed to the unthinkable. She would bake all of the sandwich bread consumed in our house. And she has. Since November, 100% of our loafed bread has been produced by my wife and daughter. Roughly two loaves a week. It's all made by hand, from scratch with organic unbleached flours. She's recently even got the knack for making whole wheat bread. I am ecstatic. Scratch made bread tastes so much better. Hell, it tastes. It must be healthier. It can be done. Really, it can. Bread is such a convenience food. But at the cost of nutrition, industrialization, and most important (to me, at least), taste.

We are still occasionally buying specific purpose breads. Namely burger/hot dog buns. However, my genius love of my life crafted buns in the form of homemade soft pretzels. Please follow me. Bacon cheddar burgers (grass fed, free range, organic) on homemade pretzel buns. This was one of the most amazing meals of my entire fucking life. I had the 'Itis immediately after. Took fifteen minutes to sleep it off. It was a truly spiritual experience.

Go bake bread.