Homemade Mixes Are Great Tasting and Frugal.

How about a gravy mix. We use the packaged since I am still trying to get the pan version down right and would love to have a jar of gravy mix sitting ready on the counter! thanks!!

I am always on the lookout for mixes that don't contain wheat, rye, barley or spelt, as I have celiac disease. I do make my own coffee creamer, chocolate syrup and sweetened condensed milk sometimes. I also used to bake my own bread before my diagnosis.

I am really looking forward to trying out some of your recipes. I am also looking forward to you posting more of them. I do alot of homemade cooking, It seems I have been cooking all my life. If you read the ingredients on a box of anything, it will scare the daylights out of you. Most of the stuff you cannot even pronounce.

I have heard that stelt bread is much healthier than bread which is made of ordinary flour. I have just bought a bread maker and I would like to use this for baking my own stelt bread. Do you happen to have a recipe for stest bread? If so, I would very much appreciate it if you could post it or send it to me in a pm.

Mixes can be convenient - but personally, I find it just as simple to mix up, say, panckaes from scratch. To use that particular example, I can have pancakes mixed up, on the griddle, and the first batch ready fro my guyswithin 10 minutes. Most baking mixes, in particular, only have 4 or 5 ingredients. I keep my kitchen set up so basic staples, like sugar, several flours, baking powder, etc. are easily within arm's reach. It may take me 30 seconds to add eggs and milk to a mix - but it only takes about 2 minutes (for me) to just do it from scratch. Also, with multipurpose mixes, you often have to add 5 or 6 additional ingredients to make anything but one or two basics anyway. Overall, the space saved my not keeping multiple baing mixes on hand outweighs the time savings they may produce. The one exception, for me, is spice-type mixes. I keep homemade "shake n' bake", chili seasoning, curry powder, etc. These all have multiple ingredients (often a dozen or so) and - particularly with straight spices, like curry powder - don't take much extra space to store. They also take 10-15 minutes to mix up initially, and so offer a significant time savings. Kudos for making your own mixes instead of buying, though - on a similar note, we had homemade "hamburger helper" this week! Have you ever looked at the ingredients in that tiny spice pack?? Ugh! (Not to mention the premium price you pay for the inclusion of a bunch of chemicals to sprinkle on your noodles! :) Thanks! ~Sara

I used to have a book I was writing with hudreds of recipies but lost it when I reformatted my computers hard drive and forgot to back it up! Luckily there are plenty of places on the net to find the recipies for free!

This is so great. You are wonderful. Do you have any cake, fudge, cookie, or bread mixes on hand? I make breads and the above from scratch, but would love to have a mix to give as a gift. Thank you. M&M

I would love to see what you can offer in homemade mixes for cakes, muffins, and breads. And, cookies too. Thank so much for the info and for the offer. Email me, okay? Thanks.

I agree totally. We stopped buying processed foods...anything with corn syrup, added sugar, hydrogenated oils, enriched flours and any ingredients that we couldn't identify. I also avoid any MSG and have to request Chinese meals without it at restaurants. I had a couple of allergic reactions to it about a year ago. I try to make all our meals from scratch because it's so much healthier and frugal (which we are).

Yes I have read the ingredients on boxes before it is shocking to find out what is in our products. I have always been one to make from scratch simply because it is just as easy to mix vs buying it in a box. Plus my mom and granny use to do the same thing all the time. I use to have a Betty Crocker book that had alot of the older recipes in it and I also learned alot from the book. I'm not sure if alot of their recipes come in a box now or made into boxes later on. :) But I still find myself buying the boxes from time to time. May just be a generation thing for quick and convenient. Yes MSG is in almost everything.

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