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Hello readers! My name is Mrs. SPF and this is my first post on our site.
I have a sweet tooth but I don`t like eating ingredients I cant pronounce. For me the best way to do that and on a budget is to make my own treats. And I know people say I don’t have time, I say it myself sometimes but then I remember that if I make a big batch, freeze half, have the other half as snacks in my lunch then next time that sweet tooth is crying out, I have something on hand, no work required!
If you are really stretched for time, especially around this holiday season organize a baked goods exchange with some friends and/or colleagues. You each make 3 dozen (so for say 6 friends, each person gets ½ dozen) of you favourite cookie, square, etc, get together, exchange the treats and everyone walks away with a couple of different goodies! I was introduced to this idea in an office I worked in a couple of years ago and just think its a great idea! It is especially great to do around the holidays. You can show up to Christmas dinner with tins full of a variety of scrumptious goodies and let everyone believe you are a domestic goddess!
Make your own … granola bars, muffins, cookies, you name it!!!
Green and health reasons to make your own: reduce packaging (no individual wrappers, no cardboard box or plastic clam-shell, no artificial sweeteners made in a lab in some far off land, no extra shipment (in addition to the ingredients) of product across the country), ingredient control - we don’t add trans fats
Economic reasons to make your own:
Cost to make your own oatmeal chocolate chip muffins
| Ingredient | Cost Basis | Quantity | Costs |
| bag of oats | $5 for 2.25 kg | 112.5 g | $0.25 |
| chocolate chips | $0.55 for 100 g | 81 g | $0.44 |
| egg (local, free range) | $2.85 for 12 eggs | 1 egg | $0.24 |
| brown sugar | $2 for 1 Kg | 165 g | $0.33 |
| flour | $5 for 10 kg | 125 g | $0.08 |
| baking powder | $2 for 450g | 16 g | $0.07 |
| melted butter (local) | $4.50 for 2 cups | 1/2 cup | $1.12 |
| TOTAL | $2.53 |
Total = $2.53 for 12 muffins! Where we live you usually cant get 6 muffins for less than $5 in the grocery store. So even if we made these muffins with all organic ingredients which would double the cost, we would still be saving money!
So, for me personally the financial incentive is a great one and of course avoiding those weird sounding ingredients but even better is the wonderful smell that fills our house while baking and nothing beats fresh from the oven muffins to go with your afternoon tea on a cold winter day.
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