Who makes their own bread?

[Grumpetvoluntary]

I'm fed up of buying supermarket bread in plastic packaging. It is so packed with sugar that it never seems to go off which unnerves me!

I want to start making my own bread but don't have a huge amount of time to spend on it (I have a boisterous 2 year old and am frontline nhs and will be spending a lot of the next few months working overtime delivering COVID vaccines). Please tell me how you make yours and does it require a fancy machine?

I know this sounds trivial given current circumstances but I really am determined to be less reliant on pre-made Frankenstein products and there is no bakers nearby (we have just moved to a rural village)

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Next time, I might try making the dough and then putting it in the breadmaker to bake.

Here is my wholemeal I made yesterday in the Panasonic. I usually don't bother with wholemeal because it can be a bit heavy, but this one was perfect .... 75% strong wholemeal flour, 25% strong white bread flour.
The crust was delicious.