Amazing sandwich bread

Who doesn't love home made bread?
When it's warm out of the oven and melts your butter, with that soft fluffy inside and a crispy crust. Sooo good.
Unfortunately, the day after, it's not really the best sandwich bread. It's very crumbly and it only lasts about a day or two before it starts to get stale.
I love to make home made bread to go with a meal warm, but when I decided to make all my own bread, I decided that my recipe wasn't good enough to make all of our sandwiches with. I actually wanted it to be more like store bread.
 I've been searching for a while for the perfect sandwich bread recipe and I've actually found that they are pretty equal in their being delicious when fresh, but also in not lasting for days to make sandwiches.
This is actually not a recipe post.
I went back to my original recipe, a bit discouraged about making all our bread. In fact, I was about to start buying bread again when my awesome sister in law gave me a slice of her bread to try.
 It was perfect.
 I excitedly asked her what she did to it and she told me about this article she found:
Homemade Dough Enhancers, General Info
It gives a list of things that make up a great dough enhancer and it also explains why each of them works. I've yet to add everything on the list (just because I don't always have everything) but I can tell you that just adding a few (especially the first three) makes a world of difference!

So try it out, add some or all of these things to your favorite recipe, and I promise, it will last longer, and it will have a perfect consistency to be sandwiches without making them crumby. You won't be able to stop making it! (Especially if you have a stand mixer) 

Now if I can just get better at cutting even slices....

About me

Ok, so I have a confession. After my last post, I TOTALLY got hooked on playing Sims on my phone whenever I sat down. So I'm a game junkie. Sue me. I figured it has been so long that I should do another introduction. I am a young mom from Utah. I am LDS and I married my high school sweetheart. When I first introduced myself way back in 2012, I had been married for two years and we had a beautiful 1 year old girl. Well now that 1 year old is 3 and we will be celebrating our 5th anniversary later this year. We also welcomed another beautiful girl into our lives about 6 months ago. My, how time flies.
We are currently renting an adorable tiny house in the town where my husband and I both grew up, a mere 200 yards from my mom and about 4 blocks from his. We LOVE being so close to both grandmas, especially since the girls and I walk everywhere when daddy has the car. I work freelance hours at a reception center and my husband is busy running between work as an office assistant and full time school as a pre dental student, so money is tight. That's the biggest reason I started this blog, because my best friend, who is at the same stage in her life, wanted me to share all my penny pinching expertise with her. The best way to start is learning to think with that age old saying "waste not, want not". We live in a world where people throw away so much stuff. I'm glad that trends are starting to get back to a DIY, minimalist way of life. I'll do my best to share what I do and help you in your venture to save money and enjoy life :) please feel free to ask questions or share your own experiences in the comments.

Hello again

Hello blogging world, once again, I'm back. (Not that anyone noticed my absence, that's fine) I left this blog abandoned over a year ago because I just wasn't feeling it. I had approached this blog with the typical "how to/can do" voice that many other blogger moms use and I decided to stop for two main reasons, one being that there are tons of bloggers out there with the same voice and ideas and projects that actually have readers and I'm not one of them, but mostly because I decided that voice was theirs and not mine. I will still post stuff like that when I feel like sharing them, but seeing as I haven't had any readers (for good reason of having nothing new to read) for a very long time, I'm picking this back up mostly, if not solely for myself. It's something to do while I cradle my beautiful, nursing baby that feels somewhat more productive than playing Sims on my phone. So follow along with me or not as I post little spurts throughout the day of whatever I feel like posting. That is all :)