Is it really more cost effective...

If you bake your own biscuits etc as opposed to buying them on special at the supermarket.

I was pondering this while i was thinking about maybe doing some baking..and wondered if once you buy eggs, butter, flour, sugar etc, if it really did work our more cost effective as opposed to buying a couple of packs on special at the supermarket... especialy since things like milk and butter have gone up so much.

is it okay to freeze butter? or do you store it in the fridge?

I just store it in the fridge. Always seems fine when I go to use it. I know you can freeze milk.

I bake muffins, scones and slices because they are way cheaper than buying them and you know what has gone in them. I've never found biscuits to be much cheaper to buy because of the cost of butter.

I bought up large on baking stuff this week coz I am feeling particularly domestic and my grocery bill was up $90 And that was buying Homebrand flour, sugar, icing sugar, condensed milk and anything else I could get. But I did buy stuff like choc melts and dried fruit that I suppose aren't baking neccessities.

I don't tend to bother baking biscuits coz they are fiddly but I do muffins and cakes, esp mini fruit muffins for the kids, and today I made my first ever sultana loaf, and it was super easy, had no milk or eggs in it and tastes yummy! Was an Edmonds recipe.

Why not bake with marg? I always have, even before we had to. Way cheaper. And yep if you bake a lot and buy a big flour etc it does work out cheaper. I only bake biccies now if we feel like them, not every week like I used to buy them from supermarket.

I found a recipe for ginger snap biscuits which were quite cost effective as it made about 40 of them, but they were sooo yummy that they didn't last very long. I like doing my own baking as I know what is in it!

Depends what you bake. I do loads of baking and some things are cheaper and some are not. It does depend what brand of ingredients you use. I try to use the cheapest but find cheap cocoa and choc chips don't taste anywhere as nice in brownie / biscuits.

Most of the savory muffins I make use oil BUT they also have cheese which is insanely expensive ATM. I've always thought of cheese as a staple food but now it really is a luxury item.

My mum and I were discussing this the other day, and she was saying that she priced up all the ingrediants needed for choc chip cookies compared to buying a packet mix, and if you get the packets on special its much cheaper. They dont taste the same, but if its just to take to school or kindy or something like that they I dont know if it matters!

I freeze butter as well, just keep it in a zip lock bag and slice off what I need when frozen.

 

I watched something on Tv the other day where (I think it was) Alison Holst, baking biscuits etc and the presenter asked if it was cost effective to still bake and she eplained the costing of her biscuits as against a packet of ordinary bought ones and it still came out cheaper to bake even with the cost of butter she even factored in the cost of the power.
We bake heaps of muffins in our house so for those yes it is cost effective as they range between $1.80-$3.50 each at the shops and cafes.
Plus home made bikkies are so much yummier.