Is it really more cost effective...
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Topic: Is it really more cost effective...
Posted By: Bizzy
Subject: Is it really more cost effective...
Date Posted: 29 April 2008 at 5:33pm
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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. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 29 April 2008 at 5:38pm
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Not sure if it's more cost effective, but any baking I do doesn't last longer than 3 days!
I do buy all of the Pams baking products to save money. I also try to make things without milk. With the butter if I can find it less than $3.50 I'll stock pile it. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 29 April 2008 at 5:43pm
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is it okay to freeze butter? or do you store it in the fridge? ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 29 April 2008 at 5:44pm
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Depends what you make but overall i guess you get far more for your money in terms of baking depending on how many bickies you make and what kind and how big you make them too.
I'm a bit of a sucker for home-made shortbread, but with half a block of butter in it.. whoa! although we do get a fair few bickies out of the recipes so probably would equal out to the price of the same biscuits at the supermarket and maybe get more. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 29 April 2008 at 5:45pm
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I just store it in the fridge. Always seems fine when I go to use it. I know you can freeze milk. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3)
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 29 April 2008 at 5:47pm
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you can freeze it. i do, i just make sure it's not in there toooo long. the main thing i found is i have to defrost it by putting it in the fridge, otherwise its hard to cut and you have to nuke it. If you're gonna freeze it maybe best to cut in half and freeze like that so you don't waste a whole block for only a small amount. if you take it out of the freezer probably only keep it in fridge for a max of 2 weeks after that. altough i tend to have about 2 blocks in the fridge at all times then have the frozen stuff for back-up. (oh my god butter crisis. lol) ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: jaz
Date Posted: 29 April 2008 at 6:31pm
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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. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 29 April 2008 at 6:44pm
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yeap you can freeze butter, cheese and cream.
Its way cheaper to bake muffins and slices than to buy them. I worked out that I can make a dozen muffins for less than $4. Brought ones are like $1 each. And some recipes can be frozen, to stop them being devoured in a few days. Pop one in the lunch box and its ready to eat by lunch. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 29 April 2008 at 7:00pm
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. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 29 April 2008 at 7:35pm
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OFr us we bake or we just don't have those thing's in the house now with Mikey on a total nut free diet we don't want to risk buying store brought stuff we find if it is here we eat it and if we feel like something sweet we will make it boy's have started to eat alot more friut etc. Si we the adult's are prob the only ones that miss it. ------------- Deborah Mum to:   
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 29 April 2008 at 7:40pm
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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. ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 29 April 2008 at 7:47pm
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I use marg for baking too, I never buy butter at all. Got into the habit when we were dairy free. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: Red
Date Posted: 29 April 2008 at 7:50pm
| 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! |
Posted By: blondie
Date Posted: 29 April 2008 at 7:51pm
I DO BAKE I HAVE A FEW RECIPES THAT DONT HAVE BUTTER BUT THEY DO HAVE OIL INSTEAD YEAH AND BUY IN BULK OR WHEN SPECIALS ARE ON ------------- 
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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 29 April 2008 at 8:09pm
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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. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: marielb
Date Posted: 29 April 2008 at 9:28pm
I've been baking lately (I don't usually as we only just got our oven fixed after a year  ) and was trying to work out if it was cheaper. I think it depends what sort of biscuits you buy. We only buy the 99cent ones (very plain arrowroot types) so it probably isn't cheaper to bake, but is much tastier!!
Although, the arrowroots last much longer than the baking...... 
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Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 30 April 2008 at 10:44am
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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.
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Posted By: CuriousG
Date Posted: 30 April 2008 at 11:16am
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I don't feel that its any cheaper to bake bikkies but I prefer the taste of home baking so to me its worth it.
Muffins, tho, are way cheaper to bake! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: shaz
Date Posted: 30 April 2008 at 12:47pm
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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. ------------- Mum to Natasha Aroha 9/12/1995, Alexandra Makareta Waimarie 22/4/1998 and....Alyssa Frances Hopaea 18/03/2007 
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