Reasons to make your own (wholemeal) bread
It is very simple. It takes no more than ten minutes' work and can be fitted in around other jobs in the kitchen.
It tastes so much better than shop bread.
It has much better nutritional value than shop bread.
You can mix and match flours at your whim.
It is relaxing.
It makes the house smell excellent.
Sandwiches will never be the same again.
It is a small accomplishment in your day.
Its excellent nutritional value makes it a wonderful snack.
Once you know the basics you can make it as complicated as you like, very easily.
It freezes well and you will always have something excellent in the freezer that takes two minutes to cook.
Delia Smith recommends it.
Your colleagues will be envious.
It takes very little effort to learn how to make bread exactly to your taste.
Choosing bread flours is fun and inexpensive.
You need no special tools, not even a bread tin.
It has very little sugar.
Delia Smith recommends it.
It's a simple habit you can form easily.
You do not need to be able to cook. In fact, it's a good way to start learning.
High-quality bread makes a disproportionately positive difference to the quality of your life.
It gets a good crust.
People are always impressed when you tell them.
Its excellent nutritional value means you don't need to feel guilty about the amount of bread your children eat.
You will feel less bloated.
You will no longer have to pay £5 or more for a good, small, loaf of bread from your local artisanal bakery.
You can make the bread in whatever shape you like.
It satisfies your primal urge to make something without indulging your pseudo-fantasy of living in a commune and making pottery.
You can make you bread taste a little bit salty, as it ought to.
You get to use a big bread knife.
This was off the top of my head and took ten minutes. The daily benefits of making bread are possibly innumerable.