Mrs. Baird’s, Memories, The Pleasure of Toast.

Cutting the budget…Well you wouldn’t think that bread would even be on the list of things to cut costs on… but bread can be 3 bucks and up depending on what you buy! so we did it.. we started making our own bread and buying cheap “whitebread” for sandwiches.  I didn’t really notice the change so much because I was thinking about the budget – That is until yesterday…. Yesterday the local grocery store had a sale on Mrs. Bairds Bread, this included my favorite bread ever… Mrs. Baird’s “Honey 7 Grain Bread”

Whole grain bread brings back some memories of its own. I remember sitting in my grandfathers house and eating “Roman Meal” whole grain toast with him… we talked about life… and my grandmother before she had Alzheimers and how I was the only grandchild that she really got to see before the disease took her memory. It was really special to me and in my mind made me her favorite… I knew it wasn’t true because of the stories about how gentle and sweet she was… she would never have favorites… but it was what I imagined when I visited her in the rest home on sunday afternoons. I also remember buying fresh milk from the neighbors, and how good fresh milk really is… and we got honey from another neighbor fresh honey is pretty awesome to0!

Well when Kimberly saw that Mrs Baird’s Honey 7 Grain was on sale for the same price as the cheepo “white bread”  she took the opportunity and bought six loaves! One for today and five to freeze.  Well I was happy to have my favorite bread as an option again and took the first opportunity to make some toast.  I carefully watched it so that it did not burn and stopped the toaster at the exact right moment. I carefully spread real butter on it making sure not to destroy the crispy surface but also making sure that every inch was touched with a light layer.   I have to say I underestimated the effect of the first bite… with that one bite of a simple peice of toast my mind rushed back to all of those precious memories,  the simplicity of childhood, the love of family, the love of good things,  and the simple pleasure of good toast!