The essence of a healthy diet is eating real foods with real ingredients. Look on any loaf of bread in the grocery store and you're likely to see ingredients that your super-hot (now super-old) 8th grade science teacher doesn't even know how to pronounce.
This recipe makes two ever-lovin' whole wheat loaves of goodness.
Queen of Skinnyville Whole Wheat Bread
2 3/4 cup warm water (110-120 F)
1 Tbs. yeast
1/4 cup canola oil
1/4 cup sugar
1 Tbs. salt
1/2 cup potato flakes
2 Tbs vital wheat gluten (optional, but makes the bread chewy and soft)
6-7 cups whole wheat flour
Mix everything but the whole wheat flour in a stand mixer. Add the flour one cup at a time until it's incorporated. Stop adding flour when the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl.
Divide and shape the dough (you don't have to get all fancy with rolling and massaging the dough). Put the dough into two pans that have been oiled or sprayed with nonstick cooking spray.
Let it rise one hour. Preheat the oven to 350 F while the bread is rising. Bake for 25 minutes.
Let it cool. Give one loaf to a friend or neighbor and keep your other loaf wrapped up and ready to eat. Remember, a slice of bread is about 100-150 calories, so just because it's homemade and whole wheat doesn't mean that it has magical invisible calories.
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