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  In the photo above, what you see is an expensive package of Hawaian sub buns (hoagie buns) with one missing!  Apparenly someone in the pathway of our Walmart grocery order yesterday got hungry and helped themselves!  We started out with Walmart Delivery during the pandemic, never joining for longer than a month at a time. We would get frustrated and not renew, only finding ourselves back when our life was too busy or too tiring or too whatever to warrant a long grocery-shopping trip. Then when Walmart offered a year's membership for half price, I jumped on it.  (There are no refunds on yearly memberships, just saying.) We have had a few unusual items arrive with our orders, and we have had a few orders almost not arrive....we looked outside once to see our groceries being unloaded across the street.  The young neighbor happened to realize it and redirected the delivery.  We had one or two call us and ask which mailbox was ours that they couldn't figure it...

 Over the years I have had many breadmakers. Apparently most people don't use theirs enough to justify the space used to store it.  Thus, the Goodwill usually has at least one almost-unused breadmaker on hand at any given time. Recently I purchased a new Breadmaker by Toastmaster, and I am thrilled with it!  Unlike the others I have had, this one does not take up as much room on my counter,  I have not had a bad loaf yet! i can't say enough about this little breadmaker.  Here is the Amazon link if you would like to purchase one. ( I do get a small commision on the sale.)     My first breadmaker was a gift from my one of the dearest friends who has siince passed on .  She taught me to make bread using her  breadmaker recipe, and other than substituting kefir for milk sometimes,  I still use this as my go to bread recipe.  The order of adding the ingredients is the most important thing. White bread 1.5 lb loaf Ingredients: O...