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Home » The Dollar Store Diva: The Gift of Bread + a FREE Printable Tag

The Dollar Store Diva: The Gift of Bread + a FREE Printable Tag

December 12th, 2012 By Kaley
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“What hymns are sung. What praises said. For homemade miracles of bread?”

Louis Untermeyer

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“The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocations of innocence and delight.”
– M. F. K. Fisher

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After an abundant meal, my mother would often say: “Thank you for the elegant sufficiency; any more would be a superfluity.”

She made me smile every time she said it.

One of the celebrative aspects of Christmas is that it is a time of sweets and treats galore–elegant sufficiency indeed. 

But, as we know, the sweets and treats galore of the holiday season can also become a significant superfluity.

So, when we take a gift to a neighbor or co-worker, instead of sweets, how about taking the gift of homemade bread?!

Gifts of bread can come in all shapes and sizes – banana bread, zucchini bread or you fill in the ___________ with your favorite recipe.

 I have a bread maker, and my favorite recipe is one that my daughter Alicia introduced to me.

An important note: Alicia adapted the recipe slightly by changing both the flour amounts to 1 1/3 cups. And it is perfectly delicious!

For this first loaf, I cut off the front of a grocery bag, and wrapped the bread like I was wrapping a package. Both fun and free!

Then I added some ribbon and a tag that said exactly what I wanted it to say:

Eat your bread with happiness!

This is actually a quote from the Bible–Ecclesiastes 9:7.  Some translations use the word “joy”, and others use the word “happiness”. Some say “your bread”, and others say “thy bread”.

I love the thought of eating bread with joy; I even love the poetic sound of the old English “thy”.

Next I walked the aisles of my local Dollar Tree to find other  containers for my gifts.

I found this basket, just the right size and shape for my gift of bread.

I also found this red plastic cutting board–the perfect Christmas color and shape for my fat loaf of bread.

And then there is the ever-faithful brown paper bag decorated with scrapbooking paper with a lovely loaf of fresh bread poking its head out of the top.

I have created a free Eat Your Bread with Joy Printable Tag with a variety of fonts, colors, and options for you. I have formatted the pages for landscape and 5×7 pages.  I set my printer for the 5×7″ setting and printed the first two pages on pages I tore from a paperback I had picked up free at a book sale.  I then cut out the tags and matted them with scrapbooking paper.   I printed the last page of the printables on white paper, cut out the tags, and matted them with colored paper.

I am so happy with the results.

By the way, our local Wegmans sells ever so delicious breads in their bakery. If you don’t have time to bake a loaf, who wouldn’t be thrilled to receive a loaf of bakery bread wrapped with curly ribbon and one of these tags?

Yummy…an elegant sufficiency to be eaten with joy.

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For those of you who haven’t met her, the Dollar Store Diva happens to be my Mom, Nancy, who has a special power.  She can transform Dollar Store and other inexpensive finds into super fun gifts that would brighten anyone’s day!

See more Dollar Store Diva ideas here.

Filed Under: Craft Ideas, Giving, Simple Living Tagged With: Dollar Store Diva

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Comments

  1. Pat says

    December 15th, 2012 at 3:13 am

    Where do you get the plastic bags for bread, are they specially for loaves of bread?

    • Nancy says

      December 15th, 2012 at 8:51 am

      Hi Pat, I just wrap mine in Saran Wrap. It fits it snuggly and doesn’t take away from the familiar shape of a loaf of bread.

  2. Mara says

    December 12th, 2012 at 11:12 pm

    I love this idea! I’d so much rather this than a plateful of sugary treats!

    I’m thinking a loaf of French bread paired with some homemade pesto… mmmm….

    • Nancy says

      December 12th, 2012 at 11:21 pm

      French bread paired with homemade pesto–Yes, indeed!

  3. Mrs. R. says

    December 12th, 2012 at 9:24 pm

    WOW–thank you so much! This solves my dilemma about what to make for our neighbors….which I’ve been obsessing about for waaaaaaaay too long. 🙂

    • Nancy says

      December 12th, 2012 at 9:27 pm

      So glad that this solved your dilemma–I’m sure your neighbors will be delighted!

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