Top 10 Food Staples You Can Make Better and Cheaper at Home

From cheese to peanut butter, here are a few DIY, delicious food projects.

will taste better as a result.

Besides having really fresh cheese, you could mix in other flavors if you like.

And if you haven’t tried it already, you might want to make your ownbacon salttoo.

(Who am I kidding?

Go make some bacon salt.)

You don’t even need a recipeto make vegetable stock.

Bread

There really is nothing quite like freshly baked bread.

Peanut Butter

DIY peanut butter isworlds away from the commercial stuff.

Let Alton Brown show you how to roast peanuts for itin a wok.

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