A great place to start.

One of the healthiest thing you can do for your family is to bake you own bread.  I was talking with someone just recently who was convinced it is the type of bread that really makes the difference, but just baking the bread yourself from wholesome ingredients will make a big difference.  Most bread you buy at the store is made from flour that is filled with chemicals.  Fortified, pestified, bleached, and bromated are all things that have removed the true nutritional value of the wheat.  All these things they do to the flour to make it rise better and more predictably, but it is not as digestible with all these changes.  So even if you stay with just white bread and make it from good flour you are much better off.  I use King Arthur flour. It is all I can find locally that is just pure flour nothing added.

 Now you may be saying that is all well and good, but baking bread must be quite a chore. Nothing could be further from the truth.  Bread is composed more or less of four ingredients and it does not matter how you mix them as long as you allow for a rise and bake, you will get bread.  The first of the ingredients is flour.  There are many kinds of flour you can use, but if you just stick to wheat flour there is basically three kinds; pastry, all-purpose, and bread flour.  Pastry flour is low in protein and because of this it does not develop gluten as well.  This makes it perfect for cakes and pastries that are light and flakey.  The next kind is all purpose flour and this one is in the middle on the protein content.  It is very versatile and can be used for nearly everything.  The last one you will see is bread flour which has high protein content and develops gluten quickly.  This allows the bread to rise faster and more evenly.  Enough about flour; the next ingredient is water, or basically anything that is liquid and not acidic.  So you could use water, milk or eggs as the liquid.  Each will give a different taste but all will make bread.  The last two ingredients are yeast and salt.  The salt helps the yeast to grow more slowly to produce a more even loaf. I use rapid rise yeast as it is the easiest to work with and very predictable.   Now there are hundreds of recipes out there for white bread and they are all basically the same, 4 cups of flour to about a cup or cup and a half of liquid, 2 teaspoons to over a tablespoon of yeast and a teaspoon of salt.  Some include butter or oil and some include sugar; both add to the flavor and texture.  If you just add the basic ingredients together, kneed, rise, and bake you will have bread.  Try it out and let me know.