Homemade Croutons

Remember the post where I made this awesome cake? Yep, I thought you did. Well we had HUGE sub sandwiches from Wal * Mart. If you haven't had their subs from the deli, you should try them. They are pretty good. Anyway, back to my topic. After eating subs for two days, my family was kind of tired eating the same thing. Well, my husband wasn't, but I certainly was.

So I decided to be creative and take the veggies that they gave us for the sandwiches and chop them up for a big salad. Then I took the meat and cheese off of the sandwiches and cut that up and tossed with the veggies for a chef salad. What to do with the leftover bread? Make croutons of course!

One memory I have of my granny is that she used to make croutons. This lady could cook. She had 8 kids, after all, so had to get creative with her food.

These were super easy and fast to make.

Ingredients:
any kind of loaf bread
any seasonings you like (I used garlic salt and Italian seasonings)
olive oil

Directions:
preheat oven to 500* (or as high as it will go)
tear up bread into bite size chunks and place on rimmed baking pan
sprinkle with as much seasoning as you like
drizzle with olive oil and stir (I used my hands to make sure that each piece was well coated)
bake until crunchy*

These were so good I made them twice in one week. *The first time I made them, I put them in the oven before it was totally heated and was taking them out at the same time my oven beeped that it was up to 500*. They crunch up pretty fast.