Time(convenience) and money? I love freshly baked bread, but I can't buy a loaf on a regular basis due to the strict schedule at work, and even if I do, I won't eat it all and it'll go stale very quickly.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11510733-make-the-bread-b...
Baking good bread should be both easy and cheap, as long as you have an oven! That's not to say it wouldn't be better with more practice, experience, specialization, and, of course, better grains. But it might just beat "sliced bread!"
3 cups of flour, 2 teaspoons of salt, 1/4 teaspoon of instant yeast. Mix in a bowl. Add 1.5 cups water, mix in. A wooden spoon, especially bamboo, is nice for mixing, but you can use anything, even your hand.
Cover (lid, or plastic wrap), let sit for 12 to 20 hours. Afterwards, you should see bubbles or "craters" of bubbles on top. If after 12 hours not yet much bubbles, let sit longer. If change of plans and you have no time to bake, can store the bowl in a fridge for half a day or a day, it will develop a more sour taste.
You need a dutch oven with a lid, or a pot with a lid, or something with a lid. No plastic parts, oven proof.
Put the dutch oven into oven, heat oven to 450F/250C. When the dutch oven is very hot, take it out of the oven (careful, it really is hot), sprinkle flour or something at the bottom (I use cornmeal) to prevent sticking. Pour the dough in. Try not to degas the bubbles in the dough too much, as these are what gives the bread the oven rise. Sprinkle flour (or cornmeal, or seeds, or something) on top, not necessary but makes the bread look nicer.
Bake 30 min with lid, remove the lid, bake about 20 min, or until the bread looks almost too dark.
Here I let the dutch oven to give the shape to the bread, so this works even if the dough is too wet and cannot be shaped into a loaf. You can also experiment using a tiny bit less water to get a bit more solid dough. Most other no knead recipes still make you flour a surface and shape the loaf using your hands. This leads to more cleaning afterwards, so I just left this part out.
http://www.amazon.com/Lodge-L8DD3-Casserole-Skillet-5-Quart/...
You can search on no knead breads. They are long recipes. But require almost no hands on time. You mix, you wait, you wait, you wait, you wait, you shape, you throw into preheated dutch oven and eat :)
I was mainly hoping for the 2/3rd reduction in labor because I'm a lazy sob.