cellio | labor-saving devices

My parents have a bread machine, which at the time they really wanted -- they eat a lot of bread, and they like having it fresh. But, in talking with my mother a couple nights ago about what food we should bring when we go do the Christmas thing on Sunday, I learned that they don't use it much. My mom said she's gotten in the habit of being lazy, and she has to remember to buy bread-machine mixes when she goes shopping, and she's been forgetting. It's not as if she doesn't have recipes, she said; it's just habit.

I don't know whether to buy them a huge pile of mixes, or give them a box of assorted pre-measured ingredients (3 cups of flour in a ziploc, half a cup of sugar, a pile of yeast packets, etc) and some really, really simple recipes. :-)