Before I started doing the low carb thing
Me too. Unfortunately, the "low carb thing works" very well for me, otherwise I'd still be using my bread machine.
Back in 1991 the prices on bread machines finally came down, and I bought one for each sibling and my parents. The one we bought came with about 50 recipes. We would each rate the breads that we tried from 1 to 10, with comments, and that way we got a better idea which recipe to try next. Lotsa fun for a while; we're a dull group, I guess.