Where are you getting the dough for these garlic knots and cinnamon sticks? This looks suspiciously like something also from a can or an aluminized cardboard tube.

For all your kvetching about this or that "ripoff" and your crowing about various so-called bargains you've found, you should be advised that baking bread costs just pennies -- *if* you start from a bag of flour, some yeast and some salt.