05/15/2026
⚠️ Warning: long post ahead… but so is Baba’s workday. ❤️
If you’ve ever walked into Baba’s Dough Box, you already know it’s more than just bread and baking. It’s early mornings, flour-covered aprons, tired feet, warm hugs, and enough stubborn determination to fuel the entire city of Regina.
But right now, Baba is struggling.
There’s been a huge influx of home bakers that Baba simply can’t compete with. Unlike home bakers, she pays employee wages, taxes, rent, insurance, and the same grocery prices the rest of us complain about in aisle 7. The only difference? She somehow turns those groceries into edible happiness before most of us have even hit snooze for the first time.
Baba is 100% local. She supports other local businesses, donates bread weekly to the Regina Food Bank, contributes to local fundraisers whenever she can, and has literally taken food off her own shelves to feed people in need. She has never asked for anything in return.
Since opening the bakery in 2019 at the age of 64, she hasn’t taken a single day off. Not one. At 71 years old, she still arrives at the bakery around 3AM, five days a week, and often stays until closing.
Everything in the bakery is handmade by Baba herself — along with the baking, she does the cooking, cleaning, ordering, shopping, dishes, answering phones, paying bills, and still greets every customer who walks through the door. Note: the cinnamon buns and homemade sausage are proudly handled by her husband (Deda) and one of their grandsons… because apparently this family loves being in the kitchen.
That bakery door means everything to Baba. It represents a dream she fulfilled at 64 years old — proof that it’s never too late to build something meaningful. And now, as her daughter, I’m asking for your help to keep that dream alive.
If you’re able, please stop by. Whether it’s for a loaf of bread, a frozen meal, or even a single cookie, every purchase truly matters right now.
If you haven’t experienced Baba’s yet, you can check out what she offers at babasdoughbox.com
And if you can’t make it in, sharing this post will help more people discover one of Regina’s hidden gems.
Thank you for reading, supporting, sharing, and loving Baba as much as I do. ❤️ -Tina