Awesome Fudge Brownies

My friend Laurie gave me a fudge brownie recipe for my bridal shower, many years ago, written with beautiful handwriting and decorated on a sheet of heavy white paper.  I have saved it all these years and, I am ashamed to say, made more brownies with mixes than from this recipe over time.  I changed it just a bit, with the microwave melting and the addition of sea salt (which makes a nice difference).  But I realized, as I whipped up a batch yesterday and then another today (because the first batch disappeared so quickly!), that it takes only a few more minutes–no more than 5, and possibly not even that–to mix these up from scratch as to use a boxed mix.   And these are a thousand times more delicious than any made from a mix.  Furthermore, it is better for the planet to make something from scratch than to make it from a mix.  It takes far fewer natural resources to make something from scratch than from a mix, and it has to be better for you to avoid the various ingredients (do we even know what they are?) that get put into those mixes.  And think of how much cleaner our environment would be if we had fewer factories processing and packaging those mixes!  Eliminating the factory also reduces the resources involved in transporting ingredients to and from the factory, so the end result is fewer resources, overall, used for the transport of our food.  This is the kind of thinking we should all partake in to help our planet survive.