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Baking as Lifestyle Medicine

Our small club is run from The Sourdough School and is the alternative way to learn if you cannot attend a course in person. Learn from Dr Vanessa Kimbell how to make the healthiest bread in the world and improve digestion, boost your mood, and connect with a supportive community that’s passionate about baking for better health.
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Eating Symbiotically: How to Eat Bread for Optimal Health

Eating Symbiotically

Much of our approach with BALM is inspired by the time-honoured traditions and dietary practices found in the world's Blue Zones, particularly those influenced by the Mediterranean lifestyle. These regions are renowned for their long-lived populations and their diets rich in plant-based foods, which we aspire to recreate with our own baking practices.

Throughout the season, we encourage you to eat symbiotically; we don't just teach you to bake bread. Baking as lifestyle medicine is about more than just fermenting your bread, and getting big holes...  we look at the way you eat and share bread as a holistic incorporate this approach into your diets. You can find out more about how the way you eat can impact mood here. 

The answer to maintaining digestive health is understanding your body and what it needs to function, then applying this knowledge in a way that becomes how you live. It is about eating to optimally nourish your gut microbiome and balance blood sugars, but it is also about connecting to yourself and your community, and living life with purpose. We use an evidence-based approach BALM Protocol

 

sourdough butter

Cultured Butter & Buttermilk for Gut Support

Blackcurrant Preserve

Sweet Potato and Dill Soup

Seasonal Homemade Pesto

Seasonal Vegetable Curry

Probiotic Homemade Free-Range Mayonnaise | Research Level

French Onion Soup

Red Lentil Dal

Sourdough & Baked Cheese

Homemade Live Yoghurt Recipe

Elderflower, Wild Strawberry & Rose Sourdough Fizz

Rhubarb & Ginger Jam

Sourdough Beef Patties

Sourdough Tartine Beef Patties with Roasted Peppers & Artichoke

Honey Mascarpone Tartines with Blood Orange

Honey Yogurt Sourdough Tartines with Blood Orange

Spiced Cranberry & Turkey Seeded Sourdough Sandwich

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