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Prescribing Baking as Lifestyle Medicine

Change your bread, change your life. Discover how sourdough helps make bread more nutritious and why it is easier to digest, as you learn to bake eat and share extraordinary bread to support both mental and physical health.
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Sarah K Hoffman A Gutsy Girl

Sarah Kay Hoffman & The Sourdough Club

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Here Vanessa Kimbell of The Sourdough Club and Sarah Kay Hoffman of A Gutsy Girl discuss why they are so well suited to work together:

Welcome to the Sourdough Club.

Let’s start with the fact that bread is about sharing. It is about connecting and being in the moment.  It is filling the house with the smell of freshly baked bread that is healthy and baking is about expressing time, love and care that you have for the people around you.  So we decided to work in the same way and share our way of working with the people we work with.  This isn’t just a way to make bread. This is a community and we support each other. So I am delighted that you are thinking of joining the Club though Sarah.

Click here to use this code sarahk-10 to get 10% off our 12 Month Community Membership to the Sourdough Club today.

( Please note this is the only course we are able to offer this discount to.)  By joining the Club you are not just learning to bake the healthiest bread, but you are also supporting Sarah and her amazing work.

Sarah K Hoffman A Gutsy Girl

About Sarah Kay Hoffman

As you may already know Sarah is the founder of A Gutsy Girl agutsygirl.com which is an online community geared towards women who are looking for reasonable approaches for healing IBS, IBD, SIBO, and all things gut-focused.

What began as an online journal documenting the day-to-day with one health issue after the next, would become less story-focused; more research and journalistic-based.

Today, Sarah seeks out highly-detailed information and then condenses it in digestible ways for women worldwide.

Sarah Kay Hoffman graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Marketing/English/Mass Communications. After years of struggling with her own health issues and considering there must be more to healing than the answers she was given, she went on to study at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition adding a CHC (Certified Health Coach) to her education.

She began devoting every spare second to studying, researching, (and practicing!) and things gut health and gut healing.

She spends 100% of her career-focused time on A Gutsy Girl doing everything from speaking to companies worldwide on gut health and the inspiration for achieving it to researching, writing, and creating tools like her 90-day gut healing journal, Healing Blooms from Within, for women worldwide. She has a published book, The Leaky Gut Meal Plan: 4 Weeks to Detox and Improve Digestive Health along with several e-books and other guides. Her main book, A Gutsy Girl’s Bible and Gut Healing for Beginners e-course have both just released.

When Sarah is not giving back to the Gutsy community, she is likely writing on a more personal level at A Thyme for Milk and Honey athymeformilkandhoney.com traveling, drinking lattes, reading her Bible, enjoying life in a small town, and soaking up all the love that is her husband, three adorable children, Peekepoo and two Great Danes, family, and friends.

A Gutsy Girl teaches, preaches, and lives by the motto: Heal your gut. Heal your life.

About The Club

The Sourdough Club is an online sourdough course…and you will:

  • Learn to make nutritious and delicious sourdough.
  • Find out why sourdough is the healthiest bread, and how we follow the 6 pillars of Lifestyle Medicine in our approach to baking, eating and sharing bread.
  • Discover more than you knew there is to know about the fascinating world of bread, baking, your digestion, and how it relates to your own health and well being.
  • Learn the techniques that make your bread rise, with a tender open crumb and a burnished crust.
  • Nourish yourself and your family every day by learning about our 7 core principles of how to bake bread that nourishes and how to eat it for optimal health.
  • The Sourdough Club is the virtual way of attending The Sourdough School. The Sourdough Club is unique because it goes far beyond what a “normal,” online course does, it is a baking community, with support and regular new recipes and articles to keep you inspired.
  • You can learn everything you want to know about sourdough from home as though you were here in the school bakery with Vanessa Kimbell & her tutors.
  • Our video tutorials teach you every detail. From how to start a starter, maintain it, to timings, temperatures and shaping to tips on the best way to get an open crumb as well as troubleshooting.
  • You get to chat with me in the Club’s private Baking Forum & in our weekly Live Clinics
  • You also get The Sourdough  Club Magazine with regular new recipes.
  • There are Club member discounts, competitions and In Conversation features with bakers from all over the world.
  • It takes time to master the art of sourdough, but with over 70+ videos this membership allows you to learn at your own pace.

I love this quote by the amazing Dr Micheal Mosely –  it sums up our approach “When it comes to bread not all bread is equal. Some breads are far more wholesome than others. Sourdough eaten as part of a Mediterranean diet is a good choice; I recommend Vanessa Kimbell’s simple approach to making sourdough at home, using wholegrain flour, salt and water and time for bread that nourishes.”

I look forward to seeing you on the Club…& don’t forget to share your bakes on Instagram & in the Club Forum.

Vanessa Kimbell 

Founder of the Sourdough School

Sarah Kay Hoffman

Email: sarahkay@agutsygirl.com

Instagram: @agutsygirl

Speaking, brand partnerships, and all other opportunities: opportunities@agutsygirl.com

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All reasonable care is taken when writing about health aspects of bread, but the information it contains is not intended to take the place of treatment by a qualified medical practitioner. You must seek professional advice if you are in any doubt about any medical condition. Any application of the ideas and information contained on this website is at the reader's sole discretion and risk.

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⏰ LAST CHANCE TO BUY ONE, GIFT ONE ON 12 MONTH S ⏰ LAST CHANCE TO BUY ONE, GIFT ONE ON 12 MONTH SOURDOUGH CLUB MEMBERSHIPS ⏰

The Sourdough Club in an online learning platform, with hundreds of baking tutorials tips, techniques, recipes and inspiration to learn to bake nutritious sourdough. Join us for weekly live Q&A sessions with @vanessakimbell, get support from our team of in-house health professionals and chat with other bakers on our lively forum.

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SOURDOUGH PASTA, MADE WITH BOTANICAL BLEND FLOUR 🍝

Our master pasta recipe is based on an Italian recipe for pasta fresca all’uovo. It’s a great way to use up sourdough starter that would otherwise be discarded during refreshment.

You can use any of our Botanical Blends to make this pasta, which means it's a good recipe for people who are just starting to increase the levels of fibre in their diet. With the Botanical blend alone, the diversity score is at about 14 before you’ve added any other ingredients, so it really is a great way of increasing both fibre and diversity.

You'll find that mixing and kneading the pasta dough is a great workout for your hands, and quite therapeutic, too, because you have to concentrate on what you are doing and be mindful. You really can’t answer the phone when you’re in the middle of making pasta.

Plus, we worked out that if you use a supermarket wholemeal flour in place of the Botanical blend, making this pasta will cost about 25p per serving, so it's an ideal recipe for anyone who wants to eat well on a budget.

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🥐 SOURDOUGH'S NOT JUST FOR BREAD 🥐 If you'r 🥐 SOURDOUGH'S NOT JUST FOR BREAD 🥐

If you're masted the sourdough boule, and you're looking for your next baking challenge, sourdough croissants might be the answer. It is not easy to make croissants, especially sourdough ones. That said, they are utterly delicious and well worth mastering.

We have a lovely little recipe on the Sourdough Club from baking legend  @emsbread including a video class in how to shape these tricky little pastries.

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A chocolate leaven is ideal if you want to make a sweet ambient bread, especially the richer spiced breads in the dark winter months. Even if you use the leaven and make a wholegrain ambient, the small amount of cocoa in the leaven lends a deep malty chocolate base that gives you a perfume rather than a flavour.

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The Perfect Loaf was one of our absolute favouite books from last year! It's a dynamic, authoritative sourdough baking bible for those looking to build confidence in the craft with a wide range of foolproof recipes, from pan loaves to pizza to doughnuts, by the beloved blogger and resident bread baker at Food52 @maurizio

We are delighted to have 2 copies to give away! One for the UK and one for the USA and Canada!

To enter the giveaway, all your have to do is:
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Winners will be picked on 03/02/23 date. PLEASE NOTE: this giveaway is for USA, CANADA & UK only due to shipping.
Find the full terms and conditions on our website

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