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Win a Pickle, Sauerkraut, and Kimchi Maker from the Raw Diet Store!

Jenny — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:35:51 +0000

If you’ve read Nourished Kitchen for any length of time, you know how much I value nutrient-dense, probiotic foods. Fermented foods are deeply nutritive and contribute significantly to overall wellness. It is the beneficial bacteria in this foods that help to ensure the proper development and stimulation of the nervous system. Couple that with food enzymes and an array of naturally occurring vitamins and minerals, and the end product is deeply healthful. Moreover, the fermentation of food enjoys a rich heritage all across the globe. Not only did fermenting foods serve the practical needs of the community by extending the harvest, but it also rendered many foods more digestible. Read more about the benefits of lactic acid fermentation. We try to make probiotic, fermented foods part of each meal. It may be yogurt or kefir in the morning, real pickles at lunch or sauerruben with supper. Regardless of which food makes it to our plate, the traditional methods of pickling and fermenting foods play a critical role in our kitchen. Initially, I used mason jars but suffered a rate of failure that had me looking elsewhere. We purchased one and, later, two of these kimchi makers and have never had a failed batch since. Indeed, we’ve used it to make sauerruben, sauerkraut, kimchi, Moroccan preserved lemons, real pickles, sour beets and all sorts of probiotic goodies. That’s why I am thrilled to have teamed up with the Raw Diet Store to giveaway a kimchi maker and an accompanying recipe book at Nourished Kitchen.

This Week’s Prizes

One Kimchi Maker with an accompanying Recipe Book which will teach you how to make Kimchi and Sauerkraut at Home Naturally!

How to Enter

Anyone can enter who resides in the United States, Canada or Mexico. Enter first by commenting on this post and letting me know what you’d make in your kimchi maker if you win. Then you can bump up your entries through the usual ways: sharing it with others!

First things First:

Comment and let me know what you’d crock in the kimchi maker if you win. To up your odds, you have 7 more ways to enter the contest and win:

Subscribe to the Nourished Kitchen RSS Feed by Email (don’t worry, if you already subscribe by email and participate in the survey on this post you’ll earn two entries right off the bat!)
Blog about this giveaway and/or why you want to win the cookbook and comment with the link.
Post about this giveaway on a message board and comment with the link.
Email this giveaway to a friend and let me know you did by commenting.
Stumble this giveaway and let me know you did by commenting.
Tweet about the giveaway and let me know you did by commenting.
Mention the giveaway on facebook and let me know you did in a comment.

Remember: If you subscribe by email, you’ll be given a second entry. Plus, you’ll never miss a post, recipe or giveaway:

Why Enter?

Because it’s FREE, and it’s a fantastic way to get nutrient-dense, probiotic-foods into your family’s bellies. Plus, this device makes it remarkably easy to extend the harvest. Indeed, we’re still eating the sauerkraut we crocked last October!

The Announcement

We’ll choose the winner via Random.org, and announce that winner next Thursday, June 4^th in a comment on this post.

Quick Reminder

For those who don’t win this week’s giveaway, we host giveaways at the Nourished Kitchen just about every week. At Nourished Kitchen every giveaway centers on real food, health and wellness.

The Winner has been picked by Random.org and it is Aimee Gallo who’s going to crock a whole mess of yummy veggies – including napa cabbage in her kimchi maker.

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Save the Best for Last: CookingTF.com’s Final Giveaway

Jenny — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:09:21 +0000

So, we were saving the best for last and here it is: CookingTF.com‘s final giveaway on NourishedKitchen.com! If you haven’t been following this series of giveaways, please check out the first giveaway in which CookingTF.com offered a 1-yr subscription to the recipe archive and the second giveaway in which CookingTF.com offered a 1-yr subscription to the menu mailers. This week, the winner will get BOTH: a 1-yr menu mailer subscription PLUS a 1-yr subscription to CookingTF.com‘s recipe archive. Don’t forget that CookingTF.com also offers a 10% discount to Nourished Kitchen readers, so please check out the Nourished Kitchen discount page at CookingTF.

CookingTF.com

Cooking Traditional Foods offers a series of weekly menu subscriptions that offer comprehensive dinner menus, recipes, shopping lists, to-do lists to keep you organized as well as a list of seasonal produceâ€“this is all based on traditional, real foods. Furthermore, CookingTF.com provides a message board community, articles and tips on converting standard recipes to a more real-food-friendly version.

Right now, CookingTF.com is offering a 10% discount to all Nourished Kitchen readers (check out the CookingTF.com discount page here). Over the next three week’s we’ll be conducting a series of giveaways so please enter and keep coming back.

This Week’s Prize

A 1-year Mailer Subscription to CookingTF.com’s menu mailers PLUS a 1-year subscription to CookingTF.com‘s recipe archives. This is a $75 value!

Winners of the First Two Giveaways

First Week: A 1-year Subscription to CookingTF.com‘s recipe archive. Won by JenB!
Second Week: A 1-year Subscription to CookingTF.com’s menu mailer service. Won by Nicole!

How to Enter

Anyone can enter, including international readers. You have up to 5 chances to enter, so please up your odds and enter multiple times!

First things First: You must subscribe to Nourished Kitchen updates via Email and comment on this post to be eligible for the final CookingTF.com prize.

Don’t forget, by subscribing to Nourished Kitchen via email, you’re kept up-to-date with health news, kitchen tips, nourishing recipes and, of course, our Thursday giveaways!

To up your odds, you have 7 more ways to enter the contest and win:

Join CookingTF.com ‘s message board and let me know your username (please use this link).
Blog about this giveaway and send me the link.
Post about this giveaway on a message board and send me the link.
Email this giveaway to a friend and let me know.
Stumble this giveaway and let me know.
Tweet about the giveaway and let me know.
Mention the giveaway on facebook and let me know.

Why Enter?

Because it’s FREE! That, and CookingTF.com is an unbeatable resource for high quality, nutritionally sound recipes. Moreover, it provides a fantastic resource for converting recipes, learning the ins and outs of cooking traditional foods and it provides expert, easy-to-follow counsel on meal planning and menu preparation. Even better, most of the recipes are allergen-free!

The Announcement

We’ll choose the winner via Random.org, and announce that winner next Thursday, April 30th.

Quick Reminder

For those who don’t win this week’s giveaway, we’ll be hosting another giveaway from CookingTF.com for the next two weeks. Also, CookingTF.com is offering a 10% discount to Nourished Kitchen readers.

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Giveaway: Cooking Traditional Foods

Jenny — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:00:20 +0000

I posted about Cooking Traditional Foods late Tuesday evening, but wanted to reiterate the value of the weekly menu mailers and recipe archive over at CookingTF.com.

CookingTF.com

Cooking Traditional Foods offers a series of weekly menu subscriptions that offer comprehensive dinner menus, recipes, shopping lists, to-do lists to keep you organized as well as a list of seasonal produce–this is all based on traditional, real foods. Furthermore, CookingTF.com provides a message board community, articles and tips on converting standard recipes to a more real-food-friendly version.

This Week’s Prize

A 1-year Subscription to CookingTF.com‘s recipe archive.

Future Prizes

A 1-year Mailer Subscription to CookingTF.com’s menu mailers (check it out on April 16th).
A 1-year combo package to CookingTF.com‘s which gives you a year’s worth of weekly dinner menus PLUS access to CookingTF.com‘s recipe archive (check it out on April 23rd).

How to Enter

Anyone can enter, including international readers. You have up to 5 chances to enter, so please up your odds and enter multiple times!

FIRST THINGS FIRST: Comment on this post and let me know you’re interested.

To up your odds, you have 7 more ways to enter the contest and win:

Join CookingTF.com ‘s message board and let me know your username (please use this link).
Blog about this giveaway and send me the link.
Post about this giveaway on a message board and send me the link.
Email this giveaway to a friend and let me know.
Stumble this giveaway and let me know.
Tweet about the giveaway and let me know.
Mention the giveaway on facebook and let me know.

Why Enter?

The Announcement

We’ll choose the winner via Random.org, and announce that winner next Thursday, April 16th.

Quick Reminder

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Cultures for Health Winner

Jenny — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:43:50 +0000

Thank all of you who participated in the giveaway by Cultures for Health! The winner was picked by Random.org early this morning, and Jennifer M won a package from Cultures for Health containing not only water kefir grains but also her choice of sourdough and yogurt starters: Matsoni & San Francisco sourdough.

However, even if you didn’t win this particularl giveaway, please stop by Cultures for Health and browse around. Until April 16th, Cultures for Health is offering a 10% discount to Nourished Kitchen readers using the coupon code: NourishedKitchen at checkout. The discount is good on purchases made over the course of the next week, excluding Excalibur Dehydrators. Please check it out as Cultures for Health offers a very wide array of starters and room temperature yogurts that provide the essential element of probiotics to your diet.

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Last Chance: Cultures for Health Giveaway

Jenny — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:01:57 +0000

Don’t forget:

Today’s you last chance to enter the Cultures for Health Giveaway! All you have to do is sign up at Cultures for Health, browse her site and choose you favorite sourdough starter and your favorite yogurt starter, then come back to here and let me know in the comments section. Please check out the giveaway now.

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Giveaway: Cultures for Health

Jenny — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:33:36 +0000

In the past few weeks, I’ve enjoyed a little treat: fresh, homemade matsoni courtesy of a new company Cultures for Health. Matsoni is a nice tart yogurt hailing from Georgia and was thought to convey long life. Matsoni is also a room-temperature yogurt that cultures well with minimal effort.

For those of you that are interested in eating different strains of yogurt, drinking cultured beverages like kombucha or kefir or baking artisan-style sourdough breads, finding a starter culture can prove difficult. It took me several months to find my first batch of water kefir, and several more months before I found a kombucha scoby. I’ve got a waiting list of friends and readers for kombucha mothers water kefir grains that’s several months deep. No joke, this stuff is hard to find. Fortunately, though, once you a acquire a starter and maintain its health, it will continue reproducing for you indefinitely.

So here it is: This week Cultures for Health is offering a special giveaway for NourishedKitchen.com‘s readers. The winner will receive a package of water kefir grains PLUS any yogurt starter of his/her choice and any sourdough starter of his/her choice.

Cultures for Health

Cultures for Health makes that search a little bit easier. They cultures and starters at very affordable rates and even ship internationally. They offer 5 different yogurt starters, 17 different sourdough starters, as well as water kefir grains, kombucha mothers, buttermilk starter, dairy kefir grains and other supplies.

The Prize

Water Kefir Grains
Yogurt Starter of Your Choice
Sourdough Starter of Your Choice

How to Enter

Anyone can enter, including international readers. You have up to 5 chances to enter, so please up your odds and enter multiple times!

First, visit Cultures for Health and sign up for the giveaway there, look around, then come back here and let me know which of one of her yogurt starters you liked best and which one of her sourdough starters that has you salivating.

For more chances to win, you have up to five more chances so take them:

Blog about this giveaway and send me the link.
Post about this giveaway on a message board and send me the link.
Email this giveaway to a friend and let me know.
Stumble this giveaway and let me know.
Tweet this giveaway and let me know.

Why Enter?

Because you took it to heart when I wrote about the benefits of lactic acid fermentation. And for all those of you who’ve been patiently waiting for a culture or starter, and for all those of you who are still on my waitlist, please enter now. Worried about not knowing how to use these cultures and starters? Don’t worry, because each starter comes with comprehensive instructions.

The Announcement

We’ll choose the winner via Random.org, and announce that winner next Thursday. Please note that the goodies will be shipped by Cultures for Health directly–which is good for you since I’m slow to the post office.

Good Luck!

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And the Winner is …

Jenny — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:27:29 +0000

According to Random.org, Shannon from Nourishing Days won the free copy of Full Moon Feast from last week’s giveaway.

Didn’t win it? Don’t worry, you can still pick up a copy of Full Moon Feast online or visit your local library. And don’t forget: there’s another giveaway coming up this Thursday from Cultures for Health so please make sure to stop by to see what we’ve got in store for you. (Hint: it’s fantastic and healthy)!

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Foodie Event: Pantry Challenge

Jenny — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:46:56 +0000

Times are tough at the end of the year. Food and heating costs are soaring, yet we all have to make a little room in our budgets to save for the holiday season – even a simple season.

So, it’s time for a pantry challenge! The harvest season is finished, and your pantries, cellars and larders should be fully packed. Now it’s time to put that hard work to good use and live off what you’ve squirreled away.

The Rules:

The Pantry Challenge Begins at 12:01 a.m. on December 1st and ends at 12:01 a.m. on January 1st.
Post your progress by Wednesday of each week.
Check-in here every Wednesday after you post for that week’s mini-challenge (i.e. Pantry Inventory, Meal Planning etc.) and to let us know you’re progress and share any tips you might have.
Use only what’s in your pantry, freezer and cupboards. Be inventive and creative.
If you desperately need to head to the store, keep your tab under $10 per week per person over 13 and $5 per week per person under 13 not to exceed $50 per week.
Keep a running total of any money spent on food in each of your Pantry Challenge blog posts.

Tips

Inventory Your Pantry, Cupboards, Cellar and Freezer
Do some bulk shopping now to prepare for December
Meal Plan, Meal Plan, Meal Plan

The Prizes

Of course, what good is a contest without a prize? For this go-around, I’ll be giving away two vintage cookbooks. The Cooking of Provincial France and The Cooking of the British Isles. I LOVE this series as it provides an amazing glimpse into the traditional foods of cultures around the world. These books are used and worn with decades of cooking, but the information is solid.

To win the Cooking of Provincial France, please comment or link to this post from your blog alerting your readership to the Pantry Challenge. Each commenter will get one entry and each person who posts about the challenge will get seven entries. Following the challenge, I’ll toss all the entries into a hat and a winner will be selected at random.

The Cooking of Provincial France

The winner of the Cooking of the British Isles will be selected by the readership of The Nourished Kitchen. Everyone who successfully completes the challenge without going over the budgetary alotment for a family of his/her size will be eligible, and in the first week of January, I’ll post a poll asking our readership to vote on who best fulfilled the guidelines of the challenge with their adherence to the rules coupled with their creative cooking abilities. The blogger our readers select will win the cookbook!

So, sign up, post about the challenge, do your last minute shopping and get prepared fto begin the challenge on December 1st!

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