We all know that we should be eating and drinking more probiotic foods, right? Yogurt, kefir, kombucha, water kefir, and buttermilk all contain important enzymes and healthy bacteria. And what about sourdough? If you were following my phytic acid research, you know that sourdough not only tastes delicious but is one of the best ways to reduce anti-nutrients in grains.
While you can sometimes buy high quality products in the stores, they are generally very expensive or have additives and other ingredients best avoided. Making your own insures a high quality product and you save a lot of money too! You make a gallon of homemade yogurt for the price of a gallon of milk! Kombucha just costs pennies per serving, and kefir and buttermilk is cheaper as well as high quality when homemade. I personally love making my own sourdough bread. It agrees with my tummy, saves us a lot of money by making our own, and it good for us too!
I’ve used many of the cultures from Cultures from Health and have always been impressed with the customer service as well as the high quality of the starters. Today, Cultures for Health is giving away five starters of your choiceย to one lucky winner! Cultures for Health traded a dehydrator for advertising on my site and I suggested that we offer this giveaway. I am very happy that one of my readers get’s such a great culture starter pack!!!!
Lets take a look at your options.
Yogurt Starters
Cultures for Health carry a wide variety of yogurt starters. The great thing about these starters is that as long as you keep them alive, you never have to buy a yogurt starter again! Along with selling starters suitable to use in yogurt makers, they also sell yogurts that ferment at room temperature! They are super easy to get started and keep going.
Kombucha Mothers
I love this tangy, flavorful drink. Rich in enzymes and probiotics, it’s a great addition to your diet as well. Once you have the mother, it’s very frugal and cheap to make your own (buying them at the store is so expensive!).
Sourdough Starters
Cultures for Health carries a wide variety of sourdough starters. Sourdough starters include white flour, whole wheat, spelt, brown rice, kamut, and rye starters. Buy (or choose if you win!) the starter using the type of flour you plan on using with your sourdough. That way you don’t have to get your sourdough starter adjusted to a new flour. I currently have the whole wheat starter and love it! It’s work very well for me with an excellent rise time.
Buttermilk
Or start making your own buttermilk! I had no idea that it was so easy. Just add some starter and let ferment at room temperature until done. “Our buttermilk starter creates a traditional cultured buttermilk which is rich in nutritional value including enzymes, potassium, vitamin B12, riboflavin and calcium; allowing you to make buttermilk without the additives and stabilizers common in commercially available varieties of buttermilk. One packet of starter culture can be used to make unlimited amounts of buttermilk as it can be serial cultured–a small amount of buttermilk from the current batch is then reserved to inoculate the next batch of homemade buttermilk. With care, our buttermilk culture can be used to make homemade buttermilk indefinitely. No more having to continually buy buttermilk! ”
Kefir
Kefir is a wonderful food! Whether you make creamy homemade dairy kefir or sparkly water kefir, you will be making another great probiotic food!
This giveaway is now closed!
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Allegra
Thanks! I signed up for Cultures for Health Newsletter.
Tiffany @ The Coconut Mama
Awesome giveaway! I’ve used several of their products. My favorite being their cheese making supplies =)
Mary Ann
I just signed up for the newsletter. Thanks!
Renae
I just signed up. Thanks!
Brandi
I just signed up to follow the newsletter. Thanks for the chance to win. ๐
Alison
Thanks! I signed up and hope to win!!
Living Less Mom
Great giveaway. I killed my sourdough stuff so maybe I will give it another go and have success this time. It would be really cool to make my own buttermilk, etc.
Betty
I love my homemade yogurt and would love to try other cultures and ferments! Just signed up for the newsletter. Thanks for this, Betty
Dr. Laura @ WhoIsLaura.com
I need some starters and was going to order them soon from CFH. Would be great to win them though! Nice giveaway, I’ve entered.
Dr. Laura
emily
Thanks for the giveaway (I signed up for the newsletter)! I just moved cross-country and had to give away my yogurt, sourdough and kombucha starters… I would love to get them going again!
Christina B
already on their list! Thx!
Johnlyn
Thanks so much for hosting this giveaway. I just started making water kefir this week and it’s delicious!
Katie Riddle
This is great! I have all the starters but kombucha, which I really want. ๐ I have friends who’d love the other things. I signed up for the newsletter. Thank you!
Aleisha @ Whole Family Project
OOOOOhhh! I want this BAD! I love Cultures for Health…I’ve been getting their newsletter for a few months:)
Meagan
Newsletter, check! I would love the kefir starter ๐
Jennifer P.
Signed up! I’ve been making milk kefir and would like to learn how to branch out into making the water kefir version. We’re hoping to get either goats or a mini jersey to add to our chicken flock, so branching out into cheesemaking and buttermilk…sounds wonderful.
jeannine tripp
I signed up. I hope I win!
Amy B
I jut signed up!
Karen C.
I don’t generally enter the contests because I’d rather see the prizes go to those that would really use them but this one I would definitely use and cherish!
Terry
Thanks for the opportunity! I look forward to reading their newsletter too!
Ashley D.
I’m signed up. I would love to get a gluten-free sourdough starter!
Emily
Thanks so much! What a great giveaway! I just signed up. I looked at their site the other day when you mentioned the Excalibur … I was SO excited to see some that were under $150! I never thought I’d be able to afford one because I thought they were all in the $300 range, I’ve always wanted one! I’m going to save up to get one. Can’t wait! Thanks again.
Katie
Yea! Thank you for having a give away. I would love to start making my own buttermilk!
kelly
just registered for the newsletter. I would love to win this. I have a recipe on my counter (it has been there for 2 weeks) to try a sourdough starter.
Monica
I just registered for the newsletter. I have Sally Fallon’s book Nourishing Traditions and have tried to do some fermented things on my own but this would definately be a help. I look forward to seeing their newsletter. Thank you!
Regina
Thank you, I signed up for the newsletter!
Regina
Sheri Graham
I signed up too! Thanks for the giveaway!
Cheryl Rector
I signed up! (actually, I think I was already signed up before too)
Heather
Love their stuff!! Thanks for the chance!!!
Connie Lemmink
Sign me up! yay!
Laura Green
Just signed up for the newsletter. Thanks for hosting this giveaway.
CollegeSAHM
I signed up!! I am excited about this giveaway because I am pregnant for the third time in a short time and so I have been looking for ways to add more good things in my diet to help out with the stress on my body!!
Dawn
Looking forward to trying these products!
Jen
Hi Kimi
Thanks for the giveaway. I haven’t started with starters, so would love to give a try! We have been loving your recipes since finding you through Josh Harris’s blog. We can’t get enough of the Thai Salad with spicy dressing and the Mexican Quinoa. They are so, so good.
jean finch
I just signed up and thanks for the opportunity to win a cultured starter!
Jean Finch
Diane
I signed up for the newsletter. I really gain a lot from your sharing with us. Thank you
Audrey
I didn’t even know they had a newsletter! Thanks!
Alex
i signed up!! love cultures!! ๐
Margaret
this is great!! thanks for hosting this!
Anton Adcock
Thanks for the invite
Anton Adcock
Appreciate your website
Mahalo
Melinda
awesome! i’ve been wanting to get a few of these cultures so badly!
signed up for their newsletter, too ๐
Karen
Thanks, I’d also loge to win. Been toying with the idea of making cheese. Also Kefir. I have really been enjoying your site. I have shared it with others.
Caroline
I signed up. I would love to get some new cultures. Unfortunately they have been a bit neglected. I would love a chance to try again.
Stephanie
I signed up as well. This would be wonderful! I have failed twice at making my own sourdough starter. Very frustrating!
Lisa
All signed up!
Amber
Thanks for the giveaway, I’m excited for a chance to win!
megan
Just received my cultures in the mail for kefir and water kefir but would love a sourdough starter.
Elizabeth
It’s so nice to enter a giveaway with only one task! I signed up for the newsletter.
Monica
I just signed up, Thanks!