Win Some Counterculture

Posted on | September 4, 2009 | 13 Comments

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This contest is now closed! Thanks for all who participated. The winner will be announced on Wednesday, Sept. 16th!

So, maybe you’re one of those back-to-basics types who has caught the wave of traditional foods and is enticed by the notion of making your own sourdough, sauerkraut, and yogurt.  Perhaps you’ve read about the benefits of fermented foods, including their high amounts of vitamin K2, B complex vitamins, and probiotics, which are crucial for gut health and immunity.  At any rate, you’ve probably found, like I did early in my journey, that these probiotic foods are generally not for sale in your neighborhood grocery store, and if they are, they are very expensive.

Kombucha, which sells for about $3.00 for 16 oz is a luxury for most of us, yet with a starter it can be made for about $0.50 per quart!!!!  Live sauerkraut, pickles, and relishes (nothing like the products sold in the condiment aisle) sell for around $6.00 for 8 oz. at my local health food store.  Do you know how many cabbages I could buy for $6.00???!!!

Good quality yogurt and kefir are very expensive as well, and what better way to transform pasteurized milk (for those who have no access to good quality real milk) then to culture it, renewing its enzyme content and breaking down the proteins making it much more digestible?

Perhaps you’ve been trying to lick a soda habit but can’t seem to live without something bubbly to drink.  Well, you can culture your own probiotic soda using water kefir grains!

All of these cultures and more are available at Cultures for Health, a fantastic small business by a mom and fellow Portlander who delivers exceptional service and quality. I’ve worked with CFH several times and am always impressed by their amazing customer service!  I’ve worked with other mail-order culture companies who have been less than prompt in their shipments, and I am so glad to have found CFH (and for the record, CFH is a paid sponsor of my blog (and I am earning a small amount for running this contest), but I found them long before that time, and would rave about them regardless! You can see all of the other paid sponsors whose products I LOVE on my resources page).

Well, now you have a chance to win 3 (count them) cultures: 1 water kefir starter, 1 sourdough starter of choice, and 1 yogurt starter of choice!

There are several ways to enter and win, and you can do all of them if you wish!

1) First and foremost, to be eligible, you must sign up for the contest by clicking on the link below:

2) You get an extra chance to win if you become a follower of mine AND Cultures for Health on Twitter.  If you are already a follower (thank you!), please Tweet about this contest! Either way, please leave a comment and tell me what you did!

3) One more chance to win if you write a little post about this contest on your blog and send some link love my way.  You know, link to this post.  Send me the link or leave it in the comments section!

4) Another chance to win if you go to the Cultures for Health website and “window shop”. Tell me what yogurt starter and what sourdough starter you would choose if you were the winner!

5) Another chance to win if you Stumble Upon my post about this giveaway.

6) Be my Friend on Facebook and tell all your Facebook friends about this contest by having your status include a link to this contest! Then comment and tell me about it! And while you’re at it, become a fan of Cultures for Health!

7) E-mail 5 friends who may be interested in this giveaway, sending them the link to this post. Then comment about it.

So there you have 7 chances to win something that will SAVE YOU MONEY for a long time to come!

The contest details will run Friday, September 4 through 12 midnight PST, Thursday, September 10th. The winner will be announced on my blog Wednesday, September 16th!

Sorry, due to the shipping restrictions this contest is limited to US residents only.

Good luck!

If this is confusing, please feel free to leave a comment!

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13 Responses to “Win Some Counterculture”

  1. Susan Sophia
    September 4th, 2009 @ 1:36 pm

    Hi Carrie! I’m so excited about this contest! I’ve left links on BOTH of my blogs, Sophia Says and St. Brigid Farm. I also linked to the contest on Facebook. I sent an email to 5 of my friends and family. And I window shopped…I would LOVE the Alaska Sourdough Starter and the Piima yogurt starter. Oh and I became a fan of Cultures for Health on FB.
    I don’t tweet and I don’t stumble so I missed out on those. :(
    Thanks!

  2. jpatti
    September 4th, 2009 @ 4:57 pm

    If I won, I’d like the Villi yogurt and New England sourdough.

  3. Betsy
    September 5th, 2009 @ 7:32 am

    Always happy to have another chance to win CFH cultures. I’ve tried the viili and water kefir (love ‘em) and have New England sourdough but haven’t started it yet.

    But let’s see – I wouldn’t mind trying filmjolk or the San Francisco sourdough. I’d go for the Flemish-style Desem if I weren’t a rank beginner.

    I tweeted and posted on Facebook (with link).

    I already followed you on Twitter and started following CFH.

    I’ve asked to be your friend on Facebook.

    I think that’s enough for now. :)

    Thanks for the giveaway. This one’s my favorite!

  4. Kelly
    September 5th, 2009 @ 9:14 am

    So I am window shopping at CFH, and for the sourdough, I can’t make up my mind between the New England, San Francisco and Yukon Territory starters, they all sound good! I think I would try the Piima yogurt starter though. I became a fan on FB of CFH too. I’ll have to post next week on my status! Thanks for doing this! :)

  5. Anne
    September 5th, 2009 @ 10:36 pm

    Yum! I could really use this! We’d love to experiment w/ our own yogurt and Kombucha.

  6. Anne
    September 5th, 2009 @ 10:37 pm

    I’d get the Piima yogurt starter.

  7. Jen
    September 5th, 2009 @ 11:17 pm

    I would love to try the New England Sourdough starter, and the Filmjolk yogurt. They sound so good! Thanks for the opportunity.

  8. Erin Davy
    September 7th, 2009 @ 1:03 am

    Hi Carrie!
    I added you & CFH as friends on FB. And I’ll post on my blog about this. I LOVE CFH, I have tried their Yogurt Cultures & the Water Kefir Grains so far, but am ready to dig into Sourdough!

  9. Rebecca
    September 7th, 2009 @ 6:12 am

    If I won, I would choose the Danish rye and Filmjölk starters. Thanks for running the giveaway, it´s fun to window shop.

  10. JenB
    September 8th, 2009 @ 9:05 am

    If I won, I would like to try the Matsoni yogurt and the New England sourdough starter. Thank you – I am actually about to order some yogurt starter for the first time from them. I’ve been making it using the Dannon yogurt as a starter, and I hope this will give much better results.

  11. JenB
    September 8th, 2009 @ 9:18 am

    I also put it on my facebook page; I should have done that before I commented here!

  12. Heather H.
    September 8th, 2009 @ 12:57 pm

    I tweeted and posted on facebook with link, i also emailed 5 of my friends. I also window shopped and would love the Matsoni Yogurt starter and the Camaldoli Sourdough starter. Yum!

  13. detoxdietlady
    October 3rd, 2009 @ 9:35 am

    every food that we eat should come from Organic Farming. i really get scared about those toxins coming from chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides. I only eat foods which are certified that they are organically grown

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