Do you struggle with knowing how to balance the time and budget demands of making food for your family, with your desire to cook whole, nourishing and traditional foods?
If so, you will love this new eCourse being offered by my dear friend Kimi of The Nourishing Gourmet! It's called "A Peasant's Feast: Nourishing Food on a Budget".
Eating real food sounds great, right? But how do we fit it into our daily life? We want real food, but we also have real life schedules and budgets. We want to eat healthier foods, but aren’t sure where to start. And isn’t real food just for the rich? Grass fed beef, free range chicken and organic produce can be expensive! How does one afford it on a normal budget? My ecourse is aimed at showing you how to eat real food on a realistic budget.
Kimi Harris, taken from the A Peasant's Feast page.
I've been following her blog, The Nourishing Gourmet, since it's inception over two years ago. Kimi has a very solid grasp on nutrition, but even more than that, she focuses on making foods that appeal to the senses and taste fabulous, all on a frugal budget. Many of the recipes from The Nourishing Gourmet have made their way into our family repertoire and we eat them frequently. They are inexpensive, simple to make and winners at the dinner table.
What the Ecourse Includes:
I have been privy to some course previews and I can tell you that this is a high caliber course and worth much more than she is charging for it! The videos are excellent, showing you recipes step-by-step, while Kimi shares cooking techniques, ideas for ingredient substitutions to use what you have on hand, nutritional tidbits, and plenty of frugal tips.
Each weekly lesson includes a cooking demonstration video, as well as downloadable PDF files with lectures on the why's and how's of preparing real food, help for finding resources for high quality ingredients, shopping guides, health and nutrition information, as well as several recipes for each lesson. The course material is beautifully presented, easy to follow along with and could actually be a book in and of itself!
Click here to sign up for the course!
Here is an overview of this 13 week course:
Week One: Intro to Nourishing Food, How to Find Local Resources, Guide to Nutrient Dense Foods, and How to Find the Right Budget for You
Week Two: Why I am not a Vegetarian when Beans are so Cheap, Shopping Guide to Beef, Beef Stretching Recipes and Video Demonstration
Week Three and Four: How to Stretch one Chicken into Three Meals, The Health and Frugality Benefits of Homemade Chicken Stock (Recipes and Video Demonstrations)
Week Five: Why Seafood? Health Benefits of Seafood and What to Buy, Seven Tips for Saving Money on Seafood, Recipes and Video demonstration.
Week Six: The How’s and Why’s of Soaking Grains, Shopping Guide to Buying Grains, Video Demonstration and Recipes
Week Seven: Sourdough, How to Maintain a Starter, How to Make Sourdough Bread, Video Demonstration and Recipes
Week Eight: Eating Dessert like the French (Fruit based Desserts). Naturally Sweetened, fruit based desserts
Week Nine: Sprouting, The Benefits of Sprouting, Sprouting Guide, Pictorial Guides, Video Demonstration and Recipes
Week Ten: Lacto-Fermented Foods: The Benefits of Lacto-Fermenting, Demonstrations of two methods, and recipes.
Week Eleven: Dairy-Shopping Guide to Dairy, Making Homemade Yogurt and Creme Freshe, Video Demonstration and Recipes
Week Twelve: The Joys of Vegetables: Where to buy Quality Produce for Less, Making Main Dish Salads, Homemade Salad Dressings, Recipes and Video Demonstrations
Week Thirteen: Meal Planning Tips and Sample Menus.
The Details
Kimi actually teaches cooking classes out of her home in Oregon. These classes run for $35 each and contain similar information and cooking demonstrations.
With the A Peasant's Feast ecourse, each weekly lesson breaks down to just over $9, which is a significant savings! The entire course is only $120 for all 13, compared to $455 if you were taking each course in her home!
Kimi has also generously offered a limited number of partial and full scholarships for those who are financially unable to take the course, but feel that it would really benefit them and their families. You can directly contact her if you feel that you fit into this category.
Registration ends on June 26th, and then the course will begin on June 28th.
Click here to sign up for the course!
I am also delighted to announce that one lucky reader will win a free ecourse membership!
You can enter by:
1) Leaving a comment, telling me what you would be most excited to learn from this ecourse!
2) Share this giveaway on Facebook.
3) Tweet this giveaway. "Want to learn to cook nourishing food on a budget? Enter to win A Peasant's Feast Ecourse from @keeperhome-- http://bit.ly/aDQwCl"
4) Subscribe to Kimi's blog, The Nourishing Gourmet
Giveaway ends Monday, June 14 at 4pm (PST). Good luck! Giveaway has now ended.
Disclosure: If you sign up for A Peasant's Feast through one of the above links, I will earn a small commission. You are by no means obligated to use these links, but it is one of the ways that you can support this site. Thank you!
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The lacto-fermented foods section is the part that I’d look forward to and glean the most from, I think.
I subscribed to Nourishing Gourmet
The thing I want is to be so comfortable with preparing healthy food that it isn’t a challenge.
I shared the giveaway on facebook! :)
And I’m subscribed – waiting for my confirmation email. YAY! So looking forward to learning more from Kim’s blog. :-)
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I’d like to win this for two reasons: 1) because the entire course would benefit my immediate family (history of heart disease and diabetes) and extended family as I can pass along ideas for my step-dad, aunt, and mother-in-law (all Type 2 diabetics) and 2) because I am currently in school to become a personal trainer and specialist in fitness nutrition, and I know the more I learn about not just the “why’s” but the HOW’s of cleaning up a client’s diet, the more helpful I can be to them.
I subscribed to Kimi’s blog.
I shared it on Facebook. Looks so fun!
I am most interested in learning about stretching both beef and chicken into multiple meals!
I would love to learn more to keep my family eating wholesome good foods. I struggle with finding balance and I look forward to hopefully learning more, should I win :)
I’ve been buying nutrient dense foods from a local co-op kitchen and would love to know how to do it at home.
I’d love to learn about soaking grains and lacto-fermenting!
Wow, just found this blog, what GREAT info! On the same journey myself. I would be excited about the whole course, especially soaking grains because I haven’t gotten that down yet, not sure when or how to do that.
I would love to see and read more about the sprouting, sourdough and more in-depth areas of nourishing food on a budget. I have been trying to educate myself and read lots of materials, watch lots of instructional videos and try, try, try recipes. I have three small kids and a husband who isn’t totally sold on nourishing cooking, but our budget demands it. We have histories of diabetes and heart failure in our families and this is a big priority for me. However, with little time nor money, it’s hard. Blessings to you for the chance to win!
I follow Kimi’s blog.
I’m interested in learning about soaking grains and all that. but i’d probably use the sourdough info most
Thanks for such a great giveaway! We recently adopted 3 children, and I am most interested in making our food budget stretch while still offering healthy meals to the family!
Facebooked the giveaway :)
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I am most excited about learning how to save money on seafood and also about lactofermentation.
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I subscribe to the Nourishing Gourmet already :)
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I would love to learn how to soak, I have wanted to for a while, but haven’t taken the time to run around the blog or the library and put the pieces together myself. A course would be so helpful. Thanks!
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I’m most excited about the Why Seafood? lesson. (Health Benefits of Seafood and What to Buy, Seven Tips for Saving Money on Seafood, Recipes and Video demonstration)
Oh, it’s got to be a toss up between sourdough, fruit based desserts, and lacto-fermentation!
I’d love to make my own yogurt.
I subscribed to Kimi’s blog.
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I facebooked it.
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I tweeted it!
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I would be really excited to learn about seafood. I don’t cook it very often because it intimidates me (and I don’t really like it). I’d also be very interested in the beef stretching recipes.
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I am very interested in the fruit based desserts and lacto fermented vegetables. With summer produce starting to trickle in, I would love healthy ways to use them and save them.
I would love to win this! I looked at each week’s lessons and I loved all of them! I think I’m the most interested in the fruit-based desserts. We aren’t very good at consistently eating our fruits & veggies, so I’d love to learn more ways of incorporating them into our diet!
I subscribed to The Nourishing Gormet.
I shared about the giveaway on Facebook.
I am most excited to learn about stretching meat, buying produce, and menu planning. I’m also interested in learning how to make sour dough bread and home made yogurt.
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I just found your website-fantastic! I would especially like to learn how to make homemade yogurt. I mean, how cool is that?
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I subscribed to The Nourishing Gourmet.
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Shared on my facebook.
I subscribed to The Nourishing Gourmet!
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I’m most excited to learn how to stretch chicken and beef.
There is so much I’m eager to learn — from beef stretching recipes to lacto fermentation. It ALL looks like info I need to learn!! Thanks for sponsoring this giveaway!
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Keeping all the fermenting and starters alive and well without being consumed by it: seems like a lot to handle!
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I subscribe to the Nourishing Gourmet.
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i am very interested in soaking grains.
I would love to learn about making chicken stock and stretching meat out for multiple meals in particular. But I honestly think I would enjoy every class! Well, I’m not so sure on the lacto-fermenting thing, but maybe she could convince me it’s yummy, lol.
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already subscribed to the Nourishing Gourmet blog! :)
I would be extremely excited to learn how to make a sourdough starter & the lacto-fermented foods. I’m just a tad intimidated!
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