Veritas Fitness
Gut health for beginners
fermented food workshops
Fermented foods are a lost art that is ready for a comeback! Join our monthly workshops and learn how you can easily make fermented foods at home for your family.
Why Ferment?
One of the best ways to get more nutrients into your body is by eating fermented foods.
For thousands of years, most grains, legumes, and dairy products were fermented.
This fermentation process introduced natural gut-healthy bacteria and yeasts into foods, which helped preserve them, and helped make them easier to digest.
Basically, fermentation begins the digestion process for you, and the nutrients become much more bio-available (easy to absorb).
Since the invention of refrigeration and modern preservation methods, fermentation has become a lost art.
Which is a problem, because the good bacteria provided by fermented foods have a ton of benefits:
- Improved digestion
- A stronger immune system
- Production of certain vitamins (especially B vitamins)
- More diversity in the microbiome
- Restoration of gut health, especially after an illness or antibiotics
A Brief History of Fermentation
We can trace fermentation back to at least 7000BC, when an ancient Chinese civilization was making a fermented drink similar to beer.
We also know the Egyptions were making raised bread, beer, yogurt, and cheese as early as 3500BC.
Around 2000BC we have documentation of pickles being made in the Middle East.
Sausage has been around since 1500BC.
We know the Chinese have been fermenting tea as early as 200BC, although the term kombucha wasn't used until around 400AD (by the Japanese).
This is by no means an exhaustive list of fermented foods. But it at least gives you an idea of how long they have been around.
My #1 goal as a health coach is to make a healthy, nutritious lifestyle as simple & efficient for busy families.
I've been dabbling in fermented foods for over a decade. I started by learning how to make pickles and sauerkraut, and eventually learned how to make yogurt and sourdough.
Once you get hooked, its hard to stop...
Last year I started teaching fermented food classes in person, and this year I decided its time to start teaching them virtually.
These are not highly technical classes. There are no scales, no metric system math, and no expensive equipment involved.
ANYONE can do this. And you will be mailed a kit with all the tools you need to keep making these foods over and over.
6-Part Fermentation Series
Registration for each workshop will close 2-3 weeks before the class date, so that kits can be mailed in time.
Sourdough
Learn how to make a low gluten "cold-fermented" sourdough bread.
Date: TBD
Time: 8pm EST
Location: Zoom
Cost: $35
Included in your sourdough kit:
- Dehydrated sourdough starter
- Fermentation jar
- Organic, unbleached flour
- Rubberband, parchment paper, and coffee filter
- Re-hydration instructions
- Live class
- Recorded class
Yogurt
Learn how to make homemade yogurt LOADED with amazing bacteria. This one is a major money saver!
Date: Thursday, Oct 24th
Time: 8pm EST
Location: Zoom
Cost: $30
Included in your yogurt kit:
- Dehydrated yogurt starter
- Fermentation jar
- Tea Towel
- Instant Read Thermometer
- Re-hydration instructions
- Live class
- Recorded class
Sauerkraut
One of the oldest and simplest veggies to ferment at home. And one that many of our grandmothers probably made.
Date: Thurday, Nov 21st
Time: 1pm or 8pm EST
Location: Zoom
Cost: $30
Included in your sauerkraut kit:
- Kosher salt
- Fermentation jar & lid
- Fermentation weight
- Live class
- Recorded class
Kombucha
"Buch" is all the rage and soooo easy to make at home.
Date: TBA
Time: 8pm EST
Location: Zoom
Cost: $35
Included in your kombucha kit:
- SCOBY
- Fermentation jar
- Fermentation bottle
- Rubberband, & coffee filter
- Black Tea & Sugar
- Live class
- Recorded class
Carrots
A delicious and less common ferment that kids love. We will be going over both “sweet" & savory options!
Date: TBA
Time: 8pm EST
Location: Zoom
Cost: $30
Included in your carrot kit:
- Kosher salt
- Fermentation jar & lid
- Fermentation weight
- Live class
- Recorded class
Salsa
Not well known, but a delicious way to use up all of those tomatoes in your garden!
Date: Thursday, Sept 26th
Time: 8pm EST
Location: Zoom
Cost: $30
Included in your salsa kit:
- Kosher salt
- Fermentation jar & lid
- Fermentation weight
- Live class
- Recorded class