Dorset Celebrates Bake With Compassion Month!

EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Bake with Compassion is the annual fundraiser of

the farm animal welfare charity Compassion in World Farming, and is returning

for its fourth year, running throughout the month of October. Compassionate

Bakers in Dorset and throughout the UK will be baking with higher welfare

ingredients such as free-range eggs and organic dairy products, or using vegan

ingredients to make this a compassionate month to remember!

Local Dietitians

Sandra Hood and Sarah Smith are running a fundraising workshop on 'Nutritional

Cooking for Health & Vitality' at the Dorford Centre in Dorchester on

Saturday 20th October, showing participants how to cook

delicious, nutritious and healthy food quickly and easily with a hands-on demo,

using ingredients that can energise you, keep you slimmer, and help reduce the

risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and other illnesses. They will be

preparing and cooking a full menu including a starter, main meal and a yummy

pudding too! Participants will get to taste all the food during a sit down

shared meal at the end of the workshop and all food will be vegan-friendly, as

Sandra and Sarah believe a plant based diet is the way forward for a healthy

lifestyle!

Sandra says: "We believe that factory farming is the

biggest cause of animal cruelty on the planet and is devastating for the

environment, so we want to show that eating more plant based food and less

meat, is not only much healthier and can help reduce the risk of many

illnesses, but can also help reduce the high and unsustainable demand for meat

and dairy which is why factory farms exist in the first place."

Sandra and Sarah both work as Dietitians at the Dorset

County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In her spare time Sandra is the voluntary

Nutritional Advisor for The Vegan Society and is author of 'Feeding Your

Vegan Infant with Confidence'. She recently carried the Olympic Torch after

being nominated for her charity work including for Compassion in World Farming

and Diebetes UK, and in 2011 she raised over £1,300 for Compassion in the

London Marathon where she was one of Dorset's fastest runners! Sarah is an

experienced cookery workshop facilitator and has previously sold her own plant

based food in London and throughout the South.

Sarah says: "I hope this will be our best workshop

yet - both inspiring and educational - and we have people coming from Devon and

even as far as Suffolk so we are really excited!"

They will also be baking some naughtier treats for

Compassionate Dorset's popular Bake With Compassion Vegan Cake Sale in

Dorchester town centre which will be on Saturday 6th October where they will

also be selling their funky farm animal t-shirts and giving away lots of free

meat-free recipes and Good Food Guides explaining how to check the labels for

high welfare meat and dairy.

Or, why not have a go at baking your own treats using only high welfare ingredients or even vegan ingredients - to impress your friends and show that you can bake yummy food without causing suffering to animals! 

To find out more or to book a place on the workshop visit

www.compassionatedorset.co.uk and for more information on Bake With Compassion

Month visit www.ciwf.org.uk