The Mindful Loaf

The Mindful Loaf We are a husband & wife baking duo that specializes in sourdough and baked goods crafted with care using locally sourced Maine Grains flour.
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The self serve stand in Steuben is stocked every Sat & Tues @ 10am, order ahead online at www.themindfulloaf.com

What do you do when you work nights and want to be able to mow when it’s convenient for you - without having to wait for...
06/03/2026

What do you do when you work nights and want to be able to mow when it’s convenient for you - without having to wait for the rest of the world to wake up?

Apparently you order an old school reel mower, problem solved! Now he can mow anytime, day or night (without getting on the neighbor’s bad side)

This man is truly a gem, I’m tellin’ ya. I don’t know what I’d do without him 🥰

Our self serve bake stand is open this morning with sweets all for 25% off! Baked fresh yesterday, still delicious today...
06/03/2026

Our self serve bake stand is open this morning with sweets all for 25% off! Baked fresh yesterday, still delicious today 🩵

Find us at 96 Dyer Bay Road, Steuben - only about 1/4 mile off Route 1

We are open! While sadly you won’t find any sourdough breads in stock today, we did make a variety of sweets & baked goo...
06/02/2026

We are open! While sadly you won’t find any sourdough breads in stock today, we did make a variety of sweets & baked goods:

Cookies (in 6 flavors!)
Scones
Whoopie pies
Banana breads
Baked donuts
Fudgy brownies

96 Dyer Bay Road Steuben, open until 8pm

Come see us Saturday for the full usual lineup including our sourdough breads, bagels, & more

We found ourselves with some extra time this morning (turns out not spending 9 hours baking bread while running around l...
06/02/2026

We found ourselves with some extra time this morning (turns out not spending 9 hours baking bread while running around like a chicken with my head cut off also doing 300 other tasks at the same time makes for a MUCH more calm morning)

So we decided to whip up some chocolate-y goodness: Chocolate glazed baked cake doughnuts and our fudgy brownie squares

nothing quite like a rich fudgy brownie to get you through a midweek slump 🩵

We should be open quite earlier than usual this morning - probably around 8am or so 🌞

This is certainly not a post we enjoy having to make 💔 but unfortunately due to hot water heater issues, we won't have a...
06/01/2026

This is certainly not a post we enjoy having to make 💔 but unfortunately due to hot water heater issues, we won't have any sourdough items in the self serve stand tomorrow. We WILL still have baked goods (cookies, scones, whoopie pies, brownies) just no sourdough anything. I can't properly put into words how much this upsets us to say - we are SO sorry.

We woke up at 8pm yesterday to start our sourdough prep only to find that we had NO hot water - ugh! Since we can't safely operate our home kitchen without hot water (both for sanitary reasons and functionality reasons), that put us out of commission for the night. Thankfully Mike was able to get our hot water heater back in service this morning (I am so thankful he is so handy!) but not with enough time to prepare any of our sourdough doughs. We will still be able to prepare baked goods tonight though! So the good news is that we will have more options for baked goods than we usually do on a Tuesday.

If you had an order for tomorrow, we have either already reached out to you or will soon.

Being consistent is one of my top priorities, so this is especially hard to have to announce - but we haven't had to cancel/severely alter a bake plan in almost a year, which I class as a win.

To say the least, May has been one of those "if it's not one thing, it's another" months for us. I'm not exaggerating when I say that we haven't been able to go 48 hours without something substantial going wrong - several major appliances suddenly not working, a couple fairly serious injuries on Mike's part (he's okay but was largely laid up for several days, but he's a trooper and didn't leave me hanging in the kitchen when it came to a busy Friday night bake 🩵), we've had more things go wrong in the last three weeks than I have in the almost three years of living in this home. Some of you who see our posts regularly may have even noticed that this isn't the first issue we've had with this particular hot water heater in the last two weeks. 🫠

So naturally, as has been par for the course this month, May couldn't slip by without ending with a bang.

Life happens, things go wrong - here's to hoping that June is kinder to us 🩵

Come by tomorrow for sweets and baked goods, and come see us Saturday for the full sourdough line up (plus a lot of sweets options then too!)

We are sold out and closed for todayTomorrow’s bake will look different from our usual Tuesday bake due to some (more) a...
06/01/2026

We are sold out and closed for today

Tomorrow’s bake will look different from our usual Tuesday bake due to some (more) appliance issues 🙄 I’ll post an update on that in a bit once we know more about how tonight looks for us

The new ordering menu is online! Some highlights for this week:🧄 Roasted Garlic & Rosemary sourdough🍏 Apple Cinnamon Swe...
05/31/2026

The new ordering menu is online! Some highlights for this week:

🧄 Roasted Garlic & Rosemary sourdough
🍏 Apple Cinnamon Sweet Rolls
🥜 Peanut Butter Blossom cookies
🫐 Blueberry Crumble shortbread bars
🍋 Lemon Ginger Cake
and more - including whoopie pies, rhubarb upside down cake, swiss rolls...the list goes on!

Check it all out & order online @ www.themindfulloaf.com

Order by 8pm Thursday for Saturday pick up, or 8pm Saturday for Tuesday pick up

72 loaves of bread: that’s how many we baked yesterday morning. There are FOUR left today.To say I’m flabbergasted would...
05/31/2026

72 loaves of bread: that’s how many we baked yesterday morning. There are FOUR left today.

To say I’m flabbergasted would be an understatement. I never would have thought we’d still be nearly selling out after expanding our kitchen (and not to mention summer isn’t even in full swing yet).

If you want to snag one of these last four loaves today for 25% off, we’ll be open until the stand is empty. We also have English muffins, a few bags of cookies, scones, and 2 lonely slices of German Chocolate cake in the fridge (we made 2 whole cakes yesterday!).

What we completely sold out of yesterday:
24 bags of sourdough bagels
12 sourdough focaccia
36!!! Loaves of classic sourdough 😳
144 sourdough sweet rolls
4 dozen whoopie pies
4 dozen mini banana breads
4 dozen mini eclairs
so if you see these items on a future menu and want to make sure you get your hands on some, maybe pre-ordering isn’t such a bad idea 😉

Thank you so much for all the love 🥰

If you stopped by our bake stand yesterday evening, we have an apology to make 😓The open flag was out, the light was on,...
05/31/2026

If you stopped by our bake stand yesterday evening, we have an apology to make 😓

The open flag was out, the light was on, and the door was supposed to be unlocked.

Someone (not us) locked the door behind them on their way out of the stand. I imagine that this was just an accidental force of habit and not a malicious act.

We didn’t notice until what was likely many hours later, as we sleep in the afternoons/evenings because we bake starting at 6pm Friday straight through until 10am Saturday.

A new door handle that locks by key only is on the way and will be installed this week so that this doesn’t happen again.

So if you came by and the building should have been open but was locked - we are so sorry. Give us another try 🩵 we still have some things in there today for 25% off: a couple loaves of bread, English muffins, cookies, and a handful of sweets.

We just put out the last of the eclairs and whoopie pies for the day! They couldn't all fit at the start of the morning,...
05/30/2026

We just put out the last of the eclairs and whoopie pies for the day! They couldn't all fit at the start of the morning, if you came by and didn't see either when you were here swing back through - once these ones are gone we don't have any more hiding inside 😨

Address

96 Dyer’s Bay Road
Steuben, ME
04680

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 8pm
Tuesday 10am - 8pm
Wednesday 7am - 8pm
Thursday 7am - 8pm
Saturday 10am - 8pm
Sunday 10am - 8pm

Telephone

+12076319355

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