Welcome!

First of all, welcome to my blog about my adventures in cooking gluten free.

This is not an easy task, as I live in a home with four other members who are not gluten free (thankfully). I am the lone suffer of Celiac Disease. I am though, not the only family member (on my side of the family) to live with Celiac Disease, my father as well deals on a daily basis with the same struggles I do. While my husband and three children sit back and eat whatever they wish, I must be very careful and diligent in reading every thing before I consume a food item.

It was recently while pregnant with my third child that I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes and had to take an even closer look at what I was eating. I thought, by buying my gluten free foods already prepared that I was doing fantastic and providing myself with healthy foods. I was wrong. It was my OB/GYN who pointed out the high sugar content of my processed gluten free foods versus if I made everything myself and only consumed foods that were already naturally gluten free.

I made the necessary dietary changes in the last few months of my pregnancy and sadly with insulin maintained sugar levels. My husband and I both agreed that we would make this a permanent life style change. Needless to say, that never happened. I slipped back into my old habits and the ease of buying overly processed foods that are essentially killing me.

Recently I sat back and watched the food choices the older three members were making, while I diligently made fresh homemade baby food for the youngest. I was appalled and ashamed at what I was seeing. I watched as my son choose a bag of chips over eating an apple. I watched my oldest daughter eat a row of Oreo's over eating some sort of fruit and my husband, well he was the ring leader.

I have given them a week to get rid of as much of the garbage foods as possible before I purge my cupboards of the garbage and start to make my family eat healthier meals. Even if it means retraining their brain to the ways of eating healthy fruits and vegetables and not chips, cookies and pop.

It is my goal to cook gluten free while cooking for the rest of my family who are not gluten free. It is my goal to create delicious meals that my family will enjoy while at the same time, not contaminating my food and making myself terribly ill for the rest of the day and the day after that.

I have already begun the process of converting recipes and trying out foods on my family that I am sure will soon become family favourites.

Please join me on this adventure, as I post what we are eating and how I made it gluten free if necessary. I will post recipes, sources of recipes, my families review of the food item and if I will ever make it again or continue to play with the recipe until it is perfect.

For now, I leave you to explore the blog page and other resources on the web.

✿ Rachel ✿