I am a stay at home mom with two delightful daughters and the wife of the most supportive and loving husband around! This journey with food...real food...all began when my oldest daughter Sloan was 13 months old and had her first severe reaction to a trace amount of peanut butter that touched her lips. Sloan has severe allergies to peanuts, ALL tree nuts, and sesame seeds, BUT that isn't all we've
got going on in our house! In addition to food allergies our Sloanie has difficulty digesting dairy, wheat/gluten and we are starting to uncover a sensitivity to eggs too! Jeez-o-petes is right folks!! So the question became...what can we feed our daughter?! How can we as a family best support our Sloan AND maintain a "normal" dietary lifestyle? With guidance from our favorite nutritionist and friend Kasia Kines and my awareness guru (yes, I said guru) and friend Kristine Lackey, we discovered an entirely new relationship to food and started really listening to our bodies. Have you noticed that our society’s relationship to food is in the midst of a transformation? There is so much talk about GMO vs. non-GMO, organic vs. natural vs. farm raised (I’m tearing my hair out as we speak)…I could go on and on. We want cleaner food options in our grocery stores, healthier meals to feed our families and readily accessible information about what we are actually serving our children. It’s not asking a lot is it?! This page serves as a place to share what my family and I are doing in our home and I want support ANYONE willing to look at food from a different perspective and try new things! It is the time to take action and get excited about what is available NOW!
