I have a gluten intolerance. It started in about 2009 when I was planning on getting pregnant with our second child. I was overweight from my first pregnancy still, which was at the end of 2006, where I gained a lot of weight in that pregnancy as well. I had found a diet that sounded like it would work to help me loose a little bit of weight so that I could feel comfortable with getting pregnant and gaining weight again! I was probably only a month or two into this diet, where I was eating healthier whole grain foods and bread that obviously had gluten in it. I knew my mom seemed to have a gluten intolerance, so when I started having symptoms, stomach problems, lethargic, brain fog, I knew that there was probably a chance that I had the same thing. I started doing research on celiac disease and found that there was such a thing as a gluten intolerance as well. I was probably a little paranoid, but I was reading where if you wanted to find out if you had celiac disease or even a gluten intolerance, that the testing they could do at the time, was only such that you would have to continue eating gluten for it to be accurate. That, coupled with the idea that my health records would then have this information on them, I decided to simply self-diagnose myself with this gluten intolerance and stop eating gluten immediately. I soon felt better and even started my son, who was about 3 at the time, on a gluten-free diet. I was able to get pregnant just fine at the beginning of 2010 and when our youngest son was born, and when I started him on solid foods, he was eating gluten-free as well. They probably both ate gluten-free after that for 3-4 years, before it was too much for me to keep it from them any more. They seem to do fine with eating gluten, even though I do believe what I have heard from experts and doctors online, that gluten effects everyone is some way, even if they don’t realize it. Kind of like pain, where it is actually one of the last things you body starts to tell you when there is a problem somewhere.

So I want to offer some foods that can be a healthier option and still be tasty. I’ve eaten this way for so long, I know my taste buds have changed, but I much prefer the taste of gluten free foods now anyway and I am sure I would not care for a food with gluten in it anymore. I have since been on keto, paleo and other diets (in 2023 I did a vegan cleanse for about a month and ate vegan most days after that for almost the whole year, only ate fish/seafood on occasion), I try not to eat any grains or dairy most of the time. I like baking with almond flour a lot instead. I will be making the gluten free goodies for sale with a gluten free flour mixture though and I’m planning on a few recipes that will be a grain free item as well.