Give Your Pizza a Plant-Based Protein Boost! {Chickpea Pizza Crust}
Chickpea pizza crust is gluten-free, vegan, easy to mix up and handle, and receives literal cheers from the dinner table when I serve it up.…
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Elimination Diet Grain-Free Recipes & Resources (Keto/Paleo/GAPS/AIP friendly)
Look at most elimination diets and you’ll find many call for grain free recipes. From keto to Paleo to a Whole 30 meal plan, grains…
Our Rookie Whole30 Meal Plans + My Anti-Cavity Diet Menu
The great thing about a Whole30 is that it really makes you meal plan, and you find ideas for so many vegetables in your diet,…
What to Eat When You’re Too Busy to Think! (aka Meal Planning for Busy People)
There’s a funny thing about Dinner Time – it happens every. single. day. And despite this known fact, even the best of us can have complete-panic moments.…
Why This Popular Real Food Diet Caused Utter Failure (Part 2)
Yesterday I joked about how the D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs program was kind of like my hubby and I peer pressuring our friends…
Why This Popular Real Food Diet Caused Utter Failure (Part 1)
Jumping into the Whole30 without a meal plan? Check out our Whole30 compliant meal plan and a second one with tons of Whole30 vegetables side…
Baby Steps to Managing IBD with Diet
It’s never good news to find out someone you care about has a chronic disease and needs medication. A while ago a good friend of…
Food Nearly Killed Her; Now She Infuses Life into Your Restrictive Diet
Imagine writing notes to your children in preparation for your impending death. What would you say? How would you handle the knowledge that your time…
Baby Step Changes May Have Saved My Husband’s Life Without Us Even Noticing
Crohn’s Disease, high triglycerides, heart attack risk…all healed with a real food diet and grain-free elimination meal planner. But it seems like a page out…
3 Trillion Dependents in Your Gut–What are you Doing with Them?
I had an absolute ball Monday night interviewing two ladies with incredible stories of health transformations via diet. Amanda Torres from The Curious Coconut and…
Monday Mission: Explore Grain-free Baking
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to try your hand at baking grain-free. You may not need to eat grain-free and think this…
Eating Grain-Free? Resources and Recipes, All in One Place
When you have a food and nutrition blog, people talk to you about digestive issues quite a bit. People ask me about stomach pain after…
How Much is Too Much?
If someone has scrambled eggs for breakfast, egg salad at lunch, and egg quiche for dinner, most folks would say or think, “Wow, that’s a…
9 Successful Elimination Diet Strategies (even for Families with Children)
Figuring out how to do an elimination diet can be confusing. Why are there so many different elimination diet meal plans? (Here’s my elimination diet…
Recipe Connection: Almond Apple Grain Free {Paleo} Pancakes
When our family first started experimenting with going grain-free, it was important to me to find simple recipes that didn’t call for unique ingredients. I…
Five Keys to Weight Loss with Real Food
We joke sometimes that we’ll launch a “Kitchen Stewardship® Diet Plan” with weird taglines like “Eat nuts, all the time!” or “Eggs, eggs, and more…
Grain-Free Apple Flax Muffins Recipes
We threw my sister-in-law a real curveball, coming to visit during Lent when our entire family was grain-free. I’m pretty sure she had a spectacular…
How Did we Do on the Lenten No Grains/No Gluten Challenge?
When I told my mother-in-law that we would be going without grains for the first half of Lent and remaining gluten-free for the second half,…
Recipe Connection: Easy Paleo {Grain-Free} Banana Pancakes
I shared this paleo pancake recipe last week on Twitter in well less than 140 characters. Brace yourselves. I’ll flesh it out a little more…
The Comparison: The Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD), GAPS Diet (Gut & Psychology Syndrome), and The Maker’s Diet
Over the last month or so as the adults in the family went grain-free to combat some symptoms of Crohn’s Disease (Inflammatory Bowel Disease or…