Why I am Blogging

At the age of sixteen I was diagnosed with chronic gastritis and lactose intolerance, which was years ago. So I had always dealt with not being allowed to eat high fat foods, acidic foods and anything with lactose. But it didn’t stop me from eating it, until I paid for it with the stomach pain.

After growing up and having my first son who showed signs of lactose intolerance or dairy intolerance from birth, I knew that I was going to have trouble down the road. Then I had my daughter, and with no surprise she had the same problem. Our new addition appears to have it as well, so the outlook on her digestion is more than likely riddled with problems.

Recently we had to undergo the elimination diet for a few weeks. Completely wiping out everything we had eaten. My son had the hardest time with the diet; he was and is a carb-a-holic. The first week was lamb, rice, extra virgin olive oil, spinach and pears. That was it! I had to come up with everything. We weren’t allowed to have preservatives and everything had to be organic. I learned a lot and got frustrated at the same time. There wasn’t a lot out there to help me with recipes. What do you give a kid for breakfast that can’t have cereal or eggs? I created my answer; Spinach and Pear Smoothie! My son drank them almost every morning that first week. My dilemma was that I had problems finding recipes out there. It was so difficult to figure out what to make my children. But I pushed on and figured it out. Scratching my brain every day to figure out what I could make as we added things back into their diet like gluten or milk. This is how we discovered that both children, me included are gluten intolerant. My son is also lactose intolerant. My daughter is dairy\casein intolerant. But both of my older children have allergic reaction soy and peanuts. I can only hope they grown out of it.

So as I embark on this adventure of our future way of eating, I thought I would share my experiences, good and bad with you. Maybe I can help you with your new diet or give you some new ideas to freshen up your current way of eating.