by Grain Free Living | Last updated Jun 19, 2018 | Published on Mar 2, 2015 | Personal Thoughts, Start Here
While I have been grain-free alongside my husband for over a decade, I always felt that I sat outside of the typical reasons for being grain free – namely, dealing with auto-immune disease or chronic illness. As a result of that, and as is fairly evident from...
by Grain Free Living | Last updated Jun 19, 2018 | Published on Jul 12, 2013 | Personal Thoughts, Seed or Grain?, Start Here
I sometimes get emails from people asking why I use quinoa, amaranth and buckwheat in my recipes. Many people have been told, or believe, that these ingredients are grains and so they wonder why I use them, especially on a website called “Grain Free...
by Grain Free Living | Last updated Jun 21, 2018 | Published on Jun 30, 2011 | Personal Thoughts, Start Here
I started on my grain-free journey 19 years ago when my husband became extremely sick. He was eventually diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. We rejected drugs and surgery, which were the only options given to us by mainstream medicine at the time, and we started...
by Grain Free Living | Last updated Jun 16, 2018 | Published on May 31, 2011 | Personal Thoughts, Start Here
How to cope when your diet is different to everyone else’s and it feels like you can’t eat anything. Living with long term food sensitivities isn’t easy. It’s navigating your way in a mine-field where your body seems to betray you at every turn. It can be depressing...
by Grain Free Living | Last updated Jun 25, 2018 | Published on May 17, 2009 | Personal Thoughts, Start Here
We personally went grain free almost two decades ago to deal with Crohn’s disease. The benefits of a grain-free diet had been explained to us by our healthcare practitioner and an initial trial of being grain free brought immediate relief to my husbands...
by Grain Free Living | Last updated Jun 16, 2018 | Published on May 17, 2009 | Personal Thoughts, Start Here
This is not a diet of just salad and protein. That would be really, really boring. And restrictive. (I should also point out that it is NOT ANYTHING LIKE OR TO DO WITH the Aiken’s Diet or any other low carb eating plans. This is a diet for intestinal and...