Find Your Freedom! How to Live Without Food Allergens

When Delicious Living and Enjoy Life Foods team up, you know it is for a great reason. They recently put out an e-guide on how to live life with food allergies and how to "find your freedom" to avoid your allergens.

This free eGuide will help you:

• Identify food allergies and sensitivities
• Eliminate problem foods
• Stock a Free-From pantry
• Make great-tasting allergen-friendly recipes 

This guide is perfect for the newly diagnosed as well as a good reminder for those of us living with food allergies for a long time! (In addition to celiac disease, I also have a shellfish allergy.)

Click here to download your free eGuide: How to Live Without Food Allergens.

Want a sneak peek? Check out this pages from inside the guide. 

Back by Popular Demand: GF Alphabet T-Shirts

Every time I wear this GF alphabet t-shirt to a celiac event, people love it. I wore it to Camp Celiac last week and many of the campers and staff asked me where to get one. I haven't sold these in a few summers, but now it is back by popular demand. I have a limited quantity, so be sure to order yours today! Shirts are $20 plus $1 PayPal fee. Shipping and handling are included! Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery.

Once you get your shirt, send me a picture! I would love to feature you in my Facebook album. Go ahead and click through to all of the smiling gluten-free faces!

How to order: Simply click this link to email me and let me know what size you want (adult S-XL available). Discounts will be given for multiple t-shirt orders!

35 Years of Living with Celiac Disease

I cannot believe it has been over a month since I last blogged here. I have been (slowly) redesigning things behind the scene and really trying to figure out what is next for my website. I have always loved connecting with celiac readers through Gluten-Free Fun, but these days I mostly keep in touch via Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.  But I hit a HUGE milestone this week and I couldn't let it go unmentioned.

This month, I am living with diagnosed celiac disease for THIRTY-FIVE YEARS!!

My doctor records from 1981, the first time they thought celiac disease.

Whoa, let that sink in for a minute. First of all, my brain still thinks I am in my 20s so I am not quite sure how I've had celiac for longer than I feel in years. Second of all, that is a damn long time to have celiac. Three and a half decades of living gluten-free with celiac disease. I literally have a lifetime of experience with celiac disease, as I was diagnosed as a toddler. I recently met a few more "lifers" (those of us who don't remember life before gluten) and I am always impressed that we have survived and thrived so long in a gluten-filled world.

I am a celiac pioneer. I was eating gluten-free before it was cool. It wasn't until I was a teenager in the 1990s that I even met another person with celiac disease. This year, I attended a food expo with more than 70,000 people talking about healthy living and gluten-free food. I went to an international conference full of people with celiac disease. Just last week, I went to a summer camp with a week dedicated gluten-free for kids with celiac disease. This blows my mind. I am in awe of the kids of today who have so many gluten-free options across the globe that never existed when I was a kid.

35 years of living gluten-free!

So today, I leave you with this... You are not alone in this crazy celiac and gluten-free adventure. There are tens of thousands of us living in the US that know exactly what you are dealing with on a daily basis. There are ups and downs, especially when first diagnosed with celiac disease. There is a learning curve to adjusting to the gluten-free diet. But you are not alone and we can all relate. Reach out if you need help, I am happy to be there for you. Email me any time! gfreefun@gmail.com