Elisa

I love food. I love everything about food. Whatever kind of food it is, I probably like it. If there’s a food challenge or dare, I will take it. I love pizza, I love beer, I love donuts.

Fast forward 4 years.

Both my kids have about 50 allergies each. Some life-threatening, some very minor. I ate a very strict, loosely Paleo/Auto Immune Protocol diet for several years. The girls can’t have some things that are compliant on those diets but can have some things that are not. For this reason, I don’t like to say they are on any specific diet. I just say they’re on the “Dacey Diet”. I eat and cook whatever they can have that they aren’t allergic to. For the first 3 years, I healed my gut and my (then) 3yo’s by being 100% compliant with AIP. Since then, we have reintroduced foods successfully and just follow our own groove. When I first started learning about what foods I could eat (because I had been breastfeeding for nearly 4 years), I was at a total loss and just assumed I would live off apples and gluten-free oatmeal for the rest of time until I was either done breastfeeding or the kids could feed themselves. I didn’t know how to cook unless I was reading something off a box or making pancakes… which still involved reading off a box. Now, after years of trial and error, following, screwing up, and creating my own recipes, I finally feel confident enough in my cooking to share it with other people. Maybe another mom that’s just beginning her journey into the food allergy world will be able to look at my recipes and see there are more food options than she thought!