Meal Planning Worksheet (free Printable)

Check this out!Meal Planning Worksheet (free Printable)

Cherish The Time We Have

I LOVE this song. I just heard it on another blog and it is so precious!! Check it out and check your priorities. It definitely made me check mine!

Bisquick has gone GLUTEN FREE!

Bisquick has made my day and created a gluten free version!! It is smaller of course and on the pricey side, but I am SO thankful to have something easy to use. I don't have to buy 4-5 expensive flours and hope I get the right blend for my food to taste decent. This makes lots of things and is so easy. It calls for milk and eggs in a lot of the recipes, but just use your normal substitution and it will turn out wonderful! I have used egg replacer for the eggs with great success and rice dream for the milk. Here is a yummy looking Apple Pie recipe that I am dying to try this week!

Apple Pie Recipe

My Little Food Allergy Guy

I have learned so much since I had my son. He had this awful rash all over his face and body and I could not figure it out. Finally, I realized through research and the help of a knowledgeable mama from the Le Leche League, that it was food related. Once I did an elimination diet and removed all the top allergens from my diet (since I breastfeed), his body cleared. He also started having normal bowl movements which before where just water. Thank God that I figured this out at 4 months and not any later!

He is quite the little man and I love having a son. I knew that when I chose the name beingmadenew for my boutique clothing business and my email address that I was in a process of change....but never did I grasp the extent of this change. Everything from food, family size, jobs to faith. Crazy life, but a good one.

At first the diet was miserable. I was depressed. I couldn't eat anything I loved...which is what they say about allergies. "What ever you think you could not possibly live without is usually what you are allergic to". Weird. So I tried baking, which I LOVE to do and everything was gross, I bought products that were ridiculously expensive, only to throw the box away after one disappointing bite. But, that was then and now I am well adjusted. It took a few months of wallowing in my new state before I realized this was going to be my life for at least awhile if not forever, so I better learn how to live with it and enjoy it.

I have found tons of great recipes, blogs and products and will feature them when I have time!! There is help, it can be done and eating can be enjoyable again!