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The Gluten Free Baking Mix Cookbook

I’m not much of one for baking mixes, but occasionally they can be life savers.  If you want to try out a simple gluten free baking mix and recipe book, try The Gluten Free Baking Mix Cookbook, on sale today and tomorrow for 99c.  I’ve discussed it in some detail on my new site Embracing [...]

Weekly Wrap Up: Course Tweak, Lots of Books, and a Trifle

In my life this week… We enjoyed another busy but relatively peaceful week.  We did a lot of school work, visited with friends and family, ordered glasses for one of the girls, and started our spring cleaning. On the health front: We do feel better after eliminating the water cooler.  Imagine! So if you have [...]

Fit Mommy Away from Home

                          encouraging each other to care well for the bodies God has given us by being active, eating wisely, and relaxing adequately This week I visited my parents in Manitoba.  It’s amazing how your environment changes your fitness behavior! I ate completely differently.  Still gluten [...]

Weekly Wrap Up: Travelling and Visiting Gluten Free

In my life this week… Well, what a funny week!  I started off with homeschool planning for the next half year, and now I’m thousands of kilometers away visiting my parents!  This is the first time I’ve been away from my family for any length of time, and it feels strange.  My mom was telling [...]

A Wonderful Picnic, with Thanks to the Lady in Purple

Last night, as the RCMP Sunset Ceremonies were just ending (more about that on Monday) a lady in a purple jacket tapped me on the shoulder. “I can see you’re a good mom,” she said. I felt startled and must have looked confused. “I saw that picnic your kids were eating, and it was great. [...]

Review: Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Campbell-McBride

  You are what you eat—or at least what you absorb.  But what you absorb depends strongly on the bacteria that live in your gut.  In other words, what you are depends on what lives inside you.  Really. So, welcome to your inner world, the physical one.  This busy world of the gut is unhealthy [...]

Fit Mommy Friday: Gluten Episode

encouraging each other to care well for the bodies God has given us Welcome to the Health and Fitness Check-In column of The Christian Home Carnival, posted weekly. For encouragement and accountability, you can check in using the comments at the bottom of this post. Please feel free to join any time, and at whatever [...]

One-Pan Pasta (Gluten-Free)

While camping on the shores of Lake Superior, we invented this simple and delicious recipe. With only a few ingredients, including prepared coleslaw, gluten-free sausages, rice noodles, and curry, we had a meal the children still talk about.    It’s a very flexible recipe; vary the amounts, vegetables, and spices any way you wish.  We [...]

Fit Mommy Friday

Eating habits change.  When our family first went gluten-free, we put a lot of effort into making breads and other baked goods, especially for lunch and breakfast.  Now we rely more and more on other foods: yoghurt with or without flaxseed, buckwheat porridge, potatoes with toppings, crust-less pumpkin pie, left-overs, and so on.  Of course, [...]

Fit Mommy Friday: GF-Cornmeal Anniversary

  Exactly a year ago, we finally identified the last source of gluten in my diet, something that held me back for more than a year while we wondered why I didn’t respond well to my celiac diet.  This was the problem:  our cornmeal was contaminated with gluten! I have no idea why we didn’t [...]