Hello everyone! My name is Heather and I started this blog to chronicle my families life of living and cooking with multiple food protein intolerance's. My 3 boys have all been ill since birth with GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) and food intolerance's to cows milk and soy proteins as infants, we thought they had outgrown their food issues and were told it was safe to reintroduced milk and soy into their diets at about 18 months old, but nothing really got better, a lot of stuff actually got worse. We stuck it out with our local children's hospital for almost 6 years with no real answers. Finally I got fed up and decided it was time to get another opinion. I took all 3 boys to a large research children's hospital over 2 hours away and we've finally started to make some real progress with growth, weight gain, and overall health! The key has been determining what foods are causing them problems and eliminating them from their diets. The foods we are currently avoiding are all dairy, soy (including vegetable oil, aka: soy oil), corn, citric/asorbic acid, as well as all berries for my youngest. Since all these foods are staples in the average American diet this has forced me to forgo many of the prepackaged and processed foods available in the grocery store. I visit many allergy websites and blogs on a daily basis but sometimes I want good old fashioned "normal" food! So I've determined to make whatever we have a craving for, but with safe ingredients for the kids. I do not make anything in my home if my kids cannot eat it. We can't go to restaurant's or fast food anymore, which is probably not a bad thing! But this makes it hard when we are out and about. So this means I have to cook and make (most from scratch) everything that goes into my kids bellies. I'm always on the hunt for safe foods at the store and travel a lot to visit different stores just to see if they carry anything safe that my kids can eat. If you ever run across me in the grocery store when I've found a safe food you will see me doing a happy dance in the aisle. (I can't be the only parent who does this, right?) Thank you for visiting! Stay tuned for all my kitchen experiments and loads of recipes to follow!