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[This is part of our series: Getting Your Hopes Up: Stories of Healing Thru Diet and Nutrition. Each month we will be posting stories directly from mothers and fathers, on their experience using food and nutrition to help heal their child with autism, ADHD, and other...
GFCF/SCD/GAPS/Paleo/LOD This recipe is a dairy-free pumpkin pie filling. You can bake the filling without a crust (for SCD/GAPS, Paleo), or add any diet-compliant crust you’d like for a delicious pumpkin pie. For the low oxalate diet, avoid high oxalate spices such as...
This is the first year that our daughter really understands Trick or Treating. When she was just two, Trick or Treating was simple -- she enjoyed collecting the pretty colored things (candy) from our neighbors, but didn’t really realize the candy was for eating, i.e....
GFCF/ Soy-free/ SCD/GAPS/Low oxalate Gelatin Hearts are finger gelatin that you can pick up and eat with your fingers. It is two layers of gelatin with a strawberry heart in the middle. Read instructions and get ingredients for everything ready. Start with the White...
Guest Post by Lisa Meili Note from Julie Matthews: After writing an article for the Autism File Magazine on traveling with food allergies (out in the June/July issue), I spotted this incredible post from a mother on a GFCF...
This is the first post in my new ongoing series: Getting Your Hopes Up: Stories of Healing Thru Diet and Nutrition. Each month I'll be posting stories directly from mothers and fathers, on their experience using food and nutrition to help heal their child with autism,...
Ideally, mothers breastfeed their babies. Breast milk is the superior choice nutritionally; however, there are many mothers cannot breastfeed. I am one of them. What’s a mom to do? Commercial formula? Homemade...
Most nutritionists recommend avoiding sugar in the diet—and applying this basic advice to kids is important. Sugar is addicting and bad for our health. But with all of the parent-child battles that can happen (screen-time, bedtime, chores, etc.) there can be so many...
Fermented foods are live lactobacillus (the bacteria found in yogurt) fermentation - foods naturally fermented with good bacteria to help break them down and aid digestion. A majority of children on the autistic spectrum...
On KQED radio the other day, I heard a discussion about New York’s proposed ban of trans fats from restaurant food. Sheila Cohn Weiss, director of Nutrition Policy, National Restaurant Association perpetuated a common...