One Giant Leap!

Okay, so this is probably not so momentous to anybody else but me.

However, TODAY is the day!

Today I started to piece together a blog for other weirdos, er, um, folks like me who cannot eat dairy or gluten. Or more specifically casein or gluten. I could give you all sorts of scientific mumbo jumbo about how it can be a legit problem and I probably will on some other blog post. Just for now you'll have to be satisfied that we were gluten free before it was cool.

Or at least worthy of being mocked by Jimmy Kimmel here.

Celiac disease runs in my family. I heard stories about how my grandmother was diagnosed in the 1950s just about all my life. Then I married my lovely Hubby who has a family history AND a long personal history of reacting VERY poorly to casein, the protein found in cows milk.

I also have another secret. I'm kind of a closet 'prepper'. I'm not one of those doomsday preppers who have a bomb shelter in the backyard. I'm just a Mom who has had to evacuate her family from a small town in New Mexico due to out of control wildfires so I have personal experience on what it's like to be stuck in an emergency. Luckily we were able to bunk with family for the duration but I always wondered how awful it would have been to be stuck in a shelter of some sort and only have food offered to us that would have made us super sick.

Plus, I remember watching the news about Hurricane Katrina and all the aftermath while I was living overseas. I resolved to always have an emergency getaway quick pack with at least 72hrs of food and supplies in it as well as have emergency supplies on hand for 'sheltering in place' if I ever had to hunker down at home for a while without power or water. I wouldn't be able to last more than about 2 weeks but at least that's something.

So, this blog is going to be about how to get a food supply for folks like us who cannot deal with gluten or dairy. I was raised in a church who also taught the principles of preparedness and self sufficiency but that usually meant buying 50 pounds of wheat to store in your basement.

Um...., no can do.

So, I started myself a little bloggy blog in order to see if what I've figured out  may possibly help somebody else.

*fingers crossed*

So, here goes nothing!