In the Beginning

If you read my "regular" blog or my food blog, you know I am mom to 4 kids.  My husband and oldest son have food allergies.  So not only do I get to do all the fun stay-at-home-mom (SAHM), plus the homeschooling things, I also get to do much more than the average cooking.  Since the food allergies also seem to be linked to behavior issues in said oldest son, I also get to deal with that.
I stumbled across the GAPS diet some time ago.  It sounded like a good idea, but the book I actually read was "Breaking the Vicious Cycle" and loosely followed that.  I say loosely because at the time, M was unable to consume eggs or any milks as well as nuts.  That made it hard!  It made a huge difference though.  Then we got pregnant, I ran out of energy and we bought a new house.  With buying, selling and gestating, I had no bandwidth for extra meal prep.
Now, we are settled in the house, the baby is  8 months old and I have a sliver of bandwidth for diet modifications.  I can see that we need it too.  I bought myself a copy of Gut and Psychology Syndrome and read it cover to cover.  Wow.  Very eye-opening.  It explains so many of my guys problems.  And a few of mine.  So here we go.
Sorta.  I'm on board in theory.  But it's scary!  Really, this is a drastic diet.  And not drastic in the way that if it were just me and I could just eat meat and veggies and eggs.  I have to do this for the kind of child it was meant for.  He has sensory issues.  He has an addiction to refined carbohydrates. He is scared of any kind of change.  Sound like the ideal kid you want to guide through a major dietary overhaul?  No, I didn't think so.
Hence the blog. As long as it's just me standing in my kitchen, I can make excuses and put it off for a long time.  But you, dear reader, live in my computer, which sits on my kitchen counter.  I'm going to pretend you are looking over my shoulder.  The idea in my head is to update the blog daily with a what we did and how it went.  Here goes.  :-)