National Gluten-Free Day is observed each year on the second Monday of January. Going gluten free can be and usually is very beneficial for those of us with gluten-related food allergies.

Welcome to my world! A gluten “challenged” / intolerant one I didn’t even realize that I was part of until well into adulthood. Awareness (via diagnosis) of a lifelong, life-altering food allergy after an entire childhood and early adulthood life encumbered with congestion and needing to have a box of tissues on the ready at all times. Normalized affliction. For YEARS…

My lunch from a Field Day excursion at the Longhouse Food Scholars Program (2014)…

Rather than fall down a medical rabbit hole however, I coined the term “Grain Diversity” which I think is a much better approach than language that conjures up “sugar free” or “calorie free” — And I doubt this post is long enough to tell ya’ll all the reasons why. …

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