LIVING WITH COELIAC DISEASE OR GLUTEN INTOLERANCE
For those of us living with coeliac disease or a gluten intolerance, gluten is very much a thing of our past. A gluten-free lifestyle is our present and our future.
A COELIAC BAKER
After I received my coeliac diagnosis, I don’t mind admitting that I felt more than a little despondent.
I mourned all the delicious baked treats I could no longer eat. And I was somewhat underwhelmed by the free from aisles that I was now going to have to shop in.
If this is you, I completely understand.
I very quickly realised that this wasn’t a helpful way for me to feel. It wasn’t going to change the way I needed to eat. It is very, very hard not to focus on all those things that we can’t eat. So I didn’t.
I threw myself into a self-taught bumpy road to learning to bake all the things I could no longer eat. This was the start of my journey to becoming a gluten-free baker. There were highs and lows, tears and tantrums and almost a pigeon obesity epidemic in my street from all the failed bakes I hurled into the garden (along with a few choice words to help them on their way!)
But eventually my successes far outweighed my failures and I was consistently turning out great tasting gluten-free food. Even my gluten-munching friends and family approved of them (and hailing from the north, this does mean they speak as they find 🙃).
I didn’t want to keep these successes to myself because I knew there were so many people like me out there going through the same emotions and missing the same foods. I wanted to be able to share what I had achieved with them. With you.
So in 2013 I founded my little bakery so that I could spread the happiness that I had achieved in gluten-free baking. And here I am – more than a decade later – with over 40 food awards to my name, still baking and still finding new ways to bring happiness into your life and home.
BAKE YOURSELF HAPPY AT HOME®
Bake Yourself Happy at Home® is my collection of tried and trusted gluten-free baking mixes. It includes the award-winning gluten-free flour blend that I use across all my baking at The Little Bakery of Happiness. The collection has been created using all of my gluten-free baking experience and know-how to help you achieve success in your kitchen at home.
I want to help you become the best gluten-free baker you can be. I hope you will have fun along the way 💕
xx Me xx
