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About a month ago, I decided to put myself on a candida diet. I was feeling tired all the time, achy, having trouble sleeping, headaches, etc. I read the book, The Yeast Connection and Women's Health, and after taking the quiz and scoring crazy hig (read full article)
So I currently am working with a private chef/catering company that focuses on healthy cooking (centeredchef.com). On Friday we worked an event called Spring Flours, hosted at the Swisshotel. It was a fund raiser for The University of Chicago Celia (read full article)
Friday night was The University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center's Annual Benefit. It was the 10th anniversary of the event, which raises money for celiac disease research, and the night was filled with live and silent auctions, a raffle, and gluten (read full article)
I usually tend to be quite the busy bee, always running from here to there. My pink Thermos water bottle never leaves my side so I’m always well hydrated. But what about fueled? I try to always have a little bag of nuts or a gluten free bar in my b (read full article)
Last week was filled with cupcakes. Starting on Tuesday at the Safe & Sound dinner at the Landmark Grille, Swirlz Cupcakes provided the dessert, Vegan German Chocolate Cupcakes. They were perfect ending to an amazing dinner! There were a few e (read full article)
One of my favorite places to get gluten free goodies is Swirlz Cupcakes. They make gluten free cupcakes that are to DIE for! I just had a special vegan German Chocolate cupcake at the Landmark Grille and Lounge Safe & Sound Dinner. It was too goo (read full article)
In just one week, top chef Giuseppe Tentori will create a complete, multi-course, allergen-free dinner at Boka, the red-hot Lincoln Park restaurant. Tentori has been named one of Food & Wine magazine’s Best New Chefs of 2008, famed New York mag (read full article)
October is National Celiac Awareness Month and this weekend I spread the awareness like nobody's business!Saturday, October 10th was my little sister's birthday. What did I get her? A celiac screening of course! She has been experiencing some of t (read full article)
Yikes! Would you look at the date of that previous blog post...September 6th. It's been a busy week! Lots of news and stories to share.First things first - Have you noticed that Gluten Free Betsy has gone dot com?! That's right, I'm big time, bab (read full article)
If you glanced over my previous post on upcoming events in Chicago, you'll see Lisa Williams has a couple events coming up. I first learned of Lisa Cooks Allergen Free when I visited her booth at the THRIVE Allergy Expo in April. I signed up for her (read full article)