The boys and I needed a gut-friendly cookie, so I whipped these gut supportive cookies up. These crispy and chewy chocolate chip cookies are gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free and grain-free, too!

While we’re all at home working up experiments to entertain our kiddos with, I thought it may be high time to teach some simple “how to’s”. Starting with some soaking and sprouting first is a fun activity for kiddos and a highly nutritious one for the whole family.

What follows are my 13 strategies for surviving a healing protocol. Whether you’re starting a course elimination or beginning a major healing protocol - these ideas will be worth returning to again and again - on the hard days - and may even help you enjoy the process. Healing will come, yes. But there is so much more fruit from the experience and the disciple. Promise.

It can be easy to lump food allergies and sensitivities together because both cause unwanted symptoms after eating a particular food item. There are two ways to define adverse food reactions -- those that elicit an immune response, and those that do not.

“Hey, hey, Mae: I struggle with getting my kids to even try new foods, so they're stuck on their favorites and those contain loads of what we may need to try an elimination for. How can I make this work for our family?” Implementing food changes can be easy...until our feelings and our kids’ opinions get involved, right?

“Hey, hey, Mae: What’s the big deal about gluten and why does it matter for our health and the health of our children?” What is gluten? Gluten is a type of prolamin found in wheat, barley and rye.

“Hey, hey, Mae: How exactly DO you eat and why? How did you go gluten-free and dairy-free with kids?” Grandma’s brownies, chips, family-recipe chocolate chip cookies and pouches of fruit punch Capri-Sun were the high, yummy points of my childhood.