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 Today is May Day. Did you celebrate by taking May baskets around to all your friends? Your answer probably depends on where in the U.S. you live.  I'm in Iowa-Cedar Rapids to be exact. I grew up here and May Day was a huge deal for me growing up. I actually have many wonderful

Each time I go to meet a new group, I make these awesome new connections and I also get to work to improve my skills of making and transporting my favorite gluten-free foods to share with other celiacs. Last Saturday provided me with the opportunity to share my foods with 200 new friends in Des

I'm learning so much each time I speak to a different celiac or group leader. I thought I had a pretty good understanding of how to survive in the celiac world before this whole venture started. But each phone call or meeting not only allows me to make new friends around the country, but I

I made new friends yesterday AND I got to share my new products with a well-organized celiac support group in Waterloo, Iowa. It was a wonderful day and I got great feedback from the folks who attended. My mom went with me (Thanks, Mom!) and we sampled six different items: white bread, whole meal

Life brings us little bonuses along the way. It truly does. Last May, as my husband and I were in the middle of the process of bringing our Toro mixes to the U.S., we realized it would definitely be to my benefit to have the opportunity to work with the creator of the mixes. Not only was I having

It almost feels like giving birth except this gestation period was 22-months long. Today is a day of celebration for my family. The path that life takes us on is so amazing and the events that had to occur to present us with this business opportunity are great. But today, after all the steps and

One of my goals with starting tasteslikerealfood.com is to create recipes that I can share with celiacs and non-celiacs alike. Food that THEY like and I can still eat with them. And I've always had a soft spot for kids with celiac disease. Having not been a diagnosed celiac until adulthood,

It was the Valentine's Day of the year I was to be married. My then-fiance and now-husband pulled off the most brilliant gift a celiac could ever want.

Since I had been diagnosed with celiac disease mere months after graduating from college, I really had survived my college years on a strong pizza

After having been diagnosed with celiac disease in 1993, I returned to Norway in 1994 to visit my foreign-exchange family from my high school years. They had been working hard to learn all about celiac disease and to produce food that I could eat while I stayed with them for two weeks. As I entered

I was an exchange student in Norway when I was 16. I knew it was one of the best experiences I could ever have, but I had no idea what a huge role it would play in my life later on. Not only did I get to trace my heritage and practice my basic Norwegian-speaking skills, I also got placed with the