What do you eat?

A common question when we go out for dinner or get invited anywhere and I go through the no dairy, soy, gluten, artificial colours/flavours checklist. It's not a silly question either, a few years ago I would have said the same thing. I have been a little slack with this blog lately I will admit, my computer died, my daughter got probable diagnosis with Dyslexia we confirm this in August, my oldest daughters father was released from prison after 2 years and has caused lots of anxiety for us as a family. Legal proceedings have began to get what is best for her in terms of spending time with him so we have been busy and my headspace has been all over the place. But time to get back on track. Many people are taken aback when they see we have cut so much from our diets (and I do admit I have not stuck to it all that well lately and paid the price!)By cutting all of this from our diets I have seen behavioural changes in my kids (slowly it does take some time for all of this to exit our systems, I have had more energy, we have had less eczema flare ups, sleeping better and just generally feeling a lot better. Since I have slipped we are back to not listening, not helping, not sleeping very well, poor behaviour and my head is fuzzy and a mess. I have to admit I doubted myself with the food changes but this has proved to me that there was a difference and reminded my why it was so important. There are many fantastic foods you can eat still and I am on a mission to recreate all of our favourites. Money is very tight at the moment, my car is still broken after 5 months and I have poured around $4000 into it and its still having the same problem so things will be simple food wise for a while but again I love that I will be able to show people that on a budget you can still eat in a way that will benefit and help you and your family. I am in the process of doing a meal plan at the moment and will post that up when I am done.