Interested in Meals That Can Heal? Read on...

Health and Nutrition Expert, Karen Maidment is coming to Harts Barn Cookery School this summer, offering talks and cooking workshops all about how to improve your health with food. Here is a blog from Karen all about being Grain Free and Glorious! 

Cooking Grain Free, Gluten Free and Dairy Free

Have you ever heard of the phrase a Paleo Diet? How about a Primal Diet? These basically mean; Food as Mother Nature Intended! In my Meals That Heal cook book and Cookery Workshops all our recipes are naturally grain, dairy, soy, nut, seed and processed sugar free. Why? Because these foods are often challenging for the digestive system to breakdown and use, and can create mass inflammation (heat, pain and disease) in the body.

Common health complaints such as:

• Arthritis
• IBS / IBD
• Coeliac disease /gluten sensitivity
• Depression / anxiety
• Weight gain
• Diabetes
• Asthma
• And so many more!

Can all be relieved and greatly reduce through this style of anti-inflammatory eating.

Now you may have made the decision to go Gluten Free and subsequently experienced a great reduction in your symptoms. But did you know that Gluten is actually a grass seed as are all other grains, including rice, millet and corn. According to Dr Peter Osborne a leading expert in Gluten sensitivity, simply removing the grains containing Gliadin, a particular gluten protein (there are over 60!) found in wheat, barley, rye and oats is not enough to bring about true healing and optimal vitality, that’s because these other grass seeds such as rice, millet and corn still contain gluten compounds!

In 7 years of clinical practise as a Health & Nutrition Specialist and Personal Cookery Coach I am now finding that removing all grass seed based foods including grains, legumes and seeds is the sure fire way to radically catapult the body into an incredible phase of healing.

Now excluding these foods doesn’t mean a hungry tummy or a boring repertoire of meals. It simply means getting creative and back in tune with the best of Mother Nature’s ingredients.

I love creating recipes such as Sweet Potato Flatbread, Coconut Flour Donuts and Cauliflower Crust Pizza, as well as Crust-Less Quiche and Free From ‘Cheese’ Cake! You see no grains but tonnes of taste.

If you want to learn to cook Paleo, Primal foods without the stress, come and join me on one of my forthcoming Meals That Heal Cookery Workshops where you will experience Grain, Gluten, Dairy and Processed Sugar Free cooking delights. The cookery day even includes a private mini health assessment and coaching session to propel your health to the next level. 

To book one of Karen's workshops visit www.hartsbarncookeryschool.co.uk

Karen Maidment – Health & Nutrition Specialist, Personal Cookery Coach, Author & Speaker. For more information visit www.endibsnaturally.com