Goodie Goodie Gluten-Free®

Hello my loves! I have to say it's getting very close to my new website launch!  I am so excited about this I have been working on my new website for months and months and its coming along beautifully!  With that said, I haven't had a lot of time to blog all of my delicious recipes,  so I have been instead using instagram as my mini blog, and posting recipes and awesome pictures on there! My latest recipes on Instagram have been Carob Pumpkin Butter Cups with Hemp Seed Sprinkles Pumpkin Hummus Goddess Green Juice Buckwheat Pancakes Pumpkin, Quinoa Gluten-free Oatmeal Carrot Cranberry Juice I also post about gluten-free finds in random places like Costco! In addition to gorgeous recipes I also post a lot of quotes, book reviews and cooking apps that inspire me. So… I want to invite all of you to fall in love with Goodie Goodie Gluten-free on Instagram ! xx Julie  Like Goodie?  Wanna fall in love?   Follow me on...

What is DAYBREAKER? Daybreaker is an a.m. sober dance party starting at 6a.m. - 9a.m. .  These are rotating parties, never held at the same place and only held every two-three weeks.  The event is rotated throughout Manhattan (amongst other hot cities),  and you never know where it's going to be until you get that email.   This is a word of mouth celebration of the present.  These parties are exclusive and a best kept  secret.   You send an email asking to be invited, you wait for a confirmation that you have been invited, and about 1 week prior to the scheduled event you get the email.  That special email that gives you a password so you can buy tickets and rejoice in this beautiful experience.  Only at that point are you given a little more information.  Tickets are not expensive, and quite reasonable. Sometimes there is one hour of yoga prior to the event, depending on where and when the event is held.   I...

Let's face it.   Everybody hates going to the Dentist.  There is always a fear of cavities, or that the teeth cleaning may hurt your sensitive teeth.  Or that the Dentist will lecture you on lack of flossing and read you the riot act on your mouth care-even if you think you are the mouth health care superstar. But most of the time our fear gets in the way and it makes everything hurt so much more.  Have you ever noticed that? I'll start out by saying I have lovely teeth.  And I really take care of my mouth, but I can't tell you how nervous I get when I have to go to the Dentist.  I already know when I wake up that morning that it's going to hurt.  That I will most likely have cavities because that would happen to me.   I psych myself up to think that the experience is going to be horrific.  I usually convince myself of this.  And my fears usually get the best of me.   I cringe when I think of those sharp instruments scraping ...

The other day, I had a friend over for dinner that I hadn't seen in two weeks.  She said I was different this week, that I had seemed so positive in comparison to the last time we hung out.  She said she could hear it in my voice.   I looked at her and whispered, "It was the Quinoa Milk".   My very own kitchen skills scored me homemade Quinoa milk-But I wasn't always so experimental in the homemade non dairy milk department... My Yoga teacher from last Summer used to to tell me how much she loved making almond milk and how easy it was.  She got the "alien with five heads look from me".  I thought yeah right…what is she smoking. Flash forward to now-9 years into the life of a recovering Celiac, with some serious Leaky Gut issues that started about two years ago and haven't stopped that have lead to hair loss, Anemia, malabsorption, Acne, the need for a Liver Detox, on and off the Paleo Diet for 6 months, 100 percent clean, refined sugar free an...

Yes, I have fallen off the blogger planet.  Yes I stopped posting. Where do I even start?  Where do I begin. Do I write an introduction as to why I fell off the planet? Or do I just start blogging as if I never disappeared?  Though that might be weird. I feel that I owe it to you guys to fess up.  To let you know where I have been hiding. Well, In a nutshell… I left my 12 year fashion career as a women's fashion designer to pursue Health and Wellness.  I went back to school at The Institute For Integrative Nutrition and got a Certification in Health Coaching specializing in Nutrition, Holistic Health, the Gluten-free Diet, Celiac Disease and Vitamin Deficiencies -which was by the way an awesome life changing experience!  I just graduated in the beginning of July, 2014. I am currently working with a web designer to transform and expand Goodie Goodie Gluten-free on an awesome Wordpress website.   Goodie Goodie Gluten-free is getting ...

So what can you eat?   Is there anything left?   Do you have to do that forever?   What are you going to do when you go out to a restaurant?   What do you do when you go out on a date? And who is this doctor that you went to that would prescribe such a diet?   Are you doing this for weight loss?   But I thought you were Celiac and gluten-free.  Now Paleo too??   No cheese?  How are you going to live?  No candy? OMG.  No added sugar?  What do you mean?! You can't drink alcohol?  When the eff are you gonna get off this diet so we can go out drinking? Not even wine?  Come on, wine never hurt anyone!  Have some wine.  "No thanks I'm good".  Come on just a sip. What are you like a health nut now? Do you even feel better on this diet? What does it feel like to eliminate so much? What do you mean you can't add sweetener to your coffee?  What? No coffe...

Hello Lovelies!! I think this is probably one of the funniest and most honest posts I have ever written!  It's condensed into story form, but please keep in mind this sugar addiction took a long period of time since childhood to accumulate and evolve into an addiction.  And only after recently going Paleo, did I realize I had one. As of now, I follow the Paleo diet strictly, and eat clean. That means I don't eat anything processed.  I stick with animal protein, seeds, whole veggies, healthy fats and on the occasion low sugar fruits like berries. It all started with my childhood.  My parents never had obvious sugar in the house. Soda was a random occasion allowed at the movies only.  Fruit Roll-ups and candy were never seen at my house, unless on Halloween, and even then we could only eat that stuff for a certain amount of time before my mom took it away.  "Candy rots your teeth"!  Ugh, how many times did I hear that one?  The best we could f...