My name is Kristen Carvajal, I am 21 years old and I am one blessed lady! I have an amazing hubby of 2 years and counting and just this year we have been blessed with a bundle of joy Hope Elliana. If you were to travel back in time and ask me where I would be at 21 years old, it would be no where near where I am now. I would probably would say " traveling, building orphanages in africa, setting the world on fire!" But the amazing thing is, now that I am here I wouldn't change it for anything. It was like God knew where I truly belonged and where my true life changing role would take place.
When Hope was first born, she was the most chill baby I have ever known, that is until week 5 hit. All the sudden all sorts of crazy broke loose. She would scream cry every feeding, spit up like nobodies business and clench up in such pain when her tummy was full. Everyone reassured me it was just colic, but after blood starting showing up in her stool ( Sorry I know, tmi right?) I knew something deeper was going on. After researching and hearing from others who went through similar situations, I realized Hope had a milk protein and soy allergy and that I would need to cut anything containing any of those things out of my diet.
Now let me tell you something, you never realize how much you seriously love that string cheese until its staring you in the face and you know you can't have it. When I first had to "purge" my kitchen I remember feeling SO overwhelmed..."what was I going to eat!?" and more importantly " How was it going to taste any good!" ...so after throwing myself a total pitty party I decided that I was going to do this and I was going to ROCK IT.
We as a family also decided to cut out gluten, and after much startling research we realized we wanted to cut out any genetically modified food, and non organic. ( I know I know, there is a ton of crazy people getting all up in your business about this stuff already) But I challenge you to start doing your own research and see what you find. ( I recommend watching " Food Inc" on netflix also) Once I learned the truth about what I as putting in my body, and especially my families body I couldn't go back.
Heres the thing, we like many of of you are on a VERY tight budget..and from what I had known eating this kind of lifestyle was EXPENSIVE!..but I was determined and after learning some tricks and really putting this plan in place let me tell you, its totally doable! Seriously though it is! I feel like we have been so trained to assume that if you don't have a large grocery budget don't bother, but its so not true! We have been completely allergy free, gmo free, and all organic for 2 months now and have been full and satisfied. We have never felt better and I have a new passion for this lifestyle and sharing with others how they can achieve this for their families, hence the blog. Its my goal to share some tips, tricks, recipes, and more as I'm learning this new lifestyle.
Let me know what you think in the comments below and any questions!
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