While at dinner in the mountains in Italy one night, Ceci and her family told us we were having a meal known as “Kilometer Zero.”

Kilometer Zero
Filed Under: Wellness Tagged With: eat, eat real food, gluten free, Healthy Lifestyle, travel
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While at dinner in the mountains in Italy one night, Ceci and her family told us we were having a meal known as “Kilometer Zero.”
Filed Under: Gutsy Children, Wellness Tagged With: eat, Healthy Lifestyle, love, raising baby
I was recently forwarded an email with subject line, “Healthy School Lunch Information.”
Filed Under: Eat, Love Tagged With: eat, love, travel, unprocessed
I attended the 2016 Natural Products Expo West this year for the 3rd time on the official blogging team, and even though my top 3 products from the show were announced recently, today I have put together my 2016 Natural Products Expo West favorite brands and products.
But first, my general show thoughts….
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But, by far, my main overall recap thought and ah-ha moment came when I found myself perusing booth after booth and hearing companies utter phrases like, “100% natural, super clean, healthy.” I would then simply pick up said “100% natural, super clean, healthy” product and check out the ingredients, only to feel let down.
Ingredients don’t lie, and the use of buzzwords are confusing consumers. During all of those moments (because most of the times were convenience/packed goods), I decided to launch The Gutsy Girl’s Bible: a travel and convenience snack guide companion. The project currently hosts over 150 items….and I would guess it could hit 300 or more!
HERE was my pre-Expo hot list.
p.s. Reading this in 2017? Check out my Top 15 Overall Expo West 2017 Finds.
Xox,
SKH
Filed Under: Eat, IBS IBD, Inspire, Love, Special Diets, Wellness Tagged With: eat, love, travel
One thing I know for certain is that traveling when you have any type of dietary restriction needs is tough. You know how sometimes you are hit in the head a thousand times with something, but it’s on that thousand and first time that it just clicks? That’s what happened to me this past weekend while at Expo West, and so….coming soon travel and convenience snack guide companion.
{This is now available! Click HERE to grab yours for free.}
Here is the rundown on the guide:
I am already getting a ton of amazing thoughts and feedback on what people want to see, brands, etc.
I am working on a ‘travel and convenience snack guide companion’ to launch in early May for people with food allergies…
Posted by Sarah Kay Hoffman on Monday, March 14, 2016
I am willing to put in the work to make this a super-easy-to-read + informative guide, but I’d love even more thoughts.
What product(s)/brand(s) would you like to see on it? So far, some of the categories are desserts and sweets, beverages, protein bars, chips ‘n crunchy, but is there a specific category you are interested in? Any specific special diet you’d like included on the chart? So far some of them includePaleo, AIP, Zero Sugar, Low FODMAP, Gluten Free, Dairy Free, etc. Would anything else make this helpful for you?
Comment below or contact me privately!
Xox,
SKH
Filed Under: Dairy Free, Eat, Gut Healing, Inspire, Love, Raising Baby, Special Diets, Wellness Tagged With: eat, health coaching, Healthy Lifestyle, love, raising baby
After I published “Please Don’t Feed My Baby,” I received so many comments and messages. I loved hearing all your stories and different perspectives. As promised, and because so many people ask me daily, today I’m sharing with you what we feed to our baby Samarah.
Many things on this list are fairly typical, but some definitely are not. And I like that about us.
For the record, Samarah is (currently) a living, breathing human consumption tank. Some days I think she’ll eat us out of house and home. But she is also a typical toddler in the sense that she goes through phases with food….she eats similar things over-and-over and then she’s done with it for awhile. All of this is perfectly okay.
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*I’m not breaking these down by breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks because the truth is that we don’t have a standard “breakfast meal” or lunchbox. Most of the items below are Organic (especially any on the Dirty Dozen list).
{I am feverishly trying to get her to love eggs. Sadly, she still does not.}
This is the bulk of what she currently eats, and what she currently loves to eat. Every chance I get, we try new things. I want Samarah to love food for what it is without the need to pump chemicals, additives, and other unnecessary ingredients. I never want to be the mother who has to “trick her” into eating fruit, vegetables, and other nutrient dense foods.
I realize that when she’s big enough, she’ll be choosing her own foods. And that’s okay.
For now, it’s my responsibility to give her the very best I can with the knowledge I have so she keeps on growing and thriving like the beautiful butterfly she is turning out to be.
p.s. The above list is one reason why 99% of the time I will never work with baby food brands and companies. If you notice, most of what we do are whole, real foods. I have chosen this over “baby food” for the most part, and I think it serves my family and your families best for me to be honest about what we do and to not be the “baby product mama” for a few extra bucks:) Take it for what it’s worth to you.
Xox,
SKH
Filed Under: Eat, Gut Healing, Love, Raising Baby Tagged With: eat, eat real food, health coaching, Healthy Lifestyle, love, raising baby
Please don’t feed my baby.
These are words you will rarely ever hear me say, but words I think almost daily.
Samarah cannot have dairy right now. If it were up to me, she would have raw milk poured over her “oats, boats and bugs” oatmeal, Organic yogurt with fruit and raw cheese at night with her daddy.
This is not me forcing my limitations upon her. This is reality; she is intolerant to dairy.
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People feed my baby for two reasons:
In the case of the former, I always understand. I just have to set very clear reminders about the dairy factor.
For the latter, patience runs thin.
I can’t count the number of times people have said to me, “Oh, I feel so bad for her….she can’t have Girl Scout Cookies,” or “C’mon let her be normal and have Cheetos.”
I used to (almost) agree, until I realized that there is nothing sad about the fact that Samarah cannot eat processed, chemical-filled junk. In America, we reward our children with things other countries ban.
And the next question, of course, is always,
Then what does she eat?
I know it may come as a shock to many, but Samarah eats things she loves – really loves – daily.
I spend a lot of time preparing food for her, and I spend even more time racking my brain around how to make her things she loves, but that also fit within how I think she will thrive. These are not only hypotheticals but instead, they are realities. She was born at 2.5 pounds and she has indeed thrived in ways doctors sometimes can’t believe.
I ask myself often, “How is this, and how are these ways any different than the mother who insists you not feed her baby due to a peanut or shellfish allergy?” Our children all have special circumstances for which we are not held liable to justify to anyone or anything. They are choices we make because we know what’s best for them at any given moment.
Just as my medical records and reasons why I choose to live in the way in which I do are personal so is the way in which we have chosen to feed baby Samarah.
Samarah has no complaints. (Mint Chocolate Pops – dairy, gluten, grain, soy, corn and refined-sugar free – from my summer eats, treats & desserts ebook)
And I am perfectly confident being an alternative mama.
So what does she currently eat? Click HERE to grab it.
Updated in 2017: And then I had a toddler with gut issues, and this all became very real. Click HERE to read Toddler Gut Issues.
Xox,
SKH
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