Hi! My name is Ester Perez and I love making Healthy Gluten-Free Recipes that entice even the pickiest of eaters (my youngest!). I teach families the fundamentals of living their healthiest and happiest life!
As a Mom, let me tell you that life gets hectic. There is NO one size fits all perfect recipe for Motherhood. I know how crazy life gets trying to juggle healthy eating and living joyfully.
What I have learned over the years is that when I take good care of myself, I AM the best version of myself. I am the best wife, a great friend, and the best MOM. In this space is when I flourish at teaching my kids good values, resilience and life skills.
It is my mission to raise:
- healthy
- kind
- confident
- wise
- self-sufficient
- responsible
- happy
- and compassionate human beings while being my best self!
This blog shares lots of healthy delicious family-friendly recipes that are always gluten-free, sometimes grain-free and mostly dairy-free.
Some things I believe in are:
- Cooking is an adventure, you should try it!
- Kids are fully capable of cooking at a young age and they are so eager to learn, so teach your kids to cook! It’s a necessity!
- Vibrant Health must be earned and it is possible to feel awesome every day!
- Learn to adapt to the different stages of Motherhood and parenting, it’s never easy, just different.
- Learn to be the best version you can be, it’s so worth it!
What is your gluten free cooking experience?
My daughter was gluten-free for 7 years. She has also been vegetarian for the last 5 years so I have a lot of experience making vegetarian/gluten-free family friendly recipes.
My son was gluten-free for 10 years and we discovered this past year that he can now enjoy gluten in his diet without experiencing the miserable skin breakouts he once had.
Having both children on gluten-free diets when there were very little options has allowed me to create most of my recipes from scratch.
I have discovered how to make delcious gluten-free tortillas, bread, waffles, pancakes and more!
At the moment, my diet is gluten-free and mostly dairy free. My body feels SO much better when I am gluten free and dairy free. I include small amounts of pastured butter or ghee in my diet and my body seems to do okay with that. I include fermented foods, probiotics and digestive enzymes as part of my digestive support. I have Hashimotos Hypothyroidism and take natural thyroid support. It has been helping me a lot and thankfully my thyroid is doing much better now but I am still working toward getting the anti-bodies down. I am working on repairing my gut and that is a long journey ahead.
I am a Certified Health Coach and in June 2019, I graduated from Trinity School Of Natural Health as a Naturopath.
I have learned to overcome many health challenges and this journey has taught me so much that I want to share healthy living with all those interested!
Join me in my adventures of healthy and happy living!
Need to get in touch? Send me an email to: [email protected]
Updated: 9-11-21
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Hey, I’ve been paleo on and off for a couple years now. Your recipes have added a new wonderful breath of life to my waning love for the paleo lifestyle. I have started a blog and I have a facebook, Instagram and youtube page. I would love to add your recipes to my meals. I would definitely give you your love and respect when I do. Thank you so much! You are a breath of fresh air to the paleo community.
Glad to hear you are enjoying the recipes. Feel free to share the recipes with your community and a link back to the source. Thank you.
Warmly,
Ester
I stumbled upon your website while searching for ways to juice dandelion greens. I’m just getting back on the bandwagon to juicing, enhancing my health and learning ways to improve my gut issues – which I recently found out that I had. So my goals are losing weight and eating healthier with 1 day at a time. I plan to do a 30 Day intermittent fast with just 1 meal a day.. . hopefully everything will work out. Blessings to you and thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Hi Lena,
Best of luck with your health goals! Let us know how you enjoy the dandelion juice! It is my favorite way to make it!
Glad to hear you are back to juicing. Summer is a great time to start!
My family has been juicing about 6 days a week and we love it. We just upgrade to the Nama juicer and it is great.
Keep us posted with your health goals!
Warmly,
Ester
Hi! My family loves your Paleo Everything Dough! It’s been amazing since we really missed pizza but we have a variety of different intolerances in different people (gluten, rice, and dairy). I was wondering if you knew how to make a Paleo Sourdough Starter? I don’t even know if it’s possible! Thanks so much!
You are very welcome! I am so glad to hear your family has been enjoying pizza with the Grain Free Everything Dough. I have cultured many different things in the past and I am pretty confident you can culture the Grain Free Everything Dough with either a probiotic capsule, kombucha, kefir cultures or vegetable cultures from Body Ecology. I do think keeping a paleo sourdough starter is a possibility. You just need to remember to feed it daily. I will definitely try making a Paleo Sourdough Bread! I will keep you posted! Warmly, Ester
The Lectin Free Gourmet, Kristin Anderson Wylie (no affiliation) has done an extensive blog and ebook on Lectin Free sourdough starter.
Do you have healthy recipes for pancreatis or inflamed pancreas? Thank you
Hi Ush,
I am not familiar, I would suggest this website: https://pancreasfoundation.org/patient-information/nutrition-advice-recipes/
Best of luck.
Warmly,
Ester
Looking forward to trying your recipes!
A Healthful Senior
Thank you! Please let us know how you like the recipes. Warmly, Ester
Hi Ester, Happy to know about your experience. Your recipes are awesome and I like your website.
Thank you! Glad you stopped by.
Hey Ester,
Really you are the best. It’s good to know about your experience.
Best of luck
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Thank you.
Hi! I love gluten-free bread as well : ) thank you
You’re welcome Jane. So glad you enjoy gluten free bread. I have lots of delicious recipes on my blog. A great place to start are the gluten free tortillas. Check them out here: https://nurturemygut.com/gluten-free-tortilla-recipe.html/
I just found your site. The pictures from your recipes look amazing. I need to avoid gluten, dairy, eggs, and soy. I have yet to find recipes that turn out well when I substitute eggs. Do you have any suggestion for egg substitutes and quantities to equal one egg? I have tried flax, chia, Egg Replacer, bananas, and applesauce. Perhaps I need to adjust other things in a recipe if I substitute eggs?
Hi Felicia,
I have found egg substitutes challenging as well. I currently have four tortilla recipes on my site that are delicious and have no eggs, gluten, dairy or soy. You can make wraps with them, burritos, etc. They can really spruce up a meal.
Go here for the recipes: https://nurturemygut.com/category/tortillas/
What a great blog – there are some great gluten free recipes here I can’t wait to try. Looking forward to reading more.
thank you!
Thank you for the great recipes. My kids are both gluten intolerant. Will be trying out these recipes soon.
You’re welcome! So glad you like the recipes! Warmly, Ester
hi thanks for sharing all these recipes with us. I am also a registered nutritionist from the United States that aims in improving people health by providing them diet plans
You’re welcome! That’s great you are helping people too!
Thank you for sharing all these recipes they are simple to make and look delicious!
You’re welcome! So glad you like them! Warmly, Ester
I’m so happy I stumbled upon your website. I am also grain free after a cancer diagnosis & good recipes are hard to find! I’d love to make your grain free dough but I also have an egg intolerance. Could I use a “flax egg” or what do you recommend? Thanks!
HI Christine. I am glad to hear you are taking charge of your health! I have never tried a “flax egg” replacement so I do not know if it would work. I do have two wonderful tortilla recipes that are grain free and do not use eggs. If you need to stay low carb, then the Paleo Tortillas 2.0 are a great place to start! You can make breakfast burritos with them too. Here is the link: https://nurturemygut.com/paleo-tortillas-2-0-nut-freegluten-freedairy-free.html/ Warmly, Ester