At Our Homemade Home, you’ll find easy and tasty gluten free recipes featuring real food. Along with easy homemade swaps for those store bought staples, gardening, food preservation, and a glimpse into our homestead life.
My goal is to inspire others to start their own journey, embracing a more self-sufficient and connected way of life. It doesn’t matter if you live in an apartment in the city, own a home with a small yard, or have a few acres of land. Come join me in creating a life that’s a bit like our grandparents’ but with a modern twist.
Inspired by our grandparents’ generation, our family is striving to build a life rooted in self-sufficiency and knowing exactly how our food is grown and what goes into it.
My Story
Food Intolerances
In 2012 I found out I had a sensitivity to both gluten and dairy that had caused me to have many health issues since I was a child. Cutting those two things out of my diet was a completely life changing experience. I no longer dealt with debilitating headaches and body aches every day.
Since discovering my sensitivities, I’ve been navigating a gluten-free and dairy-free lifestyle trying to find swaps and different recipes that I can enjoy. I’ve always had a love for cooking but having to eat gluten and dairy free made me get more creative in the kitchen since things weren’t as easily available in the stores back then as they are now.
In 2020, things changed for me when I really started paying more attention to the food we were eating and the ingredients that were in them. I ate what I thought was a relatively decent diet, but I soon realized the importance of eating real, whole foods and how certain foods really affect us. That’s when I started to make simple swaps, making homemade versions of things that we were buying in the store and really getting into growing and preserving our own food. I was even able to find real dairy (not conventional options) that I was actually able to have! (Click here to read about how I discovered non-conventional dairy options that I could actually have!)
Homesteading Journey
Rewind a few years prior to 2020 when we purchased our current home, we just thought that having a few acres of land would allow us some space for horses and maybe a steer for meat at the most.
What started out as a small garden just to have some fresh food during the summer, grew each year, with the goal to start preserving food for the off season and providing more for ourselves instead of relying on the grocery store. After taking a deep dive into our food choices in 2020 I wanted to do more, so that meant adding a small coop for a few chickens, so we could have fresh eggs.
Fast forward to now and I never imagined we’d be where we are. Having a ¼ acre garden, planted an orchard with apples, pears, peaches, blueberries and raspberries; preserving food, having chickens (even more than what we started with) for eggs as well as raising chickens and pigs for our family’s food. This completely unexpected change came from a desire to know where our food comes from, what’s in it, and to live a simpler life, kind of like how things used to be.
I hope you decide to follow along for a little bit of everything! Discovering gluten-free recipes with real food ingredients, gardening tips & tricks, preserving food, and how to make healthy homemade alternatives to store-bought items. I love keeping life simple, doing things on our own, yet finding balance with modern conveniences that we all enjoy!
