Grayson’s Way was designed to help a family transition from their current diet to a gluten-free, casein-free,

no refined sugar diet.  This system was designed through my own trial and error in transitioning myself and

my family to this diet.  We have been on the diet for over 7 years and have developed many ways of successfully

staying on the diet.  I found our greatest key to success was to have the whole family follow the diet while in the

house.  This way, the person with the dietary limitation doesn’t have to feel different or singled out.  It also helps

the family to use meal preparation and eating time as quality time together, while teaching your children basic

cooking skills that they will utilize for the rest of their lives.  I believe that we cannot give our children any better

gifts than a healthy body, the opportunity at a sound mind and the skills to maintain these throughout their lives.

 

For me, the hardest part was getting started.  It was so overwhelming.  I wanted to make every excuse not to

start.  When we did start, I made the first big mistake.  I fed my son separately.  My husband and I would wait

until he went to bed and then eat something.  Our diets went horribly wrong.  Being too tired to cook for ourselves

and having already made a meal, we began to eat fast food every night.  Both my husband and I found ourselves

getting sick more often and gaining weight.  Meanwhile, my son wasn’t developing healthy eating habits by having

Mommy sit with him and talk to him during his mealtime, but not actually seeing someone else eat to emulate.  He

also wasn’t experiencing the manners that are required for public eating.  One day, it dawned on me, how can I

expect my child to have manners and be normal if he doesn’t experience as normal a life as he can?

 

I proposed the concept to my husband, who announced that there were certain things that he just couldn’t live

without.  That’s what began my culinary quest.  Many of the recipes contained are things that my husband deemed

something he didn’t want to live without or just wanted.  It took some time to transition everyone into eating the

same meals together, but that was because it took some time to come up with recipes that were good.  While experimenting with foods, I would spend an extra 30-40 hours in the kitchen each week.  I also took courses at

the local culinary school.  But now that I have a conversion system that worked, I don’t need to spend very much

time in the kitchen at all.  With Grayson’s Way, you shouldn’t either.