Backstory

In 2017, one of Michael's children was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease, which is an autoimmune, inflammatory disease in the intestines. Though treated with modern pharmaceuticals, Michael looked beyond to see if it would be possible to pro-actively dampen the inflammation and avoid flare-ups through what we eat.

Four areas of ”cause for concern” were identified - refined sugars, lactose, (red) meats and gluten, as well as identifying other particular inflammatory ingredients. Particularly gluten seemed to be linked to leaky gut, IBS and other autoimmune diseases and the family decided to make a complete life choice change - removing all gluten (and reducing or removing even the other areas-of-concern).

Thus the introduction to the incredibly compromised and disappointing world of gluten-free products began. With teenage kids, it quickly became apparent that the life-choice made for the betterment of the family’s health would be short-lived, if we could not ”produce” better food. And kids being kids, pizza was at the top of that list.