05/22/2026
In a world full of Alex Coopers’ and Robby Hoffmans’, I will always choose to be the gluten free baker with celiac disease 💁♀️🤨
All jokes aside, as someone who has been figuring out the gluten free life after a celiac diagnosis almost 8 years ago (I was diagnosed the end of May 2018), it’s not an allergy, or a fade, or just becoming popular. It can be a death sentence if not taken seriously.
Celiac Disease has been one of the worst but also best things that has ever happened to me. I was sick, for months. Pale as a ghost, just skin and bones with no appetite at all. Lost copious amounts of hair, threw up way too often. The brain fog and constant confusion. Even once we finally figured out what was going on, I struggled to gain the lost weight back, dealt with constant nausea and acid reflux. Had to have “second breakfast” every day just to try to make it through my classes without being sick. Missed weeks upon weeks of Grade 10 from being so sick. Went to the (our local Children’s Hospital) to see gastroenterologists. Eventually, once we got my new diet figured out (gluten free and lactose free for the first year), I didn’t realize how sick I had felt, ALL THE TIME. Celiac disease had been killing me from the inside out and I was finally starting to fight back.
Now, how Sarah’s Gluten Free Bakeshop came to be. I had always loved baking, especially with my grandmothers. But once I got my diagnosis, baking became my life line. The only way I could get tasty and safe foods. It became like a new lease on life. After I finished Culinary school, I dove into SGFB and haven’t stop yet!
This business has become my safe place and has given me so many amazing friends and opportunities. As I write this, I am on my way to Halifax for a fully gluten free market that I was invited to by !
Celiac disease is no joke. It’s not something to laugh off and ignore. 1 in every 100 people have it, whether diagnosed or not. Take gluten free diets seriously and take all the precautions you can. Because someone else’s life might actually on it.
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