Thrive Gluten-Free & Allergen-Free Meal Services

New to gluten-free or casein-free or allergen-free cooking? Or new to taking your food restrictions seriously? Or trying to figure out how to eat healthfully and avoid certain foods? Figuring out what to eat when you're avoiding certain foods can be very frustrating, especially in the beginning as you realize that you cannot rely on many of the staples that have long made your life easier. Even if you are someone who has been eating mostly natural foods, losing one or more basic ingredients is often distressing. When you are trying to plan meals, your mind naturally focuses on what you cannot eat instead of what you can. When you are grocery-shopping, you stare at labels until you have been in the store for hours. When you get to the cash register, you discover that your new lifestyle is costing you extra money, when you aren't even sure you can make tasty food with those groceries. Just at a time when you're feeling vulnerable and stressed, you're having to cope with changing one of the most basic patterns of life, and it can be quite exasperating!

But you can reach a point of peace and even comfort about planning and preparing meals—healthy, tasty meals that can be fairly simple or very complex, depending on your energy and personal needs. If you would like assistance making the transition to avoiding certain foods and celebrating your new way of eating, I'm here to help with omnivorous, locavore, flexitarian, or vegan meal planning and shopping.

Available Services:

The Full Meal Deal: One phone consultation, research into meal options for your family's preferences, one review of meal plan ideas (in person or by phone), one finalized one-week meal plan with recipes and grocery list, one shopping trip to identify preferred brands and varieties and to purchase food for one week's meals. Top-8 restrictions (gluten, dairy/casein, tree nuts, peanuts, soy, eggs, shellfish, fish): $300 plus your grocery cost. Additional restrictions beyond Top-8: $300 to $500, depending on number and difficulty of restrictions, plus your grocery cost.*

Meal Planning Only: One phone or two email consultations, research into meal options for your family's preferences, one review of meal plan ideas (in person, by phone, or by email), and one finalized one-week meal plan with recipes and a grocery list: $200. Additional restrictions beyond Top-8: $300.

Grocery Shopping Only: One consultation where you provide me with the list of groceries you want to purchase, research into any brand or variety restrictions you should know, one shopping trip where we pick out groceries for one week of meals that you have planned–with me identifying preferred brands and varieties: $150 (plus grocery costs)*

Add-Ons (must be combined with an above service):

Research on locally produced/grown (and often organic) grocery sources in your area, with your meal plan based on locally available foods, and a trip to your closest farmer's market or CSA (Community-Supported Agriculture) pick-up in addition to the grocery store: $75 (FREE add-on for Atlanta residents who are willing to use Midtown sources for local products)

One additional week's worth of meals planned for you, per your family's preferences–$100

*Additional travel charges of $.48/mi apply for locations more than 20 miles' drive from my home. For distances over 100 miles' drive, the customer is responsible for paying for additional time plus travel charges.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Though I make every effort to thoroughly research production practices of foods I recommend, as production practices may change without warning, I cannot guarantee the safety of products that you may purchase after consulting with me. I am your assistant in this process, but you are ultimately responsible for your own safety and health.