About Gluten Free Planner

I'm a dad in Austin, Texas, and the father of an 11 year old daughter with celiac disease.

We found out when she was eight, after realizing she wasn't growing the way she should. Overnight, foods she loved, croissants and pasta and pizza and bagels, all of it, became complicated.

Like a lot of families, we struggled at first. There was an overwhelming amount of information online, plenty of misinformation mixed in with it, and an entirely new set of decisions to make every time we packed a lunch, went to a restaurant, went to a birthday party, or walked through a grocery store.

School lunches stopped being easy too. Coming up with healthy, repeatable lunches she would actually eat every single day became its own problem.

That's why I built Gluten Free Planner. I wanted the resource I wish we'd had when she was first diagnosed: something practical that makes the everyday parts of celiac a little easier, and that shares what our family has learned along the way.

I'm going to keep building this out, and the core planner stays free so other families can use it too.

Tell me what would help

If you have an idea, spot something we could do better, or just want to say what's working for your family, I'd genuinely love to hear it. Nothing here is finished, and the families using it are the ones who know what's missing.

Send us a note, or email [email protected] if that is easier.

A parent wrote this site, not a doctor or a dietitian. Everything here is background and lived experience, offered so the next family has a shorter runway than we did. It isn't medical advice and it isn't a diagnosis. Testing, treatment, and how strict your own diet needs to be are all things to settle with your own clinician.