Recipes by Lydia

Shepherd’s Pie 🥧

🌿Lydia | Nourishing Recipes — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:03:02 GMT

Gluten Free | Dairy Free | Egg Free | Refined Sugar Free

My Dairy Free Butter Recipe

Sloppy Joe Stuffed Sweet Potatoes 🍠

🌿Lydia | Nourishing Recipes — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:00:50 GMT

Gluten Free | Dairy Free | Egg Free | No Refined Sugars

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Chocolate Chip Banana Bread 🍫🍌

🌿Lydia | Nourishing Recipes — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:02:21 GMT

Gluten Free | Vegan | No Refined Sugars

Buffalo Chicken Stuffed Peppers 🫑🌶️

🌿Lydia | Nourishing Recipes — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:04:04 GMT

Gluten Free | Dairy Free | Egg Free

My homemade Ranch Dressing recipe

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A Health Journey Update: Part 2

🌿Lydia | Nourishing Recipes — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:08:49 GMT

If I’ve learned anything over the last 6 months of my healing journey, it’s that true healing takes time and isn’t linear. There will be days you feel healed and others you feel like you took 3 steps backward. But consistency will create change. After taking another blood panel, I found that everything that was out of range has now come back into range including my white blood cell count that was too low! This explains why I was constantly getting sick last year and this spring and summer (knock on wood) I haven’t caught any sickness because my body is finally getting healthy enough to fight it off. My blood sugars have leveled, and I don’t get the jitters in between meals or wake up in the middle of the night with racing anxiety like I used to. My eczema is 95% gone except for a few spots. My dermatitis is 70-80% gone. I don’t get constant neck and shoulder pain, chest cramps, and overall body aches like I used to. My bloating has gone way down, and my stomach doesn’t hurt all the time anymore. My energy, strength, and my motivation is back. It still showed low B vitamins so I need to keep adding in as many greens as I can. On a good note, since it is summertime my vitamin D is a lot better than it was when we tested in the winter which is also helping my stress response improve.

This all being said, I still get skin and digestion symptom flares randomly that I cannot find the cause of, so I asked for a GI Map test. It confirmed what we assumed, ‘a very thin and damaged mucosal gut lining’ aka leaky gut. Along with that we found H. pylori overgrowth and unbalanced good and bad bacteria that explained my skin reactions, gut issues, and random acid reflux. These answers can help keep me on the right track and get closer to long lasting healing.