Amanda’s Story

Paleolicious Bread Co. was started in 2017 by Amanda Brown in her small home kitchen. Amanda and her daughter, Zoe, both were going through sudden health problems at the same time. Different symptoms but both very hard to pinpoint or diagnose and  seemed  autoimmune related. Amanda and her daughter always had a healthy diet and exercised regularly. Her daughter had already been gluten free and dairy free for several years. When these changes in their health both occurred it was surprising, expensive and disheartening. Both lived in pain and lethargy everyday at only 16 & 41 years old, this was a complete 180 from the active lives they were so used to. Her daughter was barely able to get out of bed and could no longer attend regular school. Doctor appointments in both Western & Eastern medicine were now always in their weekly schedules and at times traveling hundreds of miles a day. 

Many tears of frustration were shed at this time. Amanda already had an extensive background in the nutrition and fitness industry, to know that food plays a huge role in either hurting the body or healing the body. 

On her rather obsessed quest to get them both better, but most importantly to get her daughter back to being a normal active teen, she researched many different diets and protocols. She did know that her daughter and she both had inflammation and inflammation causes pain.

They eliminated so much out of their diets, yet only to lead to more frustration and no relief in sight. Amanda came across and decided to try grain free diets or better known as Paleo. Grains, not just gluten can really cause havoc on some people’s gut and immune system, leading to many health problems or making existing ones much worse. The paleo diet also forbids refined sugar, soy, dairy, legumes, peanuts, yeast  and potato. Amanda bought a few expensive Paleo products, especially bread and they did not taste good at all. That’s when Amanda realized she was going to have to make almost everything they ate from scratch.

Her daughter had nausea and abdominal discomfort daily. Amanda had to create foods that were extremely restrictive but tasty to get her to eat. Her daughter was also a vegetarian, this was not easy! Amanda also knows from being a nutrition consultant how important satiety is. She thought,” we are already so sad for how sudden and how much our lives have drastically changed, I just want something simple, like a sandwich!”

Amanda started trying out “grain free” bread recipes she found online. Some tasted pretty good but were extremely fattening, expensive and heavy. Many were sweet for dessert and many were horrible tasting. She also needed a recipe that wasn’t complicated and  didn’t take all day to make, she’s a single mom who already runs multiple business’. After some trial and error, she came up with the Paleolicious bread recipe. It’s light, soft, not dry, and easy to make. She thought, what if I can start making this for other people? Through her own ordeal she realized how grateful she was for the good health she still had and that so many other people were so much worse than she was with their health. She wanted to pay it forward to people who really needed it, especially children who are suffering from food allergies or autoimmune issues. How great it would be for them to be able to sit down and eat something as simple as a cookie or pancakes with their family and it not cause them physical pain, yet taste like the real thing!