I spent over a decade searching for answers. Low oxalate eating gave them to me.

My Story

I have loved baking since I was a little girl and would consider that and art my favorite pastimes. Growing up, I was always wanting to be in the kitchen making the latest cake or pie from the most recent Bon Appétit magazine. As a teenager, I couldn’t wait to get into a commercial kitchen. My first jobs were in a restaurant and a bakery. Cooking has always been fun for me, but baking has a special place in my heart.

Over the past decade, I have developed my own recipes while learning to cook around many different dietary needs. I learned how to make substitutions and keep the flavors and textures I enjoy, even when familiar ingredients were off the menu.

My recipe commitments

Along with keeping my recipes low oxalate, I am committed to making them gluten-free and free of refined sugars. I want you to find meals and baked goods you look forward to eating, with the flavors and textures you enjoy.

My background

I graduated from Georgetown University with a double major in Economics and Studio Art and received the Misty Daily Award.

In 2009, I co-founded a technology company and led it as President for nine years. During this time, we grew from a small team to five offices around the world, and I led partnerships with companies including tech leaders Autodesk and Apple.

I also met Dr. Oz and Arianna Huffington on separate occasions through my work. I was invited onto The Dr. Oz Show to discuss my experience with digestive health, and Arianna invited me to speak about mindfulness at one of her international conferences in the UK.

My search for answers

For more than a decade, I struggled with my health without clear answers. I traveled to doctors and clinics across the country and abroad, trying diets, treatments, medicines, and supplements. I followed everything from GAPS and Paleo to vegan, keto, gluten-free, and casein-free diets. Eventually, I had to stop working to focus on my health.

When I started eating a low oxalate diet, I noticed changes within a few weeks. My sleep, skin, digestion, and energy improved. The muscle pain I had lived with for years began to ease.

Learning about oxalates changed how I looked at my everyday food choices. My prior daily routine included dark chocolate, iced green tea, acai bowls, almond-flour baking, and smoothies with raw cacao, chia seeds, and green powders. These were all “superfoods” that were high in antioxidants and “good for me,” but they were filled with oxalates. I had thought I was doing all the right things, but I had been eating so many oxalates that my body couldn’t handle them and the inflammation they were causing.

Why I created Low Oxalate Lifestyle

I was very confused and overwhelmed when I first learned about oxalates. I was also very sick and wasn’t in the best frame of mind to tackle a new diet and way of life. It took me a lot of time and energy to figure out what to eat and how to make diet-compliant recipes for me and my husband for every breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

When I started my journey with low oxalate eating, there was no one place for recipes and information, and I found that the method of counting oxalates, which everyone was promoting, was very stressful and not even accurate, for all the work I was putting into doing it.

After about a year of settling into our new way of life, making many recipes, and realizing what works and what does not, I decided to use what I had learned to make the resource I wish I had had at the beginning of my journey. That resource is this website.

I have also kept this website free of ads because I find scrolling through ads to find recipes quite frustrating. I want finding recipes and getting support for low oxalate eating to be as easy and pain-free as possible.

I have put a lot of time and effort into creating this website and developing all of my recipes. If you find them helpful, I would greatly appreciate your support through a review on the recipes you try. Your ratings and reviews can help my recipes stand out in Google searches and help others looking for information and support discover the resources I have made for them.

Here, you will find recipes, food guides, and practical tools to help you make sense of low oxalate eating for free. I am giving you all of the resources that I needed in the beginning and had to make for myself.

I hope you and your loved ones find recipes you enjoy and leave feeling more informed and less overwhelmed about oxalates. Eating the right food can be very healing to the body. I hope that you find encouragement and support here so that you can benefit in the many ways that lowering my oxalate intake has helped me.

Thank you for visiting Low Oxalate Lifestyle!

God bless you,

Allie