“When life hands you gluten-free bread – teach the world to bake with hope.”
Two and a half years after Forrest’s diagnosis, just as Jill began to breathe again, her body sounded the alarm. After a weekend of crippling illness and her husband’s haunting observation – “You look like the walking dead” – bloodwork and an endoscopy revealed her own silent celiac battle. “The diagnosis was a gut punch,” she admits, “but also a compass.”
The Teacher’s Table
Armed with a Family & Consumer Science degree, Jill transformed classrooms into safe-food laboratories. “I refused to let ‘can’t’ dominate our dinner table,” she says, eyes sparkling. Her mantra became revolutionary: “Focus on the feast, not the famine.” Students learned to decode labels like treasure maps, discovering gluten-free possibilities where others saw limitations.
The Cross-Contamination Crucible
Social gatherings became minefields. “Declining lovingly-made dishes felt like rejecting hugs,” Jill confesses. Years of polite refusals (“It’s not you, it’s the colander”) fueled her determination to bridge the trust gap between well-meaning hosts and cautious diners.
Enter the LEO Tester
Jill’s voice quickens discussing her “food detective kit” – the LEO Verification Gluten-Free Tester. After a year of relentless refinement, she finally conquered her Everest: “32 years without au jus… until last week!” The triumph in her laugh is palpable. “That first dip felt like coming home.”
Seaton’s Seal of Approval
Beside her husband Seaton, Jill addresses the community: “We’ve been where you sit – trembling over potlucks, doubting restaurant promises. If we wouldn’t stake our health on it, we won’t sell it.”
Innovation isn’t just science—it’s reclaiming life’s flavors.
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