About My Gammie’s

The struggles of a loved grand-daughter / daughter’s food sensitivities manifested this mother and daughter family business. Fuelled by the growing challenges predominantly faced by children on a daily basis due to food allergy and intolerances, we dedicate our whole existence to produce simple, fresh, healthy, natural, delicious alternative food products, thereby, providing a wider variety of treats free from all 14 main allergens…Because simple is safer.

Ly’ora

My Gammie’s Dawning Motivation

The origin of My Gammie’s is from Ly’ora Gooden-Toney. Her struggles with food limitations and the lifestyle adjustments made to lower safety risks during meal times and when out and about became the motivation that manifested My Gammie’s.

Dairy intolerance
At 4 months old her dairy intolerance was established during breastfeeding having a dramatic effect on her skin eczema symptoms resulting in raw weeping cheeks and blood stained sheets from scratching during sleep.

Peanut Allergy
At the age of 1, Ly’ora violently reacted to a packet of snacks whilst shopping with her Gammie (grandma). She bit into one of the snacks and oddly let the bag fall to the floor. She started coughing as though food was uncomfortably caught at the back of her throat and minutes late she unexpectedly expelled bile through her mouth and nose. At this point her symptoms rapidly revealed themselves one after another. She was going into anaphylactic shock (a sever allergic reaction). Ly’ora begun wheezing, her skin turned red, in-between her fingers swelled up and she began itching everywhere. Thankfully she made it to hospital on time, and thus, a fatal peanut allergy was established.

Gluten intolerance
At 3 years old, Ly’ora had been experiencing violent coughing every single night for a year and a half of together with daily respiratory issues that were mildly alleviated by her asthma pump. To avoid regular hospital visits, Ly’ora was not able to run or jump as typical children do. Following a lot of research, we excluded gluten totally from her diet and the result was drastic. Only two days with no gluten from her diet, Ly’ora slept through the night without a cough.

Ly’ora

My Gammie’s Dawning Motivation

The origin of My Gammie’s is from Ly’ora Gooden-Toney. Her struggles with food limitations and the lifestyle adjustments made to lower safety risks during meal times and when out and about became the motivation that manifested My Gammie’s.

Dairy intolerance
At 4 months old her dairy intolerance was established during breastfeeding having a dramatic effect on her skin eczema symptoms resulting in raw weeping cheeks and blood stained sheets from scratching during sleep.

Peanut Allergy
At the age of 1, Ly’ora violently reacted to a packet of snacks whilst shopping with her Gammie (grandma). She bit into one of the snacks and oddly let the bag fall to the floor. She started coughing as though food was uncomfortably caught at the back of her throat and minutes late she unexpectedly expelled bile through her mouth and nose. At this point her symptoms rapidly revealed themselves one after another. She was going into anaphylactic shock (a sever allergic reaction). Ly’ora begun wheezing, her skin turned red, in-between her fingers swelled up and she began itching everywhere. Thankfully she made it to hospital on time, and thus, a fatal peanut allergy was established.

Gluten intolerance
At 3 years old, Ly’ora had been experiencing violent coughing every single night for a year and a half of together with daily respiratory issues that were mildly alleviated by her asthma pump. To avoid regular hospital visits, Ly’ora was not able to run or jump as typical children do. Following a lot of research, we excluded gluten totally from her diet and the result was drastic. Only two days with no gluten from her diet, Ly’ora slept through the night without a cough.

Egg intolerance
A month or two after establishing Ly’ora’s gluten intolerance, we noticed that she would often have a mild cough throughout the day. Egg was removed from her diet to observe any changes and Ly’ora’s cough disappeared entirely.

Now an active child, Ly’ora has her food sensitivities, eczema and asthma monitored. Her asthma symptoms tend to flare when recovering from general colds instead of as a result of what she eats. Her eczema symptom is now only present on her hand, it never weeps and itching is much more controlled. As recommended by her GP Ly’ora always travels with an Epipen, Piriton syrup and an asthma pump. Ly’ora does not eat from restaurants due to previous food reaction in such places where one cannot guarantee that food is not contaminated. The risk is not worth taking, hence the food we sell at My Gammie’s are what have been cooked/baked for Ly’ora.

MARIE-ANNE

Founder and Director of Strategy & Finance

Marie-Anne Rasé is the driving force of the business. As an experienced entrepreneur, her involvement in My Gammie’s has stemmed from the implemented life alterations and experiences witnessed through her granddaughter’s food allergy and multiple food intolerances since being born. Marie-Anne, now the dedicated bread maker of My Gammie’s, having established recipes and regularly baking bread for her granddaughter due to the lack of suitably safe allergy-friendly store options was eager to share her bread in a bid to help other families in similar situations.

SHAFIQ

Operations Director

As an existing business owner, Shafiq Ahmed met My Gammie’s team in 2016 and promptly enabled the completion of a troubled bespoke kitchen build project into successful completion. Through his sharp project vision, he then further expanded the baking facilities into a storage, preparation and improved office spaces. As Shafiq became aware of our business concept and the positive effect that My Gammie’s growth could contribute to society, his interest in the business grew and he subsequently joined Marie-Anne and Rebekha in their quest to grow My Gammie’s.

Shafiq is a priceless addition to My Gammie’s with his existing business and sales experience. He has taken the business to market and exhibitions. He was the driving force for our initial launch at the Free From Olympia 2017 and, more recently, Free From Olympia 2018 participation. He has also brought My Gammie’s to the London Farmers’ Markets promoting awareness of My Gammie’s products to the wider range of clientele.

REBEKHA

Founder and Director of Production and Research & Development

Rebekha Gooden, the Mother of Ly’ora, has dedicated her whole future career to providing a wide variety of freshly made food products that can be eaten by individuals with multiple intolerances or allergens that are listed under the 14 main allergens specified by the Food Standards Agency.

As a mother of a food sensitive child, Rebekha is all too familiar with the impact of reoccurring risks, worry, social exclusion, lifestyle adjustments, lengthy food preparation, limitations, lack of social knowledge and awareness that affect the quality of life for food sensitive individuals on a daily basis.

Together Rebekha and her mother, Marie-Anne strive to provide mouth-watering products free of the top allergens to raise social inclusion and minimise the risk of their customers.

My Gammie’s Overview

My Gammie’s has been created as a way to provide alternative foods that are free-from the main 14 allergens to offer low risk delicious food products. We passionately cater to food sensitive, health conscious, celiacs, vegans, IBS patients and anyone else living with (or without) restricted diets.

We rigorously veto all our suppliers to ensure that the ingredients we purchase from them are free-from possible contamination in the way they are sourced, handled, packaged and transported. We have clear rigid procedures for all stages of processing.

Our factory has been made specifically for the use of My Gammie’s and allows no presence of the 14 main allergens on site at any time. We have a zero tolerance policy.
We hire passionate staff that understand the serious impact of living with food sensitivities and the risks involved in exposure to contamination.
As we are indeed what we eat, we value quality over quantity using raw and organic unprocessed ingredients every time that we can.

Disclaimer

OUR PRODUCTS ARE MADE BY HAND USING RAW INGREDIENTS SO THEIR END RESULT MAY VARY SLIGHTLY.

Our ingredients, premises, packaging and delivery process are free from the main 14 allergens and we take utmost care to uphold this standard. However, it is not impossible for contamination to take place that are beyond the control of My Gammie’s especially on outer packaging due to careless handling and other such situations. For this reason and as a safety precaution we advise all customers to transfer purchased contents into domestic containers as soon as they are received and to carefully discard of all outer packaging.

All of My Gammie’s products are free from the 14 main allergens as follows

Celery | Cereals (containing gluten) | Crustaceans | Eggs | Fish | Lupin | Milk | Molluscs | Mustard | Nuts | Peanuts | Sesame Seeds | Soya | Sulphur/sulphites

Disclaimer

OUR PRODUCTS ARE MADE BY HAND USING RAW INGREDIENTS SO THEIR END RESULT MAY VARY SLIGHTLY.

Our ingredients, premises, packaging and delivery process are free from the main 14 allergens and we take utmost care to uphold this standard. However, it is not impossible for contamination to take place that are beyond the control of My Gammie’s especially on outer packaging due to careless handling and other such situations. For this reason and as a safety precaution we advise all customers to transfer purchased contents into domestic containers as soon as they are received and to carefully discard of all outer packaging.

All of My Gammie’s products are free from the 14 main allergens as follows

Celery | Cereals (containing gluten) | Crustaceans | Eggs | Fish | Lupin | Milk | Molluscs | Mustard | Nuts | Peanuts | Sesame Seeds | Soya | Sulphur/sulphites