About Laura and Bakerbee

I have always loved to bake ever since my mum let me lick the cake mixture from the bowl as a child. Some of my favourite early memories are baking apple pie with my nan and fairy cakes with my mum. Baking has always been a big part of my life.

However, when I was 23 I was diagnosed with IBS. My life was turned upside down, never knowing when I would be ill and what was causing it. I tried so many different ways to control my symptoms, excluding all kinds of foods and trying all kinds of diets, but nothing seemed to be the answer. It affected my life in so many ways and took all the joy out of food.  After years of struggle, finally a doctor recommended to me the FODMAP diet, and finally I found something that gave me some control over my health again, even though it did mean that I had to say goodbye to pickled onion Monster Munch!

I found online some really welcoming communities filled with other IBS sufferers who had found relief with the fodmap diet, but one of the things that we all found difficult was the availability of FODMAP food in shops, cafes and online. I had to learn through trial and error how to create FODMAP friendly versions of all my favourite foods, and eventually that is what lead to me founding Bakerbee Bakery. Every product that I bake is Low FODMAP, gluten free, but still completely delicious.