Editorial & Corrections Policy

What you can expect

Useful, specific writing that distinguishes lived experience from general information, identifies its sources, and corrects meaningful errors openly.

Effective date: September 9, 2026

Well Fed & Lived In publishes personal essays, practical GAPS information, recipes, product reviews, and home and family content. This policy explains how that work is prepared, sourced, reviewed, updated, and corrected.

Editorial Purpose

The goal is to give readers clear, useful information without pretending that one household’s experience is universal. Articles should lead with what a reader came to learn, use specific examples, and make the limits of the information easy to understand.

Authorship and Lived Experience

Ebonie writes from her experience as a mother of six whose family has used GAPS and related food and home routines. A first-person statement records what happened in her household. It is not rewritten as a promise that another person will have the same outcome.

The site does not present Ebonie as a physician, registered dietitian, therapist, or licensed healthcare professional. Personal authority and professional credentials are different, and the writing should never blur them.

Research and Source Standards

When a factual statement depends on an outside source, the preferred source is the closest reliable original: official GAPS material for protocol rules, a government agency for current food-safety guidance, an original research paper for a study, and the manufacturer for a product specification.

Sources should support the statement beside them. A citation is not added simply to make an article look researched, and a source that does not actually support a claim should not be used.

Protocol stages, foods, and methods are attributed to GAPS by name
Scientific findings are described within the limits of the study rather than expanded into a broader promise
Health and food-safety links favor current primary or authoritative sources
A retailer page may support current price or availability, but it does not prove a health claim
Reader-useful sources are linked directly whenever possible

The Editorial Sources page collects the main recurring source categories used across the site.

Health and GAPS Content

Health content separates three things: the family’s documented experience, GAPS program guidance, and outside research. The first is personal history. The second explains a named protocol. The third is summarized with enough context for a reader to understand what the source can and cannot establish.

Articles do not diagnose a reader, guarantee an outcome, or claim that food or a supplement treats, cures, or prevents disease. One concise limitation is used where it is needed; repeated legal language should not overwhelm the useful content. The Medical Disclaimer applies to all health-related content.

Recipes and Stage Labels

A recipe is described as kitchen-tested only when it was actually prepared and evaluated. A researched recipe or proposed variation should not be presented as a first-hand family result. Measurements, method, yield, storage notes, and relevant food-safety details should be complete before publication.

A GAPS stage or type label must match the exact ingredients, ingredient form, and preparation method shown. A variation for another stage identifies what changes and any prior-tolerance requirement. A recipe is not labeled appropriate for every person simply because it fits a general list.

Product Reviews and Commercial Relationships

A review separates first-hand use from manufacturer specifications and retailer information. Limits, drawbacks, product changes, and uncertainty belong in the review when they matter. A relationship involving an affiliate link, payment, free product, or discount is disclosed with the relevant content under the Affiliate Disclosure.

Internal links are added when they help a reader understand a term, reach a full recipe, continue a series, or find a useful next step. Links should use natural wording and point to pages that are already live and substantive. Articles should not repeat large sections only to target another search phrase.

Updates

An article may be updated when guidance, links, products, prices, evidence, site structure, or the family’s documented experience changes. A meaningful update should retain the original context that readers need and should not silently rewrite a personal timeline.

Minor spelling, punctuation, formatting, or broken-link repairs may be made without an individual note. A substantive factual change should update the page date and, when useful to the reader, explain what changed.

How to Report an Error

To report an error, use the Contact page. Include the page title or URL, the exact sentence or item at issue, why it appears inaccurate, and a source if you have one. A clear report makes review faster.

How Corrections Are Handled

The cited page and available original sources are checked
A typo or formatting problem is corrected directly
A broken link is repaired or removed
A factual error is corrected in the article and the update date is changed
A material correction receives a note when readers need to understand the earlier wording
A disputed point that cannot be resolved immediately may be narrowed or temporarily removed while it is reviewed

A correction request is evaluated on the evidence. Disagreement alone does not require changing a documented first-person account, but factual claims, attributions, quotations, and links should be corrected when the record shows an error.

Correction Log

No material corrections are currently recorded on this page. Future correction notes that affect reader understanding may be listed here with the date and a brief description.

Contact

Questions about sourcing, authorship, updates, or corrections can be sent through the Well Fed & Lived In Contact page or by email at hello@wellfedlivedin.com.