Category Archives: Nut Allergy
Food Allergy Awareness Week 2013, Food Allergies touch every part of lifestyle
It’s the end of Food Allergy Awareness Week 2013. Food allergies seem to be all around us and actively in a lot of communications, not just in our house, but with others. But for those of us managing the lives of our anaphylactic children, food allergies touch every part of our lifestyle. Food allergies permeate […]
Re-Introduction of Food, Food Allergy, Food Challenge Process
Some of you may have read that we had a successful re-introduction of oats recently (blog post here) and celebrated with us. The all-out celebration was to be short lived. We’ve found our teenager’s tolerance level for oats is about 2 tablespoons before on-set of mild allergic symptoms. Unable to fully integrate oatmeal into our […]
Food Allergy Awareness Month, Brooklyn Event, May 9th
Please join us on May 9th at 7:30pm at Hi-Ho Batik, 184 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217. We will have a reading by Susan Weissman from her memoir “Feeding Eden”, a raffle for a basket full of allergen-friendly goodies, gluten-free cupcakes, and wine (for the mommies). Feel free to bring your kiddos, your girlfriends, mothers-in-law […]
Name Bubbles, Labels, Review and Give-away
Name Bubbles (www.namebubbles.com) are waterproof, dishwasher, laundry, microwave safe, and freezer friendly labels that offer a quick and easy solution to keeping track of your family’s things. They began as a way for busy parents to label their children’s lunchboxes, tupperware, bottles and foods while at daycare and camp. What they realized is that those […]
Life Before; Food Allergen Labelling and Protection Act of 2004
This week I found myself explaining to my 15-year-old what life was like before the Food Allergen Labelling and Protection Act of 2004 law took effect in 2006. The explanation was precipitated by teenager finding, then eating my husband’s Kashi Indigo Morning Cereal. I know, you inhaled, right? Exhale. She ate it after I called the […]
Tapioca Pear Cake Allergy Friendly, Gluten-Free, Five Ingredients
This recipe grew out of my recent meeting of Jenny Sprague, whose blog is Multiple Food Allergy Help . Her food allergic child, who also has cancer, is on a low-foods diet as they try to figure out what foods he can eat. She explained this to me over dinner (dinner at The Strand courtesy […]
Marriage, Food Allergy, Children, Parent, Caregiver, Wife
And the list goes on right? Those of us who are married are all those things and more. When our child was younger, people used to marvel at “what a good mother” I was. I would unabashedly, and a little self-deprecatingly, agree (who else gets up at 5am to cook a days worth of meals […]
Asthma and Food Allergies: AAFA, KFA Merge
I have served as board chair of Kids With Food Allergies Foundation for the past year and a half, and it is with great pleasure that I’m finally able to blog about the news of the merger (press release here) of Kids With Food Allergies (KFA), and the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA). For those of us […]
Roasted Chicken, Recipe, Cybele Pascal’s “Allergy Free and Easy Cooking”
This past month on Brooklyn Allergy Mom’s Facebook Page, I’ve been conducting a give-away of Cybele Pascal’s book Allergy Free and Easy Cooking (available Amazon or at any fine bookstore) published on Ten Speed Press, which, if you read my review of it, is a must-have book for any family looking to get food on the table […]
