Tag Archives: Cholesterol Free
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 […]
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 […]
Disaster Preparedness and Relief with Food Allergies and Dietary Restrictions
As the parent of a child who has a food allergy and because of my husband’s dietary restrictions, I am always well prepared for a storm. Extra medication, extra food, ‘to go’ shelf-stable food for a week, but am I prepared to be in a shelter? The hurricane this week brought this issue for us […]
Healthy Pumpkin Cookies Kid-Friendly
You know the scenario, at the last minute you were asked to bring cookies to your gluten-free, allergen-free child’s classroom that have an autumn theme. But since being diagnosed with multiple food allergies, you have no idea if the kids in the classroom will even LIKE the ‘new normal’ gluten-free, allergen-free cookies. Sound familiar? This […]
Learning to Bake Allergen-Free by Colette Martin
Blogger and cookbook author Colette Martin is the Vice Chair (I’m Board Chair) for Kids With Food Allergies Foundation. So when she sent me a copy of her book, “Learning to Bake Allergen-Free” (published by The Experiment) I was happy to receive it, and promised to review it. The forward is written by Stephen Wangen, […]
Wild Planet Foods is Sustainably Caught
I met Mona and Sue of Wild Planet Foods at Expo West in Anaheim in March as they were making a delicious sampling of their canned tuna with white beans. They were kind enough to send me some coupons for more of their delicious products and I’ve so far tried an array of their canned […]
Healthy Carrot Muffins
Recently I was asked to enter the True Sweets Surf Sweets Spring Jelly Bean Mix baking contest! I was thrilled and excited to share my newest creation of Healthy Vegan, Top 8 Free, Gluten-Free muffins. My recipe is featured on their web site in the .pdf of all the entrants. Here is the healthy carrot […]
Healthy Asparagus Chicken Stir Fry
Recently, I’ve been desperately trying to find meals that can satisfy the whole family. Every once in a while I find myself cooking three almost completely different meals, or at least two. Chinese, Thai, and Asian food is usually off limits to us because of the peanut oil, sesame oil, soy sauce, fish, well, you […]
Healthy Lamb Shank in Parchment Paper
As I was searching for a different type of lamb recipe I came across one recipe for steamed lamb. I also found myself longing for mexican food, as I often do. I combined this recipe from Claudia Rodin’s book THE NEW BOOK OF MIDDLE EASTERN COOKING and Robert’s Santibanez’ book TRULY MEXICAN. It is simple […]
Healthy Chicken Sausage Cassoulet
Traditional Cassoulet is made with pork, duck, and sometimes lamb. This recipe for Healthy Chicken Sausage Cassoulet is: Allergy Friendly: free of the top 8 food allergens as defined by the FDA Gluten-free Kid Friendly: veggies are pureed for the pickiest eater I recommend cooking the white beans in a pressure cooker, but one can […]
