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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Epinephrine, Anaphylaxis, Kissing
I was lucky to have been a part of a blogger summit hosted by Mylan, makers of the Epi-Pen® autoinjector of epinephrine (a natural hormone) this week and to have met and listened to the informative research from Dr. Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH www.ruchigupta.com and Ms. Sloane Miller, www.allergicgirl.com speak about a survey done on, of all topics, anaphylaxis on Valentines Day. […]
Pizza, Allergy-Free with Chebe Gluten-Free Mix
I’m running a giveaway on my Facebook page. I asked what comfort food people have transformed to be allergen-free – the resounding answer was pizza! So, I thought I would tell my recent pizza story and share with you my recipe. I had some Chebe pizza crust mix sitting in my pantry, given to me […]
ENTER TO WIN ALLERGY-FREE AND EASY COOKING
During the month of January, I’ll be doing a cookbook giveaway of Allergy-Free and Easy Cooking by Cybele Pascal. Rules are simple: anyone within the United States may enter this conest. 1. Go to my facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/bklynallergymom) and click the “LIKE” button 2. Underneath the sticky giveaway announcement (and so I know you like […]
5 Ways to Encourage People With Food Allergies
….specifically teens, to cook and take care of themselves… It’s been a while since I’ve written about a glimpse into my life as a mom of a teenaged child. But, for those of you who are curious, I’m going to give you an inside look into how we’re concentrating on self care. We’re preparing our child […]
Allergic Solutions Waffle and Pancake Mix
There are very few mixes that I find work with my varied and restrictive diet. Allergic Girl Sloane Miller gave me some “Allergic Solutions Waffle Mix” and, not having a waffle iron, I decided to make them as pancakes. Knowing what I now know about egg replacers, I decided to use flax seed for the […]
